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Peter Stampfel musical performance

2016-Nov-25 @ 17:00 - 18:00

Free

The article below is from a review from Pitchfork contributed by Jesse Jarnow The 78-year-old folk legend remains in a spirit full of joy, an embodiment of old-time string band chaos and a bastion of enthusiasm for the legacy of music as storytelling. Communicating unbridled enthusiasm the same way Johnny Rotten once vocalized a sneer, Peter Stampfel's singing is the type that might either drive people from rooms or pull them closer. An underground musician in the early 1960s and an underground musician now, the fiddler-banjoist's gleeful howl has always framed his music as belonging to some faction of the other, as symbolic as a fuzzed-out guitar once seemed to be. Except in the 21st century, with the out-of-control charge of the Stooges' "Search and Destroy" most lately heard in an Audi ad campaign, Stampfel's voice continues to be exactly as untamable as it was holiday for stringsin the '60s, an aural pointer to a wild bohemia. […]

[source: Bop Shop website, 2016-Nov-21]

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Date:
2016-Nov-25
Time:
17:00 - 18:00
Cost:
Free
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Venue

Bop Shop Records
1460 Monroe Ave.
Rochester, New York 14618 United States
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