Max Hatt / Edda Glass at NYC's the Town Hall: Live Climate Presents Earth Concerts!  

Max Hatt / Edda Glass will perform Wednesday April 22nd 2020 at New York City's The Town Hall as part of Live Climate Presents Earth Concerts, in honor of Earth Day. Kicking off three days of "Earth Concerts" at the Town Hall, the Wednesday show show will also feature Mustard’s Retreat, John Gorka, Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul, and Mary), Leslie Mendelson, and Sophie B. Hawkins. More info at www.liveclimate.comTickets at https://www1.ticketmaster.com/event/03005794239B0B43

From Live Climate:

At a time when our leadership is truly theatre of the absurd, when our global biosphere is screaming for attention as polar ice caps melt, tornadoes & hurricane seasons are upon us, fires rage out of control, the fragile beauty of this Earth has never been more poignant. Nor has it ever been more apparent that the young people who stood up and continue to school strike for the climate (Thank you, Greta Thunberg!) represent the leaders of tomorrow. Actions, not words.

Live Climate came about as an homage to the upcoming 50th anniversary of Earth Day (April 22, 2020), a way of celebrating the grassroots movement that has taken us far – but not far enough. 

With today’s technologies, we have the power at our fingertips to communicate effectively with one another, with global leadership, with corporations seeking new ways to make a difference. Remember when Ben & Jerry’s ice cream launched their “Who’s Afraid of the Doughboy” campaign? Remember when JFK stated: “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.” When Martin Luther King preached “I have a dream.” When butterflies were free and not kept in viewing cages or zoos? Before the hundreds of endangered species (mankind included) were added to the endangered list?

Exit Zero Jazz Festival: Max Hatt / Edda Glass  

CAPE MAY, NJ - Max Hatt / Edda Glass will play in the Exit Zero Jazz Festival in Cape May this April at the First Presbyterian Church on Friday, April 12 from 6:00-7:10 and 8:20-9:30 and Saturday, April 13 from 11:00-Noon  & 8:00-9:10. The line-up also include Lizz Wright, Chick Corea Trilogy with Christian McBride and Brian Blade, and Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Tickets at https://www.exitzerojazzfestival.com/tickets

"BEAUTIFUL... #CHILLS" 

— Ann Powers, NPR Music 

Max Hatt / Edda Glass have "an incomparable spook” (Nashville Scene) and "a unique sound" (Larry Groce, NPR), comprised of Glass's unmistakable voice and Hatt's lyrical guitar. Originally based in Montana, their award-winning original music and unique interpretations of American and Brazilian standards have taken them all the way to New York City's Lincoln Center, DC's Kennedy Center, NPR Mountain Stage, Sundance Film Fest and Wilco's Solid Sound Festival.Praised for her "impeccable vocal command" (PopMatters) and compared to a gamut of singers from Astrud Gilberto to Billie Holiday, Glass's voice is ultimately "one of a kind...you cannot confuse her with another artist" (New York Theatre Guide). Hatt's equally distinctive guitar work combines the harmonic innovations of jazz with the melodic resonance of folk, creating music that's "subtly poignant, elegantly funky, and haunting without trying to be" (Nels Cline, Wilco). Together, Max Hatt / Edda Glass evoke a world that stretches from the beaches of Rio de Janeiro to the prairies of the American west, telling stories of little people on great plains, and leaving audiences with a feeling both light and deep.

