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Songbyrd Presents Ron Gallo (Solo)
with Santa Chiara
Thursday October 24, 2024
Doors - 7:00 PM
Show - 8:00 PM
Tickets
Advance - $20
Day of - $25
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There’s a fine, fine line between optimism and crushing nihilism, and it’s a border that courses through Ron Gallo’s new album, FOREGROUND MUSIC like the neon orange barriers and construction tape that accent gentrifying neighborhoods across cities everywhere; it’s unavoidable. There’s a central conceit at the heart of this album, which is that we’re probably doomed, but what’s the point in laying down to die instead of raging against the vast and plain as day inequalities that plague our nation and those across the globe? The only thing more pointless than hopefulness is hopelessness, and with this belief, Gallo records an album that confronts the villains of our society and helps those crushed by them by finding a way to laugh at the absurdity of it all. With FOREGROUND MUSIC, Gallo screams at the developers turning neighborhoods into unremarkable AirBnB advertisements, corporate overlords deciding how much music costs, and extremists hellbent on bringing forth an apocalypse of racial and civil destruction.
For the uninitiated, Gallo’s career has been building towards this moment since he first became \*wink-wink\* popular with the release of Heavy Meta. He moved to Nashville, played shows, signed with a label, hit Coachella, Bonnaroo, Gov Ball, ACL, and more, and toured around the world or played shows with Spoon, Parquet Courts, Wilco, and more. If he wasn’t quite indie royalty, he was adjacent, shining his NPR accolades and framing Vice writeups. If all this sounds silly, it’s precisely how Gallo felt. “It was bizarre to suddenly be doing all this stuff I never thought I would do, so in January 2018 we put out the Really Nice Guys EP, a concept album and mockumentary film commenting on the absurdities of my newfound role as a professional touring musician.” There’s always been a heaping dose of irony in Gallo’s music, but it serves a functional purpose: to interrogate the gap between who we present ourselves as and who we are. That theme animates FOREGROUND MUSIC, which is Gallo at his sharpest, throwing barbs every which way while turning the mirror inwards in equal doses.
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Santa Chiara, formerly chickpee, is the solo project of Italian musician, Chiara D’Anzieri. She was born in Turin, IT and since age 10 she has been a classically trained cellist and spent her developing years touring and performing in various orchestras around Europe. She stepped away from the classical world to explore other instruments, songwriting and working in studios as a producer and writer. In 2018, she met her partner, American musician Ron Gallo and have since been making music together. Now living in the U.S., Santa Chiara details her experience moving across the world from her homeland and navigating the immigration process on her debut album “IMPORTED” due later in 2022, her first time writing and singing in English and playing most of the instruments herself. http://santachiaramusic.com
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Songbyrd Music House, 1-3, Penn St NE, Washington, DC 20002, United States,Washington D.C.
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