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07/01 Wednesday
7:00 PM Open Vinyasa Yoga
10:00 PM Steve Langone Group
First Wednesday of every month. Original Jazz, from a drummer led group. Good combination.
"To the great wide jazz world, the name of drummer Steve Langone may be a new one, in which case the combustible music on this disc will be a revelation.
For those who have been listening in the Boston area for the past decade, the results will not be so surprising.
Langone is the kind of muscian whose talent is noticed when heard in any of the numerous ensembles with which he has performed, and whose range is just as obvious once you notice that he is one of the most active drummers in a variety of contexts. This is his debut as a leader, and it both summarizes the skills that have made him so successful and prophesizes an even brighter future."
Bob Blumenthal 2001
07/02 Thursday
7:00 PM Chris Townsend
www.myspace.com/christownsendmusic
www.christownsendmusic.com/
Since early 2006 when he supported “The Feeling” Chris has played over 200 shows all over the UK culminating in a 3 night sold-out gig at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2007. The 23-year-old has also played a number of concerts in Copenhagen, Denmark during a six-month stay there between August 2006 and January 2007 and plans to return later this year to promote the new single and album.
‘…perfect faultless pop music. A catchy song recorded & mixed to the best quality. Perfect for national radio play’
Bristol Rocks
‘…cuts through the trivialities of life, right down to the raw emotion which can be both painful and euphoric.’
Student Pages
Townsend’s songs explore the classic themes of love, life, loss and regret but these now have an added originality when he plays live with the use of effects pedals, creating drumbeats, bass and lead lines and vocal harmonies live onstage around his acoustic guitar and vocals. This creates an ethereal and dramatic sound; similar to that of bands such as Crowded House, The Verve and Coldplay with further comparisons being drawn from the likes of US artists Gavin Degraw, John Mayer, Howie Day and The Dave Matthews Band.
His independently released “What Are You Waiting For” EP has sold over 5000 copies reaching audiences all over the world thanks to online resources such as Myspace.com where Chris regularly features in the top UK artists. To date he has had over 300,000 plays on his fan sites around the world.
10:00 PM Movie Night
07/05 Sunday
6:00 PM Gillypad
6pm notrio
7pm 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
07/06 Monday
7:00 PM Julian Kasper Band
10:22 PM The Fringe
http://thefringejazz.com/
http://www.myspace.com/thefringebostonofficial
The Fringe has been playing every Monday for over 30 years. When starting this venue, my hope was that the Fringe would someday be playing here. The Fringe has been here since 2003 and is a cornerstone of not only this venue but the whole music scene in Cambridge.
07/07 Tuesday
6:40 PM Kripalu Yoga
8:00 PM Odd Tuesday Milonga
07/08 Wednesday
7:00 PM Open Vinyasa Yoga
10:00 PM 15 year old Matt Wigler, jazz and blues piano
Matt Wigler is 15 year old jazz and blues piano sensation. Matt’s music is a fusion of
blues, jazz, funk, and New Orleans styles, with blues at the core. He has appeared with
many famous musicians including Buckwheat Zydeco,Deanna Bogart, Marcia Ball,
Tommy Castro, Bobby Rush, Tab Benoit, Ronnie Baker Brooks, Lil’ Ed and the Blues
Imperials, and Sir Mack Rice. Matt has also opened for blues guitar greats Buddy Guy
and Joe Bonamassa.
In late 2008, Matt will be featured in a documentary on blues pianists that will be
broadcast on PBS stations nationwide.
Matt has played at the Monterey Bay Blues Festival (California), Beaches International
Jazz Festival (Toronto), Cincy Blues Fest, Motor City Blues and Boogie Woogie Festival
(Detroit), the Fedex Forum (NBA game in Memphis), Artscape(Baltimore), Chesapeake
Bay Blues Festival (Maryland), Columbia Festival of the Arts (Maryland), The Birchmere
and The State Theatre (Virginia), and the Legendary Rhythm and Blues Cruise
(Caribbean).
Matt’s debut CD, XIII (Thirteen), released June 2007,is being played on radio stations
around the world and is receiving great reviews. Matt has been interviewed on WPFW
(89.3) in Washington, DC and ABC and Fox television in Detroit.
