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Thank you everyone for a sold out weekend!

April 15, 2013 in AXIS Dance Company, Clarinet Thing, Club Foot Orchestra by Beth | Permalink

Thanks to all of you who came out to this past weekend’s performances of AXIS Dance Company’s 25th Anniversary premiere of If Then, Would You choreographed beautifully by Vic Marks. The score I created with my trio of Jan Jackson, David James and myself can be heard and purchased here:

http://thebethcusterensemble.bandcamp.com/album/what-if-would-you

And thanks to all of you who came out to Club Foot Orchestra’s premiere of Richard Marriott’s score to the revised 140 minute silent film Metropolis by Fritz Lang at SF Jazz Festival. After thirty years of performing with CFO, I hope we can finally tour Europe with this one.

Upcoming shows include Clarinet Thing on May 10th at Old First Church. June 1 & 2 come hear my new score for Roco Dance’s production of Peter Pan for 150 teenagers at the Marin Center. I’ll be performing solo at SF Jazz on June 15th in their Church of the Advent.

See you at one or all of these this upcoming month and thanks again.

Cheers,

Beth

 

Red House concert and new video

June 12, 2012 in Uncategorized by Beth | Permalink

Hello, everyone,

New Porto Franco video out of For the Grace of Any Man thanks to Peter Varshavsky.

 

 

KPFA interview

May 31, 2012 in Uncategorized by Beth | Permalink

Hey peeps,

Did a KPFA interview last night on Sing Out with the stalwart fan/friend Larry Kelp. Larry came to my Zeitgeist show a couple years ago in Brooklyn.

Check it out–see you soon!

Thanks Larry

Beth Custer Ensemble Bay Area/NW tour starts…tomorrow!

May 24, 2012 in Beth Custer Ensemble, My Grandmother live music to silent film by Beth | Permalink

Great article Andy Gilbert article in the Mercury News about our upcoming bay area live music to silent film shows, thanks Andy!

And Paul Freeman also chimed in, thanks Paul!

See the home page for all our gigs—and I hope I see some peeps come out for this—

you ol’ Club Foot fans, you Trance Mission fans, you Eighty Mile Beach fans….bring it!

cheers,

b

Adam Levy on our house concert series this Saturday…

May 17, 2012 in Red House Speak Easy by Beth | Permalink

Hey peeps,

Red House Speak Easy presents Adam Levy with Todd Sickafoose this Saturday and yours truly sitting in on a tune. Come on over for some tasty soup and check out my concert series. We’ll have the fire pit going and homemade soups and libations for you to sip. https://bethcuster.com/gigs

We’ve officially launched my new site, peruse it for downloads, etc. Thanks to Alexander Bailey for all his wonderful design work.

When’s the last time you got out of the city? Consider spending a day in gorgeous St. Helena for our gig at Tres Sabores Winery. Go to a spa in Calistoga then come hear us perform, treat yourself!  We’ll be performing outdoors in front of the vineyards–there’s wine tasting and food available–and it’s a benefit for Oxbow School, a great arts high school of Napa.

I hope I see you very soon,

Cheers,

Beth

Montalvo Art Center

May 8, 2012 in Uncategorized by Beth | Permalink

It is with great awe and inspiration that I reside at Montalvo Art Center for May, my final month of an artist residency that has spanned three months in three years. Thanks to Richard Marriott of Club Foot Orchestra for nominating me (thanks Ricky!). I’ll be continuing on the CFO tradition of performing live to a classic silent film at Montalvo on May 25th . Treat yourself and come for the day~Montalvo is in Saratoga, 40 miles south of San Francisco. Bring a picnic, sprawl on the ample lawns, hike the 140 acres of trails and gardens, hear Japanese sound artist Mamoru Okuno at 6pm then our performance at 8:30.

There’s some very cool artists in residence with me here including photographer Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe and artist Justin Lowman http://www.justinlowman.com and others. We get together each weekday night to feast on the culinary arts of chef Niki Valentine, formerly with the American Academy of Rome kitchen.

Yes, I am working while here…mostly on an orchestral arrangement of My Grandmother score as per a request from an orchestra in Spain, thanks to Chicago trumpeter Tom Purdie who lives and performs with Orquestra de Galicia.

With deepest gratitude,

Beth

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