Max Hatt and Edda Glass Begin Montana Tour Next Month

Max Hatt / Edda Glass's "unique sound" (Larry Groce, NPR) and "incomparable spook" (Nashville Scene) have taken them from playing the Montana restaurant scene to NPR Mountain Stage, New York City's Lincoln Center, D.C.'s The Kennedy Center, the Sundance Film Fest, and Wilco's Solid Sound Festival. Their story comes full circle this summer and fall, when they return to the West to play performing arts centers and venues in Missoula, Helena, Bozeman, Idaho Falls, and Cody, WY. Montanans may remember Max Hatt / Edda Glass as the Brazilian band Rio, featured on Montana-PBS's 11th and Grant Show with Eric Funk. To this tropical repertoire, Max Hatt / Edda Glass will add their award-winning original Jazz Americana, deeply rooted in the Western landscape, as well as their unique interpretations of pop and jazz standards. Seattle bass virtuoso Clipper Anderson, also hailing from Montana, rounds out the trio. See below for full tour schedule.

Wednesday, August 8th, 7 p.m.
Longstaff House, 601 Longstaff St., Missoula, Montana
Tickets at the door. More info: (406) 239-0902

Thursday, August 9th - 7:30 p.m.
Myrna Loy Center, 15 N. Ewing, Helena, MT
Tickets: $22 at http://themyrnaloy.com/2018/05/max-hatt-edda-glass/

Wedneday, September 12th, 7:30pm,
Carr Gallery of the Willard Arts Center, Idaho Falls, ID
presented by the Eastern Idaho Jazz Society.
Tickets: Idaho Falls Arts Council office at 498 A St., phone 208-522-0471 or online at www.idahofallsarts.org

Friday, September 14th, 2018, 7:30pm, $10 students/$20 Adults
The Cody Theatre, 1171 Sheridan Ave, Cody, WY 82414
Tickets: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?ticketing=pcac
More Info: http://parkcountyartscouncil.org/tickets/ or call 307.587.6693

Saturday, September 15th - 8 p.m.
The Ellen Theatre, 17 W Main St, Bozeman, MT 59715
Tickets: $18.50 at https://theellentheatre.secure.force.com/ticket#details_a0S0W00000loxiCUAQ

Hatt and Glass started playing together in Helena, where Hatt had a jazz trio and Glass had a knack for singing in Brazilian Portuguese. They soon became the state's only Bossa Nova band, Rio- Montanans may remember seeing their episode of Montana-PBS's 11th and Grant Show with Eric Funk. On long drives between shows, Glass began writing lyrics to Hatt's solo guitar compositions, taking inspiration from the western landscape, and spinning tales of migrating geese, pioneer sisters, and crop-circles in wheat fields. This highway collaboration took them all the way to NYC's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, where the two unknowns won the 2014 Grand Prize of the NPR Mountain Stage / NewSong Competition, based on songs they'd recorded with the help of the Myrna Loy Center's Grant to Artists program. There they also captured the attention of their future producer, Wilco's Pat Sansone. "I was mesmerized from the first moment I heard them," he recalls. "They have the ability to create a deep sonic landscape with only voice and guitar, with songs that posses a mysterious and soulful magic."

Pat Sansone produced their 2016 album, Ocean of Birds, which saw press from Huffington Post to Paste. Praised for her "impeccable vocal command" (PopMatters) and compared to a gamut of singers from Astrud Gilberto to Billie Holliday, Glass's voice is ultimately "one of a kind...you cannot confuse her with another artist" (New York Theatre Guide). Hatt's equally distinctive guitar work combines the harmonic innovations of jazz with the melodic resonance of folk, creating music that's "subtly poignant, elegantly funky, and haunting without trying to be" (Nels Cline, Wilco). Together, "Max Hatt/Edda Glass create exquisite, evocative music" (John Platt, WFUV, New York) as they evoke a world that stretches from the beaches of Rio to the mountains of the American West.

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