1. VISION FESTIVAL 17
Date: Monday, June 11, 2012 through Sunday, June 17, 2012
Main venue: The Roulette (Brooklyn, NY)
The Vision Festival, which was initiated by dancer and choreographer Patricia Nicholson Parker in 1996, has established itself as one of the world’s top festival of experimental music, free jazz/avant-garde jazz, art, film and dance. It is run under the tutelage of Arts For Art, Inc. (AFA).
Inspired by the 1984 and ’88 Sound Unity Festivals, it was a direct out growth of the Improvisers Collective 1994 and ’95. Every year this festival is held in New York City in June. Members of the board of directors include following people.
Every year the festival takes place in numerous New York venues. It usually consists of between thirty and sixty performances, spread out over a number of days. But this year the main venue is the Roulette in Brooklyn. During all the years the festival has encountered difficulty booking performance spaces, largely because of the Vision Festival’s rejection of commercial sponsors. Booking difficulties are often fixed by arts-foundation grants, however. Read More
2. Bootsy Collins
Date: Wednesday, June 13 2011
Time: 8pm
Venue: B.B.KING (237 West 42 St., New York, NY 10036)
Ticket: $47
Genre: Funk
Bootsy Collins is the man who put bass in your face – the original funk ‘n’ roll wild child, the Godzilla-toned high minister of the all-powerful “one,” a sly dog who – with his trademark psychedelic stovepipe, knee-high platform boots, and star-studded bass guitars – makes the Cat in the Hat look tame. Inspired by Jimi Hendrix and tutored by no less an authority on the big beat than James Brown, Collins has stomped his way through the last 40 years of music history and lived the high life. He has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with the other members of Parliament-Funkadelic. And yet, after spraying outer space bass all over classic recordings by the Godfather of Soul, P-Funk, and his own trailblazing groups – including Bootsy’s Rubber Band, the Sweat Band, and Praxis – Collins has arrived at a kind of Zen-like balance that he credits for inspiring his latest album, Tha Funk Capitol of the World (2011).
3. VICKI CHOW’S CONTAGIOUS SOUND SERIES: LUKAS LIGETI
Date: Thursday, June 14, 2012
Time: 8:00pm – 11:00pm
Venue: The Gershwin Hotel (7 East 27th Street, between 5th and Madison, New York, NY)
Ticket: $15
Genre: contemporary music
Lukas’ band Notebook will make a rare appearance, performing pieces combining composed and improvised elements, African guitar styles and analog synth mayhem in unusual, mysterious, and riotous ways. Notebook is Tom Bergeron (trumpet), Daniel Blake (sax), Eyal Maoz and Wende K. Blass (guitars), Lorna Krier (synth), James Ilgenfritz (contrabass), and Lukas Ligeti (drums). And there will be two premieres of Lukas’ compositions: Tom Bergeron and Candy Chiu will give the NY premiere of “Tangle”, Lukas’ trumpet-and-percussion duo that was commissioned by Håkan Hardenberger and Colin Currie, and the Cadillac Moon Ensemble will play the world premiere of Lukas’ hot-off-the-press quartet “Conversation with I.S.”. And there might be more…
4. SARAH BERNSTEIN CHAMBER PROJECT
Date: Thursday, June 14, 2012
Time: 8pm
Ticket: $10
Venue: The Firehouse Space (246 Frost St., East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211)
Genre: contemporary music/improve
A concert of acoustic chamber music compositions by Sarah Bernstein. The program brings together nine extraordinary musicians in several ensembles including a string quartet, a woodwind/brass/string trio, a voice/oboe/piano trio, as well as pieces for the entire cast. The compositions range from through-composed to structured improvisation, and represent Bernstein’s work in this genre over the past several years.
The Firehouse Space “Bark and Scream” Concert Series curated by Satoshi Takeishi presents:
SARAH BERNSTEIN CHAMBER PROJECT with Scott Tixier, violin Mat Maneri, viola Rubin Kodheli, cello Sara Schoenbeck, bassoon Stephanie Richards, trumpet Sarah Nelson Craft, mezzo-soprano Christa Robinson, oboe Michael Rose, piano Sarah Bernstein, violin/composition
5. GERI ALLEN & CARRIE MAE WEEMS: SLOW FADE TO BLACK with ESPERANZA SPALDING / TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON / LIZZ WRIGHT / PATRICE RUSHEN and more!
Time: 8pm
Venue: Prospect Park Bandshell (9th St. and Prospect Park West entrance)
Ticket: $3
Genre: Jazz
6. BALKAN BEAT BOX / CHICO TRUJILLO / NATION BEAT
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: Prospect Park Bandshell (9th St. and Prospect Park West entrance)
Ticket: $3
Genre: Balkan Beat/ Chilean ska-punk-new cumbia/ New Orleans music
7. The PROSPECT PARK DIDGE AND TRIBAL ARTS GATHERING
Date: Saturday, June 16, 23012
Time: 11:00am until 5:00pm
Venue: Prospect Park (95 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn, NY 11215)
Ticket: $10
Genre: music and workshops
What will be the 3rd Annual Prospect Park Didge Gathering has now expanded to the PROSPECT PARK DIDGE AND TRIBAL ARTS GATHERING. Come picnic, participate in one of many workshops and bring your instruments for an outdoor jam.
The gathering will feature a learn to play didgeridoo workshop, yoga, drum circle and more. Didges will be provided on a first come first served basis. Full schedule and exact location to be announced. Bring lots of water and edibles for our fruit potluck!
Confirmed:
All levels didgeridoo workshop with members of Didge Project
Advanced didgeridoo workshop with Termite (Russia) focusing on conterporary styles, didgeridoo beatbox and dubstep!
Kirtan with SriKala and Jesse Johnson
Yoga with Alexandra Moga
Capoeira with Ralph Patete
How to Facilitate a Community Drum Circle with Brian Carter of Brooklyn Drum Circles
RAINDATE is the following day, June 17!