Matt’s performance schedule, sound clips, photographs, and other information are
available at mattwigler.com. Matt’s debut CD is available for purchase at vistamusicstore.
com and on CD Baby and iTunes
“Hecan playboogie woogie keyboardsl ike no one alive!" -The
Capital Blues Messenger
“Wow, where has this guy been hiding?” -Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“Sensational keyboardist for any age.” -Blues Society of Tulsa
"No matter if it’s jazz, funk, or gut bucket ragtime, Wiglerhas a firm grasp on playing it right.“-Tim Richards, Blues Source
“A video should have been included to drive home how amazing this kid is.” -Beardo, Blues Wax Magazine
“...foot-tapping, head-swinging, blues -jazz fusion music…” -The Baltimore Sun
07/09 Thursday
7:30 PM DYAD
David Scott and Mark Shilansky duo
10:00 PM The New Black Magic Quartet and Fred The Donkey
07/10 Friday
7:00 PM BOX FIVE AND CHRISTOPHER BARNES, DIGITAL SINGLE RELEASE SHOW
BOX FIVE is the brainchild of one Mary Bichner, a Boston-based composer/performer endowed with the super powers of perfect pitch (the ability to identify notes and chords by name simply by hearing them played) and synesthesia (a bizarre neurological condition which causes Mary to "see" splashes of specific colors when she hears certain pitches sounded). Combining sophisticated, 18th century-inspired chord progressions with bratty Britrock hooks into a musical succotash she likes to call classipop, the eccentric yet lovable redhead strives to breathe new life into the calcified world of "radio-friendly" contemporary music through her memorable melodies, solid songwriting, and glittery punk rock eyeshadow.
CHRISTOPHER BARNES Christopher Barnes grew up in Portsmouth, NH and studied music and performance art at college. His music is minimally arranged, slow in tempo, and repetitive in style. Many of his songs consist merely of vocals accompanied by piano, which he plays himself. In 2008 CMJ described him as "Beck-like sad, sweet-folkie with a weird experimental side".
www.myspace.com/thechristopherbarnes
10:00 PM Bridget and the Squares
www.myspace.com/bridgetandthesquares
07/11 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
4pm-9:30pm
10:00 PM The Tourist/Felonious Mayhem
http://www.myspace.com/thetouristband
http://www.myspace.com/feloniousmayhem
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
07/13 Monday
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
The Fringe has been playing every Monday for over 30 years. When starting this venue, my hope was that the Fringe would someday be playing here. The Fringe has been here since 2003 and is a cornerstone of not only this venue but the whole music scene in Cambridge.
07/14 Tuesday
6:40 PM Kripalu Yoga
8:00 PM Even Tuesday Milonga
07/15 Wednesday
7:00 PM Open Vinyasa Yoga
10:00 PM An Evening with Biff Rose
07/16 Thursday
7:30 PM The Hellblinki Sextet
... broken tooth blues in a Tux, choral fantasies for agnostic angels, peg-leg waltzes on the rim of Mt. Vesuvius... Psycho-cabaret, southern fried with guerrilla operatics... Hellblinki is prone to suprise, tension, and dramatic release. Dark and experimental, Hellblinki mixes elements of American folk, European cabaret, and Punk Rock experimentation into an intoxicating brew of transcendent madness...
