In support of their new album, The Travelers, Chicago-based Lapis Trio will perform at the JGCA on Saturday, March 2, 2019 at 8pm. The Travelers is an album merging jazz, classical guitar and world music being released February 2019 by Shifting Paradigm Records. Lapis Trio is an acoustic group featuring the compositions of Chicago based jazz guitarist Casey Nielsen. The unique instrumentation of classical guitar (Casey Nielsen) upright bass (Dan Thatcher) and percussion (Tim Mulvenna) provide a richly dynamic acoustic setting.
Opening will be a new duet of Olivia Valenza, clarinet and cello, and Rick Ollman, percussion, bass clarinet, nylon-string guitar.
