The Travis Williams Group | Lorena Guillen Tango Ensemble
Schedule
Thu, 07 Nov, 2024 at 08:00 pm
Location
Gas Hill Drinking Room | Winston Salem, NC
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Stoked to welcome The Travis Williams Group back to Gas Hill Drinking Room on November 7, 2024, with special guests Lorena Guillen Tango Ensemble! Doors at 7 PM, show at 8 PM.Tickets are on sale NOW at TheRamkat.com!
Travis Williams has spent more than 20 years working professionally as a bassist in North Carolina. However when stepping out on his own it was not the bass he would choose to play, it was another passion...the oud.
The oud is an 11 string fretless lute mostly associated with traditional Arabic music. An instrument that captured Travis' imagination from the very first time he heard it.
It was the oud that inspired the formation of The Travis Williams Group. The band consists of five world class musicians playing original compositions influenced by traditional Arabic Maqam music, modern jazz, Appalachian roots and world music from Africa and Latin America.
With its mesmerizing style and sound, the award-winning Lorena Guillén Tango Ensemble has captivated audiences with soulful arrangements of Argentine tango standards and original compositions that create a dynamic tango and pan-Latin fusion since 2015. The musicians in the group each have rich and extensive experience in Argentine tango, jazz, classical and contemporary music, and other world and popular music styles, all of which can be heard on their two albums, Exótica Flor (2023) and The Other Side of My Heart (2018), both available on all streaming platforms.
“Not Your Average Folk Contest 2021" Grand Prize Winner (NC Folk Festival) and "World Music” category winner of Music-At-the-Museum Contest 2021 (NC Museum of Art), the Lorena Guillén Tango Ensemble has been featured on TV performances for NC PBS channel and Fox8News as well as live radio programs such as WUNC’s “The State of Things” with Frank Stasio (NPR affiliate in Chapel Hill, NC), KUNM’s “Corazón Tanguero” with Cristina Baccin (NPR affiliate in Albuquerque, NM), WFDD "Triad Arts" (Winston Salem, NC), “Musicaldo” (KGLP 91.7, Gallup, NM), and Radio DAMus (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
Over the years, the ensemble has presented its music at various venues: Kleinhans Music Hall (Buffalo, NY), MusicBox Theater and Folk Research Center (Saint Lucia, West Indies), Frick Museum Summer Concerts (PA), Center Stage Series at the Sangre de Cristo Auditorium (CO), Winston-Salem’s FIESTA Festival, Music Carolina SummerFest, NC Museum of Art, Greensboro’s NC Folk Festival, Creative Greensboro Concert Series, Blowing Rock Art & History Museum Summer Concert Series, Western Piedmont Symphony Concert Series, and Los Angeles’ Alvas Showroom (Los Angeles, CA).
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Where is it happening?
Gas Hill Drinking Room, 170 W 9th St, Winston-Salem, NC 27101-1523, United States,Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Winston SalemEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
