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THE OWL MUSIC PARLOR 2020-10-29T14:29:01+00:00

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Martina Liviero is a singer songwriter from Argentina, currently based in New York City. Her sound effortlessly blends the complexity and sophistication of South American songwriting with contemporary chamber music and experimental folk. Liviero’s music and arrangements were performed by internationally renowned ensembles, such as the New York Philharmonic and the Army Jazz Ambassadors Big Band. She was the recipient of the 2020 and 2019 ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Awards and the 2019 JEN Young Jazz Composer Award.
Martina holds a B.M in Jazz Composition from Berklee College of Music, where she was awarded the Latin American Tour Scholarship.
Loop 7 is the second release by Phillip Golub in an ongoing series of loops-based compositions for New York-based label Greyfade. To celebrate the release of Loop 7, the piece will be played back on The Owl’s sound system. About Loop 7: Pianist and composer Phillip Golub continues his acoustic loops project with Loop 7, a microtonal composition that dramatically expands the project’s scope harmonically, technologically, and orchestrationally, while maintaining the emphasis on microscopic variation within tightly controlled repetition. Golub is joined by a small ensemble to create an absorbing realization of the piece, uncannily situated between chamber performance and imaginary studio creation.

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Will Shore presents a new set of compositions for electric vibraphone, clarinet, and bass clarinet—featuring Stuart Bogie and Doug Wieselman. Will Shore is a composer, producer, and vibraphonist. He has released his solo-vibraphone focused productions on Mister Saturday Night Records and Pique-nique Recordings. He DJ’s a monthly show on the Lot Radio, and has played vibraphone for Nels Cline’s LOVERS, Arto Lindsay’s Noise Quartet, The Dave Harrington Group, and the Nublu Orchestra conducted by Butch Morris. He’s written and produced music for shows on NBC, History Channel, and Netflix, and he has won 4 ASCAP Awards.
Kenny Wollesen is an American drummer and percussionist. He has recorded and toured with Tom Waits, Sean Lennon, Ron Sexsmith, Bill Frisell, Norah Jones, John Lurie, Myra Melford, Steven Bernstein, and John Zorn. He is a founding member of the New Klezmer Trio and of Sex Mob. Wollesen utilizes the Burton grip when playing vibraphone.

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Jane Bruce is a singer-songwriter and actress, most recently seen on Broadway in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Her debut album, My Bed (2022), was praised by Holler Country for its introspective lyrics and folk guitar style, drawing comparisons to artists like Joni Mitchell and Shawn Colvin. The album delves into themes of personal growth and emotional complexity, showcasing Bruce’s ability to convey vulnerability and strength through her music. With a background in theater and a passion for storytelling, she continues to captivate audiences both on stage and through her songwriting. @janeybrucey
Bold Forbes is an acoustic New York City- and Boston-based trio made up of Nick Bloom, Reid Jenkins, and David Halpern. Their songs blend the structures of folk and country songwriting with imagistic lyrics and genre-busting arrangements for strings and voice. The New York Times, has described their songs as “bouncy and earnest…taking palate-cleansing detours into both lyrical abstraction and dissonant instrumental noise, making for a result that resists cliches as much as it embraces tradition.” Bold Forbes released their first full-length album High Time in 2018, and they are releasing new singles, “Make Away” and “Arroyo Seco,” in Spring 2025. Their first single, “Make Away,” came out in April, and has been favorably reviewed by the Bluegrass Situation, among other outlets. Their music is available on Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music, Amazon, YouTube, and bandcamp. They have toured the Northeast extensively, and have shared the stage with such acts as Morningsiders, Maeve Gilchrist, Jefferson Hamer, Sweet Petunia, Lily Henley, Cricket Blue, and Gillian Grogan

