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On sale now from BC Records!:
The Beth Custer Ensemble — Roam CD $12
Clarinet Thing — Cry, Want CD $12
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Contact:
bethcuster bethcuster com
www.myspace.com/bethcustermusic
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GIGS!
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Thursday, February 11, 2010
Club Foot Orchestra
Performances will include members of Longshoremen, Alterboys, Bay Of Pigs, Naked City, Rhyth-A-Rama, and Inflatable Boy Clams. With emcee Mr. Lucky.
Doors 7pm, show 8pm
Cafe du Nord
2170 Market Street,
San Francisco
(415) 861 5016
Friday, February 19, 2010, 8pm
room: ODD OVERTONES with Pamela Z, Beth Custer, Matt Ingalls, & Cornelius Boots
In the first event of its 2010 season, Pamela Z Productions presents ROOM: Odd Overtones with
Beth Custer (Clarinets) Matt Ingalls (Clarinet & Electronics) Cornelius Boots (Bass Clarinet) Each clarinetist will do a solo set and/or duo with Pamela Z, and then Pamela will join all of them in an ensemble finale.
Royce Gallery
2901 Mariposa Street #18, San Francisco
NEWS!
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October 11, 2009
“Beth Custer doesn’t make it easy for music critics, who are by nature prone to convenient categorization. But for listeners, especially those as adventurous as the composer-vocalist-clarinetist herself, there’s no need for categorization with her ensemble’s latest album, ‘Roam,’ whose title summarizes the dizzying stylistic variety of its 12 cuts. The title song evokes the traditional strains of the classic ‘Caravan,’ while ‘Jackrabbit’ (among the seven songs featuring lyrics by playwright Octavio Solis from their collaborations ‘The Ballad of Pancho & Lucy’ and ‘June in a Box’) bounces to a rockabilly rhythm, and ‘God Made Night’ keens like a lonely country waltz. Custer, who celebrates the CD release January 5, 2010 at Yoshi’s San Francisco, contributes her own unvarnished vocals and brilliant clarinet work, as well as lyrics for the five other songs on the disc, which were composed during residencies at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga and Civitella Ranieri, Italy.”
—David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle |
