Glenn Jones / Brittany Karlson
Glenn Jones and Brittany Karlson
Saturday, June 25, 2022 at 8pm
Goethe-Institut Boston
170 Beacon Street, Boston
Doors: 7:30pm Performance begins promptly at 8pm
Tickets: $15 / $10 for members and students
Advanced Tickets available
Please Note: Goethe-Institut Boston currently has limited capacity of 70
The evening will include solo sets by each musician along with a duo set.
Please note, everyone is required to wear a CDC-approved mask during all indoor public events at the Goethe-Institut Boston, except when actively eating or drinking.
About the artists
Glenn Jones began playing guitar when he was 14 (after discovering Jimi Hendrix’s Axis: Bold as Love) and is one of today’s leading proponents of American Primitive Guitar, a style invented in the late 1950s by his friend and mentor, John Fahey.
Glenn turned away from the guitar’s standard E A D G B E tuning some 40 years ago and began creating his own tunings (he estimates he’s invented more than a hundred). These and his use of custom-crafted two-, three- and four-string partial capos are Jones’ way of escaping the known, thus allowing for the creation of new pieces of music, each of which requires its own chord shapes, fingerings, scales—and unique challenges: they are his way of navigating new and unfamiliar landscapes.
“It’s my hope,” he says, “that what listeners hear is not all the technical stuff that goes into the creation of my pieces – the weird tunings and partial capos and all that—but the music, the feeling within these pieces.”
With this show, we are celebrating the release of Glenn’s 8th solo album, Vade Mecum. Glenn lives in Cambridge.
Bassist/vocalist Brittany Karlson is an adventurous musician with roots in jazz, American folk music, and improvised music. She has performed across the USA, Canada, and Europe in a variety of ensemble settings, including improvised trio Letter Castle and American old-time/bluegrass/Swedish string band The Goodbye Girls. When performing solo, Karlson improvises, performs original songs under the moniker Karl, or ducks behind her bass to perform a lighthearted puppet show with many props. Karlson is an AmSAT certified Alexander Technique teacher. She is based in Boston.
