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05/01 Friday
7:00 PM Ralph Rosen Harmonica/piano/guitar trio
10:00 PM Kelsey Quigley and Faux Star
05/02 Saturday
4:00 PM 1K Entertainment presents: The Battle for $1,000
featuring:
8 of the best local bands we could find.
Come out and support local music!
$8 presale/$10 day of
10:00 PM el frente
05/03 Sunday
11:00 AM Kripalu Yoga
2:00 PM Art Opening EVOLUTION STOPS NOW
"Evolution Stops Now in The Crazy World where Some Faces are Machine Trees OOOOH maaan, evolution downtime" - Jacques Cousteau
Description:
[Dina Chapeau] in the aqua land found Jacques Cousteau who in the crazy world of [Dave Stringi] saw some faces that looked like [Ross Turner], but the machine trees destroyed [Mike Grandieri]. [Gavin Petersen] who was present, said "Oooooh Man,[Massimo Mongiardo], evolution downtime stops now!" -[Scott Dessert]
6:00 PM Gillypad
6pm notrio
7pm Matt Macaulay is an NYC based singer songwriter. The band will be playing music from his brand new album, "wish i could make you dance". Check it out at mattmacaulay.com
8:15pm gaT
9:30pm David Maxwell's OUTTAKES UNLIMITED
Jim Hobbs, alto sax
Forbes Graham, trumpet
Jacob William, bass
Luther Gray, drums
David Maxwell. piano, gongs, ethnic reeds
05/04 Monday
4:00 PM Music & Movement for children Español
Interactive, bilingual and fun music classes for children (3 months-5 year old). Lead by live singing and guitar playing, children and caregivers will experience joy and learning while playing real musical instruments (drums, maracas, tambourines) and other educational materials such us balls, parachute, puppets and shapes, among many other fun material.
"Music helps neurons communicate better, enhances motor skills and reduces hyperactivity. Children who learn how to play music at an early age can handle the stresses of life better when they are adults."
"the earlier you start the better because it has always been believed that music encourages development in children."
Teacher:
Mariana Iranzi is an active performer and educator in the Boston area graduated from Berklee College of Music (2005).
With more than ten years of experience, Mariana teaches at Baby Wiggle, Guitar Stop and the Boston children's museum. Please visit www.marianairanzi.com for more information.
Mondays @ 4pm
Starting March 30th
45 minute classes
8 week session
$150 sibling special add $50
SIGN UP NOW!
musicmariana@yahoo.com
617 320 2152
7:00 PM Julian Kasper Band
10:22 PM The Fringe
http://thefringejazz.com/
http://www.myspace.com/thefringebostonofficial
05/05 Tuesday
6:00 PM Kripalu Yoga
7:00 PM The Odd Tuesday Milonga
7 - 8 Beginner Lesson
8 - 9 Practica
9 - 12 Milonga (Dance)
Cost: $5 for any two; $10 for all three.
05/06 Wednesday
6:00 PM Open Vinyasa Yoga
10:00 PM the Lumberjacks/The polaroid truth/The Verb adjective noun
Finals Folk Fest
10pm Nolan Eley
11pm The lumberjacks
12pm Verb the Adjective Noun
05/07 Thursday
5:40 PM Kripalu Yoga
7:00 PM Recording Artist Arthur Nasson
is Celebrating the Release of Two new Cd's.
The Rock Disc "False Prophets"
and the Experimental Disc "Life After Telescopes"
7:00-9:30 Thursday Evening May 7th
Arthur Will perform New Music as well
as previously released Material
both Solo, and with Special Guests.
All Ages 10$ adults- 3$ students
www.arthurnasson.com
10:00 PM Hear Here
saxophone quartet, duos, trios and solos featuring on various saxophones:
Allan Chase
Jorrit Dikstra
Kelly Roberge
Charlie Kohlase
Every Thursday, Hear Here brings you music from here to hear, showcasing local and touring bands/artists that are part of the extended Lily Pad family.
May 14th
Annie Bethancourt, singer/song writer from Portland, OR
"a lucid mixture of Joni Mitchell and Fiona Apple that goes from hushed whispers, operatic heights, and then coal-walking wails, all within the same song."
--Seth Combs
Brian Friedland's "Rhombus"
May 21st
Duo Concert featuring:
Garrison Fewell & Eric Hofbauer
Kelly Roberge & Jeremy Harman
May 28th
Octave Jones performs!
05/08 Friday
7:30 PM La Fin Du Temps is Avant-Garde Collaboration Co.'s premiere performance
A fusion of dance, music, art, and fashion, La Fin Du Temps is filled with live performances that are collaborations between all creative artists involved.
Reserved Seating $15
General Admission (standing room only) $10
Please visit www.agcollaboration.org or call 857.998.8200 to purchase tickets.
Groups Discounts for groups of 15 or more are available.
Email: groupsales@agcollaboration.org for details about group sales.
Email Natalie at natalie.vanlandingham@gmail.com with any questions or to find out how you can get involved.
10:00 PM Nick Jaina
Nick Jaina was born in the fertile golden valley of California. He
lived for a time in New Orleans, where he worked as a waiter in the
French Quarter and painted people's faces on the streets during big
events like Mardi Gras. Since 2001 he has lived in Portland, Oregon.
