LATEST NEWS
01/17/2019
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Two upcoming NYC shows just confirmed:
Mon. Feb. 4th, 8pm, Mercury Lounge NYC - Gary performs solo on "Opening Day", celebrating the opening of the Mercury Lounge 25 years ago to the day on a bill with friends and collaborators Richard Barone, Peter Stampfel and Laura Cantrell, tickets here
Fri. Mar. 15th, 8pm, City Vineyard on Pier 26, NYC - An Evening with Gary Lucas solo acoustic, with his special guest Feifei Yang sitting in, tickets here
Mon. Feb. 4th, 8pm, Mercury Lounge NYC - Gary performs solo on "Opening Day", celebrating the opening of the Mercury Lounge 25 years ago to the day on a bill with friends and collaborators Richard Barone, Peter Stampfel and Laura Cantrell, tickets here
Fri. Mar. 15th, 8pm, City Vineyard on Pier 26, NYC - An Evening with Gary Lucas solo acoustic, with his special guest Feifei Yang sitting in, tickets here
01/15/2019
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Photo to the left: Full House for Gary's performance with his live solo score for "The Unholy Three", part of his ongoing retrospective of his live scores at The Metrograph NYC 1/11/19, view a clip here
photo by Phil Mango
photo by Phil Mango
01/10/2019
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Updates made to the Photos
12/22/2018
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Just confirmed: Fri. Jan. 11th Gary is performing his live solo score accompanying Tod Browning's 1923 silent thriller "The Unholy Three" starring the great Lon Chaney at NYC's premier arthouse The Metrograph at 7 Ludlow Street right on the edge of Chinatown
More info and tickets here
More info and tickets here
12/14/2018
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Just confirmed: Gary is playing solo acoustic at The Colony in Woodstock on Fri. Feb. 22nd! Tickets here
12/05/2018
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Just confirmed: Gary, Feifei Yang, and Jason Candler are bringing THE EDGE OF HEAVEN to Joe's Pub at The Public in Manhattan on Wed. Feb. 20th at 7pm!! Tickets here
· Excellent review from the People's Daily New York of Gary's friend and collaborator Feifei Yang's concert at Flushing Town Hall Dec. 2nd featuring Gary as special guest! (English translation here)
· Excellent review from the People's Daily New York of Gary's friend and collaborator Feifei Yang's concert at Flushing Town Hall Dec. 2nd featuring Gary as special guest! (English translation here)
11/26/2018
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Gary with The Band's Garth Hudson and Joziah Longo after an epic night playing in Woodstock at The Colony with The Slambovian Circus of Dreams 11/24/18
photo by Tink Lloyd
photo by Tink Lloyd
11/19/2018
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THE WORLD OF CAPTAIN BEEFHEART featuring Nona Hendryx and Gary makes Best Blues of the Year list in Zumic—on Knitting Factory Records
11/15/2018
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Gary's Soundcloud page is spotlighted in Dangerous Minds today!
painting by Don Van Vliet
painting by Don Van Vliet
11/10/2018
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Gary is special guest of his collaborator and friend Feifei Yang on Sun. Dec. 2nd at 2:30pm at her Flushing Town Hall solo concert with band!!
10/21/2018
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Gary sold out his SPANISH "DRACULA" show at The Metrograph in NYC Friday night!! See a clip of the show here! The first in an ongoing retrospective of Gary's live film scores at the Metrograph—stay tuned for more info
photo to the left by Phil Mango
photo to the left by Phil Mango
10/15/2018
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Gary is sitting in with his buddies psychedelicious band The Slambovian Circus of Dreams at their big Halloween show in Irvington Sat. Oct 27th at 8:00 PM at the Grand Slambovian Halloween Ball at the Irvington Town Hall Theater, 85 Main Street, Irvington, NY 10533, Box Office: 914-591-6602, boxoffice@irvingtonny.gov, or get tickets online here
...and he's doin' it again with them at their Thanksgiving show at The Colony in Woodstock! Friday, November 23rd, 2018 8:00 PM, The Colony, 22 Rock City Road, Woodstock, NY, tickets here
Basically Gary's doing "From Beefheart to Buckley and Beyond" with the Circus backing him up!
