Sunday, November 24, 2013

A Quartet of Berklee College of Music String Quartets

A QUARTET OF BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC STRING QUARTETS


Saturday, December 7, 2013
Eliot Street Coffeehouse at the First Church in Jamaica Plain, UU, 6 Eliot Street
Doors 7:30, Concert 8:00

Students, seniors and unemployed $10
$15 in advance, available at church social after Sunday services and through Brown Paper Tickets
$20 at the door (if available).



Eliot Street’s third and final concert of the season promises to be outrageous. Orchestrated by Berklee College of Music Professor Darol Anger, it will feature not one, not two, not three but FOUR string quartets!

Berklee String Quartet
The International Gals of Quartetdom
The Four Corners Quartet
The Resurexon Quartet


Berklee String Quartet
Darol Anger (Turtle Island Quartet, David Grisman Quartet, Republic of Strings, The Furies)
Brittany Haas (Republic of Strings, Crooked Still and 4tet)
Catherine Bent (Cirque du Soleil, Joe Jackson, Greg Osby, Lee Konitz and Kanye West)
Lena Jonsson (graduate student)
Contemporary international music from Brazil, Scandinavia and the US.

Fiddler, composer, producer and educator, Darol Anger is at home in a number of musical genres, some of which he helped to invent. Exceptional among modern fiddlers for his versatility and depth, Anger has helped drive the evolution of the contemporary string band through his involvement with numerous pathbreaking ensembles such as his Republic Of Strings, the Turtle Island String Quartet, the David Grisman Quintet, Montreux, his Duo with Mike Marshall, and others. He has performed and taught all over the world with musicians such as Dr. Billy Taylor, Bela Fleck, Bill Evans, Edgar Meyer, Bill Frisell, David Grisman, Tony Rice, Tim O’Brien, The Anonymous 4, Marin Alsop and the Cabrillo Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony, Mark O’Connor, and Stephane Grappelli. Today Darol can be heard on NPR’s “Car Talk” theme every week, along with Earl Scruggs, David Grisman and Tony Rice. He was also the violinist on the phenomenally popular Sim City computer games. In addition to performing all over the world, he has recorded and produced scores of important recordings since 1977, is a MacDowell and UCross Fellow, and has received numerous composers’ residencies and grants. He has been a featured soloist on dozens of recordings and motion picture soundtracks. He is an Associate Professor at the Berklee School of music. He recently began an ambitious online Fiddle School at ArtistWorks.com. http://darolanger.com/



California-born Brittany Haas is widely regarded as one of the most influential fiddlers of her generation. She grew up honing her craft in fiddle camps nationwide, and came to her unique sound through the old time fiddling of Bruce Molsky and the innovative stylings of Darol Anger. A prodigious youth, she began touring with Darol's Republic of Strings at the age of 14. She simultaneously studied baboons in the evolutionary biology department of Princeton University and joined seminal chamber-grass band Crooked Still. She has toured with them since, and also performed with Yonder Mountain String Band, Tony Trischka, Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas (her cellist sister), Abigail Washburn, and The Waybacks. She played her fiddle on Steve Martin's Grammy Award-winning CD, "The Crow," and performed in his band on Letterman and SNL. She released her debut self-titled solo album at 17, produced by Darol Anger and featuring Bruce Molsky, Mike Dana Bruce Marshall l, Alison Brown and others. Currently residing in Boston, she is the co-leader of the Brittany Haas/Dan Trueman band who released their debut record "CrissCross" in 2011. She also plays in a fiddle duo with Lena Jonsson, an all-girl indie old-time band called The Fundies, and a trio with Jordan Tice & Paul Kowert. http://brittanyhaas.com/


Cellist Catherine Bent, originally from London, was on the vanguard of crossover string players in New York in the 90’s, performing everywhere from Broadway shows to the Knitting Factory. In addition to her active chamber music life, she has toured and performed with Cirque du Soleil, Joe Jackson, Greg Osby, Lee Konitz and Kanye West, and has credits as a side musician and arranger on dozens of recordings. Catherine also performs in Rio de Janeiro and has made appearances on Radio Nacional as soloist with the legendary choro group Conjunto Época de Ouro. Her bands have included Trio Choro Brasil, Waters of March, Midnight Sun, Axis String Quartet, Axis Electric Strings, and new acoustic jazz quartet The Why. Catherine is on the faculty of Berklee College of Music, where she teaches in four different departments and brings her love of chamber music, improvisation and mixed styles into the classroom. http://www.catherinebent.com/





Lena Jonsson is a curious musician, always searching for new projects and new musical meetings. She was brought in Hälsingland, a region in Sweden with a rich tradition of folkmusic and culture, in a family where everyone plays the fiddle. Even if she is brought up with folkmusic, she is not stuck in old wiews of how the music should be played, she is very open and likes to find new ways to express herself within the frame of folkmusic. She has studied traditional Swedish music one year at the music conservatory in Falun and three years at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and is currently studying at Berklee College of Music. http://www.lenajonsson.com/



The International Gals of Quartetdom are a dynamic & diverse quartet of four young women hailing from across the globe.  Under the guidance of the inimitable, Darol Anger, they are united by their love of contemporary string music.  The International Gals are Marta Roma (Cello, Barcelona), Sadie Currey (Violin, Tennessee), YeJi Yoon (Violin, Korea) and Adrianna Ciccone (5-String Violin, Canada). 
Marta is a versatile cellist from Barcelona. She graduated in classical cello and Music Education in 2011 and now she is developing her studies at Berklee College of Music. She has performed in Spain, Mexico, Colombia, Cuba, Brazil, US, Japan, Philippines, playing different kinds of music with various ensembles.

YeJi is a classically trained violinist, composer and arranger from Seoul, Korea. She studied Music theory and composition at SungShin Women's University. Now, she is attending at Berklee College of music and majoring Contemporary Writing and Production as a scholarship student.
Sadie is a fiddler and vocalist with panache and grace. The eldest of five children born into a musical family, Sadie started taking violin lessons at the age of 7.  She has found her style and voice through years of performing with her family band CurreyKorn, Missouri-based Bluegrass band Midnight Flight, and through a year of Music Performance study at the University of Missouri. 
Adrianna is quickly establishing herself as a distinctive voice in the new-acoustic music scene. Her style, while rooted in the Ottawa Valley & Québecois fiddle traditions, continues to be inspired by the many different regional fiddles styles of Canada and the world including Appalachian, Métis, Cape Breton, Irish, Scottish & Scandinavian music. 

The Four Corners
Layth Al Rubaye (Jordan)
Ellen Story (USA)
Alliz Nicholas (England)
Naseem Alatrash (Palestine)
“Four players sit at the corners of a round table
Back to back they face one and another
Draw their instruments and play for each other.”
Challenging cultural difference through music, The Four Corners string quartet celebrate their own identities whilst exploring each others musical influences. Formed in 2013 at Berklee College of Music, Layth Al-Rubaye, Ellen Melissa Story, Alliz Nicholas, and Naseem Alatrash represent a new generation of young artists who enrich listeners with unique interpretations and shatter the traditional impression of the string quartet. Based in Boston, USA, the quartet enjoy performing at The Museum of Fine Arts,Massachusetts State House, Berklee College of Music and for Layth’s cat Gordita.rom Jordan, USA, England and Palestine, they converse in middle-eastern, jazz, classical and folk styles. Their signature work Maracibo by the notable cellist and Berklee Professor Eugene Friesen, uses complex rhythms native to Brazilian traditional instruments, as the backdrop to virtuoso improvisation and exciting extended techniques.



The Resurexon Quartet
Isa Burke
Adrian Zemor
Holland Raper
Anna Stromer


The Resurexon String Quartet is a brand-new quartet of Berklee students who hail from diverse musical backgrounds, but are united in their desire to innovate and build bridges across musical styles. Under the direction of Darol Anger, they continue to propel the world of contemporary string music to new places. They are violinists Isa Burke and Holland Raper, cellist Adrian Zemor, and violist Anna Stromer. 

Isa Burke is a fiddler and songwriter who grew up in Maine and is now based in Boston. She was raised in a musical family and grew up in New England's rich folk community, and that tradition formed the foundation for all of the music she creates. Now in her third semester at Berklee studying violin performance and songwriting, Isa is developing a voice and a reputation as a rising talent in Boston's roots music scene. Her fiddling draws upon Appalachian old-time, bluegrass, Celtic, Québecois and Scandinavian traditions to forge a style rooted in tradition, yet undeniably powerful and new.

