Marc Ribot & Chris Eldridge: New York Guitar Festival

Over het evenement

Enjoy Silent Films / Live Guitars with Josef von Sternberg's 'The Docks of New York' and Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle's 'Coney Island'.

This season, Marc Ribot returns with a new score for von Sternberg’s passionate drama 'The Docks of New York', which tells the New York waterfront story of a boiler room stoker’s romance with a suicidal dance‐hall girl. Marc Ribot has frequently collaborated with Tom Waits and John Zorn; his most recent band is the trio Ceramic Dog. For sheer contrast, bathing beauties and Keystone Kops abound in Fatty Arbuckle’s 1917 short comedy 'Coney Island', screened with a suitably raucous new score by Chris Eldridge of the progressive bluegrass band Punch Brothers.

Born at Merkin Concert Hall more than 10 years ago, the city‐wide New York Guitar Festival explores the many aspects of the guitar’s musical personality through commissioning new work and supporting innovative, multi‐media collaborations among outstanding artists.