folk electric is an immersive musical experience: a journey through time, sound, and imagination. Each ‘episode’ exists as both a live performance and a full-length album, with experimental film accompaniment.
Guided by a strong sense of narrative and animated by a colorful, kaleidoscopic approach, folk electric reimagines traditional music through a contemporary lens.
As a live performance, folk electric is at home on stages of virtually any size—-from intimate listening rooms to festivals and concert halls. The core band (violin, guitar, keys, bass, drums/percussion, male and female vocals) features a unique and combustible blend of styles and influences, from vintage rock to classical and the avant-garde. To this is added the ability to readily interface with full orchestra. With dancers, lights, visual media, and the vibrancy of the arrangements and band, folk electric is an explosive and evocative revitalization of ancient echoes.
folk electric is a creation of husband-and-wife team Scott Moore and Erica Pisaturo.
After the ghost of infamous virtuoso Nicolo Paganini inspired Jimi Hendrix to trade his Stratocaster for a Stradivarius, the question remained: what would it sound like plugged into the same old Marshall amp? Meanwhile, Robert Plant, Duane Allman, Mavis Staples, and Nick Drake got lost on the way to Muscle Shoals, instead landing on a back porch in the hills of western North Carolina, drinking moonshine and learning fiddle tunes and murder ballads from Doc Watson and Tommy Jarrell. Of course, the rest is history: Lenny Bernstein got wind of it all, and rounded everyone up to record an explosive new version of Copland’s Appalachian Spring; but John Hartford spiked the punch bowl, the band got lost again, and they all wound up in a barn somewhere in the Catskills, where William Faulkner and Martha Graham were spending their vacation learning to quilt. Just when it seemed something interesting was about to happen, a string snapped on Jean Ritchie’s dulcimer, and Mark Twain awoke, realizing he’d dreamed the whole thing; unable to decide whether to hire Phil Spector or George Martin to produce the album, and unsure of how reliably a tape machine would run on steam power, he fell back asleep, and the whole idea was nearly lost to the ravages of time.
Until now.
folk electric is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the charitable purposes of folk electric are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
All text, images, audio, & video © 2025 by Scott Moore & Erica Pisaturo. All rights reserved.