Nikel at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival - Entrepreneur Generations

For the final concert of this year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival experimental folk artist,singer and multi-instrumentalist Sam Amidon explores the intersections of songcraft, jazz improvisation, and traditional American music.

His group Nikel has some of the finest international jazz and improvising musicians including Byron Wallen trumpet; James Allsop bass clarinet / tenor saxophone; Kit Downes piano; Jasper Høiby acoustic bass; Chris Vatalaro drums / live electronics .

They will perform songs from Amidon’s most recent release The Following Mountain, which is his first album of entirely original compositions, as well as drawing on material from Amidon’s earlier records such as Lily-O and I See The Sign, which consisted of radically re-worked traditional folksongs. Sam Amidon is a singer and multi-instrumentalist originally hailing from Brattleboro, Vermont, US. His most recent album, The Following Mountain, was released in May of 2017 by Nonesuch Records.

His first album of entirely original songs and compositions, it features appearances by Jimi Hendrix percussionist Juma Sultan and legendary free-jazz drummer Milford Graves, known for his pioneering work in the 1960s with artists such as Albert Ayler and Sonny Sharrock.

Sunday 26 November 
@Bates Mill Blending Shed, 9pm
Tickets £17 (£14 concession / online)

Tickets 01484 472900
Full programme: http://ift.tt/2yZxHMn

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