The Grant Gordy Quartet | Boulder, CO

Harmony Music House Presents:

The Grant Gordy Quartet

An Intimate Acoustic Performance

Featuring members of The David Grisman Quartet, Joy Kills Sorrow, and Taarka.

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To call what Denver-based guitarist Grant Gordy does with the music he loves, the music his dad turned him on to, the music by the artists who would become his heroes and colleagues - to call it listening would be inaccurate. He hasn’t been just listening to it; he absorbs it, digests and dissects it, explores it to the very edge, feels it, knows it.

From the gift of an A&L acoustic guitar from his blues/R&B guitar-playing flat-picking and composer father and sharing time and technique, through Led Zeppelin rock and Grateful Dead roll. To time in bands, mastering improvisation and other concepts, to loving the blues and discovering bebop, modern jazz, straight-ahead bluegrass and the classics of Bach and Beethoven: What Gordy actually has been doing is continuous study.

Gordy put together his own quartet in 2006 that gigged for a couple of years and then got the call from David "Dawg" Grisman to sub in and then ultimately join the Quintet as guitarist. Says Grisman of Gordy: "[He] belongs to the new elite family of American acoustic practitioners who are pushing the ever-expanding envelope of a musical frontier ... Bluegrass, newgrass, jazz, classical and even 'dawg' are all audible influences in Grant's musical vision ... [His] guitar stylings offer a rare blend of flat-picking virtuosity, jazz exploration and classical sensibility - all displayed here in the setting of his choosing."

"At heart, I'm really an improviser; that's what very first drew me to playing music - the idea that you can make things up as you go along - but I'm also very interested in composition," Gordy says. "I like the idea of a group of musicians having as much room and freedom to explore and improvise as they want, but within a context of a compelling arrangement that can be exciting for, and draws in, the listener. ... It's also my hope that even though the pieces on the record reflect a wide range of interests and influences, they still sound like a cohesive statement from one composer."

Jacob Joliff (mandolin) is Berklee School of Music’s first full-scholarship mandolin student and a veteran performer, who has toured professionally since the age of 11 and shared the stage with such mandolin greats as David Grisman and Mike Marshall. He is the mandolinist for the progressive pop string band Joy Kills Sorrow.

Ian Hutchison is one of the most versatile bass players in the region. He has a degree in Jazz Studies from the University of Denver, and is the
most in-demand young jazz bass player in Denver, but is also at the top of the call list for bluegrass, folk, pop, and hip-hop groups in the area
because hey, he can do it all, with conviction and skill.

Enion Pelta-Tiller began classical violin studies at age 3, but her education was always supplemented by improvisation lessons from her jazz guitarist father. By 16 she had taught herself to compose impromptu melodies in styles from classical sonatas to East Indian ragas and jazz standards. She attended Peabody Institute in Baltimore, MD, working towards a viola performance degree, while also studying english at Johns Hopkins. She, eventually landing in NYC, where she performed cutting edge music straddling punk, free jazz, and classical with various local musicians, and landed a gig with the crown prince of Hungary's New Wave music scene, Menyhart Jeno, as the violinist in Mr Con and the Bioneers.

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Date/Time: Thursday, February 23, 2012, 7:30 pm

Doors: 7:00 pm

Ages: 8 and up

Seating: Seated General Admission

Ticket Availability: Yes

Price: $15 Advance. $18 DOS

On Sale: Now

Delivery: Will Call Only