Coastwest Unrest Concert
When:
Friday January 21, 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Where:
Winchester Cultural Center, 3130 S. McLeod., Las Vegas, NV
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What:
The alternative music quartet Coastwest Unrest appears in concert at Winchester Cultural Center at 7:00 p.m. Friday, January 21.
At a time when the Las Vegas alternative scene seems particularly vibrant, Coastwest Unrest projects great power, both in Noah Dickie’s lyrics and in the sound of the ensemble. Besides singing, Dickie plays acoustic guitar, upright bass, electric bass, harmonica and mandolin. His brother, Josh, is the group’s drummer. Alex Barnes plays violin and sings, and the band’s newest member is cellist Courtney Thomas. The group seems less an alternative rock band than a renegade art music ensemble.
Not many Las Vegas lyricists reference artist Red Grooms or composers Harry Partch and John Cage. Noah Dickie’s lyrics sweep across America, but focus on the West and Las Vegas itself, from a viewpoint that mixes the intellectual with raw emotion. The music reflects that unblended combination, with Noah’s acoustic folk music repeatedly assaulted by Josh’s punk rock drums, as violin and cello weave a wider musical structure.
The title of the band’s new CD, Old Weird America, is borrowed from a new book by critic Greil Marcus, in which he investigates the roots of Bob Dylan’s music. Coastwest’s roots reach into equally odd and diverse corners of the past. Its music conjures a community of Appalachian beatniks living in Las Vegas. The concert is part of Winchester Cultural Center’s Young Originals concert series.
Singer/songwriter Paige Overton will open the concert. Overton is a singer and guitarist in the alternative country band The Clydesdale, which will appear at Winchester March 4. She sings in the country band Whiskey Revival, which performs regularly at Sam’s Town and Club Fortune, and she just ended a year-long solo gig at the Palms as “Paige of Spades.” At Winchester she will perform her own songs, which fall somewhere in the folk genre. Tom Ferman will back her guitar and voice with his pedal steel guitar.Tickets may be purchased in advance at Winchester Center, 3130 South McLeod Drive. More information may be found at (702) 455-7030.