photo: with Josiah Longo from the Slambovians at Gary's recent show at The Cutting Room NYC
...and he's doin' it again with them at their Thanksgiving show at The Colony in Woodstock! Friday, November 23rd, 2018 8:00 PM, The Colony, 22 Rock City Road, Woodstock, NY, tickets here
Basically Gary's doing "From Beefheart to Buckley and Beyond" with the Circus backing him up!
photo: with Josiah Longo from the Slambovians at Gary's recent show at The Cutting Room NYC
10/05/2018
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Photo to the left just added to the Through the Past, Brightly section: The contact sheet for Gary's Village Voice Centerfold photo in Sept. 1992 courtesy photographer Michel Delsol...the photo selected was the third down on the left hand side
· Monday Oct. 15th Gary is the guest of his pal Mitch Goldman on WKCR-FM from 6-9pm playing and discussing all things Mingus—listen live at wkcr.org 89.9 FM
· Please visit RMT Music Productions here
· Monday Oct. 15th Gary is the guest of his pal Mitch Goldman on WKCR-FM from 6-9pm playing and discussing all things Mingus—listen live at wkcr.org 89.9 FM
· Please visit RMT Music Productions here
09/26/2018
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One of the best nights of Gary's life at The Cutting Room NYC 9/27/18 "From Beefheart to Buckley and Beyond" with special amazing guests Feifei Yang, Jason Candler, Joziah Longo, Jann Klose and Lila Palmer—big thanks to RMT Productions for getting this show rolling in the UK!
09/26/2018
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Listen to a new interview with Gary conducted by Mia Berman on Mia's World, Skye Crescent Radio
09/22/2018
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On Sat. Oct 20th Gary is honored to perform at a Benefit for longtime lister-supported freeform commercial free radio station WFMU as part of their Wake 'n Bake Benefit Auction at Monty Hall in Jersey City from 8 to 9pm, more details here
· Join an evening of resistance and hope through music at this Benefit for the Democratic candidate slate Fri. Nov. 2nd from 8-11pm at the Sidewalk Cafe NYC—donations will be taken for Democratic Candidates in need in the last days before the Nov 6 election. Performers include: Gary (with Feifei Yang and Jason Candler), Jeffrey Lewis, Matt Keating, Joseph LeDoux and more. Gary, Feifei and Jason go on around 10:30pm
· Join an evening of resistance and hope through music at this Benefit for the Democratic candidate slate Fri. Nov. 2nd from 8-11pm at the Sidewalk Cafe NYC—donations will be taken for Democratic Candidates in need in the last days before the Nov 6 election. Performers include: Gary (with Feifei Yang and Jason Candler), Jeffrey Lewis, Matt Keating, Joseph LeDoux and more. Gary, Feifei and Jason go on around 10:30pm
09/20/2018
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Gary is going on legendary NYC radio personality Bob Fass’ long-running show “Radio Unnameable” tonight at midnight on WBAI—listen live here
09/19/2018
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Gary is honoured to have made Loudersound.com’s new "Vote for the Greatest Guitarists of All Time" list—please vote for him!
09/19/2018
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Rich Krueger - "NOWThen" added to the Discography
09/16/2018
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Updates made to the Tour section
09/12/2018
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Check out a cool new 5 page interview with Gary in the latest issue of TOTAL GUITAR
09/07/2018
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I was happy to give these guys a new solo acoustic track for their new charity album Temple of the Cat Vol. 3, the benefits will go to cat and dog shelters in Spain—please download it for a very good cause!
