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07/12 Sunday

2:00 PM Either/Orchestra: Two sets starting at 2 pm

After a busy year of globetrotting with various Ethiopian collaborators, the E/O returns to the Lily Pad to work on some new original music, and a couple of Ethiopian faves.

Sadly, this will also be Godwin's Last Stand (with the E/O, anyway, for now...), as our fabulous alto saxophonist Godwin Louis has been accepted into the highly selective Monk Institute, located in New Orleans at this time, and will be leaving us in August. He's been aboard since December of 2006. We're sad to see him go - he's a great young musician and a great guy. He joins the honor roll of E/O alto saxophonists who go on to further glory: Douglas Yates, Andrew D'Angelo, Oscar Noriega, Miguel Zenon, Jaleel Shaw, Jeremy Udden.

We also have a special guest on drums, Bertram Lehmann. Bertram is known for his work with a wide variety of jazz and Latin artists for the last two decades: www.myspace.com/bertramlehmann

The E/O consists of: Tom Halter and Dan Rosenthal, trumpets; Joel Yennior, trombone; Godwin Louis, Russ Gershon and Charlie Kohlhaase, saxophones; Rafael Alcala, piano; Rick McLaughlin, bass; special guest Bertram Lehmann, drums.

6:00 PM Gillypad

6pm Notrio

7pm Mark Snyder
Enabled with a laptop, video projector, clarinet, tuba & accordion, this Mark Snyder creates multimedia compositions with themes as varied as a caricature of a Swedish dock worker turned astronaut, equates his own transition to parenthood with De Quincey's writings on Opium and orchestrates these with live instrument processing, prerecorded sounds and video.
http://www.marksnyder.org

8pm GAT

The band is:

Randy Wooten - drums
Gill Aharon - piano and compositions
Jef Charland - bass
Blake Newman - bass
Andrew Stern - guitar
Alec Spiegelman - winds/horns
Kelly Roberge - tenor
Eric Hofbauer - guitar

10pm Rock Rats