"The world influences on this Asheville, N.C. sextet are absolutely staggering; everything from Russian folk to Italian concerto to Americana (and most everything in between) all find themselves present and accounted for, albeit all of the above given a more than punk edge aesthetic. Appropriately enough, the group itself describe its sound as a "Three Penny Opera meets Sesame Street ... punk rock experimentation with a southern drawl," which, if one must be forced to categorize the band's sound, is probably as fitting of a description as any other. The Hellblinki Sextet is without question one of the most unique, gifted and flat-out fun bands to come out of the region in a long time." -Matt Frisch -Southeast Performer, Atlanta, GA
"The Hellblinki Sextet's pirate cabaret is something that needs to be seen as well as heard to garner its full scope.... Enamored of audience participation, Benjamin showered dime-store noisemakers on the crowd, imploring the audience to join into the aural disarray...it was a one-of-a-kind show, and that no matter how many times you may happen to see the band." -David Commins -The Flagpole, Athens, GA
"Sure, Ozzy might have introduced evil into rock 'n' roll, but The Hellblinki Sextet has never made the prospect of eternal damnation sound like so much fun." -P. Wall -Free Times, Columbia, SC
07/17 Friday
7:00 PM DARK SKY PRODUCTIONS presents
1. What About Will - www.myspace.com/whataboutwill
2. AbSynthe - www.myspace.com/absyntheofficial
3. Eluding Gravity - www.myspace.com/eludinggravity
10:00 PM Available to book
07/18 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
4pm-9:30pm
10:00 PM Elana Brody, Eccentric Songwriter and Pianist
"Music is my ladder to the stars; a pathway to a place that knows no bounds, where nothing is impossible and all is bliss"
Follow Elana on her journey through spirited improvisations and flowing song-writing that explores emotions and magical moments of all kinds. The result will be inspiring and expansive, without ever having to leave your chair.
She will perform solo and with her love, Steve Nishimura on 9-string electric bass.
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Art Supplies will be provided for audience participation!
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www.sonicbids.com/elanamichelle
07/19 Sunday
6:00 PM Gillypad
6pm Notrio
7pm Mary Fagan
A restless heart and devotion to music has made Mary Fagan a true original with wide ranging influences. You can't fit her neatly into any particular musical category. New American Troubadour would be an apt title.
Originally from the NorthEast, she has lived in different regions of the country, soaking up musical influences from the Colorado Rockies, California, North Carolina and most recently Austin, Texas. Backing herself on guitar and occasionally the piano, she will shift seamlessly from a 1940's jazz standard to a funky original song and then a traditional, all the while charming you with vocals that sound as if they were forged in the blues and then dipped in velvet.
Mary Fagan
www.myspace.com/maryfagan
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
07/20 Monday
7:30 PM Syncopation
10:22 PM The Fringe
http://thefringejazz.com/
http://www.myspace.com/thefringebostonofficial
The Fringe has been playing every Monday for over 30 years. When starting this venue, my hope was that the Fringe would someday be playing here. The Fringe has been here since 2003 and is a cornerstone of not only this venue but the whole music scene in Cambridge.
07/21 Tuesday
6:40 PM Kripalu Yoga
8:00 PM The Odd Tuesday Milonga
8:00 PM Odd Tuesday Milonga
07/22 Wednesday
7:00 PM Open Vinyasa Yoga
10:00 PM Infinite Darkness Quartet
The show will be a live recording event featuring a split bill with
two bands, The infinite Darkness Quartet and The Drive Quartet. Both
groups will be featuring original jazz compositions by
Bassist/Composer Tom Casale. The music blends melody and harmony in a
unique style of composition which tribute to groups and musicians like
Jim Blacks Alasnoaxis, John Zorn's Masada, Esjborn Svenssen, The Bad
Plus and others. The Infinite Darkness Quartet features: Tom Casale on
Bass with Tony Cabral, Piano: Mike Bernier, Guitar; Alex Chapman, Drums
and The Drive Quartet features Tom Casale on Bass; with Ian Macaulay,
Guitars; Jared Sims , Sax; Alex Chapman, Drums.
10:00 PM Infinite Darkness Quartet
The show will be a live recording event featuring a split bill with
two bands, The infinite Darkness Quartet and The Drive Quartet. Both
groups will be featuring original jazz compositions by
Bassist/Composer Tom Casale. The music blends melody and harmony in a
unique style of composition which tribute to groups and musicians like
Jim Blacks Alasnoaxis, John Zorn's Masada, Esjborn Svenssen, The Bad
Plus and others. The Infinite Darkness Quartet features: Tom Casale on
Bass with Tony Cabral, Piano: Mike Bernier, Guitar; Alex Chapman, Drums
and The Drive Quartet features Tom Casale on Bass; with Ian Macaulay,
Guitars; Jared Sims , Sax; Alex Chapman, Drums.
