Original Article By Jim Testa | For The Jersey Journal
The 50th anniversary of Woodstock will reverberate through Hudson County’s music scene at this summer’s third and final Vault Allure Experience Festival on Saturday, August 10, although with a bit of a twist…
…Jazz flautist Brachfeld, another JC Heights resident, will participate in the event with her quartet.
“We’ll be playing straight ahead jazz and maybe a little Latin jazz, but I’m also doing a solo flute piece with some tracks that I recorded for my meditation CD,” Brachfeld said. “They’re going to give access to everybody there to the tracks, who will be playing them from their cell phones, and I will be playing in front of all those sounds. So it will create this soundscape of music.”
The tracks include Indian meditation music featuring sitar, meditation bells and kalimba.
As a local herself, Brachfeld has been a regular at the Vault Allure events.
“What Margo and Walter do is just amazing,” she said. “I’m so glad I live in a place where so many interesting things are going on all the time. I’ve been here six years, and I feel like I’m going to be playing for my community. In the audience, there are going to be so many people I know, my friends and my neighbors.”
Also of interest, Brachfeld hosts an all-female jam session at Headroom Bar & Social, 150 Bay St., in the Powerhouse Arts District, every Sunday from 3 to 7 p.m.
“I wanted to encourage more women to come out and play,” she said. “We thought that if we made it an all-female rhythm section, women would feel more comfortable, because, you know, sometimes the guys can be a little aggressive at these things. It’s all woman-infused and very cool.”
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