The new album, A Narrow Way, features aggressively memorable songs
recorded in a unique way to capitalize on the energy of the live
performance skills of Nick Jaina's band, an energy that has been honed
by many performances on the streets of this great country. This album
was played entirely by ten musicians in the same room at the same
time, all mixed live to 1/4" analog tape. This process was similar to
the way that albums were recorded in the fifties and sixties, before
the Beatles started taking drugs in '65 and giving everyone a
different idea of how people should make albums. On A Narrow Way,
every instrument leaps off the tape with immediacy and humanity.
Meanwhile, the lyrics of the songs deal with the narrow path that
people must take to do right in the world.
05/09 Saturday
2:30 PM La Fin Du Temps is Avant-Garde Collaboration Co.'s premiere performance
A fusion of dance, music, art, and fashion, La Fin Du Temps is filled with live performances that are collaborations between all creative artists involved.
Reserved Seating $15
General Admission (standing room only) $10
Please visit www.agcollaboration.org or call 857.998.8200 to purchase tickets.
Groups Discounts for groups of 15 or more are available.
Email: groupsales@agcollaboration.org for details about group sales.
Email Natalie at natalie.vanlandingham@gmail.com with any questions or to find out how you can get involved.
05/10 Sunday
11:00 AM Kripalu Yoga
2:30 PM La Fin Du Temps is Avant-Garde Collaboration Co.'s premiere performance
A fusion of dance, music, art, and fashion, La Fin Du Temps is filled with live performances that are collaborations between all creative artists involved.
Reserved Seating $15
General Admission (standing room only) $10
Please visit www.agcollaboration.org or call 857.998.8200 to purchase tickets.
Groups Discounts for groups of 15 or more are available.
Email: groupsales@agcollaboration.org for details about group sales.
Email Natalie at natalie.vanlandingham@gmail.com with any questions or to find out how you can get involved.
6:00 PM Gillypad
6pm notrio
7pm Patrick Kunka Quartet
Scottish drummer and composer Patrick Kunka presents a transatlantic project featuring some of Berklee's top students from the US and Scotland. The Patrick Kunka Quartet features award winning students Leah Gough-Cooper (saxophones), Alan Benzie (piano), Dylan Coleman (bass), and Patrick Kunka (drums and compositions). Performing original music from their new CD "The Edge" recorded February 2009, expect an energetic mixture of hard-swinging and cutting-edge contemporary jazz.
www.myspace.com/patrickkunkaquartet
8:15pm gaT
9:30pm David Ryshpan
Indigone Trio
Indigone Trio was formed at Montreal's McGill University in 2003, and grew to be the compositional outlet for pianist David Ryshpan and bassist Alex Mallett, with Liam O'Neill on drums. In addition to original compositions, Indigone incorporated songs from artists as varied as Björk to Ornette Coleman, Paul Simon to Djavan. They were the only Canadian student group invited to perform at the 2006 International Association of Jazz Education conference in New York, and performed at the 2008 Montreal Jazz Festival. After being inspired by a senior year arranging assignment, Indigone has also worked in conjunction with string quartets since 2006, the result of which is their album Cycles, on Ropeadope Digital. David and Phil are now in-demand freelance musicians in Montreal, and Alex has recently moved to New York City.
www.myspace.com/davidryshpan
www.imeem.com/indigone
www.youtube.com/user/ryshpanmusic
10:45pm Leo Genovese
look out
05/11 Monday
4:00 PM Music & Movement for children Español
Interactive, bilingual and fun music classes for children (3 months-5 year old). Lead by live singing and guitar playing, children and caregivers will experience joy and learning while playing real musical instruments (drums, maracas, tambourines) and other educational materials such us balls, parachute, puppets and shapes, among many other fun material.
"Music helps neurons communicate better, enhances motor skills and reduces hyperactivity. Children who learn how to play music at an early age can handle the stresses of life better when they are adults."
"the earlier you start the better because it has always been believed that music encourages development in children."
Teacher:
Mariana Iranzi is an active performer and educator in the Boston area graduated from Berklee College of Music (2005).
With more than ten years of experience, Mariana teaches at Baby Wiggle, Guitar Stop and the Boston children's museum. Please visit www.marianairanzi.com for more information.
Mondays @ 4pm
Starting March 30th
45 minute classes
8 week session
$150 sibling special add $50
SIGN UP NOW!
musicmariana@yahoo.com
617 320 2152
7:00 PM Tap and Jazz: A Musical Conversation
An evening of improvisation, combining tap dance and jazz music.
Featuring some of Boston's top dance and musical talent.
Hosted by Suzanne Bouffard
Advanced dancers welcome to dance. Musicians welcome to sit in.
