CARTE BLANCHE AVA MENDOZA

Carte blanche for guitarist Ava Mendoza from Brooklyn. Her exciting music moves between avant-jazz, rock and noise. ‘Imagine Dick Dale shredding with Derek Bailey’ (NPR). Special guest for this Carte Blanche: Amsterdam based saxophonist John Dikeman.

Ava Mendoza has mastered many guitar styles, from classical to blues and the adventurous experiments of her former teachers Nels Cline (Wilco) and Fred Frith. Her guitar playing balances between melody and atonality, between beauty and raw abstraction. She has collaborated with countless international musicians, but her main project is Unnatural Ways from Brooklyn, New York. The Bimhuis offers her carte blanche to curate this concert evening.

‘Imagine Dick Dale shredding with Derek Bailey, then forget everything you know about Dick or Derek – that’s Ava Mendoza’ (NPR).

‘What obscure, overlooked master playing in some slashing, raw-yet-virtuosic manner is this? (Nels Cline over Ava Mendoza).

CARTE BLANCHE SERIES

For years, several times each season, the Bimhuis has been offering
carte blanche to remarkable talents from the Dutch and international music
worlds. Over the years this opportunity to curate a concert evening has led to the most surprising one-off collaborations as well as many new ensembles.

Link to Vera Vingerhoeds blog about Ava Mendoza.

The Bimhuis restaurant is open prior to the concert from 6.30 till 8.30PM (reservations via 020-7882158). After the concert, the Bimhuis Café is open (free entrance).

Follow LIVE STREAM BIMHUIS RADIO: Click the link below on the evening of the
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