Join us for an evening of acoustic psych folk and improvised acoustic guitar music, with Buck Curran headlining and Glenn Kimpton providing support.

Far Driven Sun and One Evening and Other Folk Songs are the latest albums by guitarist-singer-songwriter Buck Curran. Since 2005, Buck has recorded and performed as one half of the psych-folk duo Arborea. To date, Arborea has released five albums, including 2013's ESP-Disk' release Fortress of the Sun; As a solo artist Buck has released 9 solo album through his own imprint Obsolete Recordings and ESP-Disk'; Buck has also produced several various artists compilations: We Are All One, In the Sun: a tribute to Robbie Basho (2010), Basket Full of Dragons - a Tribute to Robbie Basho Vol II (2016), Ten Years Gone: A Tribute to Jack Rose (Tompkins Square 2019), Solstice: A Tribute to Steffen Basho-Junghans (2023), along with the archival live recording; Robbie Basho Live in Forlì, Italy 1982 (Wire Magazine Best Archival Releases 2018).

Buck has developed his intense, intimate and engaging approach to live concerts through two decades of playing and touring extensively throughout the US, UK, and Europe with Arborea and as a Solo Act. Key festivals include: Green Man Festival, Moseley Folk Festival, Philadelphia Folk Festival, Fano Festival, Hopscotch Festival, Odysseus Festival, etc. He also draws inspiration from the deep well of Folk and Rock of the 1960s  (Robbie Basho, Bert Jansch, Tim Buckley, etc.)  Bob Boilen, the host of NPR’s All Songs Considered/Tiny Desk, listed Arborea among his favorite concerts and recommended live acts in 2012, which led to the invitation to perform a Tiny Desk Concert at NPR's headquarters. Arborea's fourth album, Red Planet, was released in 2011 and received critical praise: David Fricke's Rolling Stone 'Best Under-the-Radar Albums of 2011''. Fortress of the Sun was released in 2013 on ESP-Disk' coinciding with the label's 50th Anniversary and made AllMusic’s 'Favorite Folk Albums of 2013' and 'Favorite Singer/Songwriter Albums of 2013', Acoustic Guitar's 'Best Acoustic Albums of 2013', We Are All One, In the Sun: a tribute to Robbie Basho made Acoustic Guitar Magazine 'Best Acoustic Albums of 2010', Pitchfork 7.8, Guitar Player Magazine Editors 'Top Pick', etc. In 2016 Buck released his first solo album Immortal Light, followed in 2018 by Morning Haikus, Afternoon Ragas, listed among the 'Best Albums of 2018' according to Folk Radio UK and Aquarium Drunkard.

In April of  2020 Curran released his third solo album No Love Is Sorrow. Later that month he was interviewed by Jason Woodbury for Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions. In May 2020, Premier Guitar Magazine published a feature article and NPR published a Tiny Desk Concert recorded at Buck's apartment in Bergamo, Italy. No Love is Sorrow was also listed among the 'Best Albums of 2020' by Folk Radio UK and Aquarium Drunkard. In 2022 the Bert Jansch Foundation asked Buck to participate in 'For Bert Jansch: Around the World in 80 Plays', a special project featuring performance videos of select musicians playing special 'Bert Jansch' Yamaha guitars that were sent around the world. Curran's video was filmed in historic Città Alta in Bergamo, Italy. In 2023 Curran released Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity, an album of selected improvisations from 2017 to 2022, The Long Distance (Curran's first works for analog synthesizer, and Australian label Ramble Records reissued  Curran's first solo album Immortal Light in a limited edition Vinyl pressing. Most recently Curran has performed at Odysseus Festival (We Jazz) in Helsinki, Finland (2023) and Ferentino Acoustic Festival, Italy (2022). One Evening and Other Folk Songs made Aquarium Drunkard 'Best Albums of 2024' and KLOF Magazine/Folk Radio UK 'Best Albums of 2024'.

Glenn Kimpton is an instrumental acoustic guitar improviser who takes inspiration from traditional folk and blues as well as minimalism and experimental guitar. Often recording outside, he allows natural and everyday sounds into his music, using space and pauses to draw on surroundings and landscapes and disrupt regular structures.