Rob Noyes + Chris Strunk + Rhea
Rob Noyes / Chris Strunk / Rhea
Sunday, September 15, 2024, at 8pm
First Church of Jamaica Plain (Parish Hall)
6 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain
8pm / Doors: 7:30pm
Admission: $15 / $10 for members and students (No one turned away for lack of funds)
For information about accessibility call the church at 617-221-3059 or email susanna@nonevent.org.
Non-Event is pleased to present an evening of solos by guitarist Rob Noyes, percussionist Chris Strunk and violinist Rhea Burdick.
About the artists
Rob Noyes is an acclaimed composer and guitar player, originally from the Boston area, now residing in Tokyo, Japan. Since 2014 Rob has primarily performed as a solo acoustic guitarist in the tradition of Robbie Basho, John Renbourn, Davey Graham, Michael Chapman, and Wizz Jones. In 2016, Rob released The Feudal Spirite Feudal Spirit on Boston’s Poon Village label featuring a cover by Raymond Pettibon. He followed that with the Arc Minutes LP on VDSQ. Rob has also released collaborations or split records with Joseph Allred, Alexander, Sam Moss, Ryan Lee Crosby, Greg Kelley, and Ayami Suzuki. This will be Rob's first Boston performance in 5 years.
Chris Strunk is a Boston-based percussionist and drummer. His solo work focuses on cymbal overtones, friction, and the vibration and rattle of non-traditional objects used as percussion instruments. He has been an active show promoter and musician in the Boston area for the past twenty years. He has been a member of groups such as Los Condenados, Avoidance, Taps, Phantom Rides, Sheer Anxiety, Conversions, Baja Blatz, Sleeper Cell, and many more. He released a solo cd called No Chart Could Map My Constellations on the Philadelphia-based label Killing Time Between the Ice Ages in 2017, and recently authored a zine about the history of DIY punk spaces in Boston that was published by Free the Future Press and was nominated for a Broken Pencil Zine Award.
Rhea Burdick is a composer, violinist, and violin maker based in Boston. Originally from Northern Virginia, she began playing violin and fiddle at the age of 5. Fascinated by figuring out how things work, she began to try to create music. This led her to pursue classical composition at New England Conservatory. During this time, she simultaneously played fiddle in an old-time folk band called Sasquatch and the Jackalope, with her friend and banjo player Aisling Carroll. Reticent at first to combine the worlds of classical and folk music, she began answering this question immediately following school. She self-produced 5 albums of experimental folk music ranging from found-sound collages to re-compositions of traditional tunes with all manner of compositional innovation and improvisations. Heavily influenced by free improvisation, her most recent work explores the improvisatory elements of folk music to their greatest extremes, without sacrificing the inherent folkiness of the source material.