09/01/2018
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RIP Village Voice—what a drag
Gary was their centerfold boy in Fall '92
Thanks to Richard Gehr for being a continuous supporter of Gary's music all those years ago and up to the present day
Gary was their centerfold boy in Fall '92
Thanks to Richard Gehr for being a continuous supporter of Gary's music all those years ago and up to the present day
08/31/2018
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Check out a recent interview with Gary by Alan James Patterson for his Boston Free Radio "Voices of Time show" beginning at 38:30...all about working with Captain Beefheart, Nona Hendryx, lotsa good stuff
photo: with Don Van Vliet 7/15/80 taken by Dali Declair
photo: with Don Van Vliet 7/15/80 taken by Dali Declair
08/24/2018
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Gary just finished intensive recording in Ramsgate UK with legendary dub producer Adrian Sherwood on a new project plus—stay tuned!!
08/24/2018
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Page from the new Fall program for the Metrograph theater, NYC's premier art house cinema, spotlighting Gary's performance on Fri. Oct. 19th performing his original live solo guitar score to the legendary 1931 Spanish-language "Dracula"—the first entry in a new ongoing retrospective series of Gary's film scores curated by Jacob Perlin and Robert Melvin Rubin
08/11/2018
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Save the Date: On Thurs. Oct. 19th Gary is performing his live solo guitar score accompanying the legendary Spanish-language "Dracula" (1931, d. George Melford) at NYC's pre-eminent arthouse cinema the Metrograph. Filmed in Spanish with an all-Latin cast at night in Hollywood on the sets of Todd Browning/Bela Lugosi's "Dracula", the film is regarded by most cineastes as superior to its more famous companion. This show will mark Lucas' first performance in a new ongoing retrospective series of his live film scores at the Metrograph
Gary's second live film score performance will take place there early in the New Year tba soon, stay tuned!
photo: performing with Spanish "Dracula" at the Jerusalem Film Festival July 2013
Gary's second live film score performance will take place there early in the New Year tba soon, stay tuned!
photo: performing with Spanish "Dracula" at the Jerusalem Film Festival July 2013
08/08/2018
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Listen to Gary's new live solo score accompanying Pudovkin's 1925 silent Russian comedy "Chess Fever", recorded live at the Bolshoi Classical Music Festival in Drvengrad Serbia 7/15/18 by invitation of director Emir Kusturica
08/07/2018
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Author and critic Gary Lippman re: TOUCHED BY GRACE:
The late great Southern novelist Harry Crews often touted the virtue of "getting naked" in the art one makes—and "naked" is exactly what the musical wunderkind Gary Lucas gets in Touched By Grace, his memoir about his friendship and artistic partnership with the late great singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley. Talk about wearing one's proverbial heart on one's sleeve! Lucas is so vulnerable in his book—painfully, beautifully vulnerable—that he surpasses nearly every other first-person music testimony on the market. What's more, Touched By Grace serves as a detailed primer on how to decide on, commit to, remain committed to, and work your proverbial ass off in a lifetime career as a working artist. In prose as well as music, Lucas goes for broke—and wins. Big.
The late great Southern novelist Harry Crews often touted the virtue of "getting naked" in the art one makes—and "naked" is exactly what the musical wunderkind Gary Lucas gets in Touched By Grace, his memoir about his friendship and artistic partnership with the late great singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley. Talk about wearing one's proverbial heart on one's sleeve! Lucas is so vulnerable in his book—painfully, beautifully vulnerable—that he surpasses nearly every other first-person music testimony on the market. What's more, Touched By Grace serves as a detailed primer on how to decide on, commit to, remain committed to, and work your proverbial ass off in a lifetime career as a working artist. In prose as well as music, Lucas goes for broke—and wins. Big.
