06/04 Friday
7:00 PM Ellen DeGenova
06/16 Wednesday
10:00 PM Francois Bourassa Quartet
http://www.francoisbourassa.com/
10:00 PM Composer/pianist François Bourassa
Composer/pianist François Bourassa, 2007 Oscar Peterson Prize recipient (given by the Montréal International Jazz Festival) leads one of Canada’s most active jazz ensembles: currently with André Leroux (saxes) Adrian Vedady (bass), and Philippe Melanson (drums). Their latest recording in a catalogue of critically-acclaimed CD’s, Rasstones (Effendi), won several Quebec awards. A previous recording (Live at the Top of the Senator) won Canada’s highest recording honor, the JUNO. Numerous tours have taken them all over not only to festivals and concerts in Europe, the US and Canada, but also Russia, India, China, Korea, Japan and Mexico, to prestigious events such as the North Sea, Cork, and Paris Jazzfests, plus JALC in NYC. FBQ have appeared onstage with many greats of jazz. Wrote Nate Chinen of the New York Times: ‘’A pianist and composer of high stature in his native Montreal, Mr. Bourassa favors avant-gardism of a liquid and often lyrical sort.”
06/19 Saturday
7:00 PM ADDDDDDDDD: a new opera by thingNY
Written and performed by Isabel Castellvi, Andrew Livingston, Paul Pinto, Erin Rogers and Jeffrey Young
Focus. The composers of thingNY will tell you stories, sing you songs, scream in your face, try to sell you stuff and rant recklessly to themselves, filling your ears with sweet sounds of excess. This new experimental opera by NYC's freshest avant-garde band highlights the everyday excesses of our lives (workaholism, the thrill of consumption, the joys of gluttony, the elation of libation) and turns them into a suite of attention-deficient songs, monologues and infomercials.
More information at www.thingNY.com