Hello Dear Goli Friends!
How are you?
We are awesome!
Why, you might ask? We are done done done done with our first year of grad school! We survived and it was amazing and now we get to catch up on sleep and facetime with everyone who has missed us over the past few months.
Speaking of facetime, we missed you and look forward to remedying that ASAP! Say, this Thursday at the Lilypad?
We’re playing in an evening of Duos, curated by our NEC classmate, Leah Hennessey.
Check it!
+++D(u)o No Harm+++
Thursday May 17th
Lilypad
1353 Cambridge St. (Inman Sq. Cambridge)
7-10pm
All Ages-Suggested Donation
The evening will feature Hayes Griffin (gtr) & Daniel Hawkins (cello) destroying traditional american music in a good way, Leah Hennessey (vox) & Dave Cordes (bass) performing songs suffused with improvisation, and Goli (Vess-Marimba & Val-cello) playing songs about death, getting laid and surviving grad school.
Goli will play around 8:45 or so, do come early to get an earful of some awesome!
The FB event, if you dig that thing.
+++Faneuil Hall+++
We’ll be joining the street performers program again at the Faneuil Hall Marketplace! Playing in the sun is a great way to spend the summer. Listening to Goli while eating ice cream in the sun is also a great way to spend the summer. We’ll be keeping you abreast of our busking schedule via twitter@golimusic and facebook, so friend and follow us to get the inside scoop.
+++Foolish Ida+++
Vess & Val will be joining Sarah Rabdau for her project based on the work “Outside Over There” by Maurice Sendak. You can catch Foolish Ida this upcoming Saturday (May 19th @ 8pm) at Cafe 939. The first of 2 EP’s will be released at this concert and you won’t want to miss the beauty of this project.
That’s all the news we’ve got for you now!
Do come and join us this Thursday at the Lilypad, we can’t wait to see you!
From the little duo that is doing (I believe we are half masters now,)
Vessela+Valerie=Goli
But Wait There’s More!!!!
Hello Goli Friends,
Spring Break is over and we must go back to our books and practice rooms… but not without one more last-minute Goli sighting!
Our dear friends, Birdsongs of the Mesozoic have asked us to join them for the their next performance at Johnny D’s.
It will all go down this Wednesday March 28th @ 8pm.
The Birdsongs serve up a music that is “…as meditative as it is physical, as rooted in classical structure and jazz improvisation as it is in rock ‘n roll.” (The Boston Globe) With guitars, keyboards, saxophones and a style that is genre-bending, you will surely get an earful if you join us. Original Birdsong member, Roger Miller, of Mission of Burma fame will be joining the band. We can’t wait!
Here are the details:
++++Wed. March 28th++++
Johnny D’s
17 Holland St. Davis Sq.
Somerville, MA
8pm 21+
Goli will open the show and Birdsongs will hit after. Lots and lots of music for your ears!
Here is the FB event if you want to be thorough… https://www.facebook.com/events/165866510200132/
Thanks to all you adventurous souls who joined us last week at the Burren. You helped us kick spring break off with style and sass.
Hope you can join us this week for an amazing night of music!
With tank tops and winter coats (gotta love New England weather..,)
Vessela+Valerie=Goli
We’re back!
We know we said you wouldn’t see us until the semester was over, but that was because our brains were addled by all that newfangled learning we’ve been doing and we forgot about two of our favorite words ever…
SPRING BREAK!!!!!
We were considering going to Cancun, but the thought of Goli Gone Wild made this duo cringe!
We could’ve hid ourselves away to practice 24/7 until we headed back to the conservatory, but all work and no play makes Goli cuh-razy.
Instead, we’re stepping out for Big Night Out at the Burren this Monday, March 19th!
HERE ARE THE DETAILS:
+++Monday March 19th+++
Big Night Out @ The Burren
Goth vs Stoners Night!
247 Elm St. Davis Sq. Somerville
8:30pm show
Goli @ 9:40pm
18+!!!! No cover (though your $5 donation goes directly to the artists!)
This evening of queer live music and dance (& their hottie straight friends) will feature the music of Yani Batteau, Josh Hardy, Molly Zenobia, The Grooves Moons and Goli. DJ Studebaker Hawke will be spinning between sets and after the bands wind down. This week’s theme is Goths vs. Stoners and the best costumes win prizes!!!!