Suggested donation: $10 ($15 suggested for dancers)
Suggested arrival time for dancers: 7:30 pm
For more information, email Suzanne at smbouffard@gmail.com
10:22 PM The Fringe
http://thefringejazz.com/
http://www.myspace.com/thefringebostonofficial
05/12 Tuesday
5:40 PM Gentle/Beginners Yoga
8:00 PM Even Tuesday Milonga
05/13 Wednesday
6:00 PM Open Vinyasa Yoga
05/14 Thursday
5:40 PM Kripalu Yoga
10:00 PM Hear Here
Rhombus is a Boston-based band focused on playing creative original music that explores a wide range of ideas and atmospheres through intricate compositions and daring improvisations. Their music draws on a vast array of influences and personal experiences, combining elements of jazz, balkan music, and rock with unique, catchy melodies and a passion for spontaneity. The instrumentation of the band; voice, saxophone, guitar, piano, bass, and drums, allows for creative combinations of sounds that are an ideal vehicle for the expression of their repertoire. They have earned much praise for the consistent creativity and virtuosity of their work as performers and composers. Rhombus' bandleader, pianist, and primary composer, Brian Friedland, draws on extensive experience working in and across several genres to create his multi-faceted and meticulously crafted music. His sonic palette ranges from the well-studied mainstream to the boldly progressive. A composer and experimenter since childhood, Friedland has penned hundreds of pieces for small jazz groups, big band, and classical ensembles. He has performed his music at the Lima Jazz Festival in Peru, the American Pianists Association Cole Porter competition, and respected Los Angeles jazz venues such as the Jazz Bakery, Cafe Metropol, and the Vic as well as with top-notch student groups at the University of Southern California and the New England Conservatory of Music.
Rhombus is:
Brian Friedland, piano, compositions
Aubrey Johnson, vocals
Sean Berry, saxophone
Phil Sargent, guitar, compositions
Greg Loughman, bass
Mike Connors, drums
Every Thursday, Hear Here brings you music from here to hear, showcasing local and touring bands/artists that are part of the extended Lily Pad family.
5/21
Additional duos:
Elizabeth Dotson-Westphalen
voice & trombone with TBA
Alexei Tsiganov, vibes and piano with Kelly Roberge
5/28
Octave Jones
"part fugitive hip-hop space gangster, part mythological jazz god.... all bad-ass"
05/15 Friday
7:30 PM La Fin Du Temps is Avant-Garde Collaboration Co.'s premiere performance
A fusion of dance, music, art, and fashion, La Fin Du Temps is filled with live performances that are collaborations between all creative artists involved.
Reserved Seating $15
General Admission (standing room only) $10
Please visit www.agcollaboration.org or call 857.998.8200 to purchase tickets.
Groups Discounts for groups of 15 or more are available.
Email: groupsales@agcollaboration.org for details about group sales.
Email Natalie at natalie.vanlandingham@gmail.com with any questions or to find out how you can get involved.
05/16 Saturday
2:30 PM La Fin Du Temps is Avant-Garde Collaboration Co.'s premiere performance
A fusion of dance, music, art, and fashion, La Fin Du Temps is filled with live performances that are collaborations between all creative artists involved.
Reserved Seating $15
General Admission (standing room only) $10
Please visit www.agcollaboration.org or call 857.998.8200 to purchase tickets.
Groups Discounts for groups of 15 or more are available.
Email: groupsales@agcollaboration.org for details about group sales.
Email Natalie at natalie.vanlandingham@gmail.com with any questions or to find out how you can get involved.
05/17 Sunday
11:00 AM Kripalu Yoga
2:30 PM La Fin Du Temps is Avant-Garde Collaboration Co.'s premiere performance
A fusion of dance, music, art, and fashion, La Fin Du Temps is filled with live performances that are collaborations between all creative artists involved.
Reserved Seating $15
General Admission (standing room only) $10
Please visit www.agcollaboration.org or call 857.998.8200 to purchase tickets.
Groups Discounts for groups of 15 or more are available.
Email: groupsales@agcollaboration.org for details about group sales.
Email Natalie at natalie.vanlandingham@gmail.com with any questions or to find out how you can get involved.
6:00 PM Gillypad
Notrio
Streifenjunko
gaT
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05/18 Monday
4:00 PM Music & Movement for children Español
Interactive, bilingual and fun music classes for children (3 months-5 year old). Lead by live singing and guitar playing, children and caregivers will experience joy and learning while playing real musical instruments (drums, maracas, tambourines) and other educational materials such us balls, parachute, puppets and shapes, among many other fun material.
"Music helps neurons communicate better, enhances motor skills and reduces hyperactivity. Children who learn how to play music at an early age can handle the stresses of life better when they are adults."
"the earlier you start the better because it has always been believed that music encourages development in children."
Teacher:
Mariana Iranzi is an active performer and educator in the Boston area graduated from Berklee College of Music (2005).
With more than ten years of experience, Mariana teaches at Baby Wiggle, Guitar Stop and the Boston children's museum. Please visit www.marianairanzi.com for more information.
Mondays @ 4pm
Starting March 30th
45 minute classes
8 week session
$150 sibling special add $50
SIGN UP NOW!
musicmariana@yahoo.com
617 320 2152
10:22 PM The Fringe
http://thefringejazz.com/
http://www.myspace.com/thefringebostonofficial
05/19 Tuesday
6:00 PM Kripalu Yoga
7:00 PM The Odd Tuesday Milonga
7 - 8 Beginner Lesson
8 - 9 Practica
9 - 12 Milonga (Dance)
Cost: $5 for any two; $10 for all three.
05/20 Wednesday
6:00 PM Open Vinyasa Yoga
10:00 PM Jorge Rossy Quartet
www.myspace.com/jordirossytrioquintet
Jorge Rossy quartet
This well-known drummer takes a new way in his career spending time with his favorite instrument last years, the piano. The band, with Albert Sanz at Hammond,RG Miller at drums, and the young Felix Rossy at the trumpet (Jorge Rossys son), provides a colorful sound with own compositions and complicity among its members. The combination of the Hammond and the piano gives a very interesting and different sound, far from topics. A concert full of energy and shades.
05/21 Thursday
5:40 PM Kripalu Yoga
10:00 PM Hear Here
Additional duos:
Elizabeth Dotson-Westphalen
voice & trombone with TBA
Alexei Tsiganov, vibes and piano with Kelly Roberge
Every Thursday, Hear Here brings you music from here to hear, showcasing local and touring bands/artists that are part of the extended Lily Pad family.
5/28
Octave Jones
"part fugitive hip-hop space gangster, part mythological jazz god.... all bad-ass"
Octave Jones:
Jeremy Harman, electric cello
Kelly Roberge, tenor saxophone
Thomas Smyth, bass
Christian Lilly, drums
05/22 Friday
10:00 PM Bob Gullotti and friends
Michael Lovoie bass
Jamie Stuartson guitar
Jeff Galindo trombone
Bill Jones Tenor
Bob Gullotti drums
05/23 Saturday
7:00 PM Tre Corda
Whether reinventing jazz standards, breathing fresh life into classical repertoire, or premiering their own original works, Tre Corda generates a compelling sound all its own. Their works blend composition and improvisation in new and unexpected ways, using the musical vocabulary of classical composers like Bartok and Stravinsky, as well as songs and ideas from the worlds of jazz and popular musics. Cellist Eugene Friesen’s dynamic rhythms and incredible array of bowing and plucking techniques, trumpeter Greg Hopkins’s virtuosic leaps and outrageous genre-bending phrases, and pianist Tim Ray’s lyric melodicism and two-fisted pyrotechnics - these are just a few of the ways Tre Corda concerts have satisfied and delighted audiences with both jazz and classical expectations. The Boston Globe called this new group “inventive, spirited, humorous...“, and Downbeat Magazine's Fred Bouchard raved in the May 2004 issue about their self-titled debut CD, giving it 3 1/2 stars.
“Tre Corda brings together an awesome array of talent, performance wisdom and stylistic variations, from classical to pop and jazz. They are world ambassadors.” - Somerville Journal
“Tre Corda - what a marvelous recording. WOW! I thoroughly enjoy the beautiful writing and the great performance by all three of you. BRAVO!” - Rufus Reid, legendary jazz bassist and educator
“(Tre Corda) combined virtuosity and intelligence in two sets of original compositions and arrangements...winning in their rhythmic vitality, play of ideas, unexpectedly fine blend and all-round engagement with the music... (playing) rhythms that left Stravinsky and minimalism gasping for breath... That's chamber music, partner.” -Andrew Pincus, Berkshire Eagle
Whether reinventing jazz standards, breathing fresh life into classical repertoire, or premiering their own original works, Tre Corda generates a compelling sound all its own. Their works blend composition and improvisation in new and unexpected ways, using the musical vocabulary of classical composers like Bartok and Stravinsky, as well as songs and ideas from the worlds of jazz and popular musics. Cellist Eugene Friesen’s dynamic rhythms and incredible array of bowing and plucking techniques, trumpeter Greg Hopkins’s virtuosic leaps and outrageous genre-bending phrases, and pianist Tim Ray’s lyric melodicism and two-fisted pyrotechnics - these are just a few of the ways Tre Corda concerts have satisfied and delighted audiences with both jazz and classical expectations. The Boston Globe called this new group “inventive, spirited, humorous...“, and Downbeat Magazine's Fred Bouchard raved in the May 2004 issue about their self-titled debut CD, giving it 3 1/2 stars.
“Tre Corda brings together an awesome array of talent, performance wisdom and stylistic variations, from classical to pop and jazz. They are world ambassadors.” - Somerville Journal
“Tre Corda - what a marvelous recording. WOW! I thoroughly enjoy the beautiful writing and the great performance by all three of you. BRAVO!” - Rufus Reid, legendary jazz bassist and educator
“(Tre Corda) combined virtuosity and intelligence in two sets of original compositions and arrangements...winning in their rhythmic vitality, play of ideas, unexpectedly fine blend and all-round engagement with the music... (playing) rhythms that left Stravinsky and minimalism gasping for breath... That's chamber music, partner.” -Andrew Pincus, Berkshire Eagle
BIOGRAPHIES
Tim Ray is perhaps best known as singer/songwriter Lyle Lovett's pianist for over 15 years, but he also tours and records with the internationally acclaimed vocalists Jane Siberry and Rhiannon, and regularly performs with leading figures in the jazz world, such as Gary Burton, Brian Blade, Scott Hamilton, Oliver Lake, Eddie Daniels, John Abercrombie, George Garzone, Dominique Eade, and Jerry Bergonzi. Ray's busy schedule has included frequent tours throughout the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, and has included performances at Carnegie Hall, the White House, the Kennedy Center, and the 1992 Presidential Inauguration of Bill Clinton. Ray has also performed repeatedly on "The Tonight Show", 'Late Night with David Letterman," "The Conan O’Brien Show," "Austin City Limits", and various other national TV and radio broadcasts. Tim has appeared on over 60 recordings, recently as a soloist with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project on their 2008 recording of Gunther Schuller's Variants for Jazz Quartet and Orchestra. Ray released his first CD as a leader in 1997, Ideas & Opinions, on Schuller's GM Recordings label, which features drummer Lewis Nash and bassist Rufus Reid. His most recent release is On My Own Volume 1 - New Works, a collection of his original compositions and improvisations for solo piano. A recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a faculty member at the New england Conservatory of Music, Ray has lectured at Harvard and MIT, and conducts workshops and clinics at colleges and high schools throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Performer, composer, and arranger Greg Hopkins first picked up the trumpet as a boy in Detroit, and to this day it would be hard to spot him without his horn. That symbiosis of man and musical instrument is evident throughout Greg’s career, which began in 1965 freelancing in the Detroit area for such acts as the Temptations, Marvin Gaye, and Gladys Knight. Greg made a name for himself recording and touring for several years as soloist and arranger for the Buddy Rich Orchestra (he was called “a real find” by the London Times in 1974), but he has also performed with Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder, Joe Williams and Tony Bennett, as well as the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops, and the Boston Brass Ensemble. His own 16-Piece Jazz Orchestra CD Okavongo received 4 1/2 stars from Downbeat Magazine, and is out on the Summit label, as is his quintet CD Quintology (3 1/2 stars) featuring Bill Pierce, and his nonet CD featuring Chuck Marohnic and Sam Pilafian. Greg is also featured on the new Grammy winning jazz CD by Joel Pallson and his Septet, and is featured trumpet soloist with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra on Arthur Welwood’s Wind, Sky, and Clouds. His busy teaching and performing schedule takes him literally all over the world doing concerts, festivals and clinics. A Professor of Jazz Composition at Berklee College of Music, Greg has developed and teaches several courses in composition and also directs the prestigious Berklee Concert Jazz Orchestra.
Eugene Friesen is at the forefront of a new generation of musicians versed in jazz, classical, popular and world music. A graduate of the Yale School of Music, he is active as a performer, composer, teacher and recording artist, and has worked with such diverse artists as Dave Brubeck, Toots Thielemans, Betty Buckley, Anthony Davis and Will Ackerman. Eugene's gift for the responsive flow of improvisatory music has been featured in concerts all over the world with the Paul Winter Consort, Trio Globo with Howard Levy and Glen Velez, and with poets Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Coleman Barks. He has performed as a soloist at the International Cello Festival in Manchester, England; Rencontres d'Ensembles de Violoncelles in Beauvais, France; and at the World Cello Congress in Baltimore, Maryland. His compositional credits include five albums of original music: Sono Miho, In The Shade Of Angels, New Friend, Arms Around You and The Song of Rivers. Friesen was awarded a Grammy award as a member of the Paul Winter Consort for the 1994 album Spanish Angel, and he was the 1999 recipient of grants from the Lila Wallace/Reader’s Digest Fund and Continental Harmony to compose a symphonic setting of Carl Sandburg's Prarie, which was premiered in 2001. Eugene is an artist-in-residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, and he teaches cello, improvisation and leads the String Orchestra as an Associate Professor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.
10:00 PM Father Figures
www.myspace.com/fatherfiguresmusic
The five members of Father Figures convened for the first time in New York City in 2006, and have since been pushing their unique brand of psychedelic and metallic jazz compositions and improvised implosions for all who are willing. In addition to the music, the willing also benefit for the visual assistance of carousel projected slide photographs from the 1950’s.
Father Figures is:
Adam Schatz- tenor saxophone and effects
Jas Walton- tenor saxophone
Ross Edwards- Rhodes
Spencer Zahn- upright bass
Booker Stardrum- drums
05/24 Sunday
11:00 AM Kripalu Yoga
2:00 PM Shirim Klezmer Orchestra
The core quartet from Shirim Klezmer Orchestra, masters of the klezmer universe, performs an infectious concert of klezmer and Romanian music as well as other oddities. Bring the kids, bring your grandmother! Be ready to move. This is music for the soul.
This special performance will feature the four members who have been with the band the longest: Glenn Dickson, clarinet; Michael McLaughlin, accordion; Jim Gray, tuba; and Eric Rosenthal, drums. They have been playing together for over 15 years and have a rapport and tightness that only comes with such experience together.
Shirim has performed all over the U.S., Canada and Europe. They have collaborated with Maurice Sendak (Pincus & the Pig), Ellen Kushner (The Golden Dreydl) and played with the Philly Pops and on the soundtrack of Woody Allen’s “Deconstructing Harry.” They are traditional and new and alive at the same time. Come see them, you won’t regret it in this intimate venue. After over 25 years of playing, they are a Boston institution.
6:00 PM Gillypad
6pm notrio
Duoing Nat Mugavero on Drums and Gill Aharon on Bass and/or piano prepare the room for the rest of the evening. On occasion, they are joined by Eric Hofbauer, Justin Purtill, Leo Genovese, or a handful of others.
7pm TBA
8:15pm The Gill Aharon Trio
This trio/quartet/quintet/sextet/septet/octet plays Gill's compositions.
Randy Wooten - drums
Gill Aharon - piano
Andrew DiMola - bass
Blake Newman - bass
Andrew Stern - guitar
Alec Spiegelman - winds/horns
Kelly Roberge - tenor
9:30pm Terry Bernhard and Bronek Suchanek duo
05/25 Monday
4:00 PM Vocalist Claire Dickson
pays tribute to her favorite singer -- Ella Fitzgerald -- in a program of songs sung by the jazz legend. The concert features classics including "Mack the Knife," "Lullaby of Birdland," "I Got It Bad," "How High the Moon," "Ain't Misbehavin," "Blues in the Night," "Black Coffee," and "Chew, Chew, Chew (Your Bubble Gum)." With Jeff Lowe, bass; Matteo Iannacone and Dean Brunel, piano; Ethan Kaczowka, guitar; Dan Fox, drums; Glenn Dickson, clarinet.
Claire Dickson, 12, is already familiar to Boston audiences for her performances with Revels, New Rep Theatre, the Reagle Players, and appearances at Passim open mic. She comes from a musical family- her father is clarinetist Glenn Dickson and brother Eric McDonald,mandolinist, is a fixture on the local folk/bluegrass circuit. When she discovered Ella Fitzgerald six months ago, she fell instantly in love. Her performances deliver the goods with a clear, pitch-perfect voice, impeccable diction, a spirited and contagious passion for the genre, and remarkable maturity for such a young singer.
8:00 PM Karina Stone
www.myspace.com/karinastonemusic
10:22 PM The Fringe
http://thefringejazz.com/
http://www.myspace.com/thefringebostonofficial
05/26 Tuesday
6:00 PM Kripalu Yoga
8:00 PM Even Tuesday Milonga
05/27 Wednesday
7:00 PM Open Vinyasa Yoga
10:00 PM Stephen Steinbrink and Math the Band
Stephen Steinbrink is a pop songwriter. Born on May 1st, 1988 in Phoenix, AZ, Stephen has written dozens of albums and has toured almost incessantly in the United States of America, sharing his songs that are familiar, but invariably new and sincere.
Stephen has a control over the pop form that in enviably rich. He's a great songwriter without relying on deception or style, and his best songs are instantly memorable." - Dusted Magazine
"lovely straight folk-yearn with a production sound and voice that gives the music emotional depth and width, and sounds damn purty doin’ it." - Thurston Moore, Byron Coley, Arthur Magazine
www.gilgongorecords.com
www.myspace.com/frenchquartermusic
www.myspace.com/hellkitemusic
05/28 Thursday
5:40 PM Kripalu Yoga
7:30 PM Adam Michael Rothberg
"ANOTHER SPIN is at once a testament to Rothberg’s love
affair with music and his love affair with love, and suggests that distinguishing between the two isn’t always so easy" View the full review of ANOTHER SPIN in the August, 2008 issue of Berkshire Living magazine!
"He's toured with Joan Baez, produced Dar Williams and performed with the best of the local folk scene, but now it's Rothberg's turn to step out of the folk shadows, and the result, ANOTHER SPIN, is lyrical poetry and multi-instrumental duty. (He plays the guitar, piano, udu, mandolin, percussion and the Turkish oud!)" –Weekly Dig, Boston, July, 2008
Singer-songwriter, one-man-band Adam Michael Rothberg is new to the Boston area, but not new to the music world. Adam was named one of the 2008 Northeast Regional Finalists in the Mountain Stage NewSong contest.
Berkshire Living’s August 2008 issue calls Adam “the Berkshire’s answer to Paul McCartney….ANOTHER SPIN is at once a testament to Rothberg’s love affair with music and his love affair with love, and suggests that distinguishing between the two isn’t always so easy."
In July 2008, The Boston Weekly Dig had this to say: “He's toured with Joan Baez, produced Dar Williams and performed with the best of the local folk scene, but now it's Rothberg's turn to step out of the folk shadows, and the result, Another Spin, is lyrical poetry and multi-instrumental duty. (He plays the guitar, piano, udu, mandolin, percussion and the Turkish oud!)”
Adam’s clever, bittersweet, and nostalgic lyrics, are showcased on his latest release, “Another Spin” supporting his vocal talents as well as skillful playing on just about every instrument on the CD. As with his first album, “All the Whispering,” Rothberg wrote, performed, produced, and engineered “Another Spin.”
The musical styles on “Another Spin” reflect influences including The Beatles, Randy Newman, Mark Knopfler, Elvis Costello, and Wilco.
Check out cameo performances by singer-songwriter Catie Curtis on two tracks: “Here I Go Again” and “Do You Still Love Me.” Jeff Stevens adds sweet, rich trumpet parts to two tracks: “Seasons Shuffle” and “Gonna Last.”
