Inner Fire District

History

Inner Fire District was founded by accordionist/composer David Symons (also a founder of the influential Vermont band, Black Sea Quartet, and an original member of Berlin's The Painted Bird) and guitarist/accordionist/pianist Tim Lang. The most recent phase of IFD began in September of 2006, when David happened upon multi-instrumentalist and musical prodigy Zoe Christiansen playing clarinet on a bridge in Montpelier, Vermont. IFD attempts to walk a tightrope between arrangement and improvisation, despair and elation, savagery and sophistication, sobriety and inebriation, the gutter and the big lights.

If Shostakovich, Hank Williams, and the Baal Shem Tov met in a bomb shelter stocked with a bottle of slivovitz and an accordion, with nothing to do but wait for the end of the world, it might sound ever so slightly like the Inner Fire District.

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"[David Symons is] the hottest and most obsessively intense accordion player in the neighborhood."

-Seven Days (Burlington's venerable arts weekly).

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