Holland Raper is a violinist from a suburb of Detroit. Trained in both classical and Celtic fiddle styles since a young age, Holland has performed in the DSO Civic Ensembles and represented the United States in the Fleadh Cheoil Irish Music Championships. She is currently a 7th semester student at Berklee, planning to graduate this May.

Born and raised in New York City, Adrian studied cello at Third Street Music School for 12 years. In high school, he started to branch out from the classical world, and played in a metal band while continuing his classical studies. He is currently a 5th semester performance major at Berklee, where he has been studying classical, rock, folk, and jazz.

Anna Stromer is a Boston-based violist who has performed with Yo Yo Ma, Richard Stoltzman, Mark Wood, Mark O’Connor, Issac Delgado, The Dear Hunter, Wyclef Jean, and Thirty Seconds to Mars. Anna has also been working with the Vitamin String Quartet as part of their live performance string quartet and with them has performed on MTV Unplugged with Thirty Seconds to Mars and on the 100th episode of Gossip Girl. Anna is currently enrolled at Berklee College of Music where she is majoring in music business, and is excited to perform as part of a string quartet with the Boston Ballet for “Cacti” in May of 2014.

Saturday, December 7, 2013
Doors 7:30, Concert 8:00
Presented by Eliot Street Coffeehouse
6 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain
Telephone - (617) 942-0716Students, seniors and unemployed $10, all others $15 in advance, $20 at the door

Tune in to Doug Gessler's "The Lost Highway" on student/community radio WMBR, 88.1fm Saturday, December 7, 8-10am, when Darol Anger and Brittany Haas will be live in studio.




What's next? Watch Eliot Street’s Facebook page and website.
The Eliot Street Coffeehouse, a co-production of the Eliot Street Soiree and notloB Parlour Concerts, are presented in the beautiful and acoustically sound First Church of Jamaica Plain's parish hall, 6 Eliot Street (near Centre and South).    
The community, especially those interested in volunteering, is invited to send inquiries by email to eliotstreetcoffeehouse@gmail.com

Saturday, November 23, 2013

Molly Pinto Madigan and Friends, Adrinna Ciccone and friends, Featuring Neil Pearlman, Outpost 186, 11/30 & 12/4

Lord Geoffrey Presents, at Outpost 186, 186 Hampshire St., Cambridge.

Molly Pinto Madigan and Friends
Saturday, November 30
Hailed for her "pure, sweet” singing style and her haunting
compositions, Molly Pinto Madigan has performed extensively around the Boston area at venues such as Club Passim, Boston Celtic Music Festival, NEFFA, and the Notlob Parlor Concerts. In 2009, she won first place in the Boston Folk Festival Songwriting Contest for her original song "Bound Away,” and she was recently awarded first place in the South Shore Folk Club's Ballad-Singing Competition as well as being named "Artist of the Year" at the Salem State University Music Awards. As a member of the teen bluegrass band Jaded Mandolin and soloist in the Family Folk Chorale, Molly gained recognition for her vocal and songwriting skills, sharing the stage with artists such as Claire Lynch, Scott Alarik, John Carter Cash, and Tracy Grammer.

Since her debut in the Boston folk scene, Molly has submerged herself in the dark, luscious world of ballads, drawn to their magic, and her original songs echo with the whisperings of the American and European traditional music. After releasing her first solo album, her original song, “Bloom” was recently featured on WUMB's Local Folk program.

Molly's
Website - http://mollypintomadigan.wordpress.com/
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/MollyPintoMadigan
Doors 7:30Concert 8:00; pickin' party follows.
Students $5
General Public $10
Email lordgeoffreypresents@gmail.com for special "insider" information.


Adrinna Ciccone and friends, Featuring Neil Pearlman
Wednesday, December 4
Québecois ,  Appalachian, Métis, Cape Breton, Irish, Scottish & Scandinavian fiddle tunes
 



Boston-based fiddler & step dancer Adrianna Ciccone is quickly establishing herself as a distinctive voice in the new-acoustic music scene. Her style, while rooted in the Ottawa Valley & Québecois fiddle traditions, continues to be inspired by the many different regional fiddles styles of Canada and the world including Appalachian, Métis, Cape Breton, Irish, Scottish & Scandinavian music. 
Adrianna’s desire to explore new musical languages is reflected in her compositions and arrangements which draw from traditions of the past while forging a unique musical identity.  

