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Sabato 26 Ottobre – 19.30
ZOE BOEKBINDER
Prenota ora / Book Now
Aperitivo con food&drinks dalle 19.30 alle 20.30
Live music alle 20.30
20 euro
Listen on Spotify
La voce di Zoe sembra uscire direttamente da un giradischi, fluttua leggiadra su di un tappeto di intricato fingerpicking. Nella dimensione live Zoe tira fuori il suo lato più intimo, inquieto e impetuoso, risultato della sua esperienza come insegnante di musica nel carcere di Folsom dove ha contribuito a realizzare un disco, poi prodotto da Ani Di Franco, coinvolgendo songwriter, poeti e rapper incarcerati. Da non perdere.
TRUE STORY
Zoe Boekbinder was born on an early winter morning, in the upstairs bedroom of a brown wooden farmhouse on Regional Route #3, in a small township in Ontario, Canada. Zoe’s brother, Oliver, was disappointed at her arrival because he was hoping for a brother named Zanzibar.
When Zoe was four years old her parents sold the family farm and took off for the USA in a big red truck towing a trailer behind it. She and her three siblings and two parents rode all around the western half of the US for six long months. The family stayed in different buddhist communities and trailer parks along their way to California. This period in her young life marks the beginning of her career as a junk show evangelist.
After six months on the road her family settled in the Sierra foothills in Northern California.
In 2005 Zoe formed a band, with her sister Kim Boekbinder, called Vermillion Lies. Over the five years that they played together they released two albums, “Separated by Birth” (2006), and “What’s In the Box?” (2008). Her sister still plays music and makes albums. From time to time they still collaborate.
In 2009 Zoe decided to release an album of songs on her own. She recorded with her friend and producer, Cesar Alvarez, in Brooklyn, NY. Thus, “Artichoke Perfume”, was born. Two years later came her second born, “Darling Specimens”, produced by Shenandoah Davis in Seattle, WA. “Baby Bandit” is the newest release (January 2014) and was recorded live onto two inch tape in Oakland, CA with cellist Danah Olivetree and violinist Dorota Szuta.
From May 2010 to December 2014, Zoe volunteered as a performer and teacher at New Folsom Prison. She is working on an album of songs with songwriters, poets, and rappers who are incarcerated there. It is produced by Ani DiFranco and features Amanda Palmer, Mirah, John Boutte, and Ani D herself. The profits of the album will benefit incarcerated and formerly incarcerated communities.
In the fall of 2013, Zoe wrote 100 songs in 100 days. She recorded each one and posted them daily.
Zoe resides in New Orleans, Louisiana. She has an affinity for mason jars, rusted metal, Dolly Parton, sea creatures, botanical drawings, dilapidated barns, chocolate, avocados, restorative justice, honesty, port wine, and the open road. She wants to own a farm someday.
Her favorite collaborators over the years have been; Kim Boekbinder, Ani DiFranco, Kaki King, Amanda Palmer, Myles Boisen, Shenandoah Davis, Cesar Alvarez, Jason Webley, Carla Kihlstedt, Mal Blum, Carey Baldwin, Mirah, and writers incarcerated at New Folsom Prison: Alex Batriz, Greg Gadlin, Spoon Jackson, ‘Drifter’ Allen, Abraham Banks, Samuel Brown, Nathen Jackson, and Ken Blackburn.
