Six Foot Love Series presents: Sarah Ruth and Damon Smith

314 West Eighth Street,Dallas TX 75208

29 April, 2021

Description

EACH TICKET INCLUDES TWO ADMISSIONS The Six Foot Love series follow the CDC guidelines to provide a live performance experience with safety precautions: -All tickets include two seats. No single seats ($15 for two people) -All tables and benches are set 6' apart -You can reserve a whole table or half table. Half tables are divided by sneeze guard -Full service to all tables and benches. -Access and exit venue through the side of the house, no need to get inside -Maximum capacity: 40 people per show -Doors at 7p -Show at 7.30p (no supporting act) On the heels of their first duo release, God Made My Soul an Ornament, we are honored to have North Texas multi instrumentalist and vocalist Sarah Ruth Alexander, and St.Louis based bassist Damon Smith, to perform in our backyard. Sarah Ruth is a diverse musician and artist – a multi-instrumentalist, she employs hammered dulcimer, harmonium, electroacoustic sound art, and extended vocal techniques. She performs frequently both solo and with multiple bands and improvisational ensembles in the North Texas area. Damon Smith is world travelling bassist and relentless collaborator who studied double bass with Lisle Ellis and has had lessons with Joëlle Leandré, John Lindberg, Mark Dresser and others. Damon’s explorations into the sonic palette of the double bass have resulted in a personal, flexible improvisational language based in the American jazz avant-garde movement and European non-idiomatic free improvisation. “Sarah and Damon both come from rather different playing backgrounds. Damon is known to the world almost purely as an improviser. Notwithstanding a few such things as Ayler tunes or Fluxus-tangential scores, both of which serve as springboards or orientation points for more improvisation yet still, Damon has devoted his life and art to discovering, in real time and practice, instant composition, both solo and with other musicians from all over the world. His other passions, from poetry, to modern art, to (perhaps most infamously) world cuisine all reflect his uncompromising and ever-searching aesthetics and praxis. Sarah, depending on what night you catch her on, can be found playing doom metal, ambient drones, pop music, electronic noise, 20th century composition (from names familiar to obscure), or performing her own literary works, comedy, or socially challenging performance art; all in addition to her pure improv wanderings with musicians of many different backgrounds, disciplines and genres.” Aaron Gonzalez, liner notes of God Made My Soul an Ornament