NEW RELEASE: "Elastic Days" (live) LATEST ALBUM: "Brotherhood: The East River Songs" Back when the “new acoustic music” was new, Patrick S. Noonan (guitars), John Houshmand (guitars), and Jonathan Levi (violin) met under a tree in New Haven, Conn. In 1973 they had just started college, and their jam sessions launched a unique & original musical collaboration, merging the folk, classical, Near Eastern, bluegrass, rock and jazz elements of their individual backgrounds. Traveling from their various home ports of Boston, New York and Nantucket Island, they joined with a variety of fine musicians over the intervening half-century to dazzle their audiences with beautiful new sounds, intriguing new types of songs, and tantalizing new textures. Called “Chaplinesque classy folk-jazz” at the time of their 1978 LP release, this unique group’s music has evoked comparisons with such diverse artists as Leo Kottke, Michael Hedges, David Grisman, Oregon, Pentangle, John McLaughlin, Fairport Convention, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Chick Corea, Paul Winter and Bruce Cockburn. Recent years have seen multiple solo projects by Noonan & Houshmand, extended versions of earlier group albums, classics from their vault and - on Sept. 12, 2023 - a new studio album and 50th anniversary concert in NYC.