EVENTS: UGLY DISCO, ESTROFEST, EASTMAN OSCAR PARTY 17 URBAN JOURNAL: REAL SCHOOL REFORM
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ART REVIEW: “I NEED A LULLABY” AT HARTNETT GALLERY 16 FILM: THE DAYNAS 23 CROSSWORD 31
Mike Doughty • David Wax Museum • Richie Stearns • Jane’s Addiction • Fioritura • and more music, page 10
FEBRUARY 22-28 , 2012 Free
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Greater Rochester’s Alternative Newsweekly
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Vol 41 No 24
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News. Music. Life.
Of course, in Hollywood, one never knows the extent of the inadvertent.” FILM REVIEW, PAGE 22
Fleshing out the port’s potential. NEWS, PAGE 6
New web info: LGBT health insurance. NEWS, PAGE 4
Don’t blame the teachers. MAIL, PAGE 2
Openings, closings, and more restaurant scoop. DINING, PAGE 9
MUSIC FEATURE | BY WILLIE CLARK | PAGE 12 | PHOTO PROVIDED
Gypsies, tramps, and Thieves Caravan of Thieves channels ghosts, imports Japanese secrets, and combines the best aspects of street performance, theater, and the lush sounds of gypsy music. Members bound around the stage, decked out in frilly clothes, top hats, suits, and dresses seemingly from another era. The musicians dance and fly past one other, arms flailing as they strike guitars, beat against a string bass, or smash tin pots and pans lying about the stage. Solos pass flawlessly from player to player. Think of Caravan of Thieves as an acoustic Gogol Bordello, an American Crooked Fiddle Band, or
jazz improvisation sped up and dosed with musical steroids. Or, as the groups put it, “If Django Reinhardt, the cast of ‘Stomp,’ and The Beatles all had a party at Tim Burton’s house, we would be the band that they hired.” The result is a whirlwind of sound, mashing together searing violin licks and thundering string-bass bellowings. Above all the strumming and sideshow spectacle sits the sultry voices, captivating in their harmonies. Lock up your children and women: Caravan of Thieves is on its way to Rochester, stealing hearts and minds alike.