House Concert in Fairfax – Noctambule and Darcy Noonan & Lindsay Straw

Come out for a night of Irish music and more in an intimate house concert setting featuring two duos, Noctambule (Marla Fibish & Bruce Victor) and Darcy Noonan & Lindsay Straw in Fairfax, CA!

Doors open at 7:00, concert begins at 7:30. Suggested donation is $20. Concert goers are encouraged to bring instruments for the open session after the performance. Email: [email protected] to reserve a seat and get the address.

NOCTAMBULE

MARLA FIBISH and BRUCE VICTOR are NOCTAMBULE. They play original and traditional music in a variety of forms — joining together poetry they have set to music, instrumental pieces, and traditional Irish tunes and songs. Their music is alive with lush beauty, sensitivity, and humor on guitars in creative tunings, mandola, mandolin,, cittern, accordion, tenor guitar, and their blended voices.

The name NOCTAMBULE, French for ‘night-owl,’ comes from a Robert Service poem about a nocturnal ramble through the back alleys of Paris. THE WAKING, their 2015 release, features poetry-set-to-music along with some instrumental tracks. The poems, from Roethke, Auden, Hughes, Plath, Benet, and others, explore the vicissitudes, the inscrutability, and the ultimately indomitable nature of time. Their previous album, the critically acclaimed TRAVEL IN THE SHADOWS, explores forms of the ‘night journey’ in song, offering travelers the opportunity to see and experience the world differently once the usual sources of light subside. It features a variety of ‘noctambulatory’ verse from Tennyson, Neruda, Roethke, St. Vincent Millay, and Robert Service. More at www.noctambulemusic.com

Praise for Noctambule
“The irregular phrases, unpredictable meters and strangely beautiful harmonies…overlapping voices, guitars, and mandolins conjure a nocturnal world in which the words of some of our finest poets take shape and snap together magically like recently discovered pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Travel in the Shadows is folk music at its best–hand made, without a template.’
– Alex DeGrassi
“Just occasionally in music, something comes along that just works and when it does it works to perfection, Noctambule is just that.”
– Tim Carroll, Folkwords
“The arrangements have the kind of genius that reflects lives lived fully, souls not unscathed, but with glittering musical imaginations grounded in joyful glorious experience. The playing is simply beautiful, and the interplay between Bruce’s moving, deft yet muscular guitar playing and Marla’s always magic mandolin reminds me of watching two strong dancers moving together, creating so much more than the sum of the parts
– Kevin Carr, Folkworks

MARLA FIBISH is well known in the Irish music world, bringing a musicality and excitement to the tradition that is not often heard on the mandolin. She is also known for her compositions, musical settings of poetry and instrumental pieces that have been featured in her work with Out of the Rain, and Three Mile Stone, and on her recording with Jimmy Crowley, The Morning Star. In addition to the mandolin, Marla brings mandola, tenor guitar, bouzouki, accordion, and her alto voice to the Noctambule sound. More at www.marlafibish.com.
BRUCE VICTOR is an eclectic and accomplished guitarist and composer, who plays several different guitars in several different tunings. Seemingly resisting any single musical genre, he has been labeled a ‘poly-stylist’ by one of the editors of Acoustic Guitar magazine. He has played with The Sirens of San Francisco, The Triplicates, and as a solo performer. He was the founder of The Acoustic Vortex, a non-profit musical organization that produced house concerts, mentored youth performers, and performed benefit concerts for other non-profit organizations. He is also a practicing psychiatrist and was a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

DARCY NOONAN & LINDSAY STRAW
The collaboration of Bay Area fiddler Darcy Noonan & Boston-based bouzouki & guitar player Lindsay Straw brings together fiery, high energy Irish tunes, agile accompaniment, and traditional songs from all over the British Isles and America.
Darcy began playing violin with Annemarie Sudermann at age 7 about the same time she began lessons at the Healy Irish dance school. With help from her mother and her father’s endless supply of Irish music, she was able to continue studying both classical music and Irish dance throughout her childhood. It wasn’t until she attended Bobbi Nikles’ Fiddlekids that Darcy realized she could be the one playing Irish fiddle. She is inspired by the playing of Liz Carroll, Tommy Peoples, John Carty and Frankie Gavin. She spent 2 years in Ireland, traveling and studying until she found a second home in Galway city. She has taught classes for the Cooley-Keegan branch of CCE, at Lark in the Morning Camp as well as private students.
Lindsay has impressed with her tender singing voice and an extensive repertoire that is rooted in the Scottish and Northern Irish traditions, but which also delves into contemporary songwriters. She has drawn praise for her sensitive, agile accompaniment on bouzouki and guitar at many a Boston session and in concert. Originally from Montana, she began to explore Boston’s Irish and folk music scenes while studying film scoring at Berklee College of Music. Her debut solo album My Mind From Love Being Free was released in May 2015. She will be releasing her second solo album this fall thanks to generous funding from Club Passim’s Iguana Grant.
More at http://www.lindsaystraw.com/darcy-noonan-lindsay-straw-epk