08/04/2018
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Read two rave reviews of The Edge of Heaven Live at City Winery NY last week from writers Geoffrey O’Brien and Gary Lippman
07/29/2018
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Gary packed The Loft at City Winery NYC on Wed. July 25th with many Chinese music lovers of all persuasions with his new Edge of Heaven Live trio project featuring Feifei Yang on vocals and erhu and multi-instrumentalist Jason Candler; review from fan Brad Martin:
"Well, Wed. night's Gary Lucas show at the City Winery NYC was every bit as good as I expected it to be! Gary was accompanied by Feifei Yang on vocals and Jason Candler on sax and percussion in a program that featured wonderful renditions of Mid-Century Chinese Pop songs from the Edge of Heaven CD (and the forthcoming Vol 2) as well as a few other classics from American artists Jeff Buckley, Bob Dylan and Jefferson Airplane—sung in Mandarin!"
· Read a new interview with Gary in Sputnik News Serbia, English translation here
"Well, Wed. night's Gary Lucas show at the City Winery NYC was every bit as good as I expected it to be! Gary was accompanied by Feifei Yang on vocals and Jason Candler on sax and percussion in a program that featured wonderful renditions of Mid-Century Chinese Pop songs from the Edge of Heaven CD (and the forthcoming Vol 2) as well as a few other classics from American artists Jeff Buckley, Bob Dylan and Jefferson Airplane—sung in Mandarin!"
· Read a new interview with Gary in Sputnik News Serbia, English translation here
07/29/2018
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Rave review of Gary’s UK solo show "From Beefheart to Buckley and Beyond" at Ramsgate Music Hall in May just surfaced!
07/22/2018
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Jamming with Macedonian guitar legend Vlatko Stefanovski closing the Bolshoi Classical Music Festival in Drvengrad Serbia 7/18/18
07/21/2018
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Interview with Gary in Serbian national newspaper Blic!
07/20/2018
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Gary laying a copy of Ryan H. Walsh's excellent book "Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968" on legendary director and Bolshoi Classical Music Festival curator Emir Kusturica
photo by Ksenia Lamshina
photo by Ksenia Lamshina
07/18/2018
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Gary performing yesterday morning 7/17/18 on Russian National Radio Mayak, broadcasting live from the Bolshoi Classical Music Festival in Drvengrad Serbia—listen here at 2:08
07/17/2018
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Gary with some of the young Serbian classical virtuosos who asked for a photo with him on the way to breakfast the morning after the extremely well-received premiere of his new live solo score for Pudovkin's silent comedy "Chess Fever" at the Bolshoi Classical Music Festival in Drvengrad Serbia 7/16/18
07/16/2018
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Gary's premiere of his new live score for Pudovkin's 1925 silent comedy "Chess Fever" at the Bolshoi Russian Music Festival in Drvengrad Serbia was a big hit last night!! Listen to an interview with Gary for Moscow's Radio Cultura this morning conducted by Ksenia Lamshina
07/14/2018
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Gary just arrived in Kustendorf Serbia to perform at the Bolshoi Russian Music Festival the premiere of his new live score for Pudovkin's 1925 silent comedy "Chess Fever" tomorrow July 15th at the invitation of his friend famed film director Emir Kusturica
07/10/2018
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New recording session with Gary, Jason and Italian vocalist Simone Moncada in NYC 7/6/18
photo by Debbie Sanna
photo by Debbie Sanna
07/10/2018
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Pic recently unearthed taken by Andy Chertow (Papa Andy) of a one-off project known as The ZimmerMen featuring Gary on slide guitar, Andy on bass, Dro Ostrow drums, and Holly Rock vocals, who recorded a reggae version of Bob Dylan's "Positively 4th Street" in 1983
07/06/2018
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With Gary's friend and collaborator Damo Suzuki and the late Michael Karoli (far left) backstage after a gig in 1998 at The Cooler NYC. Thanks to Doug Rotz for spotting this pic in the new MOJO in a great feature about Damo. Thumbs up always, old friend!