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Charlotte from The Mops has spent a lot of her life practicing classical piano. She is currently completing her doctorate in piano performance at SUNY Stony Brook, where she studies with 89-year old legend Gilbert Kalish (one more year than keys) and teaches undergraduate piano students. This solo piano program at the Owl will focus on fantastical imagination, with selections from Bach’s Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, Beethoven’s Sonata quasi fantasia, and Scriabin’s Sonata-Fantasy. When not at the piano or in band practice with the Mops, Charlotte works with her mom to run Music at Port Milford, a summer chamber music festival and school in Ontario. She welcomes all challenges to her unusually developed knowledge of string quartet trivia.
Peter Stampfel first came to prominence in 1964, as the singing, banjoist-fiddler co-founder of the Holy Modal Rounders, who were in turn the backing band of the Fugs at the time of their 1965 debut. These alone would have secured his place in history as a founder of Freak Folk. But Peter has never stopped playing or innovating. This show will feature a largely new repertoire, including a batch of recent “soul jingles” featuring the wisdom of the Stoics.
The Atomic Meta-Pagans on this date may be: Peter Stampfel (electric uke, fiddle, banjo, lead vocals), Steve Espinola (piano), Heather Wagner (drums), Eli Hekto (banjo, mandolin), Sam Werbalowsky (lap steel), Dok Gregory (general “kirking”), Paul Nowinski (bass).

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Miwa and Rebekah have been making music for a long time. They met through the Main Squeeze Orchestra, an all female accordion orchestra, but for Miwa Gemini, neither of them play the accordion. Their harmony is unique and tight honed through years of singing together. They are excited to release their first collaborative album with Jennie Muoio as a 3rd vocalist recorded by Rich Lamb at the Alley Cat Studio. They are also very happy to celebrate this at their favorite venue, the Owl Music Parlor.
Early Worm is a Brooklyn based alternative folk trio consisting of Liam Hastings, Henry Nelson, and Will Curry. They released their debut EP, EW.EP1, in May 2024, and are currently working on their debut full-length album.
Graham Lampe is a singer songwriter based out of Brooklyn, New York, originally from Portland, Oregon. They moved to New York in 2020 to attend The New School as a jazz composition major. Their love for lyrics and songwriting grew. Graham officially embarked on a solo career in 2022, Graham’s first solo record self titled GRAHAM•LAMPE was released January 2024.

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Lau Noah has been praised by distinguished musicians, from Phoebe Bridgers to Jackson Browne for her poetic compositions and the masterful guitar-voice counterpoint on her music. Noah performed a Tiny Desk Concert in February 2019, making her the first Catalan to perform in the prestigious series. She has been sought after by Ivy League universities and music conservatories around the world to teach workshops and master classes due to her unique approach to guitar playing and composition. Lau has scored multiple award-winning films and has performed with musicians such as Jacob Collier, Gavin Degraw and Chris Thile, with whom she toured Europe and the UK as the opening act. In the fall of 2023 she opened for Ben Folds on his UK tour, playing solo at the Royal Albert Hall and other historic theaters.
Lau released her first LP “A Dos” on January 12, 2024 featuring some of the most influential musicians of our time: Jorge Drexler, Sílvia Pérez Cruz, Jacob Collier, Gaby Moreno and Cécile Mclorin Salvant among others. Lau will support Jacob Collier on his 2024 European fall tour.
Adam Neely describes himself as a ‘bassist, youtuber, and general enjoyer of things’. His brilliantly made YouTube channel is followed by millions worldwide.
US-based Pakistani artist Zeerak Ahmed, also known as Slowspin, produces voice-based sculptures, sound installations and uniquely fragile sound collages. Slowspin has a distinct sound practice grounded in North Indian classical vocal traditions, dream-folk, ambient and experimental-electronic music. Her recent collaborative album, TALISMAN, opens a world of uncanny and heart-wrenching refrains. Songs of love, loss and longing are performed with her band, which includes Grey Mcmurray, Marlon Patton and Shahzad Ismaily.

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Talk Bazaar will dance the night away with you, sing and cry the whole car ride home, and tuck you gently into bed. Their 2024 album “WHATSPACE?” is the frenetic feeling of both isolation and community, of always trying to slow down and not knowing how to stop.
Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Eliza Edens weaves together disparate influences of people and places into her work to create mesmerizing sonic tapestries with guitar and voice. Edens’ songs build a kaleidoscopic world that documents the parallels between hope and heartbreak. The resulting sound is a diverse palette of guitar-based, experimental folk-rock centered around Eden’s gently-cradled voice and brimming at the edges with pockets of sonic whimsy.
Alex Harwood’s music is a seamless blend of soulful indie twang and nuanced jazz harmonies that will sound at home soundtracking any road trip or late-night hang session. He’s currently taking 300mg of bupropion and a multi vitamin daily.