Max Hatt / Edda Glass Sweep Official Juried Showcases at Arts Midwest, SouthArts PAE, Arts Northwest  

Up next: APAP, Homecoming Tour of Western Performing Arts Centers

PRESSKIT

8/6/18  - Seattle, WA - Max Hatt / Edda Glass's "unique sound" (Larry Groce, NPR) and "incomparable spook” (Nashville Scene) have taken them from playing the Montana restaurant scene to NPR Mountain Stage, New York City's Lincoln Center, D.C.'s The Kennedy Center, the Sundance Film Fest, and Wilco's Solid Sound Festival. This fall they’ve made a sweep of the highly competitive official juried showcases at Arts Midwest, South Arts PAE, and Arts Northwest, three top-tier booking conferences attended by major performing arts centers, presenters, agents, and artists. Max Hatt / Edda Glass will also be represented and perform officially listed showcases at APAP (Association of Performing Arts Professionals) in New York City, the world's premier gathering of the performing arts presenting industry. In between conferences, Max Hatt / Edda Glass will make a homecoming tour of the West, including performing arts centers and festivals in Seattle, Helena, Bozeman, Idaho Falls, and Cody. See below for complete conference and tour dates. 

Max Hatt / Edda Glass began in Montana, where Hatt had a jazz trio and Glass had a knack for singing in Brazilian Portuguese. They soon became the state's only Bossa Nova band. On long drives between shows, Glass began writing lyrics to Hatt's solo guitar compositions, taking inspiration from the western landscape, and spinning tales of migrating geese, pioneer sisters, and mysteries in wheat fields. This highway collaboration took them all the way to NYC's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, where the two unknowns won the 2014 Grand Prize of the NPR Mountain Stage / NewSong Competition, based on songs they’d recorded with the help of a grant from Montana’s Myrna Loy Center for the Performing Arts. There they also captured the attention of their future producer, Wilco's Pat Sansone. “I was mesmerized from the first moment I heard them," he recalls. "They have the ability to create a deep sonic landscape with only voice and guitar, with songs that posses a mysterious and soulful magic.“ 

Pat Sansone produced their 2016 album, Ocean of Birds, which saw press from Huffington Post to Paste. Praised for her "impeccable vocal command" (PopMatters) and compared to a gamut of singers from Astrud Gilberto to Billie Holliday, Glass's voice is ultimately "one of a kind...you cannot confuse her with another artist" (New York Theatre Guide). Hatt's equally distinctive guitar work combines the harmonic innovations of jazz with the melodic resonance of folk, creating music that's "subtly poignant, elegantly funky, and haunting without trying to be" (Nels Cline, Wilco). Together, "Max Hatt/Edda Glass create exquisite, evocative music" (John Platt, WFUV, New York) as they evoke a world that stretches from the beaches of Rio to the mountains of the American West. 

 

2018 TOUR DATES 

August 9  ///  Helena, MT  ///  The Myrna Loy Center 

August 24-25  ///  Centennial, WY  ///  Uptown Breakdown Festival 

September 12  ///  Idaho Falls, ID  ///  Carr Gallery at the Willard Arts Center  ///  Eastern Idaho Jazz Society 

September 14  ///  Cody, WY  ///  The Cody Theatre  ///  Park County Arts Council 

September 15  ///  Bozeman, MT  ///  The Ellen Theatre 

October 16  ///  Seattle, WA  ///  TBA 

November 17  ///  Lander, WY  ///  Lander Valley HS Auditorium 

 

2018/19 CONFERENCE SHOWCASE DATES 

September 7  ///  Arts Midwest Conference  ///  Official Juried Showcase  ///  Indiana Repertory Theatre  ///  Indianapolis, IN 

October 3  ///  South Arts: Performing Arts Exchange  ///  Official Juried Showcase ///  Caribe Royale Orlando  ///  Orlando, FL 

October 10  ///  Arts Northwest: 38th Annual Northwest Conference ///  Official Juried Showcase  ///  The Hult Center for the Performing Arts  ///  Eugene, OR 

January 3 & 4  ///  APAP  /// Showcases and Booth TBA  /// New York, NY 

 

MORE PRESS FOR MAX HATT / EDDA GLASS 

“Beautiful… #chills” — Ann Powers of NPR Music (@annkpowers on Twitter) 

“…like hand-printed photographs that speak and sway, the material is hypnotic…" — Lizz Wright 

