The New York Guitar Festival has commissioned Howard to write an origonal score for Buster Keaton's 1922 silent short "The Frozen North." Howard will perform the score live with his band on January 19, 2012 at Merkin Hall. Tickets are available here.
Watch a video of Howard talking about the piece, and read the full interview here.
The good folks at livestream.com have posted Howard's complete 10/10/11 show at Joe's Pub right here. Have a look!
The band that night included Russell Farhang on violin, Andrae Murchison on trombone, Nathan Peck on bass and Dave Berger on drums.
Here's the evening's set list. All songs by HF, except where noted:
Let It All Come Down
Through The Countryside
In Romania
A New Life
Baia Mare
Do What I Want
Jimmy Brown The Newsboy (Traditional)
When it Rains
When I Die (Traditional)
There is a Vine (C. Converse)
La Danse De Mardi Gras (Traditional)
Mary Ann
Mexican Radio (S. Ridgeway)
Judgment Day
Your Voice
The Fall 2011 Tour generated some awfully kind words from various publications. Here's a sampling:
* "Music Won't Let Him Go" By Brittany Stoner, ENCORE Magazine
* "New York Times: UP CLOSE " on NY1 (about 24 minutes in)
* "The Sound of Rusty Farm Implements" by Robert Burke Warren, CHRONOGRAM Magazine
* "Howard Fishman Plays Black-Eyed Sally's" by Michael Hamad, THE HARTFORD COURANT
* "The Indefinable Party of Howard Fishman" by Myles Dannhausen, Jr., DOOR COUNTY PULSE
* "Old Sounds in a Modern, Urban Style" by GREEN BAY PRESS GAZETTE
The good people at The New Yorker have chosen Howard's CD release show at the Algonquin as one of their featured picks in this week's issue. Hope to see you there!
Howard Fishman Quartet makes its Michigan and Ohio debuts this week with shows on September 9th at the Kerrytown Concert House in Ann Arbor and September 10 at the Black Swamp Arts Festival in Bowling Green, Ohio. The two Midwest HFQ shows will feature Mazz Swift on violin, Etienne Charles on trumpet and percussion, and Nathan Peck on upright bass.
Ann Arbor News has just published an advance preview of the Michigan show, writing "Fishman’s songs are richly layered and abstractly evocative, hinting at jazz, folk and cabaret, without ever sacrificing grit or rough edges for the sake of a marketeer’s vision of commercial value."
Read the full article here.