This program is brought to BlackRock Center for the Arts in part by the generous support from Jazz Touring Network.

Performing music from the '20s through the early '60s, Hazmat Modine includes genres such as swing, klezmer, hokum jug band,

Greil Marcus’s brilliant book “Weird America” was written to explore the secret roots of Bob Dylan’s music—obscure ballads and folk legends, which usually led to primitive folk songs from America’s backwoods. It is a multicultural narrative full of despair and hardly poetic. Coming from the same weird Americana roots, and originally steeped deeper in the blues and archaic jazz throughout the 20th century, combined with all of the modern trends in world music in our own contemporary times (sans electronica), Hazmat Modine is a New York-based musical community from far out-of-this-world.