A Legendary Guitarist, A Legendary Film. A Meet Up in Saratoga Springs

Marc Ribot is coming to Saratoga Springs. 

One-time member of John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards. Go-to guitar guy by a diversity of artists from Tom Waits, Elvis Costello and Allen Ginsberg to Robert Plant, John Zorn and Marianne Faithful. Recording artist who has released more than two dozen albums under his own name over a 40-year career. 

Ribot (pronounced REE-bow), was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1954. The guitar legend will be at the Arthur Zankel Music Center at Skidmore College at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 28 for a live accompaniment to Charlie Chaplin’s 1921 silent film “The Kid.”

Ribot’s score was commissioned by the New York Guitar Festival and premiered in 2010 at Merkin Hall. 

In an interview with Flavorpill, Ribot said, “I did not use Charlie Chaplin’s score as a reference. I admire his score greatly, and his writing greatly, but I did not want to use that as a reference because my interest in this, as with everything else, comes from doing a particular reading. And my particular reading of this film is as a contemporary film.”

Tickets are $20 general public, $5 for the Skidmore College community (students, faculty, staff, and alumni). Purchase online at https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/zankel/7074/event/1379633 or call the box office at 518-580-5321 between 1 and 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday.