Joseph Allred, Ben Hersey, Liam Grant
joseph allred, ben hersey, liam grant
monday, july 7, 2025 at 8pm
Goethe-Institut Boston
170 Beacon Street, Boston
Music: 7:30pm (Doors: 7pm)
Admission: $15 General / $10 for students and Non-Event members
No one turned away for lack of funds
For information about accessibility call the Goethe-Institut Boston at 617-610-9398 . Questions about tickets, contact susanna@nonevent.org.
Non-Event and the Goethe-Institut Boston are pleased to present an evening of guitar, spoken word, and performance art
About the Artists
Joseph Allred is a Tennessee-based guitarist, singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and visual artist with deep roots in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee and Kentucky. Their guitar playing draws from diverse musical styles including Appalachian folk, bluegrass, blues,flamenco, and classical guitar, as well as from folk iconoclasts John Fahey and Robbie Basho, figures of the 20th century avant-garde likeAlbert Ayler,Derek Bailey and Henry Flynt, and the musical traditions of India, Iran, and the Arab world.They have released music on Feeding TubeRecords, Worried Songs, Scissor Tail Editions, AKTI, Island House, Blue Hole Recordings,Garden Portal, Reverb Worship/Future Grave, and their own Meliphonic Records imprint. Joseph was long based here in Boston and we are thrilled to welcome them back for this perfornance,
Ben Hersey is a writer, actor, and performance artist who has been featured at a wide variety of literary, performing arts, and music festivals. His experimental work draws from contemporary poetry, noise, New England colonial history, genealogy, and found texts. Last year he portrayed Macbeth in DIY Macbeth’s production. A Boston native, he is the author of the psychedelic, blue-collar novel, The Autograph of Steve Industry.
Liam Grant (Boston, MA) is a New England guitarist with a punk ethos, cut from the American Primitive cloth. The restless guitar explorations, modal epics and driving uptempo rags recall the likes of Grant's pedagogue: Takoma Records and the path that was paved by his forebears John Fahey, Robbie Basho, Peter Walker, Max Ochs and later Glenn Jones, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Jack Rose, and others.
