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JOY KILLS SORROW w/ MARGARET GLASPY AND JULIAN LAGE

Wednesday 7/21
JOY KILLS SORROW
with special guest MARGARET GLASPY and JULIAN LAGE
$10 ADVANCE / $12 AT THE DOOR
8:30 doors / 9:00 show
www.joykillssorrow.com

This is the bands second time to the Lizard - the first resulting in a sold out show and stunned audience. With its bold new brand of acoustic music, Joy Kills Sorrow pushes right through the envelope and out the other side. The Boston-based stringband brings a decidedly modern sensibility to an old-world sound, channeling the prodigious talents of its individual members into elegant arrangements and well-crafted songs. While the group pays due homage to its Bluegrass rootsÃ¢"its name refers to one of the first radio stations to broadcast the music of Bill MonroeÃ¢"the band truly excels in its rich and textured treatment of more contemporary material. Boasting a full arsenal of original songs, Joy Kills Sorrow plumbs the entire spectrum of its spare instrumentation, effortlessly merging influences as diverse as folk, rock, pop, and jazz. The songs that emerge are dark and often funny, ruminating on modern life and love with eloquence and wit. The result is a radical new strain of folk music, one that bravely breaks with tradition even as it salutes the past.

Amazing folk / bluegrass upstart MARGARET GLASPY opens the show with help from young guitar prodigy JULIAN LAGE.