This distinctive style has brought the Timmins, ON native many awards and achievements.  She is a Maritime Open Fiddle Champion & American Grand Masters Fiddle Championship Finalist.  

Adrianna is also an active & experienced instructor.  For nearly a decade she has been passing on Canada's rich musical heritage to students of all ages and levels. She maintains a lively studio in both Northern Ontario & Boston, as well as throughout North America via Skype Video lessons. 

Adrianna is currently studying with scholarship at Berklee College of Music where she is actively involved in the American Roots Music Program.
Pianist and mandolinist Neil Pearlman is rapidly distinguishing himself as a uniquely innovative artist in the contemporary traditional music scene. Called “a tremendous pianist” on BBC Radio Scotland and “a force to be reckoned with” by WGBH’s Brian O’Donovan, Neil is recognized in many Celtic music circles for his unique approach to the piano. Rooted in traditional Cape Breton piano styles, Neil brings in ideas from many other genres and the result is an exciting new sound that remains true to its traditional roots. It was this fresh approach that led legendary Cape Breton fiddler Jerry Holland to say "watching Neil's hands on the piano was like watching two spiders on crack!"

An accomplished Cape Breton step dancer as well, Neil grew up in the family band Highland Soles, led by father and mother Ed Pearlman and Laura Scott, both influential figures in Scottish music and dance. Neil has performed with many major music figures including Natalie MacMaster, Alasdair Fraser, Natalie Haas, Seamus Connolly, Kimberley Fraser, Maeve Gilchrist, Hanneke Cassel, Frank Ferrel, Laura Risk and Mike Vass. He has also opened for Archie Fisher, split a bill with Jerry Holland and worked closely with many others.

Some highlights of Neil's career so far have been performances at Carnegie Hall and the Iron Horse, and teaching at Alasdair Fraser's Sierra Fiddle Camp. Neil currently performs with a number of projects ranging from traditional Scottish fiddle music to contemporary jazz.
Adrianna's website - http://www.adriannaciccone.com/
Neil's website - http://neilpearlman.com/

Doors 7:30Concert 8:00; pickin' party follows.
Students $5
General Public $10
Email lordgeoffreypresents@gmail.com for special "insider" information.

Sunday, November 17, 2013

TURN YOUR RADIO ON! for The Bombadils, Dan Bui, Darol Anger and Brittany Haas!

The months of November and December will be very busy ones for notloB Parlour ConcertsLord Geoffrey Presents and Eliot Street Coffeehouse, we hope that you will be supporting our offerings. Several radio stations are supporting the series, details below. During this time of community and public radio fund raising, when deciding which to support remember which support the music you enjoy.

11/20 186
Dan Bui and Friends
11/22 JPUU
The Bombadils w/ Cat and the Moon
11/30
186
Molly Pinto Matigan & friends
12/4
186
Adrinna Ciccone, Neil Pearlman & friends
12/7
JPUU
3 Berklee String Quartets
featuring Darol Anger and Brittany Haas
12/8
HC
Brittany Haas, Joe Walsh & Owen Marshall
12/11 186
Jacob Means & Friends
12/18
186
High Rock Mountain

186 = Outpost 186, 186 Hampshire St, CambridgeJPUU = First Church in JP, 6 Eliot StreetHC = House ConcertFor complete information go to https://sites.google.com/site/notlobmusic/ or email notlobreservations@gmail.com

TURN YOUR RADIO ON! 


Mandolin wizard Dan Bui, performing at Lord Geoffrey Presents' next offering at Outpost 186 (details below) this Wednesday will be on JD Williams' and Matt Scutchfield's brand new "Bluegrass Lounge" on Berklee College of Music's "BIRN" (Berklee internet Radio Network) Monday, 11/18, 11pm. Facebook.



The Bombadils
 (coming to Eliot Street Coffeehouse w/Cat And The Moon 11/22) are getting airplay on several Massachusetts radio stations, please tune in via broadcast or web stream. Tune in, and send a message to the hosts thanking them for supporting the Bombadils and the Eliot Street Coffeehouse.