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Guitarist Andre Matos will appear with
Nathan Blehar – tenor saxophone
Eivind Opsvik – bass
Billy Mintz – drums
Alexa Barchini is a jazz vocalist and songwriter based in Brooklyn. Her music blends elements of Americana, Blues, and Jazz, creating songs that are both grounded and unexpected. She will be joined by guitarist, Jackson FitzGerald, and fiddle player, Bobby Hawk, for a night of her original songs.

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Joshua Lee Turner is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer based in Brooklyn. Josh is widely known for his YouTube channel Josh Turner Guitar, where he’s been posting original music, covers, and instructional videos since 2007, amassing hundreds of millions of views. Josh has toured extensively in the U.S. and abroad with original artist projects The Other Favorites and The Bygones, as well as with tribute shows A Celebration of Paul Simon’s Graceland and The Simon and Garfunkel Story. His most recent collaboration, The Bygones, released a self-titled album of original music in 2024, which took the band on tour across the U.S., U.K., and Europe, performing nearly 100 shows in one year. Josh is currently working on his first solo album of original music since his 2020 album, Public Life. This will be his first solo performance in three years.
Damon Smith is a New York City-based pianist, songwriter, and improviser. Born and raised in Brooklyn, he started his career performing and touring with artists such as Jon Anderson of Yes, Napoleon Murphy Brock of Frank Zappa’s band, and Andrew W.K. Since then, he’s toured as a pianist with artists such as T.3 and Burlap to Cashmere, played his original music at venues such as the Highline Ballroom, the Joe’s Pub, CBGB’s, and Webster Hall, and performed as a sideman in festivals such as Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, and Zappanale. His debut solo album, “Intimate Machinery,” came out shortly after Smith Graduated from New England Conservatory in December 2017. His second album “God of the Grid” dropped in March 2019, which prompted NPR’s Here and Now to state: “Excited for what he has next.” He currently has a band with his brother Brendan Jacob Smith called The Brightmares, and their debut album “When The World Gets Fixed” dropped in 2022.

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Hailing from the rich musical history of the Catskill Mountains in New York State, Katie Martucci grew up singing, and playing fiddle and guitar. The daughter of a jazz pianist, she began performing with her father at a young age. By the first grade, she was writing her own songs and playing for tips. Her musical journeys led her to the Ashokan Western and Swing Week, vocal lessons with Laurel Masse of Manhattan Transfer, a brief stint of collegiate acappella at Skidmore College and ultimately, to the New England Conservatory. Since graduating NEC, Katie has toured the country with her trio The Ladles, founded the Tucci Swing Orchestra (a 9 piece jazz band playing Boswell Sister inspired arrangements of classic swing rep) and begun recording and performing under her own name. Visit KatieMartucci.com for more details on upcoming projects.
Come celebrate the release of How Lucky You Are, Stefan Weiner’s first full-length album, out in May on Better Company Records. Stefan is an NYC-based queer indie folk singer-songwriter. A recent Top Shelf finalist in NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest 2024, he creates a musical space for people to access a deeper vulnerability. He is open and honest about his experiences with chronic pain, love, loss and his queer journey. How Lucky You Are is sure to bring both a tear to your eye and a smile to your face.
Cloudbelly is an indie-folk trio from Western Massachusetts, led by songwriter Corey Laitman. Known for their lyrical, confessional songwriting, the band blends quirky, psychedelic undertones with rich, emotive storytelling. With intricate arrangements featuring lush harmonies and evocative lead guitar hooks, Cloudbelly creates a sound that’s both atmospheric and grounded. Their stage presence is equally captivating—goofy, warm, and inviting, offering a genuine connection with their audiences. Drawing on diverse influences, their music captures a sense of the uncanny, where the personal feels both otherworldly and deeply real.

