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Seventh Annual Redwood Coast Sketches 3 Whale & Jazz Festival: Main Event Todd Sickafoose’s Tiny Resistors Saturday, April 4, 2009 Doors open 6:30 p.m., Concert at 7:30 p.m Gualala Arts Center A Bay Area native, Todd Sickafoose “Th e unassuming Todd Sickafoose, spent some years in Los Angeles whose main gig is serving as bassist studying bass with Charlie Haden for iconoclastic singer-songwriter and composition with the great, Ani DiFranco, has apparently been late Mel Powell. Since then, he’s spending his spare time building been recording and performing with a modern jazz masterpiece. [His numerous innovative folks and genre album] Tiny Resistors, takes ele- benders including Ani DiFranco, ments of Miles Davis, Radiohead, Don Byron, Jenny Scheinman, Nels Bill Frisell, and traditional New Cline, Myra Melford, Adam Levy, Orleans old-school jazz, and puts Stanton Moore, Bobby Previte, Scott them through the blender of a Amendola and Will Bernard. smart NYC-based mini orchestra / band (two guitars, bass, drums, four Th e consistency of his personal voice horns, and a violin, plus keyboards within wildly diverse collaborations by Sickafoose himself). prompted the LA Weekly in 2004 to call Todd “one of the most compre- Compositionally strewn with memo- hensive musical minds of this coast.” rable motifs and delectably dissonant Since 2005, Todd has been living in counter melodies that fade in and Brooklyn, NY, but visits the Bay Area out like gauzy movie scenes, this often. highly sophisticated, harmonically complex musical tapestry is com- A message from Festival Music Coor- pletely, almost unnaturally void of dinator, Fred Adler: traditional “virtuosic” performance. Yet, its ensemble “Th is year for Th e Main Event of the Whale & Jazz speaks a fl uent virtuosity in the pursuit of its seamless Festival I have booked “Todd Sickafoose’s Tiny Resis- and moving execution. You can only conclude that the tors” after having frequently witnessed their absolutely ethos is embedded in Sickafoose himself, who wrote, magical and thrilling ensemble sound in the Bay Area. mixed, and produced the entire eff ort to a rare level of excellence and coherence, and whose fi ne bass playing Believe me, this unusual combination of bass, violin, disappears . in the best possible sense . in the gor- trumpet, glockenspiel, saxophone, guitar and other geous mural of his music. Stunningly brilliant.” instruments, executing Todd’s original compositions, - Bass Player Magazine is truly some of the most original and riveting jazz that I have ever heard over the decades - bar none! Doors open 6:30 p.m. for beer, wine and a martini bar along with savory and sweet tapas plates available for I am very excited to present this cutting edge, yet purchase (one plate included per admission). Limited totally accessible music at the Gualala Arts Center open cabaret seating at 7:00 p.m. Show begins at 7:30 for this year’s Main Event. Witness some of the most p.m. compelling jazz performed anywhere, anytime, ever! Tickets $30 advance, $5 more day of performance - if You won’t want to miss this one!” available. Available online at GualalaArts.org or 1-800- 838-3006 or in person at Gualala Arts Center, the Dol- “A captivating improviser, imaginative composer, and phin Gallery and Shop, Violet’s Boutique and Four-Eyed master of collaboration.” Frog Books in Gualala. - San Francisco Chronicle “Ani DiFranco’s secret weapon.” - Th e New Yorker photo: Gilles Dacquin.