The Magnetic Fields

Spread over two nights, Stephin Merritt presents his new album which chronicles the 50 years of his life with one song per year. He will perform the first 25 years on the first night and the next 25 years on the second night.

In concert, the music will be played and sung by seven performers in a stage set featuring fifty years of artifacts both musical (vintage computers, reel-to-reel tape decks, newly invented instruments), and decorative (tiki bar, shag carpet, vintage magazines for the perusal of idle musicians). The seven performers each play seven different instruments, traditional (cello, charango, clavichord) or invented in the last fifty years (Slinky guitar, Swarmatron, synthesizer).