Since relocating to Cambridge from the Berkshires in August 2007, Adam has performed regionally at the Lizard Lounge, Club Passim, the Middle East, Bull Run Restaurant, Natick Center for the Arts, and NYC's Joe's Pub at the Public Theater.
PLAYED WITH
• The Big Waaagh Scratch Band
• Joan Baez
• Robby Baier
• Ben Demerath
• Dr. B.
• Celia
• Dr. Isosceles
• Cliff Eberhardt
• Meg Hutchinson
• Hector on Stilts
• JoAnne Redding
• Bruce Mandel
• Fran Mandeville
• The Nightjars
• Mark Olsen (Jayhawks), Harmony Ridge Creekdippers
• Rose Polenzani
• Tao Rodriguez Seeger
• Dana Robinson
• Linda Sharar
• Bobby Sweet
• Sugarbeat
• Eric Underwood Band
• Sloan Wainwright
• Dar Williams
• Victoria Williams (Harmony Ridge Creekdippers)
OPENED FOR
• Pierre Bensusan
• Lucy Kaplansky
• The Lovin' Spoonful
• Bill Morrissey
• Carrie Newcomer
• The Nields
• JoAnne Redding
• Michael Peterson
• Bobby Sweet
VENUES
• Iron Horse Music Hall (Northampton, MA)
• National Music Foundation (Lenox, MA)
• Café Blue Hills (Milton, MA)
• Colonial Theatre (Pittsfield, MA)
• Club Helsinki (Great Barrington, MA)
• Nameless Coffeehouse (Cambridge, MA)
• Club Passim (Cambridge, MA)
• Lizard Lounge (Cambridge, MA)
• Longwood Gardens (Valley Forge, PA)
• Falconridge Folk Festival (Hillsdale, NY)
• Mass MoCA (North Adams, MA)
• Memorial Hall (Shelburne Falls, MA)
• Bucksteep Manor (Washington, MA)
• Kentucky Theater (Louisville KY)
• The Livingroom (New York, NY)
• The Postcrypt Coffeehouse (Columbia University, NYC)
• The Guthrie Center (Great Barrington, MA)
• Christine’s (Mystic, CT)
• Trailside Café, Arcadian Shop (Lenox, MA)
• Dreamaway Lodge (Becket, MA)
• Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, MA)
• Bull Run restaurant (Shirley, MA)
• Joe's Pub at the Public Theater (NYC, NY)
• Berkshire Community College, Robert Boland Theater (Pittsfield, MA)
RECORDINGS/CDS
• The Big Waaagh Scratch Band "Does Zoo Mean Zu" (1993) (producer, guitars, banjos, mandolin, perc., voc.)
• Dar Williams "The Honesty Room" (1994) (producer, guitars, bass, perc., Hammond B-3 organ, Fisher Price xylophone, accordion, congas)
• Jaimé Morton "That Wild Blue" (1995) (producer, guitars, bass, perc.)
• Bernice Lewis, "Isle of Spirit" (1995), "Religion and Release" (1997) (producer, engineer, guitars, bass, piano)
• Pete Nelson "The Restless Boys Club" (1997) (producer, guitars, keys, voc.)
• Lynne Sayner "Lynne Sayner" (1997) (producer, guitars, bass, keys, voc.)
• JoAnne Spies "JoAnne Spies demos" (1997) (producer, guitars, keys)
• Dana Robinson "Midnight Salvage" (1997) (bass)
• Erin Gill Reily "Sky Blue" (1998) (producer, guitar, mandolin, keys)
• Celia "While I Lay Watching" (2000) (producer, guitars, keys)
• Dr. Isosceles "8 Cents Is Your Birthday" (2000) (producer, bass, guitars, voc., keys, perc.)
• Adam Michael Rothberg "All the Whispering" (2001) (writer, producer, engineer, guitars, bass, keys, perc. voc.)
• Reverend Tor "Jamazon" (2002) (producer, engineer, guitars, keys, lap steel)
• Hector on Stilts "Same Height Relation" (2005) (bass)
• Bobby Sweet "Days Roll By" (2007) (harmony voc.)
• Bruce Mandel "Between Dreams and Regrets" (2008) (guitar, keys)
• Adam Michael Rothberg "Another Spin" (2008) (writer, producer, engineer, guitars, bass, keys, perc., oud, voc.)
RADIO
• WAMC, Albany, NY Public Radio
• WRSI, The River, Northampton, MA
• WFUV, Fordham University, NYC
• WUMB, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA
• WIUS, Bloomington, IN
• WXOU, Auburn hill, MI
• 2AIR FM, Radio Australia
• WKSU 89.7, Kent, OH
• KSCZ 88.1, Santa Cruz, CA
• WSCL 89.5, Salisbury, MD
• WVOF 88.5, Bridgeport, CT
• CFMU 93.3, Hamilton, Ont, CAN
• KXCI, Tucson, AZ
• WGDR 91.1, Marshfield, VT
• WMUD 89.3, Bridport, VT
• WOJB 88.9, Barron, WI
• WCLC 89.1, St. Louis, MO
• WWUH, Glastonbury, CT
• WRUW, Cleveland, OH
• WVIA 89.9, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre/Hazelton PA
• WVYA 89.7, Williamsport, PA
10:00 PM Hear Here
Octave Jones
"part fugitive hip-hop space gangster, part mythological jazz god.... all bad-ass"
Octave Jones:
Jeremy Harman, electric cello
Kelly Roberge, tenor saxophone
Thomas Smyth, bass
Christian Lilly, drums
Every Thursday, Hear Here brings you music from here to hear, showcasing local and touring bands/artists that are part of the extended Lily Pad family.
