A night of vanishing, "blindingly beautiful" American music. Riverrun and Cinegael Buffalo present “Sounds in the American Dark,” an evening of rare music, art, and film with Art Rosenbaum and family, as part of Gusto at the Gallery.

Rosenbaum has spent over 50 years traveling in the American south and mid-west, field recording such vanishing traditional music as slave and ring shout, murder ballads, slide and bottleneck blues, work chants, corridos, gospel and more. He has traveled with his wife Margo, whose photographs accompany his work and more recently, with his son Neil, a documentarian who has filmed many of the field recordings.

The program begins at 7PM with the premiere screening of Neil Rosenbaum’s “Sing My Troubles By,” a powerful introduction to America’s darkly beautiful music traditions. Afterward, Neil Rosenbaum and Patrick Martin, director of riverrun and Cinegael Buffalo, will discuss this unusual film.

At 8:15PM Art Rosenbaum will speak and present rare music and interviews from his archives and from “Goodbye Babylon.” A musician and artist himself (and a retired Professor of Art from the University of Georgia), Rosenbaum will also perform some of the music with local Buffalo musicians including his long time friend, Professor Laurence Shine, of Buffalo State College. The artwork and photographs of Art and Margo Rosenbaum will also be on display (artwork pictured is by Art Rosenbaum—the cover of “Art of Field Recording: Vol 1”).

At 9:30PM, Art and Neil Rosenbaum, now producing “Art of Field Recording: Vol 2,” will field record selected Buffalo musicians. Music will continue in the Muse Restaurant from 10-11PM. There will be a cash bar. The entire program is available at www.riverrunbuffalo.org and www.albrightknox.org. This event is free and open to the public.