Duo LiveOak, Nancy Knowles, mezzo-soprano, poet and Frank Wallace, baritone, guitarist, composer, offers a fresh voice in classical music, creating and performing their own significant body of lyrical contemporary art song with classical guitar, on Sunday, May 1, 2011, at 3:00 p.m. at the historic Loring-Greenough House, 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain. The program includes Wallace’s song cycles to the poetry of  Theodore Roethke, Federico García Lorca and Jaime Goded as well as poetry by Knowles and Wallace.

Afternoon tea follows the program

Tickets are available at the door: donation $15 ($10 seniors, students and JPTC members). Space is limited; reservations are suggested—call 617-524-3158 or email lghouseconcerts@aim.com.

Nancy Knowles and Frank Wallace collaborate as poet and composer in writing songs with echoes of blues, medieval, jazz, Latin, and classical music from Ravel to avant garde.  Duo LiveOak has toured for decades throughout North and South America and Europe.  Frank Oteri of NewMusicBox.org has called Wallace’s music "contemporary musical emancipation…further proof of the meaninglessness of such terms as ‘classical and ‘pop’.”  Their numerous recordings and publications, can be found on the Gyre label, at www.gyremusic.com.   

For more information on the Loring-Greenough House, see www.loring-greenough.org.

For reservations or directions, call (617)524-3158, or email lghouseconcerts@aim.com,