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Rumble Strip Vermont: Michael Chorney
Aug 08, 2015: 6am - 7am
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Michael Chorney is a self taught musician, arranger and composer. If you asked me what genre of music he makes, I d have no idea. All of them? None of them?
He spent years mastering different musical genres in both guitar and baritone sax. He s played British Isles-inspired folk music, improvisational jazz, soul, rock. And over the years, in his own music, the lines between these genres have gotten really blurry. And that s how he wants it. Michael has been the bandleader of some of the most lush, uncategorizable music in this state. Bands like viperHouse, Magic City, Orchid, the So Called Jazz Sextet, and Hollar General.
I talked with him at his house, a renovated goose coop in Lincoln Vermont, and one of the quietest places on earth "or so he says. We talk about his music and growing up in Buffalo and driving to gigs with a blownout muffler. He talks about his collaboration with Anais Mitchell on the 2010 folk opera, Hadestown.