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03/15 Sunday

11:00 AM Vinyasa

2:00 PM Quartet of Happiness and Jim Hobbs and the Hobbettes

Quartet of Happiness takes modern jazz and infuses it with a hefty dose of cheekiness and irreverent humor, wrapping it all up in the sort of theatrics reminiscent of Blue Man Group. The group has made it its mission to take jazz out of the ivory tower and make it accessible to a wide-ranging audience.
www.quartetofhappiness.com

Jim Hobbs and the Hobbettes are Jim Hobbs on alto sax, Joe Morris on guitar, Jacob William on bass and Laurence Cook on drums. Members of this band also perform with Thurston Moore's Avantnoise Band, Fully Celebrated Orchestra, Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Joe and Mat Maneri, Rob Brown, Raphe Malik, Ivo Pearlman, Borah Bergman, Andrea Parkins, Whit Dickey, Ken Vandermark, DKV Trio and others.
http://celebratefully.squarespace.com/home

6:00 PM Gillypad

6pm Notrio

7pm Virgin Passages

8:15pm gaT

9:30pm Pandelis Karayorgis Trio http://karayorgis.com/trio.html
Pandelis Karayorgis, piano
Jef Charland, bass
Eric Rosenthal, drums

Virgin Passages - Brief History
Virgin Passages have just played CMJ Music Marathon in New York in a showcase for emerging british bands and have been invited to play SxSW 2009.
After a successful European tour supporting buzz band MGMT the band embarked on their own headline tour including slots at this years Bergenfest in Norway and also played alongside giant sand and jose gonzalez.
Virgin Passages also feature on the covermount CD in the current edition of MOJO Magazine.
One of the bands track "I Want You To Sleep" was also 'Recommended Track of the Week' in TIME OUT Magazine
Virgin Passages also created the Chamber Music project – a 36 track double CD/vinyl adaptation of the 1907 James Joyce poems that included contributions by Mercury Rev, REM, Sonic Youth, Ed Harcourt, Willy Mason, Jessica Bailiff, Flying Saucer Attack, Mike Watt and many many others. The release was heralded as one of the great interpretive works of the last century and received features in The Guardian, Telegraph, Wired Magazine, Culture etc.. as well high profile radio interviews on the BBC and the US network NPR
Virgin Passages - 'Distance' - Press Quotes
"like watching the whole cosmos explode in front of your eyes".
Magical 9/10" AU
"Sweetly Phantasmagoric"
Recommended Track Of The Week TIME OUT
"I don't know what the hell is going on here but I like it….buy this now"
DOCUMENT
"This six piece supported MGMT on their recent tour but they are definitely not 'fated to pretend'" NME
"Euphoric…you should buy this now" PLUS 1
"a lush reminder of the virtue of restraint, of ambience, and the setting of scenes" DROWNED IN SOUND
"such exquisitely ethereal eeriness it leaves you entranced and enchanted in its wake" LOSING TODAY
"A dream trip-out across the psychedelic spectrum" HIGH VOLTAGE
"hypnotic, eerie, ethereal" ICA MUSIC
"An honest and emotional piece of work" IS THIS MUSIC?
"The sort of stuff Constellation used to put out years ago when they thought songs were important" ABERDEEN MUSIC
"a spaced out version of Granddaddy dancing on the outer fringes of The Arcade Fire" SUBBA CULTURE
"This Staffordshire sextet are starting to turn heads" ROUGH TRADE
"Quite beautiful" PLAYLOUDER
"Shades of MV & EE or Jackie O Motherfucker" BOOMKAT
"A fine soundtrack to summer indolence" ROCK-A-ROLLA
"Like tall grass caught in the light breeze of a hazy summer day…achingly gorgeous" GOD IS IN THE TV
"The kind of melodies that sneak up on you when you least expect it" GOD IS IN THE TV
"Glides lighter than air across patchwork fields. Refreshingly Rustick & Unhurried" ROCK-A-ROLLA
"One of the most touching things you'll hear all year" LOSING TODAY
"Hallucinogenic, dreamlike folk-pop" ATOMICDUSTER
"Unable to pass a pop song without battering it out of shape" NME
"These cats sure can sing" THE FLY
"A sublime rather epic piece of work" TOTALLY RADIO
"Gorgeous Haunting Folk Music" ROBOTS & ELECTRONIC BRAINS
"A haunting patchwork made from chamber-folk fragments" LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS
"Expect great things from this band" TIME OUT
"Kid A on a country retreat" NME
" Moments of euphoria...an honest and emotional piece of work" IS THIS MUSIC?
"a group worth watching" TWISTED EAR