CONCERT | George Crotty Trio (NYC)

  wo 28 feb. - 21:00

George Crotty is the insider’s outsider. He brings fresh ears to folkloric traditions while staying hip to their stylistic nuance and cultural significance. Crotty’s cello playing is kinetic and magnetic. With passion and posture, he evokes sounds from the verdant hills of Ireland to the arid atmosphere of the Levant, always with the rhythmic playfulness of someone who has listened to everything from James Brown to Shakti to Mulatu Astake. The George Crotty Trio makes music that is cinematic, pluralistic, and conversational. They draw on Indian raga, Arabic maqam, and modal jazz; using the language of other cultures to speak new things. “I’m not at home in any one culture,” muses Crotty, “so the trio became my home.”

Crotty has performed at Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Koerner Hall, Savannah Music
Festival, Globalfest, Newport Folk Festival and the Vancouver Jazz Festival. He was
invited to play at the prestigious New Directions Cello Festival and has toured
internationally playing Bogotá, São Paulo, Berlin, and Paris. Crotty toured North
America with 10-time Tony-winning Broadway musical, “The Band’s Visit,” and played
on the video game soundtrack for “Assassin’s Creek Mirage.” A member of the Brooklyn
Raga Massive and the National Arab Orchestra, he has also worked with Simon
Shaheen, Paquito D’Rivera, Anat Cohen, Darol Anger. When not playing cello, Crotty
loves cooking, learning new languages and spending time in his favourite temple, the
ocean.

“A stream of genre-blurring invention.”
—All About Jazz

“Sounds like the cosmopolitan centre Toronto is.”
—Canadian Music Centre