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EVENTS 2010
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June 12
Saturday, 8:00pm. |
BIG SLYDE - At first
sight, Big Slyde's instrumentation seems atypical. At first
note, it becomes refreshingly familiar. Building on the foundation of
guitar and cello, enhanced by the bouzouki, banjo, and dobro, the
intensely original music of Big Slyde can carry you to strange and
beautiful places. No cover. BYOB
John Doan: Banjo, Dobro, Dojo, Guitar, Vocals
Hannah Doan: Bouzouki, Guitar, Vocals
Mikey Portal: Guitar, Vocals
Christina Grant: Cello |
June 25
Friday 8:00pm |
Play Reading- God of Carnage, by Yasmina
Reza
This dark comedy won the 2009 Tony Award for best play on Broadway.
Cast includes- Dorian Gossey
Melissa LaValley
Bob Andrews
Brian LaValley
Admission is free |
July 17
Saturday 8:00pm |
Semi-free
Janine Nichols voice, rhythm guitar Brandon Ross guitar
JANINE NICHOLS is the “arrestingly plaintive” (Village Voice)
singer, ever more frequent songwriter and rhythm guitarist in a band she
calls SEMI-FREE in
recognition of her genre-jumping ways. Nichols had been producing live
music in New York for more than 20 years when she first put a band
together following a series of show-stealing performances in the
multi-artist “concept shows” she masterminds with Hal Willner, most
recently in the Cultural Olympiad accompanying the Vancouver Olympics.
For this performance, Janine will be accompanied by
the exquisite guitarist BRANDON ROSS, who invented the word
“future-folk” to describe the sound he chases.
Brandon
has played, among so many toweringly great others, with Don Byron, Bill
Frisell, Myra Melford, Stomu Takeishi and Me’Shell N’degeocello; he
also was music director for Cassandra Wilson in her rise to fame.
Brandon
co-leads the avant power trio Harriet Tubman in addition to several
acoustic ensembles and has been observed by both Janine Nichols and the
magazine Jazz Times to join “linear facility and originality” with
“cathartic abandon,” rare and redemptive qualities. Tempos are often
languid. Fevers always run high.
“Her idiosyncratic sense of time and space
elevates everything she sings.”
David Greenberger, Metroland
“Watch her stop time.”
Jim Macnie, lamentforastraightline
“Janine is one of the greatest singers I’ve ever heard.”
Terry Adams, NRBQ
www.semi-free.com
No Cover |
| July 29,30,31, Aug. 1,5,6,7,8 |
The play True West, by Sam Shepard
look below for information about the Special Benefit Performance

Performances - at 8:00pm. Tickets- $18.
Reservations required. Call 946-8315
Cast: Brian LaVallee, Scott Renderer, Harry Fine, Susy Doolittle
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| Aug 7th 8:00pm |
Special Benefit Performance August 7th
6:00pm
Pre-Show Mongolian
Grill & Open Bar
Drinks at Intermission
Post Show Cast Party
Tickets $50
All Proceeds to Benefit
the Upper Jay Art Center
Reservations Required
Call 946-8315
pay at the door
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