Julian Lage: Speak to Me Tour

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Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Julian Lage: Speak to Me Tour

Prodigious guitarist Julian Lage has spent more than a decade searching through the myriad strains of American musical history via impeccable technique, free association and a spirit of infinite possibility. The California-born, New York-based musician boasts a prolific solo resume, as well as collaborations with Gary Burton and John Zorn and duo projects with Nels Cline, Chris Eldridge and Fred Hersch, among others.

Lage’s new album, Speak to Me, offers a series of dispatches from his ongoing search for narrative beyond words. Intimate in tone and capacious in intention, the album represents some of the most ambitious music Lage has documented to date. Its originals travel a wide range of American music, and delight in the deliberate crossing of wires between gospel hymns and rural blues, California singer-songwriter sunshine and skronky jazz.