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June 4 show puts Lewis & Clarke, Mike Quinn together again By CHRISTOPHER J. HUGHES chughes@golackawanna.com
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CRANTON – Lou Rogai has helped release music and promote performances internationally, but he’s equally excited to perform inside a northeastern Pennsylvania gallery next week. Rogai, of Delaware Water Gap, is the vocalist, guitarist and keyboardist for Lewis & Clarke. He’ll perform with Mike Quinn at the AFA Gallery, 514 Lackawanna Ave., Scranton, on Saturday, June 4.
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Doors open at 7 p.m., and performances begin at 8 p.m. A $10 donation is suggested at the door. The name of Rogai’s avant chamber folk music project is a play on the fellowship between authors C.S. Lewis and Arthur C. Clarke and not Pacific Coast expedition leaders Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. The camaraderie between the authors is almost a direct link to the way Rogai has operated the project itself, often changing its members before arriving at its current state: a three-piece outfit with brothers Ian and Shane O’Hara. “It’s been my favorite incarnation so far of Lewis & Clarke,” Rogai said in a phone interview Tuesday, seated in a Delaware
Water Gap laundromat. “It’s stripped down to the basics, and we’re playing with space a lot.” In addition to performing in Lewis & Clarke, Rogai founded the record label La Société Expéditionnaire in 2006, which has released work from Rogai’s project along with acts like Soars, Dragon Turtle and Strand of Oaks. While he has shows booked June 1 and 2 in Philadelphia and Brookyln, N.Y., with labelmates Daniel Knox and Judson Claiborne, he’s just as anxious to play in Scranton. “I’m so happy to return to the AFA Gallery. Mike Quinn and I played shows in our old bands there probably 15 years ago,” Rogai said. See REUNION, Page 22
IF YOU GO What: Lewis & Clarke with Mike Quinn Where: AFA Gallery, 514 Lackawanna Ave., Scranton When: Saturday, June 4. Doors open at 7 p.m. Quinn performs at 8 p.m., and Lewis & Clarke perform at 9 p.m. Cost: $10 suggested donation. Info: www.artistsforart.org, www.lewisandclarkemusic.com, www.mquinnmusic.com.