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23 JAN 2006 Mon PAST EVENT
Made On A Mac
Featuring Dominic Frasca.
Guitar Player magazine’s “Guitar Hero of 2006” Dominic Frasca shows you why
he leaves all the heavy audio equipment at home in favor of his 17-inch
PowerBook and Logic Pro software.
Apple Store
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24 JAN 2006 Tue PAST EVENT
Stephen Arons
Stephen Aron, has been a featured artist for many years at nearly every major American guitar festival. The artistic director of the GFA Convention 2005 at the Oberlin Conservatory, Aron’s recordings have been described as “breathtaking” (Guitar Review), and as “one of the best discs to cross my desk” (Soundboard). He will play a program of Chopin and Mendelssohn transcription as well as a selection of works by Spanish and South American composers.
THE MONKEY
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25 JAN 2006 Wed PAST EVENT
Blues Fallin’ Down Like Rain
The music of Skip James
Featuring Sonny Landreth & Cindy Cashdollar, Gary Lucas, Chocolate Genius, and Alvin Youngblood Hart.
Among the earliest and most influential Delta bluesmen to record, Skip James (1902-1969) influenced everyone from Robert Johnson to Eric Clapton. These five distinctive artists will honor the musical legacy of this American original in a special tribute concert. sonnylandreth.com | cindycashdollar.com | mojomusic.com | chocolate-genius.com | garylucas.com
Merkin Concert Hall
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26 JAN 2006 Thu PAST EVENT
Cindy Cashdollar & Friends
A free lunchtime concert in lower Manhattan
Featuring Cindy Cashdollar, Amy Helm, Larry Campbell, and Theresa Campbell..
What makes steel guitar and Dobro player Cindy Cashdollar’s musical journey stand out is a combination of restless creativity and an uncanny ability to understand and add to a wild array of styles. She has worked with the likes of Leon Redbone, Graham Parker, Bob Dylan (on his Grammy winning “Time Out Of Mind” CD), Jorma Kaukonen, Peter Rowan, and the stellar Cajun group BeauSoleil. As the steel guitarist for eight years with western swing kingpins Asleep At The Wheel, she logged many road miles and won five Grammy Awards. cindycashdollar.com
WORLD FINANCIAL CENTER WINTER GARDEN
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27 JAN 2006 Fri PAST EVENT
Made On A Mac
Featuring Vernon Reid.
Grammy winning artist, Vernon Reid, takes center stage to discuss his latest
project, Artifical Africa, a multimedia performance created with assistance
from his desktop and notebook Macintosh computers.
Apple Store
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27 JAN 2006 Fri PAST EVENT
Made On A Mac
Featuring Henry Kaiser.
Guitarist and research diver Henry Kaiser joins us to share exciting work
captured while exploring the Artic. Henry will discuss how his PowerBook is
essential in both his scientific and creative endeavors.
Apple Store
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28 JAN 2006 Sat PAST EVENT
A Story of Floating Weeds + A Page of Madness
Featuring The world premiere of two new film scores by Alex de Grassi and Henry Kaiser.
Guitarist/composer Alex de Grassi (“The level of de Grassi’s accomplishment is astonishing” wrote Jazziz Magazine) performs music to accompany the 1934 silent film A Story of Floating Weeds. Celebrated Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu weaves a tragic tale of rekindled love, showing how it profoundly changes the lives of a retired actor, his present girlfriend, his ex-lover and the son he never knew he had. Henry Kaiser, the highly innovative guitarist/improviser/producer, performs music to excerpts from Kinugasa Teinosuke’s 1926 film A Page of Madness. degrassi.com | henrykaiser.net
Flushing Town Hall
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29 JAN 2006 Sun PAST EVENT
Bill Frisell & Jim Woodring
Featuring Bill Frisell’s 858 Quartet featuring Jenny Scheinman (violin), Eyvind Kang (viola) and Hank Roberts (cello) with special guests, Ron Miles (trumpet) & Greg Tardy (tenor sax and clarinet).