“Mesmerizing… cinematic folk-jazz” — ASCAP’s Playback Magazine at Sundance Film Festival 

“Edda Glass's voice must be heard to be believed.” — Nels Cline (Wilco)  

"Max Hatt/Edda Glass create exquisite, evocative music as they journey through the landscape of jazz and folk with Hatt's atmospheric guitar playing and the landscape of the West with Glass's literate lyrics." — John Platt of WFUV, New York City 

"Unique voices and rare musicians." — Eric Funk, PBS host and internationally renowned composer 

“Their lyrics/ instrumentals encapsulate the confusing sentiment of feeling both lost and found, all at once…This album is for those that want to hear a song that tells them it is okay to be human, and that you are not alone in not knowing what that exactly means” — New York Theater Guide 

"an exemplification in the beauty of contemplation" — PopMatters 

“Brimming with soul and steeped with lush, mellow melodies, Ocean of Birds captures a moment in time and releases it in one lovely breath. “ — That Mag 

“Music that creates a sense of vastness within its quiet.” — Yes Weekly, John Adamian 

 

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Max Hatt / Edda Glass Homecoming Tour of Western Performing Arts Centers 

From Montana Bars to NYC’s Lincoln Center— Next Stop, Home 

8/1/18  - Helena, MT - Max Hatt / Edda Glass's "unique sound" (Larry Groce, NPR) and "incomparable spook” (Nashville Scene) have taken them from playing the Montana restaurant scene to NPR Mountain Stage, New York City's Lincoln Center, D.C.'s The Kennedy Center, the Sundance Film Fest, and Wilco's Solid Sound Festival. Their story comes full circle this summer and fall, when they return to the West to play performing arts center and festivals in Seattle, Missoula, Helena, Bozeman, Idaho Falls, and Cody. Montanans may remember Max Hatt / Edda Glass as the Brazilian band Rio, featured on Montana-PBS’s 11th and Grant Show with Eric Funk. To this tropical repertoire, Max Hatt / Edda Glass will add their award-winning original Jazz Americana, deeply rooted in the Western landscape, as well as their unique interpretations of pop and jazz standards. Seattle bass virtuoso Clipper Anderson, also hailing from Montana, rounds out the trio. See below for full tour schedule. 

Max Hatt / Edda Glass began in Helena, where Hatt had a jazz trio and Glass had a knack for singing in Brazilian Portuguese. They soon became the state's only Bossa Nova band, Rio— Montanans may remember seeing their episode of Montana-PBS's 11th and Grant Show with Eric Funk.  On long drives between shows, Glass began writing lyrics to Hatt's solo guitar compositions, taking inspiration from the western landscape, and spinning tales of migrating geese, pioneer sisters, and  mysteries in wheat fields. This highway collaboration took them all the way to NYC's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, where the two unknowns won the 2014 Grand Prize of the NPR Mountain Stage / NewSong Competition, based on songs they’d recorded with the help of the Myrna Loy Center’s Grant to Artists program. There they also captured the attention of their future producer, Wilco's Pat Sansone. “I was mesmerized from the first moment I heard them," he recalls. "They have the ability to create a deep sonic landscape with only voice and guitar, with songs that posses a mysterious and soulful magic.“ 

Pat Sansone produced their 2016 album, Ocean of Birds, which saw press from Huffington Post to Paste. Praised for her "impeccable vocal command" (PopMatters) and compared to a gamut of singers from Astrud Gilberto to Billie Holliday, Glass's voice is ultimately "one of a kind...you cannot confuse her with another artist" (New York Theatre Guide). Hatt's equally distinctive guitar work combines the harmonic innovations of jazz with the melodic resonance of folk, creating music that's "subtly poignant, elegantly funky, and haunting without trying to be" (Nels Cline, Wilco). Together, "Max Hatt/Edda Glass create exquisite, evocative music" (John Platt, WFUV, New York) as they evoke a world that stretches from the beaches of Rio to the mountains of the American West. 

