About the Show
Contemporary Folk
Film composer/singer-songwriter Peter Salett, a “downtown folk legend” (Time Out NY) who has opened for the likes of The Swell Season and They Might Be Giants, performs this wistful song cycle backed by strings and percussion and accompanied by artist Michael Arthur’s evocative, improvised ink illustrations, which unfurl live, projected on a big screen, alongside the music.
About the Artists
Peter Salett
Peter Salett (“Winsome pop poet” – New York Times) is a songwriter and composer from Brooklyn, NY.
Salett has worked extensively in film, with music in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Wet Hot American Summer, Keeping the Faith, Down in the Valley, and Role Models among many others. He has released 9 records on his own Dusty Shoes Music label, and been a part of many soundtracks. As an actor Peter has appeared in a number of films and tv shows including Wanderlust, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Superbad, Role Models, Wet Hot American Summer, and Inside Amy Schumer. His music has also screened at Lincoln Center as a part of the dance / performance art piece “Ripening”, and his theater credits include composing music for shows in New York at The Cherry Lane Theater, and HERE.
Michael Arthur
Michael Arthur is a Brooklyn-based artist who specializes in both drawing the intimate moments of theater, dance and music as well as performing “live drawings”, visually accompanying music and performers with projected, real time illustrations. Influenced by the great cartoonists who used to tour the Vaudeville circuit at the beginning of the 20th century, Michael is exploring new ways to make drawing a performance. He draws mostly in ink without any pencils or rough drafts: each drawing is a live reaction to the moment. Michael’s drawings have appeared at Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Departures Magazine, NPR, The Huffington Post and many other places. Michael has performed at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Joe’s Pub, the Joyce Theatre, La Poisson Rouge, La Jolla Playhouse and with the Indianapolis Symphony.
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