It was twenty minutes to show time when I stepped inside Ferguson Hall to take my seat. I slide into the comfy chair and feasted my eyes on the bevy of instruments covering the stage: an upright bass, cello, harmonium, a whopping seven acoustic guitars, drums, a baby grand piano and a lone electric guitar. Having never seen Duncan Sheik or opening instrumental quintet Entropy Ensemble live I wondered which act would be using all of these instruments. As I looked around the theater I realized the more appropriate question: who would be here to hear them?
This article appears in Mar 24-30, 2010.