SUNDAY, JULY 20 – 7:30 – 10:00 PM

ONE NIGHT ONLY! BRING YOUR OWN BOWL FOR HOMEMADE GAZPACHO!
**75 Dollar Bill will be joined by Sue Garner and Andrew Lafkas on bull fiddle!**

75 Dollar Bill, which is percussionist Rick Brown and electric guitarist Che Chen, will perform with MUSICA ETNICA VIVA, an “expanded film work” composed by Chen. M.E.V. is “an amateur nature film which also attempts to posit connections between the development of capitalist, industrialized societies and the loss of both cultural and biological diversity. The film finds much of it’s philosophical basis in Jacques Attali’s Noise, a book in which he wrote that the mass production of music ‘is a powerful factor in consumer integration, interclass leveling, cultural homogenization…and the disappearance of distinct cultures.’ The sound and image [will] function as two distinct structures that are super-imposed.”

M.E.V. will be projected on Super-8 and digital video. 75 Dollar Bill will play throughout the evening, and audience members are encouraged to join or leave the room at their leisure. 75 Dollar Bill will be providing home-made gazpacho! Please bring a bowl if you want some.

About 75 Dollar Bill:

Rick Brown was born in San Francisco, CA and is a clerical worker at a law school in NYC. Che Chen was born in New Haven, CT and works for a cancer diagnostics company in Stonybrook, NY. They met via myspace and started playing together as 75 Dollar Bill approximately eight years later. Brown plays percussion and homemade horns and Chen plays electric guitar. Music from two self-released cassettes may be found here: http://75dollarbill.bandcamp.com/