Join us for an extraordinary multimedia performance led by legendary drummer, Bovina resident Jonathan Kane, with Reeves Gabrels (The Cure), and Ross Rice (Human Radio), as they interpret the work of musicians immortalized in iconic photographs by Art Kane.
Tickets for guaranteed seat: $15 in advance (use the link below)
Remaining seats and standing-room: $20 cash or Venmo at the door.
Doors at 7:40 pm; program begins at 8 pm.
Beneath the guidance of projected photographs, the group will consider the work of Louis Armstrong, The Beatles, Benny Golson, The Who, Horace Silver, Cream, Bob Dylan, and others, in real-time sonic explorations. Through rigorous innovation and dynamic adaptation, What the Pictures Sound Like offers a multisensory interplay between visual and auditory art forms. In total, it is a testimony to the enduring compact that unites author and subject, sight and sound, and intergenerational artistic collaboration across space and time.
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The foundation of this performance is the opus of photographer Art Kane (1925–1995). His 1958 group portrait “Harlem 1958” (also known as “A Great Day in Harlem”) is revered as a singular celebration of the Golden Age of jazz and an assertion of celebratory resilience in an era ruptured with social inequities. Other significant subjects include cultural icons of the twentieth century such as Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and The Doors, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Aretha Franklin, Lenny Bruce, and the Rolling Stones.
Leading this effort is Art Kane’s son, Jonathan Kane whose virtuosic percussion has propelled culture-shifting sounds with La Monte Young, Rhys Chatham, February, and as a founding member of Swans. He is joined by guitarist extraordinaire Reeves Gabrels who collaborated with David Bowie as a bandmate, co-writer, and co-producer from 1987 to 1999. A member of The Cure since 2012, he is an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, while his latest effort with the group, 2024’s Songs of a Lost World, charted at number one worldwide. Keyboardist Ross Rice has worked with legendary artists including Isaac Hayes, George Clinton, Jill Sobule, Eek-A-Mouse, Amy Rigby, Susannah Hoffs, and Steve Cropper.