Woodward Theater Presents:
Event: MARY LATTIMORE
w/ special guest Planchette
Time: Doors at 6:30PM, Show at 7:30PM
Venue: The Woodward Theater | 1404 Main St., Cincinnati, OH 45202 | (513) 345-7981 | news@
(Under 16 are allowed w/ a paid ticket and accompanied by a legal guardian.)
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About MARY LATTIMORE:
Mary Lattimore is a harpist and composer living in Los Angeles. She experiments with her Lyon and Healy Concert Grand harp and effects, filling a musical universe with memories, scenes, and split-second impressions. As one of today’s preeminent instrumental storytellers, she has “the uncanny ability to pluck a string in a way that will instantly make someone remember the taste of their fifth birthday cake," writes Pitchfork's Jemima Skala. Lattimore's impulse to record life as it happens matches her drive to travel and perform, as profiled by Grayson Haver Currin for The New York Times: "Lattimore recognized that being in motion shook loose strands of inspiration, moods she wanted to express with melody. She needed, then, to remain on the go." That sense of fluidity has also made her a prolific collaborator outside of solo work; Lattimore also writes harp parts for songs and recordings, performing and recording with such great artists as Meg Baird, Thurston Moore, Sharon Van Etten, Jarvis Cocker, Kurt Vile, Steve Gunn, Ed Askew and Fursaxa. In the fall of 2023, she released Goodbye, Hotel Arkada on Ghostly International. Documented and edited in uncharacteristically measured sessions over the course of two years, the material remains rooted in improvisation while glistening as the most refined and robust in Lattimore’s decade-long catalog. It finds her communing with friends, contemporaries, and longtime influences, in full stride yet slowing down to nurture songs in new ways. The cast includes Lol Tolhurst (The Cure), Meg Baird, Rachel Goswell (Slowdive), Roy Montgomery, Samara Lubelski, and Walt McClements.Lattimore’s solo debut, The Withdrawing Room, was released in 2013 on Desire Path Recordings. Her 2014 record Slant of Light with guitarist/synth player/producer Jeff Zeigler was released by Thrill Jockey, which was followed by the two collaborating on a track for Ghostly Swim 2. Mary and Jeff also composed a score to Philippe Garrels 1968 experimental silent film Le Revelateur, and debuted it in Marfa, Texas along with the film. Her debut solo record for Ghostly International, At The Dam, was recorded during stops along a road trip across America and released in March 2016. The next year, she compiled sounds from her past life in Philadelphia for a cassette tape titled Collected Pieces. Following an appearance at Moogfest, she was invited by Sigur Ros to perform at their festival, Norður og niður, in Iceland. During a break from those events, she was awarded a residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in San Francisco, where she recorded Hundreds of Days.
Released in May 2018 to acclaim from the likes of NPR, Pitchfork, and The New Yorker, Hundreds of Days presented an expression of mystified gratitude for the natural world. She capped off the banner year — which included international tours with Iceage and Kurt Vile, a performance with Harold Budd at Big Ears Festival, and an appearance on Billboard’s New Age charts — with two collaborative albums released on Three Lobed Recordings, one with Meg Baird and the other with Mac McCaughan. In January 2019, she shared Hundreds of Days Remixes, a collection featuring reworks by Steve Moore, Jónsi, Julianna Barwick, Alex Somers, Paul Corley, and others.
Silver Ladders, released in 2020 as her third LP on Ghostly and again a year-end favorite with critics, saw Lattimore expanding her craft with the help of producer and guitarist Neil Halstead (Slowdive, Mojave 3). Recorded in Halstead’s studio near an old English surftown just before lockdown, the songs on Silver Ladders reflect Lattimore’s vivid observations against the gloom and glimmer of the ocean. In 2022, Lattimore returned with the culminating counterpart release, Collected Pieces: 2015-2020. The limited-edition LP sequenced selections from her two rarities collections, Collected Pieces I (2017) and Collected Pieces II (2020), and coincided with a print spread in The New York Times.
Lattimore’s latest LP, Goodbye, Hotel Arkada, speaks not just for its beloved namesake — a hotel in Croatia facing renovation — but for a universal loss that is shared. Six sprawling pieces shaped by change; nothing will ever be the same, and here, the artist, evolving in synthesis, celebrates and mourns the tragedy and beauty of the ephemeral, all that is lived and lost to time. She toured the album through much of 2023, including several dates with Mitski, and closed the year with a run through Australia.
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Nora Barton is a cellist, recording artist, event producer and educator based in northern Kentucky. She recently returned to the state from Chicago, where she performed in symphonies, rock bands, avante-garde ensembles, theater productions, and more, for 15 years. She is a founding member of the contemporary music collective a.pe.ri.od.ic ensemble and experimental improvisational piano trio NbN, as well as cellist in punk marching band Mucca Pazza, mbira-based space jam trio ExtraOcular, and chamber rock orchestra Origin of Animal. Outside of performing and recording, Nora organized concerts for the Chicago chapter of Classical Revolution, providing access to chamber music performances in a multitude of public spaces. She also assembled string ensembles for Bluewater Kings Band, one of Chicago’s busiest wedding bands. She tours regularly with shadow puppet theatre company Manual Cinema.
Upon her return to the Cincinnati region in 2021 she continued to cultivate creative collaborative opportunities to further explore the benefits of listening to cello. Nora accompanies yoga classes, hosts ambient noise jams and performs regularly as Planchette, an experimental solo project that enriches spaces with ethereal cello energy. She also began working with the Arts in Healing team, playing for patients and their families at Hospice of Cincinnati and UC Medical center. Most recently she joined School House Symphony, delivering educational performances to preschool through eighth grade classrooms throughout Greater Cincinnati.
Nora holds degrees in cello performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and Roosevelt University.
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