10:00 PM Infinite Darkness Quartet
The show will be a live recording event featuring a split bill with
two bands, The infinite Darkness Quartet and The Drive Quartet. Both
groups will be featuring original jazz compositions by
Bassist/Composer Tom Casale. The music blends melody and harmony in a
unique style of composition which tribute to groups and musicians like
Jim Blacks Alasnoaxis, John Zorn's Masada, Esjborn Svenssen, The Bad
Plus and others. The Infinite Darkness Quartet features: Tom Casale on
Bass with Tony Cabral, Piano: Mike Bernier, Guitar; Alex Chapman, Drums
and The Drive Quartet features Tom Casale on Bass; with Ian Macaulay,
Guitars; Jared Sims , Sax; Alex Chapman, Drums.
10:00 PM Cold Duck Complex
07/24 Friday
8:00 PM Josh Rosen, piano, compositions and Stan Strickland, voice, saxophone, flute, percussion
Josh Rosen and Stan Strickland have been performing as a duo project since 2007 and have been warmly received in standing-room-only concerts. They have a deep rapport, with Stan's sparkling instrumental colors playing off Josh's expressive piano. They perform Rosen's compositions and unique arrangements of favorite standards and cover tunes. Josh and Stan also love to engage in some "freeplay" as they improvise in tandem with ease.
Singer, saxophonist, flutist, actor Stan Strickland has performed throughout the United States, Europe, Scandinavia, the Caribbean, New Zealand and the former Soviet Union. In addition to numerous radio and television appearances, Stan has performed in many clubs and concert halls, including Jordan and Symphony Halls in Boston, Carnegie Recital Hall and Town Hall in New York, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. His work has been featured on recordings by Bob Moses, Marty Ehrlich, Webster Lewis and Brute Force. Stan has performed with jazz greats Yusef Lateef, Pharoah Sanders, Herbie Mann, Danilo Perez, Shirley Scott and Marlena Shaw. Love & Beauty, Stan's jazz vocal CD, featuring new arrangements of great jazz classics as well as original material, was released by Hawkline Records in 2005.
Pianist and composer Josh Rosen is a co-leader of 3play+, a band with "a breadth of vision and diversity". Their debut CD, “American Waltz”, was released this spring to rave reviews. Rosen has performed/recorded with world music performers Mulatu Astake and Mindia Devi Klein, folk artists Bob Franke and Dean Stevens, and jazz greats Mick Goodrick, George Garzone, Greg Hopkins, Bob Moses, Phil Grenadier, John Lockwood among many others. Performer Magazine says: “Josh Rosen evokes a refreshingly relaxed openness, yet burns with the best...”
Singer, saxophonist, flutist, actor Stan Strickland has performed throughout the United States, Europe, Scandinavia, the Caribbean, New Zealand and the former Soviet Union. In addition to numerous radio and television appearances, Stan has performed in many clubs and concert halls, including Jordan and Symphony Halls in Boston, Carnegie Recital Hall and Town Hall in New York, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. His work has been featured on recordings by Bob Moses, Marty Erlich, Webster Lewis and Brute Force. Stan has performed with jazz greats Yusef Lateef, Pharoah Sanders, Herbie Mann, Danilo Perez, Shirley Scott and Marlena Shaw. Love & Beauty, Stan's new jazz vocal CD, featuring new arrangements of great jazz classics as well as original material, was released by Hawkline Records in 2005.
Stan has opened for Jazz greats Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins, and for Barenaked Ladies. He toured South Africa with The Village People, and was a featured soloist with Take Six and the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall.
His acting experience includes the leading roles in the Boston Art Group's production of Harlem Renaissance, NotheasternUniversity's production of Crossing John, and Dr. Sax in a production of Jon Lipsky's play about Jack Kerouac, Maggie's Riff, produced by the Vineyard Playhouse.
Stan has performed and collaborated with over a dozen choreographers including Alvin Ailey, Jose Limon, and Bill T. Jones.
Stan is profiled/featured, (along with Blair Underwood and Lamar Burton), in a new film documentary that was filmed this past spring, entitled Black Man Up.
