Orphans, Gayle Gold, Fertile Crescent at The Church of the Friendly Ghost

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Orphans, Gayle Gold, Fertile Crescent at The Church of the Friendly Ghost
Tuesday, December 2
Salvage Vanguard Theater (2803 Manor Road)
$5, doors at 8:00, show at 8:30, BYOB
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With 2008 slowly winding down, The Church of the Friendly Ghost is wasting no time at all with what's left. The spirited (heh) organization has five shows planned for the remainder of the year, and arguably the most exciting is happening tonight, bringing together three acts from the far ends of the experimental, folk, and punk canons.

First up is Orphans, the tag that Nick Hennies, Chris Cogburn and Jonathan Horne are going by these days. We profiled this trio a little under a year ago, and their subsequent performance, aided by Hennies' able turn on guitar and vocals, Horne's strange guitar outbursts and Cogburn's experimental percussion were well-worth catching.

Gayle Gold, Gary Barftit's band that also features drummer Winston Reed Chapman, Chad Allen on synthesizer, and vocalist DeenaOH, will perform next. The oddball excesses of Barftit's music is a tad arthouse and a dollop of punk, put local "fringe culture" website The Awthum Empire probably put it best: "Be Ready For COMPLEXLY CATCHY FUN SONGS ABOUT THINGS LIKE EVOLUTION & FOOD!" Okay then!

Headlining the Tuesday show is the visiting Cape Cod duo of Sara Magenheimer and Eben Portnoy, also known as Fertile Crescent. The band were just here last month to play The Mohawk for a Fun Fun Fun Fest afterparty, and apparently just couldn't get enough. The music is uncharacteristically full of ambient edges for such a minimalist outfit, and will no doubt make for an interesting evening.

Gayle Gold: [myspace]
Fertile Crescent: [website] [myspace]