The Grammy Award-winning guitarist and composer Bill Frisell performs new work for his string ensemble & special guests plus the world premiere of a new, short multi-media piece created in collaboration with visual artist Jim Woodring. Deceptively mild-mannered and soft-spoken, Bill Frisell has been described by Spin magazine as the “Clark Kent” of electric guitar who “coaxes and slams his hovering split-toned ax into shapes of things to come.” Jim Woodring has been called everything under the sun, but we like “Nuts” and “Genius” the best. billfrisell.com | jimwoodring.com
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
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30 JAN 2006 Mon PAST EVENT
Made On A Mac
Featuring Slow Six.
Learn how chamber ensemble Slow Six integrates live audio processing into
its performances via custom applications designed on a Mac using the Max/MSP
environment.
Apple Store
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01 FEB 2006 Wed PAST EVENT
Blues Fallin’ Down Like Rain
The music of Charley Patton
Featuring John Hammond, Rory Block, Dave Tronzo, Toshi Reagon and Harry Manx..
A giant in the field of Delta country blues, Charley Patton (1887-1934) was an acknowledged celebrity and seminal influence on musicians throughout the Delta. His music embraced blues, ballads, ragtime, to gospel, and his influence can be heard in the music of Howlin’ Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Son House, and Robert Johnson. Five amazing artists will interpret the music of this great blues figure. roryblock.com | toshireagon.com
Merkin Concert Hall
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02 FEB 2006 Thu PAST EVENT
Stephen Griesgraber
Guitarist/composer Stephen Griesgraber will present Redhooker, an evening of music for guitar and live electronics. Inspired by his interest in hypnagogia and the altered auditory experiences reflected in various dream states, Stephen will perform music for solo guitar, guitar with live electronics and samples, as well as music for guitar and ensemble. The work will be representational as well as interpretive in its exploration of states of semi and unconsciousness.
The Monkey
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03 FEB 2006 Fri PAST EVENT
Daniel Lanois’ “Silvio”
The New York premiere of an experimental film + music project.
Featuring Daniel Lanois (acoustic, electric, and pedal steel guitars, vocals), with Brian Blade (drums) and other guests TBD.
Celebrated guitarist, singer, songwriter & producer Daniel Lanois brings his music and experimental film images to NYC for the first time. Glorious pedal steel guitar playing and innovative sonics will make for an electrifying night. Of his last NYGF performance, The NY Times wrote: “In a rare performance playing solo pedal steel guitar, Mr. Lanois, who has produced albums by U2 and Bob Dylan, used the instrument for hovering meditations. Liquid chords welled up behind folky melodies, making music that was expansive yet humble, as if contemplating wide-open spaces.” daniellanois.com
Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
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04 FEB 2006 Sat PAST EVENT
Kevin Gallagher
Kevin Gallagher, winner of both the 1993 Guitar Foundation of America Competiton and the 1997 Francisco Tarrega competition, will premiere his new “avant-pop” group, Electric Kompany. The group arranges, composes and commissions music for rock quartet. For this concert, they will perform compositions by Arvo Part, Jacob Ter Veldhuis, Marc Mellits, and others. guitar69.com
The Monkey
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05 FEB 2006 Sun PAST EVENT
Michael Nicolella
Praised by Gramophone for his “stunning technical skill and unfailing musicality” and characterized by Classical Guitar magazine as “a fully enlightened musician of our time,” Michael Nicolella is recognized as one of America’s most innovative and eclectic classical guitarists. He will perform music for classical and electric guitar, including works by Steve Reich, J.S. Bach, Hans Werner Henze, Jimi Hendrix and himself. nicolella.com
The Monkey
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06 FEB 2006 Mon PAST EVENT
Marco Cappelli
The Extreme Guitar Project
Since landing in NYC two years ago, the Italian classical guitarist Marco Cappelli (a student of Oscar Ghiglia) started to develop a unique style which includes avant garde compositions, improvisation, live-electronics, hard rock sounds, classic licks, and much more. This melting pot of sounds, is rarely heard on a classical guitar. At The Monkey he will present a program of his own through-composed/improvised music using the so-called Extreme Guitar, which has 8 sympathetic steel strings running under the regular 6 nylon strings. marcocappelli.com
The Monkey
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07 FEB 2006 Tue PAST EVENT
Julia Sarr & Patrice LaRose
Featuring Julia Sarr (vocals), and Patrice LaRose (flamenco guitar).
