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May 9-12 2012, BOOM Collective and Search & Restore bring you the Undead Music Festival for

4-days, featuring more than 200 musicians in over 20 venues across the country and beyond.

The Undead Music Festival returns, celebrating the incredible, dynamic, explosively creative jazz, instrumental, and adventurous music being made in New York Cityand beyond.  Launched in June of 2010 our aim was to attract new audiences to serious music while challenging industry standards and redefining the festival experience.  Now in our third year we continue with these goals and have expanded the festival beyond the New York City borders.  the UMF is being presented with support our favorite local brewery, Sixpoint Craft Ales.

On May 7th and 8th We are excited to present a special two-night pre-festival residency with the NYC premiere of a new super trio BBC (Tim Berne, Jim Black, Nels Cline) at Shapeshifter Lab in Brooklyn, 18 Whitwell Place,  www.shapeshifterlab.com.

The Undead Music Festival officially kicks off on Wednesday May 9th with our signature multi-venue Undead Marathon Night featuring over 25 groups performing at three Greenwich Village venues (Le Poisson Rouge, Sullivan Hall, and Kenny’s Castaways).  We are pleased to be working with our friends Melissa Caruso Scott & John Scott, the founders of the legendary haven for improvised music Tonic.  In tribute to the creative music scene they fostered Melissa and John have curated a Tonic Reunion show at Le Poisson Rouge featuring Sex Mob, Vinicius Cantuaria, White Out, Yuka C. Honda, Elysian Fields, Billy Martin and others. On this night audience members are encouraged to bounce around between the three venues to hear familiar groups and to discover new music.  **The full schedule for May 9th is below. 

The festival continues in Brooklyn on Thursday May 10th at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple in Fort Greene with a unique show ‘Medeski Martin & Wood & ?’  We worked with MMW to develop this night which will feature John Medeski, Billy Martin and Chris Wood performing three different sets.  First MMW will perform a full proper set.  Then MMW will perform while each member is replaced by a guest for a song; guests will include Marco Benevento, Anthony Coleman, Marcus Rojas, Oren Bloedow, G Calvin Weston, and Adam Deitch.  In the final set MMW will perform with friends sitting in with the trio; guests will include Marco Benevento, So Percussion, Anthony Coleman, Marcus Rojas, Adam Deitch, Oren Bloedow, Vernon Reid, Charlie Burnham, Chuck Campbell, Miho Hatori, G Calvin Weston, and more TBA.

On Friday May 11th Undead Music Festival presents Night of The Living DIY. This night is a celebration of the artists running the asylum, cutting out the middle man and presenting dynamic instrumental, improvised, jazz and otherwise music in the homes, warehouse and artspaces that suit the music, truly allowing anything to happen. Performances will be happening in select DIY spaces in Brooklyn, Chicago, Austin, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Richmond, Madison, Milwaukee, Oslo, Copenhagen, and more… 

NEW YORK DIY SHOWS (all shows high suggested $10 donation, w/ complimentary Sixpoint beer for each donation):

Seeds (617 Vanderbilt Ave, Prospect Heights): solo performances from Jacob Garchik (trombone / computer), Miles Okazaki (guitar), Greg Heffernan (cello / computer), Dan Weiss (drums), Ohad Talmor (tenor sax), Jacob Sacks (fender rhodes) + special guests!!! 35 Claver (35 Claver, Bed Stuy): Noah Garabedian’s Big Butter & Egg Men + Why I Must Be Careful + First Cousins Once Removed (Adam Schatz, Danny Fisher-Lochhead, Jonathan Goldberger, Skye Steele) + Arts & Sciences IBeam (168 7th st., Gowanus): Denver General (Kirk Knuffké, Jonathan Goldberger, Jeff Davis) + Goldberg Variations for String Trio (Miranda Sielaff, Kristi Helberg, Andrea Lee) + The  Four Bags (Brian Drye, Jacob Garchik, Mike McGinnis, Sean Moran) Big Snow Buffalo Lodge (89 Varet St., Bushwick): Nate Wooley + The Home Of Easy Credit (Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen & Tom Blancarte) + Talibam!! + Vavatican ShapeShifter Lab (18 Whitwell Place, Gowanus): Travis Sullivan’s Bjorkestra VENUE TBA: Andrew D’Angelo + MANY friends!!

