Don’t call vocalist Tamar Korn a songbird or, heaven forbid, a singer; those terms are far too reductive. More accurately she’s a free flying “animal-spirit”; a buoyant, airborne force of nature; a songbird totem perhaps, but surely a vocal instrumentalist. To experience her singing is to be swept into the air with her but without a net; finding yourself navigating updrafts and rhythmic curves, familiar and flowing one minute, then suddenly hitting gloriously destabilizing eddies and spirals, before returning to secure flight; and then finally delivering you happily to your secure perch. A one-woman Harlem Globe Trotter; three-fourths trapeze artist, one eighth clown and one eighth revival tent minister—employing vernacular old-world vaudeville songs and American Standards (when not doing her own originals) as her vehicle to convey big-story feelings and ideas. If nothing else, she’s an idiosyncratic artist-performer!
Friday, September 29th, 2023
DINNER RESERVATIONS AT THE STAGECOACH TAVERN
On the Pine Grove Porch at Race Brook Lodge
864 South Undermountain road ( AKA Rt 41 ) Sheffield, MATicket Price: $20 / $10 for Down County JUMP Festival guests.
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ARTIST BIO
Singer Tamar Korn of the Brain Cloud and the late Cangelosi Cards plays a repertoire steeped in traditional New Orleans, early jazz, Western Swing and American roots music - with an occasional detour into Yiddishe songs. She loves singing songs both lyrically as well as playing her voice. Tamar also often joins Baby Soda jazz band, The Grand Street Stompers (Gordon Au), occasionally violinist Mark O’Connor, as well as Irish folklorist and tenor banjo and bouzouki player Mick Moloney.
Race Brook Lodge is a hidden gem in The Berkshires, at the foot of Mt. Race and a short hike from the Appalachian trail. The yoga & event barn at Race Brook is simultaneously rustic and sublime, steeped in hundreds of years of New England history. The Stagecoach Tavern is unpretentious fine dining, exquisite farm-to-table cuisine in a relaxed atmosphere. Much of the food is sourced from Race Farm, right on the property!
