Friday, Dec. 9, 2016, 12 p.m.

The Torches were cobbled together by Stephen Guidry in the late winter of 2009 as his other band, The Cassettes retreated into hibernation. Hoping to find a repository and hopefully fertile crescent for the music that had been shaking around behind his eyes for sometime, the net was cast wide and drew in both old friends and new to create a ramshackle group, including banjo, oboe, harmonica, several-part vocal harmonies and cacophony, as well as some hollaring and stomping. If you insist, they have been described as a combination of “Tom Waits, The Make-Up, the Sex Pistols and Temple of the Dog.” The Torches played their first show without ever having all been in the same room at once.

FRINGE Music in the Library presents free, local music twice each month, curated by Jim Thomson of Multiflora Productions (MLK Shows) and Luke Stewart (Neighborhood Library Shows) through a sponsorship from the DC Public Library Foundation.

For more events in this series visit dclibrary.org/fringe.

FREE :: ALL AGES

TheTorches Live At MLK Library - 10 - Steerpike (The Cock of Ghormanghast)

TheTorches Live At MLK Library - 09 - Quinceañera

TheTorches Live At MLK Library - 08 - Oxford (Redux)

TheTorches Live At MLK Library - 07 - Cholera

TheTorches Live At MLK Library - 06 - Doctor Phyllis

TheTorches Live At MLK Library - 05 - Cramp Bone

TheTorches Live At MLK Library - 04 - You, You Sucker

TheTorches Live At MLK Library - 03 - Eyeballs

TheTorches - Live At MLK Library - 02 - Cup of Misery

TheTorches - Live At MLK Library - 01 - Scales (If Wishes Were Fishes)