WIDOWSPEAK - MACIE STEWART

“Molly Hamilton and Robert Earl Thomas strike a perfect balance of plaintive beauty and firebrand rock ‘n’ roll.”

WIDOWSPEAK

Composé de la chanteuse Molly Hamilton et du guitariste Robert Earl Thomas, Widowspeak présente « The Jackets », un sixième album-concept où le duo new-yorkais invite le premier batteur du groupe Michael Stasiak ainsi que le bassiste JD Sumner et le pianiste Michael Hess. Un opus qui fait la part belle à la dream pop des 90’s, plus folk et jangle pop qu’à l’accoutumée. Aux amateurs de Yo La Tengo, Neil Young, Cowboy Junkies, Cat Power et Richard & Linda Thomspon, ce concert est pour vous !

MACIE STEWART

Macie Stewart (she/they) is a multi-instrumentalist, composer/arranger, songwriter, and improviser based in Chicago, IL who Downbeat Magazine calls “a master of equilibrium.” Stewart began her musical career at the age of 3. Learning piano while she learned to talk, she discovered two foundational modes of communication at once. As the daughter of a career musician (pianist Sami Scot), Stewart was encouraged to explore the piano and violin, and she became proficient on both instruments. After helping to found the Chicago bands Kids These Days and Marrow, Stewart broadened her interests and spent time in the avant-garde jazz scene, performing regularly at Chicago institutions Constellation and The Hungry Brain. It was in that scene Stewart distinguished herself as a go-to collaborator, co-founding the band OHMME (with Sima Cunningham) and performing and improvising with Ken Vandermark’s Marker ensemble, the improvised act The Few (with guitar player Steve Marquette and bassist Charlie Kirchen) and the violin/cello duo Macie Stewart & Lia Kohl. Stewart has toured as a multi-instrumentalist with bands such as Japanese Breakfast, The Weather Station, Chance The Rapper, and Tweedy. Stewart has also spent years working as a string arranger, drawing on her varied background in classical, jazz, and Irish folk music to create unique arrangements for artists such as the band Whitney, SZA, V.V. Lightbody, Knox Fortune, and many others.