GARY LUCAS has accompanied films both silent and sound with his live solo guitar scores in over 20 countries to date, most recently in March at la Cinematheque francaise in Paris where he premiered his new score for Von Stroheim’s “The Wedding March”.
https://bit.ly/2PJTIEp
Next up, on June 5th, Gary performs his acclaimed live score accompanying Wu Yonggang’s 1934 masterpiece of Chinese silent cinema “The Goddess” at the Transylvania International Film Festival (TIFF) in Cluj Romania—his second time performing there.
https://bit.ly/2IR5xrp
Gary is currently in the midst of an ongoing retrospective of his live solo scores at the Metrograph, NYC’s premier arthouse cinema, and will perform there next on Sat. June 15th accompanying a newly-restored 35mm print of “The Golem” (1920, d. Paul Wegener and Carl Boese) courtesy of Kino-Lorber.
This is the thirtieth anniversary of Gary’s score for “The Golem”, co-written with Walter Horn, which premiered at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria in 1989.
https://bit.ly/2m6XEQT
Gary Lucas Live Music and Film Page:
https://bit.ly/2ayknkK
UPCOMING APPEARANCES
Sun. May 19th
7pm
Quinn’s, Beacon NY
Gary Lucas performs a solo acoustic concert
with his special guest Mimi Sun Longo
Interview in the Van Wyck Gazette:
https://bit.ly/2HQ1nPr
Solo acoustic page:
https://bit.ly/1PiLf1T
Tues. May 28th
7:30pm
The Cutting Room NYC
Gary Lucas, Feifei Yang and Jason Candler
perform their Chinese pop-jazz project
“The Edge of Heaven”
https://bit.ly/2Aljarz
Fri. May 31st
time tbd
Yale University, New Haven
Gary Lucas plays with Geoffrey Menin keyboards, Jonathan Rose bass,
and other friends as part of his Yale Class Reunion— a private event
Wed. June 5th
time and venue tba
Cluj, Romania
Gary Lucas plays his live solo film score accompanying
Wu Yonggang’s 1934 masterpiece of Chinese silent cinema
“The Goddess” at the Transylvania International Film Festival (TIFF)
https://bit.ly/2IR5xrp
https://bit.ly/2iMnLNU
Sat. June 15th
8pm
The Metrograph, NYC
Gary Lucas accompanies a newly-restored print of “The Golem”
(1920, d. Paul Wegener and Carl Boese) with his live solo score
as part of Lucas' ongoing retrospective at the Metrograph,
curated by Jacob Perlin and Robert Melvin Rubin
https://bit.ly/2m6XEQT
Fri. June 21st
5pm
Joe’s Pub Outdoors Stage, NYC
Gary Lucas performs his Chinese jazz-pop project The Edge of Heaven
featuring vocalist and erhu virtuoso Feifei Yang and saxophonist Jason Candler
as part of the Make Music New York Festival, a global music event
linking 85 cities around the world
https://bit.ly/2Aljarz
Fri. Sept. 20th
7:30pm
The Cutting Room NYC
“Jeff Buckley and Gary Lucas—The Lost Songs”
celebrating the 25th anniversary of the release of Jeff Buckley’s “Grace” album
featuring Gary’s special guests from Italy, Davide Combusti (The Niro) vocals
and Francesco Arpino keyboards and guitar performing selections from their forthcoming album
“The Complete Jeff Buckley and Gary Lucas Songbook"
Sun. Oct. 27th and Mon. Oct. 28th
times tba
Chutzpah! Festival, Vancouver
Gary will perform several live solo film scores tba
https://bit.ly/2ayknkK
MORE DATES TBA
Read a rave review for Gary’s recent show in Paris in French magazine Rock & Folk:
https://bit.ly/2GItZYH
News item from Italian music magazine Buscadero announcing new album
“The Complete Jeff Buckley and Gary Lucas Songbook” coming this fall
from Esordisco featuring Davide Combusti (The Niro) vocals and produced
by Francesco Arpino
https://bit.ly/2J5C5gP