He has performed at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival for the premiere of Academy Award winning documentary Born into Brothels and at three exclusive fashion/fragrance events for fashion icon Donna Karan
Stan has a M.A. degree from Lesley College in Expressive Arts Therapy where he is an adjunct professor. He also teaches at Berklee College of Music, Tufts University and Longy School of Music.
Stan is Co-Executive Director of Express Yourself, a multidisciplinary team of professional artists, working in partnership with adolescents in public mental health residential facilities to produce multimedia performances that celebrate the restorative powers of serious art making.
10:00 PM Jazz Rehab
original jazz/rock music out of Burlington, VT.
Peter Negroponte (drums), Ian Kovac (bass), Peter Krag (keys), Xander Naylor (guitar), Andy Allen (saxophone.)
www.myspace.com/andyallensaxophone
www.myspace.com/jazzrehab
07/25 Saturday
7:00 PM Vitamin Seed w/ Glowing, Dandelions for Goodwill
10:00 PM Joel Waldman
07/26 Sunday
6:00 PM Gillypad
6pm Notrio
7pm Ellen Cross
www.ellencross.net
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
10:00 PM The Joe Hunt Trio
Terry Bernhard - piano
Bronek Suchanek - bass
Joe Hunt - drums
07/27 Monday
7:00 PM Karina Stone
Vocal latin jazz with the killingest band!
www.myspace.com/karinastonemusic
10:22 PM The Fringe
http://thefringejazz.com/
http://www.myspace.com/thefringebostonofficial
The Fringe has been playing every Monday for over 30 years. When starting this venue, my hope was that the Fringe would someday be playing here. The Fringe has been here since 2003 and is a cornerstone of not only this venue but the whole music scene in Cambridge.
07/28 Tuesday
6:40 PM Kripalu Yoga
8:00 PM Even Tuesday Milonga
07/29 Wednesday
7:00 PM Open Vinyasa Yoga
10:00 PM Coyote Kolb/Keith Caswell/Lee Allstar/Verb the Adjective Noun
Sitting home with nothing to do on your Wednesday night? Come out to the Lily Pad for some live acoustic tunes. Not only do you get to hear some soothing, somber, folk, rock, indie, punk, pop, old-time, acoustic tunes...your proceeds will go to 826Boston which is a nonprofit youth tutoring and writing center located on 3035 Washington Street in Roxbury, MA. Tickets are 10$ at the door and starts at 10pm. This is all-ages. Bring your friends!
Coyote Kolb
Sounds like: The Elected, Soggy Bottom Boys
Songs to play asap: “John Smith”
This flavorful band has a lot to offer when you’re not listening to them from your chair but standing up and swaying to the upbeat, old-timey-folk swooning sounds. Lyrically inspired by the real natives of our land and history, Coyote Kolb is a danceable banjo fancy of folklore and tales that will wisp you off your feet without even knowing it. A Must Listen!
Keith Caswell
Sounds like: José González
Songs to play asap: “Big Dig!”
Singer songwriter Keith Caswell has lyrically much to say but, has patience and will to poetically map his thoughts out through his guitar as well as his voice. A past Berklee Student and current resident of Seattle, WA, his lyrics reminisce the people and places in a nuanced crest of soothing bitterness, hope and charm. <333
Lee Allstar featuring Evan Murphy (of Quixote)
Sounds like: Inspired by ghost hums and ukulele’s
Songs to play: “eyeofthestorm”
A ghostly hollow room with a small voice and a low frequency recording reveals the raw details of this singer songwriters music. She tends to play nearly simplified chords and strums in a harp-like motion turning attention to the somber hums and poetic arrangement of her vox + lyrics. Evan Murphy, a member of Quixote will be in the mix with his, “Feist” inspired guitar/vox.
