Boston Immersive Music Festival: Russ Gershon

Boston Immersive Music Festival

The OVC returns to Boston. Bill Sebastian, the inventor of the OVC will accompany musicians with 3D video seen on headsets or in high-resolution projections.

Russ Gershon

Gershon founded Accurate Records, which has released albums by Morph*ne, Medeski Martin & Wood, the Alloy Orchestra, Ghost Train Orchestra, the Either/Orchestra, Dominique Eade, and Garrison Fewell. He has been a member of rock bands the Decoders (1980–82), the Sex Execs (1982–84), Hypnosonics (1986–1999), Orchestra Morph*ne (2000–present), and Bourbon Princess (2003–2008). He has worked as a studio musician and has performed in Boston.

In 1997, Gershon played arrangements of Ethiopian popular music with the Either/Orchestra. This drew the attention of Francis Falceto, who produced the "Éthiopiques" series of albums to document 20th century Ethiopian music. Through Falceto's connections, Gershon and his band were invited to Addis Ababa in 2004 and became the first American big band to perform in Ethiopia since Duke Ellington's in 1973. Their principal concert was released as the album Ethiopiques 20: Live in Addis and led to working with Ethiopian musicians such as Mulatu Astatke, Mahmoud Ahmed, Getachew Mekurya, Alemayehu Eshete and Teshome Mitiku. In 2016 Gershon appeared with Ahmed's band at Carnegie Hall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Gershon

Event Venue

141 Green St, 141 Green Street, Boston, United States