For the FB invite go to https://www.facebook.com/events/105148912949001/
HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!
For those of you interested, school is going quite well for both the Vess and the Val this semester. We are busy little bees that have been wrestling with such academic endeavors as composing new music based on the rapping of James Brown and how to kvetch on our respective instruments. Yes, this is a serious degree, we swear.
As always, thanks for the love, support and ears!
With unseasonably warm weather and the memories of margaritas,
Vessela+Valerie=Goli
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Hello Fair Friends of Goli-land,
Remember us? The little duo that could, can, and is currently… Marimba+cello+voice+melodica+quirk+charm+Vessela+Valerie=GOLI!!!!
We survived semester #1 of the amazing musical bootcamp that is Contemporary Improvisation @ New England Conservatory and now we are back for round 2. It’s great!
BUT… We miss you and we have missed you something fierce since we last had a chance to music it up for you in Oct. (belated thanks to all who joined us @ The Lizard Lounge.) We’d like to remedy all this missing you by inviting you to a little known, but certainly important holiday celebration of Valenhog’s Day.** Nearly equidistant from Groundhog’s Day and Valentine’s Day, Valenhog’s Day is a unique opportunity to celebrate some happening music and really whatever else floats your boat.
This shindig will be happening on Feb. 9th @ Church in Boston and here are the deets:
+++Thursday February 9th+++
Church
69 Kilmarnock St. Boston
21+ $10 8PM Doors (GOLI @ 9pm)
This Valenhog’s Day Celebration will include the avant pop from outer space of SCHOOLTREE and the 4-D artschool soul of What Time Is It Mr. Fox? and all kinds of fancy festive surprises!!!!
FB Invite: https://www.facebook.com/events/151125041668716/
This show marks our triumphant yet brief appearance in the “real world” before our lives become an endless whirl of graduate school music studies. This means if you need your Goli fix, now’s the time to get it as we won’t be coming up for breath until May or so…
If you’d like to see what that whirl is like, check out the Orient/Occident Concert that our department is hosting on Feb. 21st at Jordan Hall. (http://necmusic.edu/orientoccident)
As always, your support and ears and hearts are invaluable to this duo that is doing and we sincerely thank you for that and can’t wait to see you on the 9th!
With too much warm clothing and scarves,
Vess+Val=Goli
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**We in Goli-land are skeptical of the origins of Valenhog’s Day, but if you bring us groundhog-shaped-chocolate, we will not complain!
Grad School…
We just finished week number 5 and our brains are so full, we can’t believe there are 9 more weeks of this.
But first, THIS WEEK!!!!!
We are having our big “Goli Goes to Grad School” Send-off this Thursday Oct. 6th. It is at the Lizard Lounge and the line up for the night is stellar. It will feature guitar/cello duo Flightless Buttress and the multi-instumental/multi-vocal trio of The And Company.
For those of you with good memories, we put together this same line-up over the summer at Yes.Oui.Si. All of the bands were so mutually enamored of each other, we couldn’t resisting asking both Flightless Buttress and The And Company to join us for our last show until we get our school legs under us.
Truthfully, we may not be playing out until winter break or so, so please come and have a great time with us! And bring friends, friends are awesome!
If you stick around until Midnight, you can wish Val a Happy Birthday!
+++Oct. 6th+++
Goli Goes to Grad School Show
Lizard Lounge
1667 Mass. Ave.
Cambridge, MA (outside of Harvard Sq.)
21+ $10
9pm Flightless Buttress
10pm Goli
11pm The And Company
FB Invite: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=112425455528491
Our other October show is going to be our little Grad School Sendoff to NYC!
We’ll be playing a set in our favorite place in NYC, Caffe Vivaldi! Our dear friend and amazing harpist/singer Petaluma Vale will be performing too. You don’t want to miss this.
+++Oct. 15th+++
Caffe Vivaldi
32 Jones St.
NYC
All Ages, Donations Welcome
Petaluma Vale at 6pm (w/Val on cello)
Goli at 8:30pm
We will miss coming to NYC every month (and will hopefully come to the Big Apple when school isn’t so crazy amazing.)
Bring your friends, bring your lovers, bring your underage brothers!
