Performance

bum

1 upcoming performance in New York

The Other “Bum” stages a jazz-inflected account of Joseph “Bum” Farto, a Key West fire chief whose public standing collapsed after a drug sting and whose disappearance in the mid-1970s still unsettles the record. Presented at Ornithology Jazz Club in Queens with Todd Herbert, Jeremy Manasia, Jason Clotter, Larry Banks, and Anthony Pearlman, the piece treats testimony, rumor, and omission as competing forms of truth. In New York, it reads as a study in how civic authority and local politics can erase a person as effectively as any crime.