Fernando Pinto Presents:
Jerron 'Blind Boy' Paxton & Dennis Lichtman - Friday September 15,
EAST ROCK CONCERT SERIES
at Best Video Film & Cultural Center, Hamden, CT, 06517
Doors 6pm - Showtime 7pm,
Tickets: $20. + ticket process fee of $2.50 adv., $25. day of show
Tickets at: Fernandopintopresents.com
Multi-instrumentalists Jerron Paxton and Dennis Lichtman go out into the world together, they look to the past for inspiration. Growing up on opposite coasts — Paxton in Los Angeles, Lichtman near Boston — each developed a love of music that brought them together in New York City, first as friends and colleagues, then as close collaborators.
They will perform selections from their eponymous debut album as a duo — acoustic blues and Ragtime, 1920s jazz, popular songs from New York City’s Tin Pan Alley music publishers — plus original music inspired by this era and spirited Appalachian fiddling.
Jerron Paxton: guitar, banjo, piano, fiddle, vocals.
Dennis Lichtman: mandolin, clarinet, fiddle, guitar, vocals
Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton (born January 26, 1989) is an American multi-instrumentalist blues musician and vocalist from Los Angeles. He plays banjo, piano and violin and his musical influences are mainly rooted in the early blues from the 1920s and 30s. Jerron's family, originally from Louisiana, moved to LA in the 50s where he grew up before moving to New York city in 2007, where he currently resides. With a strong interest in blues and jazz music before World War II, Paxton’s sound is influenced by the likes of Fats Waller and “Blind” Lemon Jefferson. According to Will Friedwald in the Wall Street Journal, Paxton is “virtually the only music-maker of his generation playing guitar, banjo, piano and violin, among other implements to fully assimilate the blues idiom of the 1920s and ’30s, the blues of Bessie Smith and Lonnie Johnson.”
Dennis Lichtman is a multi-instrumentalist (mainly clarinet, fiddle, and mandolin) who is deeply entrenched in early- to mid-1900’s American music, from traditional jazz and swing to bluegrass and western swing. His elegant voice carries through on all his instruments, lending a thread that weaves together the various genres he navigates. He has performed and recorded as a regular member of Ghost Train Orchestra, Pokey LaFarge Band, Nation Beat, Jim Kweskin Band, and many more.
Tickets $20. + processing fee in advance
$25. At the door.
Tickets on Sale Monday May 15, at 10am:
https://www.fernandopintopresents.com/.../the-fleshtones...
bringing 1920s blues, ragtime, folk music to