Pollo y Gofres, feat. Matty Metcalfe and Catherine Monnes
Sure to be a Sunday Fun Day unlike any other when Pollo y Gofres take to the tropical conservatory stage to delight all with their ‘Americana – Latin American’ music. Sunday, December 29th, from 2 to 5 p. m.
Bio:
Multi-instrumentalist Matty Metcalfe (Legwarmers, Crewe d’Bayou) pairs up with avant-garde auteur Cathy Monnes (Sally Rose band) in an exciting new musical collaboration that takes listeners on a journey from the Mexican hill-country to Balkan seaports and back through dark-lit European speakeasies of the early 20th century. Their music is familiar, accessible, completely danceable, but equally exotic, esoteric, and entrancing.
Employing his digital accordion, Mr. Metcalfe creates soundscapes replete with Mariachi horns, spaghetti western harmonicas, Andean flutes, Klezmer clarinets, and New Orleans jazz organs and saxophones to the rhythmic undercurrent of his real-time drum loops. Ms. Monnes seamlessly harmonizes and accentuates the ambiance with cello and violin lines that swan dive in between melodies that listeners will come to remember in an entirely new context. Following in the footsteps of groups like Nuevelle Vague, Pink Martini, and Postmodern Jukebox, Pollo y Gofres reimagines modern-day lounge music from familiar songs, making each a completely new listening (and dancing!) experience. How such a fully orchestrated sound of bass, drums, horns, organs, strings, and occasional vocals can come from two musicians has to be seen to be believed!
More about the music and musicians —
Pollo y Gofres (aka Chicken and Waffles):
https://www.facebook.com/Chicken-the-Wafflers-744481852409046/
Catherine Monnes:
https://www.facebook.com/Catherine-Monnes-118625818208769/
Matty Metcalfe:
https://mattymetcalfe.com/
Picnics are welcome, barring any outside alcohol. All of your favorite Glass House Winery wines and chocolates, along with an assortment of gourmet packaged foods, are available in the Tasting Room.
Glass House Winery is a family friendly establishment, and well behaved, leashed pooches are also welcome. Doors open at noon and the music is live from 2 to 5pm, inside the glass conservatory.