Richard Shindell – 10/23

Richard Shindell lives as both an immigrant and emigrant, crossing thresholds that inform his illumination of the human experience through narrative song. Shindell has inhabited a Zen Buddhist monastery and busked in the streets of Paris.

Originally from New York and now living in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Shindell is a writer whose songs paint pictures, tell stories, juxtapose ideas and images, inhabit characters and vividly evoke entire worlds. Meticulously recorded over three years in New York and Buenos Aires, his most recent release, Careless, offered an ambitious, luxurious, full-length statement. Shindell immersed himself in the studio, allowing the time and latitude to explore, experiment, take risks—to play—as each of these eleven songs was given form and substance. While his signature acoustic guitar style is used to good effect, Careless also found Shindell plugging in more. “The wider sonic and dynamic range of the electric has been a real inspiration. Rejuvenating.”

During the pandemic, Shindell stayed in Argentina, out on the wide open Pampa, reading, writing, taking walks, doing a little experimental recording, and tending the garden. He now returns to the road for a limited number of performances. Innovative, original and occasionally spiritual, Shindell’s songs weave tales that champion the downtrodden, exalt the disaffected or wax empathetic to those lost to society’s fringes. From lighthearted ballads and adulterous love songs to dirges and diatribes that skewer politics, prejudice, war and religion, to the comic point-of-view of a cow stuck in a barbed wire fence, he morphs into the many personalities he casts as narrators—veritable novellas framed in haunting acoustic melodies.

Date: October 23
Time: Doors 5:30 PM, Showtime 7:00 PM (event listed 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm)
Venue: The 443 Social Club & Lounge, 443 Burnet Ave, Syracuse, NY 13203

Ticket info:
- The 443 is an intimate listening room with table service that seats 75 people.
- The green squares/circles on the floor plan are bar-height tables, and the orange squares are regular-height tables.
- Most seats are sold as “Tables for Two” — the ticket admits TWO people.
- A limited number of single seats are available; single attendees may be sharing a table with other single attendees.
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Links:
- Website: https://richardshindell.substack.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RichardShindell
- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0ONG1ffKzhVIm4arvvLPHl?si=eDYRnLGuS5q1NCabVFCXFA
- Tickets on EventBrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/richard-shindell-at-the-443-social-club-tickets-1990824913909?aff=oddtdtcreator
- Video: https://youtu.be/KAiP7S5ww8w?si=H_4j4rqUWnAOug7t