【THU 周四 02.21】OHIO BLUES ORCHESTRA & THOM ROY 来自美法加的声音：嘉宾乐队登场

OHIO POLYPHONIC BLUES ORCHESTRA

 & THOM ROY

来自法国加拿大美国的两支嘉宾乐队

惊喜登场！

THU FEB 21ST / FROM 9.30PM

2月21号 周四 / 晚上9点半

FREE ENTRANCE

免票

Let's get the weekend started earlier by treating ourselves to a new musical experience at Modernista!

 With their roots in American folk music, the Ohio Polyphonic Blues Orchestra invites us for an intimate evening of old swing music, bluegrass and Cajun. Let go of the world around you and listen to stories of a family that has travelled the world together sharing their country blues. Thom Roy is something entirely different. Inspired by folk music traditions of West Africa and the Balkans, he has created a new sound using his banjo, ukulele and voice. Come listen to his artful musical expression and let him inspire you. 

Get ready for an evening of intimate and soulful performances this Thursday evening, at 9.30PM!

两支分别来自美法加的嘉宾乐队破天荒登场，曲风横跨民谣，摇摆，布鲁斯，非洲音乐等，这个周四晚，全新音乐体验！

MORE ABOUT

SUNSHINE IN OHIO
THE POLYPHONIC BLUES ORCHESTRA 

Sunshine in Ohio is a "Collectif" from France and Canada created by Johnny Sunshine from Les Poissons Voyageurs. The band plays with 2 to 10 musicians and explore the world of american music, from Cajun to Bluegrass, old swing and Voodoo blues with a great and energetic show. The ten musicians take dazzling instrumental and vocal solo alongside arrangements of traditional songs and compositions. The show is highly interactive and takes the audience in a wild ride of cowboys, horses, special effects and the unbelievable stories of this great family of musicians who have travelled the world together.　This time in China as a duo, for an intimate evening, with Johnny Sunshine on the guitar and voice and Miss Ohio on the voice and double bass.

THOM ROY

Many music-loving Nashvillians will tell you that our home’s nickname, “Music City, USA,” is a bit misleading. Sure, there’s a glut of guitar heroes and hard luck songwriters in town, but the title only holds water if all Music exists beneath the narrow canopies of radio-friendly Country and mustache-friendly Garage, twin genres in different costumes, whose laborers earn their bread reheating treatments of decades-old styles and themes. Inside the many rooms that house the city’s busy calendar of performances, it can be fairly difficult to encounter acts that operate outside these two camps or venture to do something risky or vulnerable. 

Thom Roy, the solo project of Nashville-based songwriter Steven Roy, stands out from the local crowd, as would a blue-footed booby in a courtyard of pigeons. Watching him do his thing, as I have four or five times over the years, is a strange, immersive experience that defies easy consumption or description. And yet, it’s simple: Thom Roy plays banjo and ukulele and sings, sometimes over crackling samples and mid-tempo beats, sometimes unadorned. But the way he does these simple things is at once so unhinged and so artful, so sly and so naïve, that afterwards one is left with the feeling of having been sucked through the looking glass and back out, all within a half hour set. 

In that short time, Roy’s instrumentals jitter across the folk traditions of West Africa, the Balkans, and Appalachia without ever setting down or seeming scatterbrained. His androgynous singing – at times dramatic and soaring, at times reduced to a feral purr, always captivating - is even harder to place, as comparisons to The Magnetic Fields, Dirty Projectors and Tiny Tim would all be apt and off base. He’s more wizard than troubadour, and he seems to be just barely in control of his magic – making it all the more likely that he’ll turn you into a cloud or a gorgon or a mystified bump on a log, or whatever you’ve wished to become all along.