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Oren 0’Blivion is a person of not-inconsequential life experience: making messes, finding himself in messes that weren’t obviously his doing (but who knows) or just feeling like a mess during the interstitial moments between the major mess episodes. This pattern of living could make for some great songs and it’s a shame someone with talent won’t be able to help with that.
Otracami is the project of Camila Ortiz, a Brooklyn-based songwriter, vocalist, and producer. She released her debut full-length album, touching the stove coil, in November 2023.
Charlie Kaplan is a Brooklyn-based songwriter who runs the independent label Glamour Gowns. On Monday 5/12 and Tuesday 5/13, he and his bandmates – Winston Cook-Wilson, Andrew Daly Frank, Julian Cubillos, and Jason Burger – will be recording Charlie’s fifth album. Just days before, on 5/10, they will be playing it in its entirety to rev up and get the juices flowing. It will be a loose and fun set, chock-full of songs you haven’t heard but will likely like.

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Jana Horn is a musician and writer from Texas. She has an MFA in fiction writing from the University of VA, and releases music on the album No Quarter.
Ryan Power’s career has been one of quiet growth. He has been releasing music under his own name since 2002, all of it boasting a sensitive, skewed, delirious take on pop music. He has embarked on a quest to write song-based music full of color, melody and shifting harmonic puzzles. Ryan will be performing solo.
Matt Bachmann (b. 1988, Chicago) is a musician/social worker whose sound is a marriage of long form repetitive instrumental music and songwriting. The combination feels like a soundtrack to a film that has yet to have been created– it’s playful and dramatic; part breathy ballad, part DIY chamber music, and part 80’s Japanese synthwork. Bachmann has released three records on Owen Ashworth’s (Advance Base) tight knit Chicago based label, Orindal Records, including Dream Logic which was released in 2021.

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Brandon Lopez is a bassist and composer living in New York City. His work deals with improvisation, finding new sonic possibilities on the double bass. Collaborations with the likes Fred Moten, Gerald Cleaver, John Zorn, The Mat Maneri Quartet, Nate Wooley’s “knknighgh”, Satoko Fuji, Zeena Parkins, Ingrid Laubrock and Tom Rainey, Standing On The Corner, Cecilia Lopez, Ash Fure, Joe Morris, Tyshawn Sorey, and many others. His collaborative work with Fred Moten and Gerald Cleaver was critically acclaimed by publications of note and won Best of Jazz 2022 in the NYTimes. His most recent solo recording won best of 2023 in the NYC Jazz record.
Carmen Quill (formerly Carmen Q. Rothwell) is a double bassist, composer, and singer based in Brooklyn, NY. She is recognized for her sound and versatility on the double bass, her captivating performances as a solo artist, and her intuitive sensitivity as an improviser. Her debut solo recording, Don’t Get Comfy / Nowhere (2020), “thrives on the meeting of reservation and vulnerability, and its songs feel as emotional and virtuosic as a power ballad yet are sparse and withholding as a Rembrandt” (Pitchfork). In addition to producing and performing her solo music she performs and releases music as part of the bands tilt, Scree, and a host of other projects and collaborations.
Levon (Henry) is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, singer, theorist, and teacher based in New York City. While primarily associated with saxophones & clarinets (whether for Julian Lage, Paula Cole, or Jib Kidder), Levon has always made his own music in the margins on a variety of other instruments. His solo project has gradually shifted focus from instrumental to vocal music –self-accompanied on guitar and keyboards– which he has finally begun performing live

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Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn lives in Brooklyn where she works as a song writer, performer, producer and mom. In a constant dedication to expanding her tender repertoire of American folk songs into a larger context, her recordings seek to find the magical amity between explorative percussion, orchestral sounds and elements of rock and popular music. Since starting out in the late 1990’s, she has released over a dozen solo and collaborative recordings on various independent labels including K Records, Kill Rock Stars, Absolute Magnitude Recordings, Double Double Whammy and 7e.p., and toured solo and with countless iterations of her own band in concert halls, music clubs and punk basements all across North America, Japan and Europe.
Mirah is currently in the thick of finishing a new record and will play some of the new songs at The Owl, accompanied by the always magnificent Aviva Jaye.
Mirah sees her creative process as a dedication to investigating the complicated intersections within communities large and small, believing that with deeper understanding of each other, the seeds of a more generous and less violent world are planted.