The FB invite: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=280776298608829
As always, thanks for the love, support and the lending of your ears.
The little duo that’s doing like you wouldn’t believe,
Vessela+Valerie=Goli
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We in Goli-land are excited to be broadcasting our little musical selves over the airwaves live tonight! We’ll be playing on this lovely local radio program called “On the Town with Mikey Dee” on WMFO. For those of you within the Boston area, WMFO is Tufts’ radio station and you can find it at 91.5FM (Somerville/Medford area.) If you aren’t in the area or can’t pick up the signal (really, who has a radio these days), you can stream the program live at www.wmfo.org.
“On the Town with Mikey Dee” begins at 9pm and Goli will play a 45minute live set at 10:30. After the set, there will be a little interview by Boston rock darlings, Michael J. Epstein and Sophia Cacciola.
We hope you get a chance to tune-in and we can’t wait to share some new and old tunes with you!
the gals of goli
Dear Goli friends and supporters,
We have some exciting news for you as Summer is getting ready to turn into Fall, bringing with it a cocktail of nostalgia and excitement.
As most of you know already, both Val and Vess will be starting a master’s degree program in Contemporary Improvisation at New England Conservatory, and we have a very special show for you:
Goli Goes Back To School!
Thursday, October 6th 2011
Lizard Lounge
1667 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA
8:30pm
21+
If October is too far for you, here are a few Goli sightings for you to consider:
TONIGHT! Goli will appear live on Boston Cable TV (Channel 9). The show is “It’s All About Arts” and it airs from 6 – 7pm. If you are unable to watch it tonight, it will run again on:
Tuesday at 2:30 a.m. and 10:00 am
Friday at 8 pm
Sunday at 6:30 am
Next, you can see us play this Wednesday, August 24th at the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge, supporting Sarah Rabdau‘s alter ego Foolish Ida. This show is the third of the awesome Jaggery residency, and as these things go, we will likely play on a few Jaggery songs as well.
Then the following Wednesday, August 31st GOLI will play on WMFO’s “On The Town with Micky D.” The show airs at 9pm, or you can hear it here: http://www.wmfo.org
We will play a bunch of new songs as well as a few trusted old-ies.
As always, stay in touch via the interwebs, and don’t forget to go out and check out live music. It wouldn’t be the same without you!
Love,
Val+Vess = GOLI
Dear friends and supporters of all things Goli,
We are happy to announce a little mini tour we are about to undertake, and very much hope to share with as many of you as possible! Our good friend, and wonderful singer/songwriter/guitarist D.J. Phillips, is visiting from Nashville, and we’ll join forces (and gas money) in order to deliver some good music around the area.
Read up the deets for each night, then pick your most convenient spot and come on out to share the music!
+++New York City+++
Sunday, July 24th
Café Vivaldi – 32 Jones St. Manhattan NY
Goli at 8:30pm
D.J. Phillips at 7:15pm
Suggested donation, All Ages
fb event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=147445405332570
+++Boston+++
Tuesday, July 26th
Precinct – 70 Union Sq. Somerville MA
Part of Kristen Ford‘s residency
Goli at 9pm
D.J. Phillips at 8pm
Kristen Ford at 10pm (Val will be sitting in)
fb event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=184932948227011
+++Burlington, VT+++
Friday, July 29th
Radio Bean – 8 N. Winooski Ave. Burlington VT
Goli at 7:45pm
D.J. Phillips at 7pm
Suggested donation, All ages
http://www.radiobean.com
+++Worcester+++
Saturday, July 30
Nick’s – 124 Millbury St. Worcester MA
Goli at 10pm – 12am
D.J. Phillips at 9pm
Suggested donation, All Ages
http://www.nicksworcester.com/
We do hope to see you at one of these shows as it will be some of the last Goli sightings of the summer (and our last sightings before grad-school starts.) Please tell your friends and family!!!!
Love and music,
Val+Vess = GOLI
Dear NYCitizens,
The gray skies have abated (a little) in Boston and we can’t wait to celebrate the coming of summer this with you and Caffe Vivaldi! Wait?!? Wasn’t Goli at Caffe Vivaldi earlier this month? We were, but we just can’t stay away. With great food and drink, delightful waitresses and the coziest musical atmosphere ever-how can you blame us?
