Trio livens up Spanish Town Grocery
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Violist Ruth Roland’s life of making less-than-ordinary music started at an early age. “As soon as he thought we could play, my dad took us kids around to play Polish bars with his polka band.” Roland later studied under composer Mer Boel at Cornell, forming a group with her called Water Bear to perform Boel’s “name music,” a compositional style in which each letter of the alphabet corresponds to a particular note.
Roland has begun playing name music in a trio with Righteous Buddha bassist David Hinson and trombonist Cason Duke at informal performances at the Capitol Grocery on Spanish Town Road on Tuesday evenings. Hinson describes the music as having a “folk feeling to it, in a gypsy sort of way.” They have attracted a series of regulars, but almost every patron who just pops in for smokes or a Coke stays for a bit to take in the warm, scintillating music.
Store owner Mike Herschman says this is just a beginning for performances at the store. “We are trying to do some different things here.”
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