The Barns At Wolf Trap Announces Upcoming Events

The Barns at Wolf Trap Presents One of the Most Recognizable Names in Music, a Fusion-guitar Wizard, the Season's Second Discovery Series Performance, and D.C.'s Premiere Interpreter of the American Popular Song

Loudon Wainwright III w/ Special Guest Lucy Wainwright Roche
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 8 p.m.
$22

Loudon Wainwright III
Sardonic, witty, and irrepressible folk troubadour Loudon Wainwright III arrives at The Barns in support of his 2009 release, High Wide & Handsome-The Charlie Poole Project, an homage to the life and recordings of the legendary singer and banjo picker. As a lifelong traveling musician, Wainwright III saw much of himself in the prematurely deceasEd Poole, and began the process of re-documenting Poole's work through a two-volume recording and a full-length documentary (produced by filmmaker Michael Grenadier) in 2007. This performance will also draw heavily on songs from Wainwright III's 2008 effort, Recovery, a project designed to reexamine his songs from the outside in, drawing upon his four-decade-long career as a musician to provide a more contemporary and reflective experience for his listeners. Via Recovery, songs written as a young man in his 20s can now be heard and contemplated through the thickened lens of a much wiser and experienced artist.

Lucy Wainwright Roche
Stemming from a highly acclaimed musical family as the half-sister of Rufus and Martha Wainwright, and daughter of Loudon Wainwright III, Lucy Wainwright Roche arrives for her Barns debut with bright, refreshing vocals and buoyant folk-pop that is quickly garnering attention from critics. NPR selected Roche's "Saddest Song" as a Song of the Day, and called her "sincere and raw, at times recalling Joni Mitchell and Patty Griffin." Roche released her first EP, 8 Songs, in 2007, and two others, 8 More and Live at Lime, a year later. Earlier this year, the song "Snare Drum" won Best Folk Song at the 8th Annual Independent Music Awards.

Al di Meola
Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 8 p.m.
$35

Returning to Wolf Trap following a masterful 2009 performance, Al Di Meola brings his highly inventive and eclectic guitar style to The Barns for an instrumental performance that encompasses classical, rock, jazz, and world-beat elements. Di Meola continues to heavily integrate selections from his most recent release, Diabolic Inventions and Seduction for Solo Guitar, Volume I, Music of Astor Piazzolla into each live performance as a tribute to his mentor and late Argentinean tango master, Astor Piazzolla. Di Meola is also highly regarded for his founding of, and contributions to, the Super Guitar Trio with Paco De Lucia and John McLaughlin, resulting in the 1981 benchmark record, Friday Night in San Francisco, which achieved over $2 million in record sales. Di Meola also lent his expertise to The Rite of Strings, a 1995 collaborative recording with fellow Barns artists Jean-Luc Ponty and Stanley Clarkefeaturing bass, violin, and guitar.

Aspen Ensemble
The Discovery Series
Friday, January 29, 2010 at 8 p.m.
$35

Making their Wolf Trap debut and hailing from the famed Aspen Music Festival is the highly regarded Aspen Ensemble, offering a blend of strings, flute, and piano. Currently in residence at the University of Baltimore, the quartet represents a gathering of career chamber musicians, united in their mission to bring innovative programs to international audiences. Renowned for their energetic interpretations of classic works from Beethoven and Brahms, each member brings decades of experience as a soloist with some of the world's finest orchestras. Ticket buyers for this show will be treated to Beethoven's Serenade, Op. 25 for Flute, Violin and Viola, Bohuslav Martinu's Trio for flute, cello, and piano, and Johannes Brahms's Quartet for Piano, Violin, Viola and Cello in G Minor, Opus 25.

John Eaton
Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
$25

A renowNed Washington, D.C. jazz pianist, and one of the flagship artists of the Wolf Trap Recordings label, John Eaton returns to The Barns for another masterful installment of his yearly American Popular Song series with The Fabulous Fifties-Beyond Elvis and Eisenhower. Headlining The Barns at Wolf Trap for nearly 20 years, Eaton is a revivalist of jazz heroes Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Fats Waller, Hoagy Carmichael, Duke Ellington, and Harold Arlen, to name a few-whose timeless songs and musical philosophies ruminate through Eaton via his own unique style of jazz and spoken word.

Eaton is currently immersed in a series of audio recordings celebrating America's popular music, produced in conjunction with Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts. His fourth and most recent release-The Jazz Connection: Hoagy Carmichael and Fats Waller-features songs and medleys by two of the most significant creators and performers of the American popular song. Eaton intends to produce 10 recordings under the Wolf Trap Recordings label. The current four are available at www.wolftrap.org and a variety of online retailers including Amazon.com, iTunes, and CDBaby.

Tickets can be purchased by calling 1 (877) WOLFTRAP; or online at http://www.wolftrap.org/Purchase_Tickets.aspx
For more information, call The Barns at Wolf Trap at (703) 938-2404.