07/06/2018
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Facebook Promotion in Russian for Gary's upcoming appearance at the BOLSHOI RUSSIAN MUSIC FESTIVAL in Kustendorf Serbia July 14-18th:
Амерички гитариста Гери Лукас који је наступао са водећим светским џез музичарима, својим јединственим музичким стилом озвучиће неми филм „Шаховска грозница" Всеволода Пудовкина, другог фестивалског дана! Американский гитарист Гари Лукас, который выступал с ведущими джазовыми музыкантами мира, в своем уникальном музыкальном стиле озвучит немой фильм "Шахматная горячка" Всеволода Пудовкина, во второй день фестиваля!
American guitarist Gary Lucas, who performed with the leading jazz musicians of the world, in his unique musical style provides a live sound track for the Russian silent comedy "Chess Fever" by Vsevolod Pudovkin on the second day of the festival!
Амерички гитариста Гери Лукас који је наступао са водећим светским џез музичарима, својим јединственим музичким стилом озвучиће неми филм „Шаховска грозница" Всеволода Пудовкина, другог фестивалског дана! Американский гитарист Гари Лукас, который выступал с ведущими джазовыми музыкантами мира, в своем уникальном музыкальном стиле озвучит немой фильм "Шахматная горячка" Всеволода Пудовкина, во второй день фестиваля!
American guitarist Gary Lucas, who performed with the leading jazz musicians of the world, in his unique musical style provides a live sound track for the Russian silent comedy "Chess Fever" by Vsevolod Pudovkin on the second day of the festival!
07/02/2018
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Thanks to Robert Williams for sharing this hitherto unseen photo taken during the Beefheart tour of Europe in 1980
06/30/2018
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Just confirmed: Thurs. Sept 27th - AN EVENING WITH GARY LUCAS: FROM BEEFHEART TO BUCKLEY AND BEYOND at The Cutting Room NYC, 9:30pm - Gary's solo multi-media show—songs, stories, and rare clips ranging over 30 albums released to date with a focus on his work with Don Van Vliet and Jeff Buckley, special guest vocalist tba
06/23/2018
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Mexico-inspired Gary Lucas t-shirt now available for purchase in the Merchandise section!
06/23/2018
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Gary is honored to have been invited by his old friend and collaborator Hal Willner to perform in his tribute to legendary composer Nino Rota on Fri. July 27th as part of Lincoln Center Out Of Doors Summer Concerts at Damrosch Park
06/20/2018
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From webmaster Tanya: Please join me in wishing Gary a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY today!!
06/13/2018
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With the great Seymour Stein (legendary Sire Records chief who signed The Ramones, Talking Heads, Madonna and many others) at the reception at McNally Jackson Books for Seymour's new memoir "Siren Song"
photo by MaryEllen Cataneo
photo by MaryEllen Cataneo
06/11/2018
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A lovely live review just in of Gary's recent live solo show in Newcastle at The Cluny 5/5/18
06/11/2018
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Save the date: Fri. June 22nd Gary in sitting in with his friend and collaborator Jann Klose for his new album release party at The Cutting Room NYC
06/08/2018
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Gary has just been invited by famed director Emir Kusturica to open the BOLSHOI CLASSICAL MUSIC FESTIVAL on a mountain in Kustendorf Serbia Sat. July 14th with his original live solo score accompanying "Chess Fever" (original title: Шахматная горячка or Shakhmatnaya goryachka), a 1925 short comedy directed by Eisenstein contemporary Vsevolod Pudovkin and Nikolai Shpikovsky. This film incorporates actual footage of the Moscow 1925 chess tournament and features cameos by many top chess masters of the time, and Gary's score will draw on many Russian classical music motifs.
06/02/2018
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Backstage at The Iridium NYC with Gary and Feifei Yang at Gary's Gods and Monsters show 5/31/18
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UK Bookings (Solo):
Reuben Myles Tyghe+44 (0) 1225 333328
www.rmtmusicproductions.co.uk