Volume 10, Issue 2
Oct. 2rd. 2014 A PUBLICATION BY HOLDERNESS STUDENTS FOR THE HOLDERNESS COMMUNITY
Jeff Pevar - Musical Chameleon - tonight By Maggie Barton and Charlotte Freccia ‘15
Mother Earth’s belly, in three hours. Q. How did you get into playing music?
Jeff Pevar has claimed he is “sort of a (musical) chameleon;” not only does he play the guitar and multiple other instruments, he is also a composer and producer. Pevar played behind the Iron Curtain in 1988 with Joe Cocker, in Carnegie Hall with David Crosby and Graham Nash, as well as on the White House lawn. And on Thursday night he will play on the Hagerman stage, along with another guitarist, a bass player, and a drummer. Maggie Barton and Charlotte Freccia had an opportunity to ask him a few questions last week. Here is their report. Q. Tell us what it was like recording music in the Oregon Caves National Monument for a PBS documentary. A. I accepted an invitation to provide music for a PBS documentary on the Oregon Caves and was then presented with the option to record the music for the documentary in the caves themselves. Of course, this was very exciting for me. I decided not to prepare any music in advance and ended up improvising 12 pieces off the top of my head on acoustic guitar and mandocello. I
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A. My parents were both music lovers. My mother played piano. There was always music in the house. I was told that at a very young age when my parents would listen to records, I would react to them fervently. I saw the Beatles on TV when I was about six or seven, and it changed my life. I knew then that I wanted to be a musician. Q. Who are your favorite musicians? Why?
had been wanting to put out my own record for many years, but because I play so many different styles of music, it was daunting to try to decide which music to record and to encapsulate who I think I am as an artist or a composer. So to answer your question, in essence, it was an invitation to record music for a nature documentary, but it ended up being an opportunity for me to write my entire first record in
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A. The list is way too long to print here because I love so many different styles of music. I could probably list a couple hundred musicians and tell you why they inspire me. I am a very diverse listener and musician, and I am moved by so many different musical styles that finding my own niche has been a challenge. Q. You have clearly toured and worked with many different musicians, do you have a stand-out memory? A. I really believe each experience has its own treasure chest of gifts involved.
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