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