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| Calendar: | Tucson Music Events |
| Title: | MiRthkon with The Black Jackalope Ensemble |
| When: | 08.24.2012 21:00 - 00:00 |
| Location: | Solar Culture Gallery, 31 East Toole Ave., Tucson AZ 85701 |
| Description: | http://www.mirthkon.com/ $7 miRthkon is an amplified chamber ensemble masquerading as a rock band. This illusion is well maintained by the fact that from time to time they do, indeed, rock. Consisting of a core rock instrumentation of 2 guitars, bass, and drums, their unique sound is enhanced by the inclusion of two adept woodwind players covering a wide array of instruments including: piccolo, flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, alto, tenor, and baritone saxophones. Maintaining a passionate aesthetic stance that they are (quite happily) 'beneath everything', their music -- whether evoking the direct or indirect influence of progressive rock, contemporary classical abstraction, avant-garde jazz, catchy hook-laden pop, or thrash metal -- is held to a simple but firm standard The Black Jackalope Ensemble is a band of like-minded musicians who defy easy categorization. Seamlessly blending together rock, jazz, and anything in between; The Black Jackalope Ensemble is intent on pushing the mu |
