Celebrate Halloween with the Peter Zummo Group. The natural and the supernatural collide as the musicians in Zummo’s ensemble plays his otherworldly songs while situated among nature-inspired exhibits at the Staten Island Museum.
Peter Zummo photo by Paul Grundl
Zummo’s compositions and the band’s performance style unmask time. They evoke the experience of traveling through an eerie, gradually changing landscape and remind the listener of natural processes evolving over time — from the erosion of rocks and the growth of plants to the migration of birds.
Peter’s show is a part of the Tracks in the Sand series, one of four concerts in the 2009 Staten Island Rocks series, produced by The Loris Bend Foundation, Inc.,
Members:
Peter Zummo, trombone
Ernie Brooks, bass guitar
Mustafa Ahmed, djembe and percussion
Yvette Perez, keyboard and voice
Bill Ruyle, hammer dulcimer and percussion
Danny Tunick, vibraphone and percussion
When and where:
Saturday, October 31st; 2–4 p.m.
Staten Island Museum main gallery
75 Stuyvesant Place, Staten Island
718.727.1135
www.simuseum.org
cost: museum admission, $2/$1 children
Tracks in the Sand is one of a series of four concerts in the 2009 Staten Island Rocks series, produced by The Loris Bend Foundation, Inc., a 501c3 nonprofit organization. The series is made possible in part by a Staten Island Creative Communities Grant from the Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island, with public funding from the New York State Council on the Arts.
