Text by Craig Shepard
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Join us this Saturday at 8:05 pm for the beginning of Music for Contemplation’s fall series. Please find my text on the program and on my new piece “Circle Music 4.1” below.
Please join Monique Buzzarté, Dan Joseph, Tucker Dulin, Chris McIntyre, Peter Zumo and I to raise $3800 to bring Stuart Dempster to Williamsburg October 3rd.
You can make a tax-deductible donation through Hatchfund here.
Date: Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Time: 7pm
Venue: Barbes (376 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY)
Ticket: $10
Genre: sax-drum duet improv/jazz
CHRIS STROMQUIST/MATT BAUDER. Drummer Chris Stromquist is a member of Slavic Soul Party and Kultur Shock. He seems to be equally at ease playing Balkan, Afro-Cuban or or Ghanaian music.
Matt Bauder is a saxophonist and composer based who has performed with many iconic figures in avant-garde and rock music including Anthony Braxton Roscoe Mitchell, Iron and Wine and Arcade Fire. His recordings as a leader and co-leader on 482 Music and Clean Feed have received wide critical acclaim.
Date: Monday, August 31, 2015
Time: 9pm – 12am
Venue: Rockwood Music Hall (196 Allen St, New York, New York 10002)
Ticket: $10
Genre: singer-song writer/pop/indie rock
| 6:00pm | Bring Prudence |
| 7:00pm | Clare Sands |
| 8:00pm | Marco Foster |
| 9:00pm | The Ryan Scott Four |
| 10:00pm | Mikki Hommel |
| 11:00pm | Greg Joseph |
| 12:00am | Teddy Kumpel LOOPestra w/ Aaron Steele and David Lizmi |
Date: Monday, August 24, 2015
Time: 6pm
Venue: TROOST (1011 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11222)
Ticket: t.b.a.
Genre: psychedelic/low-fi indie music/experimental
Brooklyn-based guitar and percussion duo 75 Dollar Bill will play every evening at Greenpoint’s Troost Café beginning Sunday, Aug. 23, 2015. The duo, comprised of Che Chen and Rick Brown, will play a set each evening, sharing the bills with a variety of soloists and groups: Sue Garner, Das Audit, Low-Ways, Chris Nelson, Zimbabwean mbira master Chartwell Dutiro and NYC Haitian Vodou drummers Makandal.
Formed in late 2012, 75 Dollar Bill has caught the attention of music fans and fellow musicians in NYC through regular engagements in both established venues and unusual settings in Brooklyn and Manhattan. The duo has shared stages with well-known popular and experimental musicians including Omar Souleyman, David Grubbs, Thalia Zedek, Steve Gunn and Mecca Normal.
Thirty (Year) Rock: How the Black Rock Coalition Keeps Process Alive, Nurtures a Vivid SceneFor 30 years, the Black Rock Coalition has proved that Black musicians have a central, vital role to play in shaping edgy, righteous, driving rock. Remembering the untold numbers of Black musicians who made rock what it is, while nurturing a scene, the volunteer-powered organization insists on the slow build of process, of people interacting in the flesh, in the face of major tectonic shifts in society and music.
“Everything comes down to the process. There’s a process to everything under the sun. Nothing we see on the surface, for a lot of artists, is the whole,” explains Darrell McNeill, BRC-NY Director of Operations. “The body of work goes way deeper. That’s what sets us apart. After thirty years, we know there’s a process. You have to go work out your thing to make it presentable. You can’t automatically jump from A to Z. You have to be patient enough. That’s what the people we support do.”
