On Wednesday, September 18th at 1pm, Sex 14s welcomes back Beth Custer and Will Bernard to the KALX studios for a live in-studio interview ahead of their upcoming Bay Area shows at Red Poppy Art House on September 20th and Berkeley Hillside Club on September 21st.
Beth Custer is an Emmy Award winning, San Francisco based composer, performer, recording artist, bandleader, and the proprietor of BC Records. She has numerous recordings with ensembles The Beth Custer Ensemble, Eighty Mile Beach, Clarinet Thing, Trance Mission and Club Foot Orchestra. She performs Bb, alto, bass, contrabass clarinets, flute, tenor sax, voice, piano, percussion, and toys.
Will Bernard’s unique guitar playing was formed from the rich cultural roots of the San Francisco Bay Area. He studied classical, jazz, and Indian, played in basements and coliseums, has absorbed the Bay Area Multi-Kulti, the funk of New Orleans, and the New York downtown edge. He’s performed and/or recorded with Charlie Hunter, Stanton Moore, Robert Walter, John Medeski, Bill Laswell, Ben Sidran, Peter Apfelbaum, Dr. John, Tom Waits and many others. His 2007 album Party Hats and his 1997 release with T.J. Kirk, If Four Was One, were nominated for a Grammy. Pond Life (2022) on Dreck to Disk is his eleventh release as a bandleader. Will lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Last year, Will & Beth released the album SKY featuring diverse compositional styles and instrumental mastery. Sixteen tracks take the listener on a 52-minute sweet, luscious excursion; one that pulls the listener in, leaving them wanting to take the SKY trip again and again.