05/29 Friday
7:00 PM RAIL, Transparent Flesh of Present Time and Pete Fosco
Transparent Flesh of Present Time (7 - 8)
Jon Libscomb - guitar/voice
Ethan Snyder -drums
Casimir Liberski -piano
Transparent Flesh of Present Time is the charging restless mute unvoiced road keening in a seizure of tarpaulin power into the pencil traceries of our faintest wishes. A dooming howl of the exhausted and dieing America. We hope to disrupt the bunch of fat and thin schizophrenics running the planet. All compositions are improvised and recorded live. No overdubs.
www.myspace.com/transparentfleshofpresenttime
RAIL (8-10)
Andy Allen- Saxophones/synth
Russ Flynn- Electric Guitar/Synth
Peter Krag- Fender Rhodes/Organ
Pete Negroponte- Drums
"Excellent Brooklyn-based rock/jazz quartet led by guitarist, Russ Flynn and admittedly influenced by Jim Black's Alasnoaxis. Russ Flynn is a new musician in town and just left us with this fine new disc from his quartet. Although there is no bassist on this disc, the quartet sounds fine just the way it is. "Ana Crusis" has a great groove and a most memorable melody. There is a most hypnotic bassline at the center, perhaps played by the guitar or keyboard. Drummer, Peter Negroponte, is powerful and propulsive, odd that I haven't heard of until now. Russ has written some wonderful jazz/rockin' songs that occasionally sound like Radiohead, a major influence on Jim Black's Alasnoaxis. Solos are spirited but often short so that the songs themselves shine through. Mr. Krag mostly plays fuzzy electric piano or organ and always sounds great playing his rambunctious and intricate parts. There is something joyful about this music that makes me smile and want to dance around. One of the things that I dig about this disc is that even without taking too many solos, Russ Flynn, always comes up a variety of interesting ways to play his guitar, his tone is always changing to play the different parts of each song. He does take a couple of great solos, but this is not what this disc is about. Quite a crafty disc without any of those show-off-your-chops type of jazz wanking." - BLG (Downtown Music Gallery, NYC)
05/30 Saturday
8:00 PM Kate Schutt Trio & Friends
Kate Schutt Trio & Friends
Kate, guit/vox
Damian Erskine, bass
Chris Brown, vintage keys
Special Guests:
Kat Edmonson Band (8pm-ish)
Chris Brown and Kate Fenner (9pm-ish)
Kate Schutt’s music is a sexy, edgy mix of original
jazz and pop.
BIO
Raised in Chadds Ford, PA, Kate Schutt was
schooled in Boston, both at Harvard’s English
department, where she studied the influence of jazz
on modern poetry, and at Berklee College of Music,
where she studied jazz guitar. Now living in
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Kate is carving out a
niche as a writer, arranger, and performer of new
jazz standards on both sides of the border. Her
persuasive melodies and arrangements show a
deep involvement with the history of jazz and a
willingness to flirt with pop g
05/31 Sunday
11:00 AM Kripalu Yoga
4:00 PM Trevor Smith
In a world of 'sensitive guys with guitars', it truly takes to cojones to be a'mildy sensitive guy with a ukulele'.
Coming straight from Hartford, Connecticut and now at Boston's prestigious Berklee College of Music Trevor blends his folk influences and catchy uke-pop hooks into a hodgepodge of tunes talking about love, hate, life, and toast.
He's had the good fortune to share the stage with artists ranging from The Academy Is... and Cobra Starship to Robert Randolph and John Medeski. Onstage he has lent his instrumental and/or vocal talents to bands such as Hartford's own funk fusion group The Monday Barbers (vox/guitar), Livingston Taylor, the soulful Flowvaltine (guitar/uke/vox), The Tighty Wighty Trio (vox/guitar/uke), Boston's Shake N' Bake (vox/uke), and Weezer (ukulele).
6:00 PM gillypad
6pm notrio
7pm Musaner
8:15pm Gill Aharon Trio is NOT playing this week, but will be back next week.
9:30pm High School
Adam Dotson-euphonium, Dave Sleinenger-guitar, Joe Moffett-trumpet, Jason Nazary- drums.
High School is an improvising quartet which features the compositions of Adam Dotson. High School bounces jaggedly back and forth from driving rhythmic punky intensity to folky melodic gentle lyricism. Within all of the compositions and improvisations there is the intention to bring the energy of simple folkiness as well as a true spirit of exploration and new sound worlds.
The members of high school quartet are involved in a vast array of projects including Rubblebucket Orchestra, Gleason's Twin's, The Rex Complex, and Bell to name a few. Members of High School have had the honor of sharing the stage with New York improvising masters such as trumpeter Dave Douglas, guitarist Joe Morris, drummer Gerald Cleaver, and saxophonist Andrew D'Angelo.