One of the most original vocal artists to emerge from West Africa in decades, Julia Sarr honed her reputation as a backing vocalist in Paris for Lokua Kanza, Manu Dibango, MC Solaar, and other luminaries. Her and Patrice Larose’s first album, Set Luna (So I’ve Observed), and their recent U.S. concert debut at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, are unlike anything else from the rich Senegalese and Flamenco traditions. Hailed by Youssou N’Dour as “the fresh face of African music”, and by The NY Times as a probing source of “introspection” in a revitalized African tradition. noformat.net
Joe’s Pub
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08 FEB 2006 Wed PAST EVENT
Blues Fallin’ Down Like Rain
The Music of Elizabeth Cotten
Featuring Taj Mahal, Mike Seeger, Jolie Holland and Carla Kihlstedt & Mark Orton.
Elizabeth Cotten was a true original and among the most influential guitarists to surface during the roots music revival era. Turning her instruments upside-down to play them left-handed, she developed a truly distinctive guitar style and sound. Her song “Freight Train”has become a fingerpicker’s classic. taj-mo-roots.com mikeseeger.info jolieholland.com tinhattrio.com
Merkin Concert Hall
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12 JAN 2008 Sat PAST EVENT
The Royal Albert Hall Project
Opening Night of our 2008 Festival…and it’s free!
Featuring All new interpretations of Dylan classics performed by Laura Cantrell, Kelly Joe Phelps, Stevie Jackson (Belle & Sebastian), Marshall Crenshaw, Oakley Hall, Lenny Kaye & Katrina Kiedis (Sufjan Stevens Band), Jason Isbell (Drive By Truckers), Jim Lauderdale, Toshi Reagon, Freeman & Vernon Reid, Harry Manx & Kevin Breit, The Last Town Chorus/Megan Hickey, Jesse Harris, Richard Julian & Jim Campilongo, Chocolate Genius Inc. and others..
A very special tribute to the music of Bob Dylan, honoring Dylan’s storied 1966 concert—long the Dylan bootleggers’ favorite, and released legit by Sony on CD in 1998. Critic Dave Marsh reviewed it in Creem magazine, writing “It is the most supremely elegant piece of rock ‘n’ roll music I’ve ever heard” The recording includes Dylan’s now-legendary confrontation with a heckler calling out “Judas” from the audience. This concert features distinctive roster of singer-songwriters, bands and instrumentalists perform their own arrangements of the Dylan classics, in sequence from the original show.
World Financial Center Winter Garden
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17 JAN 2008 Thu PAST EVENT
Blue Country Heart
The Music of Hank Williams
Featuring Jorma Kaukonen, G.E. Smith, Little Toby Walker, Larry Campbell, and friends celebrate the music of Hank Williams Sr..
Hank achieved much in his short life. Taught everything he knew by a bluesman known as “Tee-Tot”, Hank went on to write and sing some of the best loved country music. His love for the blues gave his music a lasting quality that has kept him in the spotlight for over fifty years after his death. | jormakaukonen.com | gesmith.com | littletobywalker.com
Merkin Concert Hall
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18 JAN 2008 Fri PAST EVENT
Gyan Riley
Guitarist /composer Gyan Riley will play an evening of music from his latest CD release, Melis Mantra. He will be joined by Tracy Silverman on electric violin and Scott Amendola on Drums. Gyan’s awards include First Prize in the Portland International Guitar Festival Competition and First Prize in the San Francisco Conservatory Guitar Concerto Competition. He played in the American premiere of John Adams’ El Nino with soprano Dawn Upshaw and the San Francisco Symphony. This concert will be a CD release party. gyanriley.com
The Monkey
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