David Wax Museum, with big stage show at 2011 Newport Folk Festival on resume, headlining Nov. 18 Outpost concert
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Special Guest is Caitlin Canty
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MONTCLAIR, N.J., Nov. 13, 2011 -- David Wax Museum, which fuses Mexican roots music with homegrown country, folk and rock to create a unique Mexo-Americana sound, will appear at The Outpost in the Burbs / First Congregational Church on Friday, Nov. 18.
The venue, which in earlier Outpost communications was incorrectly listed as the Unitarian Universalist Congregation on Church Street here, is located at 40 South Fullerton Ave. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. and show time is 8 p.m. Tickets are $25 in advance and day of show. The Outpost is an all-volunteer nonprofit here that stages 20 concerts yearly and puts together teams to feed, clothe, shelter and get toys to those in need.
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Blending Latin rhythms, call-and-response hollering, accordion pumping and donkey jawbone rattling. David Wax Museum burst onto the national scene with its 2010 show at the Newport Folk Festival and followed with a well-received performance on the big stage there last summer.
A 2009 feature in Harvard magazine points out that David Wax, a 2006 graduate, never took a music course at his alma mater. “But while traveling and studying music in Mexico on a Sheldon Fellowship after graduation,” Richard Dyer writes in the article, “he realized that what he really wanted to do was learn to perform the Mexican ‘roots’ music he loved so much.”
David Wax Museum played the 2010 Newport Folk Festival after first winning a contest. Afterward, NPR's All Songs Considered featured their performance as one of the highlights of the annual festival. NPR accorded them the same featured on-demand listing (listen to it here) after their performance on the main stage this past summer.
The February 2011 release of their “Everything is Saved” album, with David Wax mixing the roots of American and Mexican folk music and Suz Slezak giving the music its percussive edge with a stick dragged rhythmically against a donkey's jawbone, helped build a national following. (See David Wax Museum perform Born with a Broken Heart, the first track on the CD, here.)
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Caitlin Canty is a Vermont-bred, New York City-based singer-songwriter. Her latest album, released last year, can be heard in its entirety here.
How to get tickets
Tickets are available at Keil’s Pharmacy, 732 Valley Rd., Upper Montclair, 973-744-2113; Studio 042 – Super Business Printer, 423 Bloomfield Ave., Montclair, 973-509-7591; online at www.ticketweb.com; TicketWeb by phone at 1-866-468-7619; or by mail from the Outpost office as well as at the door the day of the show (if still available).
About The Outpost
The all-volunteer Outpost is a nonprofit outreach organization in Montclair dedicated to building community through music, community service and cultural events with a social, educational, intellectual or artistic bent. The Outpost has presented more than 350 concerts by internationally known artists such as Judy Collins, Roger McGuinn, Dave Mason, Chris Hillman, Richie Havens, J.D. Souther and Dar Williams, and more than 50,000 people have attended.
Besides promoting and staffing concerts, Outpost volunteers -- today there are about 75 -- have donated more than 35,000 hours of their time through programs affiliated with Habitat for Humanity, Toys for Tots, the Human Needs Food Pantry of Montclair, the Community Food Bank of N.J., Dress for Success and the soup kitchen run by Outpost volunteers at Christ Episcopal Church in East Orange that feeds about 70 people. For more information, visit www.outpostintheburbs.org or call 973-744-6560.
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The Outpost
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