2018 TOUR DATES 

August 8  ///  Missoula, MT  ///  Long Staff House 

August 9  ///  Helena, MT  ///  The Myrna Loy Center for the Performing Arts

August 24-25  ///  Centennial, WY  ///  Uptown Breakdown Festival 

September 12  ///  Idaho Falls, ID  ///  Willard Arts Center  ///  Eastern Idaho Jazz Society 

September 14  ///  Cody, WY  ///  Cody Theatre  ///  Park County Arts Council 

September 15  ///  Bozeman, MT  ///  The Ellen Theatre 

October 16  ///  Seattle, WA  ///  TBA

November 17  ///  Lander, WY  ///  Lander Valley Auditorium 

MORE PRESS FOR MAX HATT / EDDA GLASS 

“Beautiful… #chills” — Ann Powers of NPR Music (@annkpowers on Twitter) 

“…like hand-printed photographs that speak and sway, the material is hypnotic…" — Lizz Wright 

“Mesmerizing… cinematic folk-jazz” — ASCAP’s Playback Magazine at Sundance Film Festival 

“Edda Glass's voice must be heard to be believed.” — Nels Cline (Wilco)  

"Max Hatt/Edda Glass create exquisite, evocative music as they journey through the landscape of jazz and folk with Hatt's atmospheric guitar playing and the landscape of the West with Glass's literate lyrics." — John Platt of WFUV, New York City 

"Unique voices and rare musicians." — Eric Funk, PBS host and internationally renowned composer 

“Their lyrics/ instrumentals encapsulate the confusing sentiment of feeling both lost and found, all at once…This album is for those that want to hear a song that tells them it is okay to be human, and that you are not alone in not knowing what that exactly means” — New York Theater Guide 

"an exemplification in the beauty of contemplation" — PopMatters 

“Brimming with soul and steeped with lush, mellow melodies, Ocean of Birds captures a moment in time and releases it in one lovely breath. “ — That Mag 

“Music that creates a sense of vastness within its quiet.” — Yes Weekly, John Adamian

Max Hatt / Edda Glass at The Kennedy Center, Washington D.C. 

08/03/2017  - Washington, DC - Max Hatt / Edda Glass's "unique sound" (Larry Groce, NPR) and "incomparable spook” (Nashville Scene) have taken them from their start in Montana to New York City's Lincoln Center, NPR Mountain Stage, the Sundance Film Fest, and Wilco's Solid Sound Festival. Next stop is Washington DC's Millennium Stage at Kennedy Center, where they will play a free concert as part of Verse → Refrain: An Exploration of Song presented by NewSong Music. JBird Shogren, "dissonant folk & roots" artist and Nobel Peace Prize winner from Wyoming, will join them on the bill. Show begins at 6 pm on August 17th, and will also be live streamed on the Kennedy Center website and youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-FlM8a7tFs . More information at https://www.kennedy-center.org/Video/Performance/63401  Max Hatt / Edda Glass's fall tour will also include the Avalon Theatre's Stoltz Listening Room on September 17th, in Easton, MD, along with dates TBA in New York City, New England, and Philadelphia. 

Max Hatt / Edda Glass's 2016 album, Ocean of Birds, was produced by Wilco's Pat Sansone, and saw press from Huffington Post to Paste. Praised for her "impeccable vocal command" (PopMatters) and compared to a gamut of singers from Astrud Gilberto to Billie Holliday, Glass's voice is ultimately "one of a kind...you cannot confuse her with another artist" (New York Theatre Guide). Hatt's equally distinctive guitar work combines the harmonic innovations of jazz with the melodic resonance of folk, creating music that's "subtly poignant, elegantly funky, and haunting without trying to be" (Nels Cline, Wilco). Together, "Max Hatt/Edda Glass create exquisite, evocative music" (John Platt, WFUV) as they evoke a world that stretches from the beaches of Rio to the mountains of the American West. 

