Sir Richard Bishop, Hieronymus Harry @ Standard Time, Sunday

Sun City Girls guitar ace Sir Richard Bishop makes a rare Toronto appearance at 165 Geary Ave on Sunday at 8 pm. 

Burn Down The Capital presents...

SIR RICHARD BISHOP

HIERONYMUS HARRY

@ Standard Time (165 Geary Ave., 2nd Floor, Unit A, Toronto)

8pm, $20 Adv / $25 Door, All Ages. Get tickets here. 

SIR RICHARD BISHOP (https://sirrichardbishop.com)

Richard Bishop, guitarist and founding member of the band Sun City Girls (1981-2007), released his first solo record (Salvador Kali) in 1998 on John Fahey’s esteemed Revenant label under the moniker Sir Richard Bishop. Since then he has released albums on a variety of labels: Polytheistic Fragments, The Freak of Araby, Tangier Sessions, and Oneiric Formulary (Drag City); Improvika, Elektronika Demonika, and While My Guitar Violently Bleeds (Locust Music); Fingering the Devil (Southern Records, UK); Hypostasis: A Work in Three Parts (VDSQ); Intermezzo (Editions Mego); The Unrock Tapes and Road to Siam (Unrock), and many others.

“Sir Richard Bishop forces one to alter that hoary cliche to ‘jack of all trades, master of…damn near all.’ Renowned for his mercurial guitar-playing for 26 years with Seattle ethno-delic legends Sun City Girls, Bishop has wrought a distinguished solo canon as well. He combines soulfulness and advanced technique with a panache that’s nearly unrivaled among today’s guitarists. Bishop strums spiritual with incantatory ragas, free-folk excursions, crystalline flamenco flourishes, ruddy Appalachian folk, Middle Eastern-tinged fantasias and gypsy arabesques. This is eclecticism done with respect and third-eye-dilating filigree; his compositions attain a sepia-toned wistfulness and a psychedelic complexity.” - Dave Segal (OC Weekly)

HIERONYMUS HARRY (https://hieronymusharry.bandcamp.com)

Hieronymus Harry invokes a time, place, and feeling that is strikingly different from our present moment. Hailing from Toronto, Harry’s music conjures madcap, mystical worlds through naturalistic acoustical performances. His debut album, “The River of Doom” is an odyssey of spellbound surrealist folk songs on embracing weirdness and the present self wholly. 

Check out Sir Richard Bishop in action followed by Hieronymus Harry's performance of "River Of Doom," the title track of his latest album.