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BLACKBIRD PRESENTS Sir Richard Bishop

Adv $12/$14 DOS - All Ages - Bar with ID

Doors 7pm, Show 7:30pm

The Old Church is thrilled and honored to announce Sir Richard Bishop of the legendary Sun City Girls will grace our stage Sunday, May 28th with musician/filmmaker/ethnographer Robert Millis!

Sir Richard Bishop
Richard Bishop, guitarist and founding member of the band Sun City Girls (1981-2007), released his first solo record (Salvador Kali) in 1998 on John Faheys esteemed Revenant label under the moniker Sir Richard Bishop. Since then he has released albums on a variety of labels: Improvika, Elektronika Demonika, and While My Guitar Violently Bleeds (Locust Music), Fingering the Devil (Southern Records, UK), Hypostasis: A Work in Three Parts (VDSQ), Intermezzo (Editions Mego), The Unrock Tapes and Road to Siam (Unrock), Polytheistic Fragments and The Freak of Araby (Drag City), and more. His most recent release is Tangier Sessions which was recorded in Morocco using a mysterious 19th century parlor guitar. It was released by Drag City in early 2015.

Sir Richard Bishop forces one to alter that hoary cliche to jack of all trades, master ofdamn near all. Renowned for his mercurial guitar-playing for 26 years with Seattle ethno-delic legends Sun City Girls, Bishop has wrought a distinguished solo canon as well. He combines soulfulness and advanced technique with a panache thats nearly unrivaled among todays guitarists. Bishop strums spiritual with incantatory ragas, free-folk excursions, crystalline flamenco flourishes, ruddy Appalachian folk, Middle Eastern-tinged fantasias and gypsy arabesques. This is eclecticism done with respect and third-eye-dilating filigree; his compositions attain a sepia-toned wistfulness and a psychedelic complexity.
- Dave Segal (OC Weekly)

Robert Millis
Some people can sum up their lives on a business card; Robert Millis needs a whole deck, full sized, both faces of each playing card, and youre still liable to miss something while he shuffles. Filmmaker, photographer, guerilla ethnographer, collector and sharer of 78 RPM records, weaver of multi-layered ambiences, improviser, annotator, jokester, traveler
-Bill Meyer, Dusted