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Presents:Tribute to James Taylor

Saturday, November 13, 2010 8:00 pmCentral Presbyterian Church200 East 8th Street, Austin, TX

Sunday November 14, 2010 2:00 pm Uptown Marble Theater

218 W. Main, Marble Falls, TX

Will Taylor: I arrived in Austin in 1973 and spent summers swimming at Barton Springs, played shirtless in the garden of the infamous Armadillo World Headquarters, lived two blocks from the Rome Inn where Stevie Ray Vaughan played the blues weekly. I graduated from Austin High and studied viola performance at the UT School of Music in 1987 while playing jazz fusion in 6th street clubs on the weekend. My jazz string quartet, an early incarnation of Strings Attached, was invited to play at the keynote of the 1988 SXSW music festival. I've lived briefly in other places, but I'm still convinced that Austin is one of the coolest places to make a life. I play the viola, violin, guitar, and piano. I've played for 21 years in the Austin Lyric Opera Pit orchestra, played with orchestras all over Texas, toured the U.S. and Canada with my own Jazz group in the 90's, and the Turtle Island (Jazz) String Quartet. If I had to choose just one hat to wear, I'd call myself primarily a jazz violist. Around age 15, my orchestra teacher forced me to improvise a blues solo with the stage band before a live audience and I was on fire about jazz from then on. Musicians or persons who have heavily influenced your musical style and abilities are; Pat Metheny, Oregon, Stephane Grapelli, Igor Stravinsky, Leonard Bernstein, Jean-Luc Ponty, The Beatles and Led Zeppelin. I wanted a vehicle for my composing and arranging that wouldn't require being on the road all the time. I wanted to be around for my kids, and of course to be able to support them. The idea of collaborating with amazing, locally popular folk artists in a way that would intermingle with my jazz and classical sensibilities was exciting to me. Strings Attached has become a musical playground, where folk and jazz and rock and classical all collide. It's like grafting the best of two or three plants together and coming up with something new, but traditional at the same time. So, Strings Attached was born and the common thread of the founding members is that everyone was a serious jazz player. We wanted to get away from mentality of straight ahead jazz; play more simply, with more

space and dynamics and put the focus on the song and the impact of its meaning. These days we have a core of 10 or 12 players who are Strings Attached, in different configurations for different shows. This way we can play to each person's strengths by rotating in and out of specific shows which helps schedule our very busy in-demand players.The founding members are as follows:Steve Zirkel is a monster on bass, but started off as a trumpet player. His muted jazz trumpet sound slapped up next to say, an early Joni Mitchell song, is a really defining element of our sound. He's so fluent with his instruments and in general with the musical language, and thinks as fast as anyone I've ever known. Jason Mckenzie plays a traditional drum kit with Billy Jo Shaver, but he helped create the Strings Attached sound with his exquisite hand percussion style. His tabla and Indian Kanjira are an integral part of our recordings. Shawn Sanders has a PhD in cello performance, and has been with the Austin Lyric Opera about as long as I have. He shows up to the table as good of a reader as anyone and has been solid as the "other" primary bowed player of the group, allowing me to challenge my arranging skills. I first heard Glenn Rexach's guitar and vocals tearing up the blues at the Sunday Stubbs Blues jam hosted by B3 player Dee Dee Purkepile. I hired him to play bass for a jazz fusion bar gig and soon after discovered that Glenn had real experience playing Latin music, country, traditional and modern jazz. Be-bop, funk, folk, hard rock and minor in music composition makes him a rock solid tiretless electric bass player in the Jaco Pastorius tradition. Glenn's multifaceted guitar work makes it possible for me to present an acoustic folk show one night and the music of Zeppelin the next. We've worked pretty regularly with both Eliza Gilkyson and Slaid Cleaves, who were the first big local artists that helped get Strings Attached started. Also (in no particular order) Shawn Colvin, Sara Hickman, Jimmy LaFave, Dar Williams, Darden Smith, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Ian Moore, Patrice Pike, Abra Moore, and most recently Pearl Jam for their Austin City Limits taping. We perform at a huge variety of venues. We love to play in a concert or festival setting, But we also enjoy the casual shows where we're more of a backdrop. We have a pretty big mailing list, and work hard to fill the venues. All our albums are listed on www. StringsAttached.org . I'm the luckiest guy in the world because I share a home with my sweetheart and music partner Karen Mal in a great little community in South Austin we call Woody's Place. For optimal family harmony I recommend back and foot rubs daily. Will Taylor

PLAYERS: Will Taylor - violin, viola, guitar Karen Mal - vocals, mandolin David Glaser - vocals, guitar Dave Madden - piano Sam Spankey - bass

Strings Attached is available for your private events including weddings. Contact us anytime at: 512-775-2371 or www.stringsattached.org: Follow williambtaylor at Twitter.

Want to host a house concert?It’s easier than you think. Here’s what you need: • Living room • Coffeemaker • 25 or more friends to share with usYou can choose from the many shows in our repertoire,

to find out more call or email Will:(512) 775-2371 will@willtaylor.com

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