2022 Spring Arts Season:

The Grenchus Foundation @ Piers Faccini -”Uncover My Eyes” @ Atrium 360 - David Rubenstein Atrium/Hall

Piers Faccini @ France Rocks Festival ~ Atrium 360 David Rubenstein Atrium/Hall ~ Lincoln Center (2018)

Atrium 360°

Special Tribute to Lincoln Center & 360 David Rubenstein Atrium

Given we are still in the middle of a pandemic, we will be releasing some of our recorded pieces from the past, that we have never released before! While Atrium 360 ~ David Rubenstein Hall is still closed we will be sharing some of the performances we experienced and enjoyed there …

Enjoy!

Piers Faccini @ France Rocks Festival ~ Atrium 360 David Rubenstein Hall ~ Lincoln Center (2018)

The Grenchus Foundation @ Piers Faccini -”Uncover My Eyes” @ Atrium 360 - David Rubenstein Hall

A soulful and expressive singer/songwriter whose music fuses folk, acoustic blues, and West African textures, Piers Faccini was born in England to Anglo-Italian parents, and moved with his family to France when he was five years old. A graduate of the prestigious King's College of Our Lady of Eton, in 1997 Faccini began making a name for himself on the London music scene with the group Charley Marlowe, which featured Faccini, spoken-word artist Francesca Beard, guitarist Lucas Suarez, and percussionist Frank Byng. While Charley Marlowe earned a passionate following on London's acoustic music circuit for their unique blend of poetry and music, Faccini, who had been writing scores for British television on the side, felt constrained by their approach and left the band in 2001 to write and perform on his own. In 2004, Faccini released his first solo album, Leave No Trace, through the French Bleu Electric label and toured extensively following its release. Faccini signed an American record deal with the Everloving Records label and played a number of shows in Europe with like-minded U.S. musicians Ben Harper and Jack Johnson. J.P. Plunier, who had produced sessions for both Harper and Johnson, signed on to produce Faccini's second full-length album, 2006's Tearing Sky, which featured backing vocals from Harper and accompaniment from several members of his band. [1]

Sung mostly in English but in French, Italian dialects and Arabic, too, the album is an impassioned celebration of cultural diversity and pluralism. Searching for a bygone golden era when coexistence and religious tolerance once prevailed, Faccini found a model for his utopian haven in 12th Century Sicily. At the crossroads of Western, Arabic and Byzantine influence, the island briefly flourished as the most enlightened and advanced society in medieval Europe.

Faccini’s latest compositions depict the unique moment of creative cohabitation between peoples and faiths. Inspired by traditions centuries old — but firmly 21st century in its blending of languages, narratives and instrumental arrangements — electric guitars converse across time with a Baroque viola d’amore, while an oud answers a medieval psaltery and a Moroccan guembri pulses trance-like to the drums.

Presented in collaboration with The Cultural Services of the French Embassy, Bureau Export, and the France Rocks Festival @ Lincoln Center

lyrics to “Uncover My Eyes”

original release of Tearing Sky

and Piers’ Website

original press release by Lincoln Center

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