ROULETTE: Jason Kao Hwang, Celestial Moon Beams Funk, Ken Butler Children’s Concert
Posted by sequenza21 in Concert AnnouncementTHIS WEEK AT ROULETTE:
ROULETTE
20 Greene St (between Canal and Grand St)
Admission $15 Students $10 MEMBERS FREE
TICKETS/RSVP: 212.219.8242
http://www.roulette.org/
Tuesday, March 25th
JASON KAU HWANG/ EDGE 8:30pm
Composer, violinist, and educator Jason Kao Hwang creates works ranging from jazz, classical, “new” and world music. Mr. Hwang’s seminal ensemble, The Far East Side Band (1990-2004), featuring taiko, kayagum, tuba and his violin, released two CDs of his compositions and performed internationally. Tonight Hwang and his jazz quartet EDGE (with Andrew Drury, Taylor Ho Bynum and Ken Filiano) celebrate the release of their second album “Stories Before Within (Innova)”.
Wednesday, March 26th
CELESTIAL MOON BEAMS FUNK 8:30pm
Choreographer/Improvisor and songwriter Patricia Nicholson presents an evening featuring her latest creative endeavor, the Celestial Moon Beams Funk Group. Full of surprises, Ms Nicholson has started her own avantFunk group, featuring some of the top musicians on the avantJazz scene interacting with classically trained dancers and cappoeristas. It redefines what it means to be modern. The group has already proved its worth at its premier performance at this year’s HOWL festival on the South Stage at Tompkins Square Park. The idea for this group came out of Ms. Nicholson’s other recent undertaking, Rise Up Creative Music and Art. The songs, their lyrics and rhythms; and the dancers’ movements express the ideas and sentiments of this new movement in the arts.
INSIDE: HARVESTWORKS——————–
Thursday, March 27th
Harvestworks Inside: BOB OSTERTAG & PIERRE HEBERT / mem1 Duo 8:30pm
Friday, March 28th
Harvestworks Inside: MESSAGES: TRES WARREN & TAKETO SHIMADA / REBECCA CHERRY
8:30pm
Saturday, March 29th
Harvestworks Inside: gReid and Ruen / ROBERT MADLER 8:30pm
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Saturday, March 29th
Children’s Concert: KEN BUTLER 2pm
Ken Butler is an artist and musician whose hybrid musical instruments, collage drawings, performances, and installations explore the interaction and transformation of common objects, altered images, sounds and silence.
Listen and watch in amazement as inventor and virtuosic musician Ken Butler plays his hammer violin and “guitars” made from a broom, snow shovel, and toothbrush! Children learn how instruments were invented, how they produce sounds, and how those sounds can be combined live with modern technology, stimulating imagination and creativity.
Sunday, March 30th
TAYLOR HO BYNUM & SPIDERMONKEY STRINGS 8:30pm
Composer/Cornettist Taylor Ho Bynum & SpiderMonkey Strings (Jason Kao Hwang, Jessica Pavone, Tomas Ulrich, Pete Fitzpatrick, Joseph Daley, Luther Gray) present the World Premiere of Madeleine Dreams (music by THB, text by Sarah Shun-lien Bynum). Madeleine Dreams is a secular oratorio for female vocalist and improvising chamber ensemble, written especially for SpiderMonkey Strings with special guest vocalist Kyoko Kitamura. The composition uses text and draws inspiration from the highly acclaimed and award winning novel Madeleine is Sleeping, by the composer’s sister, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, a magical-realist fable of a girl’s coming of age that moves between dreams and reality in 19th century France.
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