But wait, there’s more…
Not only will you get a 2nd rousing dousing of a Goli earful this month, you will get the chance to hear our dear buds Box Five (w/a little Val sitting in) if you come early. Yay! I think we should have a new, ultra-cute cover for you, if we keep up the diligent practicing.
Here are the details: (don’t forget to commit them to memory!)
+++Saturday-June 25th+++
Caffe Vivaldi
32 Jones St.
NYC (off of Bleeker St.)
Goli at 8:30pm!
Box Five at 7:15pm!
All Ages! Donations graciously accepted! 1-full hour of Goli sounds in the cutest cafe, ever!
Bring your roommates, bring your friends, bring your lovers, bring your enemies for a low-cost, low-commitment evening of music about death and getting laid and all that other stuff we call life… and some tango. There will definitely be tango.
Can’t wait for the 25th? Here’s a little video to tide you over from a show we did at Nick’s in Worcester, MA.
http://youtu.be/bMOx3rhePf0
(note Vess’s awesome rocking out face!)
As always, thanks for the support of this little duo that is doing doing.
With sunscreen and mojitos,
Vessela+Valerie=Goli
PS… Stay posted for details of our next Boston area show on July 9th at Yes.Oui.Si!!!!
Thanks to all you lovely people who came out to join us at Johnny D’s last week. It was great to have you there for the start of Craig Robertson’s new series Noir Cabaret! For more on his series go to http://www.robertsonstudio.com/
We’ve got quite the list of appearances in the next few weeks from the Campfire Festival to Nick’s in Tropical Worcester to NYC to a Haiti benefit at the Dance Complex to a free show at Atwood’s in Cambridge!
Without much further ado, here are the details. We do hope you can join us!
++++Monday May 30th++++
Campfire Festival @ Club Passim
47 Palmer St. Harvard Sq.
Goli at 10:30pm! All Ages!
The Festival runs from Friday to Monday featuring over 70 of the areas greatest acoustic-y artists. $30 for the whole weekend, $10 for a day pass. Go to www.clubpassim.org for more info.
For the Facebook Invite:
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=186105801438987
++++Thursday June 2nd++++
Nick’s Restaurant and Bar
124 Millbury St. Worcester, MA
An epic night of Goli with several sets by the band from 9-12midnight.
German food, Weimar-era decor and a delightful atmosphere make this a venue worth leaving the house for!
21+ Donations Accepted
For the Facebook Invite:
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=125874220826057
++++Saturday June 4th++++
Caffe Vivaldi
32 Jones St. (off of Bleeker)
NYC
Goli will play from 8:30-9:30pm but come early to check out our friend Molly Zenobia at 7:15pm. Caffe Vivaldi has great food and drinks and the coziest atmosphere ever! This show is All Ages and while there isn’t a cover, your donation are greatly appreciated!
The Facebook Invite: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=167923889934044
++++Sunday June 5th++++
Music for HOPEH
Julie Ince Thompson Theatre at The Dance Complex
536 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA
All Ages. 7pm. $50 suggested donation
Pediatrician/flutist Dan Epstein is hosting this benefit concert to raise money for the Haitian Organization Program for Education and Health. It will feature music by Epstein, Goli and Erik Lindgren and dance performances choreographed by Rozann Kraus.
For more information go to http://www.dancecomplex.org/Dance_Complex_Events.htm
++++Tuesday June 7th++++
Atwood’s Tavern
877 Cambridge St. Cambridge, MA
Free Show! 9:30pm!
Music will start at 9:30pm with a set by Goli. Bury Me Standing will then take the stage and then Goli will close the evening out with a little nightcap of a set! (it will be a Goli sandwich!) This show is free, so bring your friends for some low-cost, free-trial of Goli and Bury Me Standing music! Atwood’s has a great menu and is a totally cozy place to check out music!
For the Facebook Invite:
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=212774365411372
Whew!
We are so excited about all of the many shows we’ve got lined up and we do hope that you can join us for some of the fun (and bring your friends!!!!)
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We will be hitting the cobblestones at Fanueil Hall in Boston in the next few weeks, so follow us on twitter or facebook for updates on our appearances in the North Market!
With sunscreen and umbrellas,
Vessela+Valerie=Goli
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