Verb the Adjective Noun
Sounds like: Conor Oberst with a punk twist
Songs to play asap: “Poison Ivy”
A hype adventure of a full band of some twangy punk/folk tunes. Ranging vocally from a soft spoken word to the screaming drunk we all possess inside. This band will blow your socks off and keep you going with their ear candy country lure. All the members enjoy giving their music away free of charge too, so go ahead, steal their music and they’ll be stealing your heart soon enough, http://www.welikeyoualot.com/home.html .
www.myspace.com/verbtheadjectivenounn
www.myspace.com/coyotekolb
www.myspace.com/leeallstarmusic
www.826Boston.org
07/30 Thursday
7:30 PM BAMBOO RELATED
Elizabeth Reian Bennett on shakuhachi is joined by Tomoko Graham , koto; Scott Woolweaver, viola; and Geni Skendo, shakuhachi. This will be an evening of ancient and modern pieces for shakuhachi and koto, and shakuhachis and viola.
BIOGRAPHIES
Elizabeth Reian Bennett is the first woman to play professionally as a Grand Master of the shakuhachi, the Japanese bamboo flute, and stands out as one of only a handful of western players trained in traditional Japanese music. She has studied and performed with Living National Treasure Aoki Reibo, recognized as Japan's foremost shakuhachi instrumentalist, for 30 years.
Since her debut recital in Tokyo in 1984, Reian Bennett has performed frequently in Japan and worldwide, from Australia and Europe to Mexico, Afghanistan and the United States. Her most recent Tokyo appearances were in February of 2008; notable venues include Tokyo National Theater and NHK (Japan National TV). Other high points of 2008 were her participation in the World Shakuhachi Festival in Sydney in July and the British Flute Society Conference in Manchester, UK, in August. She has been interviewed on radio by Faith Middleton of Fresh Air, Robert J. Lurtsema of Morning Pro Musica and Richard Knisley of Classical Performances.
Her CD entitled Song of the True Hand, released in 2006, was nominated 'Instrumental Album of the Year' by Jon Sobel at Blogcritics Magazine. In describing it, Sobel wrote, “(it exemplifies)… the way a single individual with a musical instrument can wordlessly conjure the human spirit out of thin air.” Hartford Advocate critic Dan Barry compares her musical vocabulary to “…Coltrane in his prime”. Reian Bennett teaches the shakuhachi privately and through the world music program at Tufts University near Boston.
www.cdbaby.com/cd/erbennett for music tracks.
Tomoko Graham directs the Japanese language program at Noble and Greehough
School in Dedham. Tomoko began playing koto at the age of five and received her junshihan degree for perfoming ability in the Ikuta style of playing from the Todokai in Kyoto. She now performs in the Boston area.
Scott Woolweaver, viola, graduated with distinction from the University of Michigan School of Music where he won the Joseph Knitzer and Earl V. Moore awards for outstanding participation in chamber music. After moving to Boston for graduate studies with Walter Trampler, he founded the Boston Composers String Quartet, which won the silver medal at the 1993 String Quartet Competition and Chamber Music Festa in Osaka, Japan. He also founded the Vaener String Trio, which won the Grand Prize at the Joseph Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. From 1999-2006 he was a member of the Ives Quartet, based in San Francisco, CA, and for over 25 years he was a member of the New England Piano Quartette.
A champion of the music of our time, Scott has premiered many new works, including pieces written especially for him. Since 1980 he has been a member of Alea III, a contemporary music ensemble in residence at Boston University.
Current affiliations also include the Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston and the Grammy-nominated period chamber orchestra Boston Baroque, with whom Scott made his debut as viola d’amor soloist on New Year’s Eve, 1999.
Scott is Artist Associate at prestigious Williams College in Williamstown, MA, and Lecturer in Viola and Chamber Music at Tufts University in Medford, MA.
He is a regular guest of the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society and is Director of the Adult Chamber Music Institute at Kneisel Hall in Blue Hill, ME. Scott plays a Johan Georg Thir viola made in Vienna, 1737.
Geni Skendo is a shakuhachi and flute artist active as a performer of jazz and world music. He graduated this spring with an MA in contemporary improvisation from the New England Conservatory.
www.genimusic.com
Tea and snacks, CDs on sale!
10:00 PM Jesse Gallagher
07/31 Friday
7:00 PM Underground Jazz Quartet
10:00 PM Vocalist Shelley Neill with pianist Laszlo Gardony
with pianist Laszlo Gardony, Ron Mahdi on acoustic bass and Yoron Israel on drums