Award-winning, composer, pianist, singer, rising superstar Gabriel Kahane performs his newest album in this edition of Bison Noir. Cameo appearances by Honens Festival artists will round out an exceptional evening!
The morning after the 2016 presidential election, I packed a suitcase and boarded Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited bound for Chicago. Over the next thirteen days, I talked to dozens of strangers whom I met, primarily, in dining cars aboard the six trains that would carry me some 8,980 miles around the country. The songs on this album are intended as a kind of loose diary of that journey, and as a portrait of America at a time of profound national turbulence.
With a nod to "Le Poisson Rouge"—New York's "it" venue for cutting-edge performing arts in a bar/club setting—Honens' Bison Noir fuses performances of classical and post-classical music in a cabaret setting and removes formal traditions, allowing audiences to feel comfortable wearing casual clothing, getting there when they can, and not worrying about small noises made during the concert.