ARC in concert
featuring
Gabriel Ayala, Vince Redhouse
and Will Clipman
A Sonoran Night of Musical Mastery
Saturday, May 2, 7:30 pm
$15 in advance, $20 at door
On Saturday May 2nd at Old Town Center for the Arts, the diverse sounds of classical guitar, Native American flute, jazz tenor saxophone, and pan-global percussion will come together in the form of ARC, a Tucson-based trio comprised of master musicians Gabriel Ayala, Vince Redhouse, and Will Clipman. ARC will take the audience on a sonic journey of unparalleled subtlety and sophistication as they perform selections from their CD Sonoran Nights, as well as new original compositions mixed with popular classical and jazz standards.
Writing in Whispering Wind Magazine, noted music critic Gene M. Bates had this to say about Sonoran Nights: “Wonderfully executed, the music flows through the speakers like a soothing garden spring. The sensuous tones of Redhouse's Native flute played against Ayala's brilliant guitar work and Clipman's 'always on the mark' percussion, send the listener into a state of aural delight.” Charles Sepos, the host of Curtain Call on KRCB-FM in Santa Rosa, CA (where the trio performed at the prestigious Wells Fargo Center last November) calls Sonoran Nights “Tactile and delicious music!”
The musical mastery and artistic sensitivity of this Sonoran Desert trio promises to fill the acoustically pristine and brilliantly stage-lit Old Town Center for the Arts with a deeply satisfying and harmonious blend of sound and light.
The contemporary world music trio known as ARC (Gabriel Ayala: classical guitar; Vince Redhouse: Native American flute and tenor saxophone; Will Clipman: pan-global percussion) brings a sound both fresh and familiar to the world stage. Gabriel Ayala (Yaqui) is at the forefront of a new generation of Native Americans performing classical music on the classical guitar. Two-time GRAMMY® Nominee Vince Redhouse (Navajo) is a leading innovator in adapting the Native American flute to the jazz and classical idioms, and has developed a unique technique for playing the Native American flute as a chromatic instrument. Together, Ayala and Redhouse perform as the duo Two Nations, and have presented their music at such prestigious venues as The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. In the context of ARC, Gabriel’s flamenco and tango-flavored classical guitar is interwoven with Vince’s jazz-inflected Native American flute and tenor saxophone, and both are subtly propelled by the pan-global percussion of five-time GRAMMY® Nominee and two-time Native American Music Award Winner® Will Clipman.
This avant-garde ensemble defies easy categorization, but might best be described as new world fusion. The members of ARC are all highly-accomplished, in-demand performing and recording artists and educators with flourishing solo careers of their own, whose individual excellence has been honored by the Native American Music Awards®, the Aboriginal People’s Choice Music Awards®, and the New Age Reporter Music Awards®, to name just a few of their collective accolades. Thus, ARC is truly a summit meeting among master musicians that produces a sonic synergy much greater than the sum of its parts. In addition to their many individual recordings, the subtle and sophisticated sound of the trio can be heard on the newly-released CD Sonoran Nights, which blends new arrangements from the popular classical repertoire with original compositions.
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