The Undead Music Festival concludes on Saturday May 12th with the night of Improvised Round Robbin Duets at 92Y Tribeca.  17 artists enter. Arranged in a random order.  Artist #1 improvises for 5 minutes solo on stage, and is then joined by #2.  After 5 more minutes, #3 enters, and #1 leaves. So on.  It’s a beautiful method for collective spontaneous composition, removing the ego and presenting the music community in a seriously fun way.  Performers will include Mark Helias (bass), Brandon Seabrook (banjo / guitar), Hilmar Jensson (guitar), Allison Miller (drums), Amir Ziv (drums), Mike Pride (drums), Bob Stewart (tuba), Cooper Moore (piano), Miles Okazaki (guitar), Marika Hughes (cello), John Hollenbeck (drums), Matthew Mottel (keys), Fabian Almazan (piano) and more TBA.

The Undead Music Festival is again offering a full festival pass which allows entry into any of the shows between May 9-12 for a very good deal of just $55.  There will also be single night tickets available each night at the participating venues.

**Schedule Announced – Wednesday May 9th 

Undead Marathon Night / Tonic Reunion 

LE POISSON ROUGE / TONIC REUNION SHOWCASE:

6:45 – Heather Greene & Ursa Minor  7:45 – Jamie Saft’s New Zion Trio  8:15 – The Rufuseniks  9:00 – Vinicius Cantuaria Sextet   9:30 – Billy Martin Improv with Shelley Hirsch, Erik Freidlander, and more TBA 10:00 – Dougie Bowne’s Peninsula  10:30 – Yuka C. Honda’s EUCADEMIX 11:00 – White Out w/ Bill Nace 11:30 – Elysian Fields 12:00 – Steven Bernstein’s Sex Mob 12:30 – Ben Perowsky’s Moodswing Orchestra with TK Webb  1:00 – Mike Wolf DJ set (and between prior sets), Danny Blume and Michael Blake

Vernon Reid, Calvin Weston and Jamaaladeen Tacuma Trio to close the show!

KENNY’S CASTAWAYS:  7:00     Secret Architecture 8:00 – Ohad Talmor’s Newsreel (w/ Dan Weiss, Miles Okazaki, Shane Endsley, Jacob Sacks, Matt Pavolka) 9:00 – Nate Wooley Quintet (w/ Josh Sinton, Matt Moran, Eivind Opsvik, Harris Eisenstadt) 10:00 – Greg Ward Trio (w/ Joe Sanders, Damion Reid) 11:00 – Chicago Underground Duo (Rob Mazurek, Chad Taylor) 12:00 -Joe Sanders (w/ Pat Carroll, Rodney Green) 1:00 – Val-Inc

SULLIVAN HALL:  7:30 – Kris Davis Trio (w/ Michael Sarin, Eivind Opsvik) 8:30 – Positive Catastrophe 9:30 – Stabbing Eastward (Ryan Sawyer & Tunde Adebimpe of TV on the Radio) 10:30 – Tony Malaby’s Paloma Recio (w/ Ben Monder, Drew Gress, and Flin van Hemmen) 11:30 – Chris Dingman’s Waking Dreams (w/ Loren Stillman, Fabian Almazan, Ike Sturm, and Jared Schonig) 12:30 – Gerald Cleaver’s Black Host (w/ Darius Jones, Brandon Seabrook, Cooper-Moore, Pascal Niggenkemper) 1:30 – Jonathan Finlayson & Sicilian Defense (w/ Shane Endsley, Miles Okazaki, Keith Witty, Damion Reid)

The 2012 Undead Music Festival at 20+ venues featuring over 200 musicians:

May 9th (Greenwich Village, Manhattan):  Three-venue Marathon Night & Tonic Reunion Show, at Le Poisson Rouge, Kenny’s Castaways, Sullivan Hall. May 10th (Fort Greene, Brooklyn):  ‘Medeski Martin & Wood & ?’ at Brooklyn Masonic Temple. May 11th (NYC, Austin, Seattle, Chicago, Copenhagen, Oslo, +more):  Night of The Living DIY at various venues around the world.  May 12th (Tribeca, Manhattan):  Night of Improvised Round Robbin Duets at 92Y Tribeca. 

Tickets & Information:

– Four-Day Full-Festival Passes are available to the General Public for only $55.

– May 9th (Three-venue Marathon & Tonic Reunion Show) Single-Day tickets are available to the General Public for $25 advance, $30 door.

– May 10th (MMW+Guests) tickets are available to the General Public for $30 advance, $35 door.

– May 11th (DIY Night) tickets will be available soon.

– May 12th (Improvised Round Robbins) tickets will be available soon for $15.

More details at www.undeadmusic.com