Gutsy ‘string vs. guitar’ battle with Kaki King & ETHEL

  • Herald staff
  • Wednesday, October 22, 2014 7:14pm
  • LifeEdmonds

EDMONDS — The eclectic string quartet ETHEL brings indie rock guitarist Kaki King into their circle at a concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Edmonds Center for the Arts.

The quartet plays off King and together they offer a sound that includes jazz, blues, folk, “post-rock” and “new-classical.”

“It’s sometimes as if our instruments are having a conversation, or even an argument with each other,” said cellist Dorothy Lawson on the group’s website. “It’s a hybrid of strums, finger-tapping, spun melodic lines, percussive slaps, tender obligatos and whatever else we have up our sleeves.”

Audience members can expect to hear an honest and gutsy string versus guitar battle, Lawson said.

The concert is anchored by a re-imagining of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 6.

ETHEL regularly performs music by contemporary composers such as Philip Glass, Julia Wolfe, Phil Kline, Andy Akiho, David Lang, John King, Raz Mesinai and John Zorn.

Founded in 1998 and based in New York City, ETHEL’s members are, along with Lawson on cello, violist Ralph Farris and violinists Kip Jones and Tema Watstein.

Hailed by Rolling Stone magazine as “a genre unto herself,” King has recorded six diverse and distinctive albums, performed with the Foo Fighters, Timbaland and The Mountain Goats and contributed to a variety of film and TV soundtracks.

Edmonds Center for the Arts is located at 410 Fourth Ave. N., Edmonds.

Tickets are $15 for students and beginning at $29 general admission. Call 425-275-9595 or go to edmondscenterforthearts.org.

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