Friday, October 4, 2013, 7:30 PM
BAM Fisher
321 Ashland Pl, Brooklyn, NY
Fiercely independent guitarist and songwriter Gary Lucas returns to BAM in The Edge of Heaven, a concert of Chinese pop tunes from the 1930s, arranged and performed with a blues inflection. These songs were made famous by two of the biggest Chinese music and film stars—Bai Kwong and Chow Hsuan—in an era when Shanghai was known as the “Paris of the East.” The Edge of Heaven album (2010) reached number one on the World Music charts in Canada and was chosen as one of the Best Discs of the Year by the French newspaper Libération. Featuring Lucas, his band Gods and Monsters, and two female vocalists—Sally Kwok and Mo Hai Jing, the performance received standing ovations in 2011 at both the 64th Holland Festival in Amsterdam and the 28th Nijmegen Music Meeting.
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