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Emmy-nominated Ike Ufomadu (JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH, JOE PERA TALKS WITH YOU) is an actor, comedian and entertainer, named a “Comic to Watch” by Time Out New York. His series of shorts WORDS WITH IKE appeared as part of CAKE on FX. Think a hilarious Mr. Rogers, but still alive.
Chicago-based musician Lana Pets writes songs like Marcus Aurelius fronting an indie band—existential, intimate, and just self-aware enough to know no one asked for this. After years of ghostwriting songs for other singers in Nashville, she’s finally claiming her own.

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Amir ElSaffar presents a captivating solo set for Trumpet, Santur, Voice, and Modular Synths.
dream brigade is the duo of Phillip Golub (piano) and Lesley Mok (drums). Fresh off the heels of their debut self-titled release on Infrequent Seams, they present a set of original compositions, standards, and improvisations.

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Núria Graham began her musical journey in Catalonia, Spain, releasing her debut album at the age of sixteen. Since then, she has released four albums and performed on stages worldwide, including festivals like Primavera Sound. Her latest album, “Cyclamen” (Verve Forecast, 2023), self-produced by Núria, is filled with dreamy textures, wind and string arrangements, from piano to classical guitar. Influenced by classical music, film scores and jazz, this album is a new approach to Núria’s oneiric world.

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… a 6 piece experimental cohort made of members of ice blink, more eaze, Jeff Tobias, Adelyn Strei

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Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Kyle Morgan grew up in central Pennsylvania, where he spent countless Sunday mornings amidst the broken strains and coffee breath of his church congregation. His first record, Starcrossed Losers, became the alias under which he would go on to release two more, Bind Us Anew and Strange Hesitations, each featuring his distinctive conglomeration of Americana styles, from stripped-down acoustic ballads and love-lorn parlor laments to roaring alt-country and throwback 60’s rock’n’roll. In 2022, Morgan released his label debut, Younger At Most Everything, on Team Love Records. His newest record, Ghost of a Problem, will be out June, 2025..
Katy Pinke’s songs are self-examinations—cerebral and unsparing, but reaching toward a more promising future. The Manhattan-based singer-songwriter, painter, and theater-maker’s nimble soprano evokes the precision, humor, and melancholy of forbearers like The Roches and Connie Converse. Sentences pour across verses, disrupting the symmetry of the expected verse-chorus form. Pinke released her stripped-down debut self-titled album in the spring of 2024, which PopMatters describes as “somehow dreamlike but rooted in authentic, basic principles of songwriting and performance.

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.michael. is a clarinet/guitar duo that writes songs, often with words, often weird and playful and sad. Most songs are less than 2 minutes. This show will be a complete performance of their new album: The Puddle.

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Frances Chang is a musician and multimedia artist living and performing in New York. Combining use of conventional instrumentation, playful electronics, and poetry, her unique strain of experimental songwriting deals with disrupting accepted reality. Her songs are an exercise in communication, probing the tension between idiosyncratic personal experience and the drive to understand and be understood through a collective language. She regularly performs in NYC with Andrea Schiavelli (Eyes of Love) on bass and Liza Winter (Birthing Hips) on drums, forming an elastic trio that excels in psychic communication and subverting expectations.
Wilks Group is an entity oriented around songs written by Zack Wilks. It’s currently a seven-piece band consisting of Erinn Buyhoff (saxophone), Ethan Cohn (bass), Alex Fels (drums and percussion), Tom McCaffrey (guitar), Divya Menzes (keys and vocals), Isaac Silber (drums and percussion), and Wilks (guitar and vocals).
Talk Bazaar will dance the night away with you, sing and cry the whole car ride home, and tuck you gently into bed. Their 2024 album “WHATSPACE?” is the frenetic feeling of both isolation and community, of always trying to slow down and not knowing how to stop.