Hatt and Glass started playing together in Montana, where Hatt had a jazz trio and Glass had a knack for singing in Brazilian Portuguese— they soon became the state's only Bossa Nova band. On long drives between shows, Glass began writing lyrics to Hatt's solo guitar compositions, taking inspiration from the western landscape, and spinning tales of migrating geese, dispossessed tribes, and love in the wheat fields. This highway collaboration took them all the way to NYC's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, where the two unknowns won the 2014 Grand Prize of the NPR Mountain Stage / NewSong Competition. There they also captured the attention of their future producer, Wilco's Pat Sansone. “I was mesmerized from the first moment I heard them," he recalls. "They have the ability to create a deep sonic landscape with only voice and guitar, with songs that posses a mysterious and soulful magic.“ 

JBIRD SHOGREN 

J Shogren from Centennial WY (pop 100, 4 bars) has a singular vision of what he is doing musically—Roots & folk music filtered through a contemporary dissonant transmitter. He calls the music “catawampus american music”. Shogren plays all over the US & Europe, represented Wyoming in the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, and as a finalist in the 2016 NewSong Songwriters held at the Lincoln Center in NYC. “Brilliant storyteller from Wyoming. Hard Boiled, sometimes dark humorous stories delivered with a voice that clearly have lived through them." Lennart Persson (SWE) Rootsy. His latest album Why so Blue, Bird? explores his own family's adventures and death in the Great Northwoods  - "This could well be one of the first albums, in the hundreds of reviews written, that I simply can't compare to anyone else or even come close to slotting into a genre." American Roots UK 

NEWSONG PRESENTS 

NewSong Music is excited to present in partnership with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. the upcoming three part weekly music concert series 'Verse –> Refrain: An Exploration of Song.' 

In the spirit of community and collaboration, each of the three weekly performances will feature and pair two emerging artists or acts from the NewSong community, to share the stage to explore, perform and discuss their own inspirations and methods of songwriting. 

The concerts take place on each of the last three Thursdays in August (17, 24, 31), are free to the public and begin at 6 PM at the Kennedy Center's Millinneum Stage. No advance ticket purchase is required, and there is no free parking for these free events. 

MORE PRESS FOR MAX HATT / EDDA GLASS 

“Beautiful… #chills” — Ann Powers of NPR Music (@annkpowers on Twitter) 

“…like hand-printed photographs that speak and sway, the material is hypnotic…" — Lizz Wright 

“Mesmerizing… cinematic folk-jazz” — ASCAP’s Playback Magazine at Sundance Film Festival 

“Edda Glass's voice must be heard to be believed.” — Nels Cline (Wilco)  

"Max Hatt/Edda Glass create exquisite, evocative music as they journey through the landscape of jazz and folk with Hatt's atmospheric guitar playing and the landscape of the West with Glass's literate lyrics." — John Platt of WFUV, New York City 

"Unique voices and rare musicians." — Eric Funk, PBS host and internationally renowned composer 

“Their lyrics/ instrumentals encapsulate the confusing sentiment of feeling both lost and found, all at once…This album is for those that want to hear a song that tells them it is okay to be human, and that you are not alone in not knowing what that exactly means” — New York Theater Guide 

"an exemplification in the beauty of contemplation" — PopMatters 

“Brimming with soul and steeped with lush, mellow melodies, Ocean of Birds captures a moment in time and releases it in one lovely breath. “ — That Mag 

“Music that creates a sense of vastness within its quiet.” — Yes Weekly, John Adamian

East Coast 2017 Tour Dates Announced: Wilco's Solid Sound Fest and more 

MHEG at The Black Potatoe Festival! 

Max Hatt / Edda Glass will play the Black Potatoe Festival July 16, 6:30pm, Riverside Stage! Without catering to music industry trends, the Black Potatoe Music Festival has presented diverse acts from the national, regional, and local levels. "One of New Jersey's true gems", Levon Helm

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