Sufjan Stevens

Saturday 4:00 PM at the Bijou Theatre

Clogs (w/Sufjan Stevens, Matt Berninger, Aaron Dessner and Shara Worden) with Gyan Riley

Sufjan Stevens, Matt Berninger and Aaron Dessner of the National and Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond) will be joining Clogs in their performance of the new song cycle The Creatures in the Garden of Lady Walton.  Big Ears 2010 will feature the only live performance of the piece currently scheduled with all of the guest vocalists on the recording.

Sufjan Stevens mixes autobiography, religious fantasy, and regional history to create folk songs of grand proportions. A preoccupation with epic concepts has motivated two state records (Michigan & Illinois), an electronic album for the animals of the Chinese zodiac (Enjoy Your Rabbit), a five-disc Christmas box set (Songs for Christmas), and, more recently, a programmatic tone poem with film accompaniment for the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, a large-scale ensemble piece commissioned by BAM in 2007.

Born in Detroit and raised in the upper reaches of Northern Michigan, Sufjan attended Hope College, in Holland, Michigan, and the masters program for writers at the New School for Social Research. Sufjan currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.