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Sweetbreads is the musical project of singer-songwriter Melody Stolpp, based in Ridgewood, Queens. With a powerful voice and an ear for infectious melodies, Sweetbreads draws inspiration from ’90s country icons like The Chicks and the modern indie twang movement. Her music captures the heightened emotions and contradictions of being alive, weaving together tender storytelling and fearless honesty.
Natalie Carol is front-woman and songwriter of LA-based band, Valley Queen. Cited as “one of the great cosmic belters from the school of Grace Slick and Delores O’Riordan” by Rolling Stone Magazine, Carol has shared tours with the likes of Laura Marling, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Social Distortion and featured on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert, Linda Perry’s Dodger Stadium Covid Concert Series, and Willie Nelson’s Luck Reunion Festival.
Brittany Ann Tranbaugh (pronounced TRAN-baw) is a Philadelphia-based songwriter whose queer Americana heartbreaker “Kiss You” won Song of the Year in the 2021 John Lennon Songwriting Contest.

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Key Hutch is a versatile guitarist, multi instrumentalist, composer, and producer from Brooklyn, NY. The “Key Hutch” experience is a dance between Black tradition and progression. With the use of loop stations, effects pedals, ableton and just pure imagination, Key Hutch is an artist that honors their natural ability to shape-shift through form and sound. She often finds new ground to break through the guitar as it serves as an integral tool in channeling her curiosity and her gifts.

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Jenifer Jackson says, “Morning Star” is inspired by the desert and flight. The album was sponsored in part by a grant awarded me by the City of Austin Live Music Fund. I’ve lived in Austin TX for the past 17 years and although I perform a couple times a year in NY’s Hudson Valley, this show at The Owl Brooklyn will be my first in the city for many years. I’m over the moon about reuniting with bandmates Oren Bloedow, Greg Wiecsorek and with dear city friends. Join us, along with some other musical guest stars, for a celebration of music and friendship.
official website: http://www.jeniferjackson.com

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Greenhoe and Bilger features NYC natives Hans Bilger and Eli Greenhoe, two vibrant young voices at the intersection of acoustic pop music and the avant-garde. Clothing delicate songcraft in gorgeous arrangements showcasing their backgrounds in classical, New Music, and jazz, the pair’s songs burst with instrumental and vocal color to enchant, delight, and challenge listeners.

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Trevor Dunn put PROOF Readers together with the sole purpose of playing the beautiful & often neglected song book of Ornette Coleman. In 1993 the release of the complete Atlantic recordings “Beauty Is A Rare Thing” served as a catalyst for me in transcribing over 50 Ornette tunes. That endeavor in itself was a learning experience that informed my own writing in terms of form, variation, melody, and improvisation and led me towards an understanding of his harmolodic approach. The name PROOF Readers came from an unreleased song of the same name. Both Ornette’s musical & verbal language toy with syntax in their inimitable variation of normal harmony/grammar.
tha band is: Trevor Dunn (bass), Darius Jones (alto), Nate Wooley (trumpet), Ryan Sawyer (drums)

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Michael Bates’ Acrobat and the ALTA String Quartet present radically different explorations of two dissident composers: Dmitri Shostakovich and Witold Lutoslawski.
Acrobat are:Marty Ehrlich-clarinet • Fung Chern Hwei-violin • Sara Schoenbeck-bassoon • Michael Bates-bass •Michael Sarin-drums. The quintet, led by bassist/composer Michael Bates, features five fearless voices exploring one of music’s most mysterious personalities, Dmitri Shostakovich. With literal themes by Shostakovich or themes composed with his spirit, “Acrobat” is full of music that is playful yet dark and swinging. And while Shostakovich is clearly being channeled, the voices of these five fantastic improvisers will be on full display: Beautiful and vicious, elegant and dissonant, and humor laced with serene sarcasm.
Alta are: Gabryel Smith-violin • Rachel Hauser-violin •Emily Bookwalter-viola • Ken Hashimoto-cello, a collaboration of four committed and curious musicians based in Brooklyn, NY who perform and premiere a wide range of music for string quartet. Founded in 2021, the group has been praised for their “fiery” and “faithful” performances (New York City Jazz Record) of contemporary repertoire, and regularly performs music both old and new. On this evening, The ALTA String Quartet performs Shostakovich and Prokofiev.

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