Twilight Showcase Radio - 95.9 WATD FM
This Sunday, November 17th, at 4pm, Sandy Streid from Twilight Showcase Radio is playing the Bombadil's music and will interview Anh (flute) and Evan (bass) at 4:30pm.
http://959watd.com/programming/weekends/sunday/twilight-showcase-radio/

Doug Gesler / Lost Highway 
Saturdays, 8-10am
Student/community radio from MIT WMBR
88.1fm, wmbr.org

Nick Noble / The Folk Revival 
Thursdays 7-11pm
NPR affiliate WICN, 90.5fm, wicn.org
https://www.facebook.com/groups/287809153789/

Tim Larkin / Celtic Stew
Student/community radio WUMD 89.3 FM, UMass Dartmouth
Sundays, noon-3pm
http://www.893wumd.org/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/celticstewradio/

Louise Dunphy / Celtic Crossing 
Sundays, 5-7 PM
Student/community radio WMUA 91.1FM, UMass Amherst
http://wmua.org/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Celtic-Crossings-Radio-Program/179522862120015
Sandy Streid / WRCA
This Sunday, November 17th, at 4pm, Sandy Streid from Twilight Showcase Radio is playing the Bombadil's music and will interview Anh (flute) and Evan (bass) at 4:30pm.
http://959watd.com/


Doug Gesler / Lost Highway 
Saturdays, 8-10am
Student/community radio from MIT WMBR
88.1fm, wmbr.org


Nick Noble / The Folk Revival 
Thursdays 7-11pm
NPR affiliate WICN, 90.5fm, wicn.org
https://www.facebook.com/groups/287809153789/


Tim Larkin / Celtic Stew
Student/community radio WUMD 89.3 FM, UMass Dartmouth
Sundays, noon-3pm
http://www.893wumd.org/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/celticstewradio/


Louise Dunphy / Celtic Crossing 
Sundays, 5-7 PM 
Student/community radio WMUA 91.1FM, UMass Amherst
http://wmua.org/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Celtic-Crossings-Radio-Program/179522862120015


Dave Bernard / WRCA Magazine
WRCA, 1330am
Sunday nights 11:30pm
http://www.1330wrca.com/


Last but not least, Darol Anger (David Grisman Quintet, Republic of Strings, Mike Marshall) and/or Brittany Haas (Crooked Still, Republic of Strings, 4tet) will be on Doug Gesler's Lost Highway, Saturday, December 7 about 9:30am on MIT's independent student/community radio WMBR, 88.1fm, wmbr.org. Runor has it tickets for their Eliot Street Coffeehouse performance that evening will be given away. 


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Dan Bui and Friends
Wednesday, November 20
Bluegrass Concert and Pickin' Party


A recent graduate of the Berklee College of Music, Dan Bui is a mandolinist from Austin, Texas. He loves bluegrass and old-time fiddle music. He is thrilled to be performing some original music he has been writing with the help of some of his favorite musicians from the Boston acoustic music scene. And remember to tune in to "The Bluegrass Lounge" on Berklee student internet radio The BIRN Monday, November 18, 11pm-1am, when the program will host Dan and his friends live in studio! 

As an added bonus, four of our upcoming artists will be featured on and/or as live in-studio gusts on several radio programs, so please mark your calendars.Doors 7:30; Concert 8:00
Students $5
General Public $10
Patrons are welcome to bring string instruments for the after-concert pickin' party.
Email lordgeoffreypresents@gmail.com for special "insider" information.

Saturday, November 16, 2013

Breton dance and music festival with Bagad New York

Join the Folk Arts Center of New England and Bagad New York for some exciting, rare traditional Breton* music and dancing 4-11pm Saturday, November 16 at the Canadian American Club, 202 Arlington St., Watertown.

A fest-noz (plurial festoù) is a traditional dancing festival in Brittany. Most of the Breton dances are social dance, in group. Currently, many festoù-noz are also held outside Brittany within diaspora, bringing the Breton culture to life outside Breton territory. This term is known since the end of the 19th century but is given as a name only since the 1950s.In the past, the dances were sometime used to trample the ground to make a firm earth floor in a house or a solid surface for farm work (the "aire neuve" dances), in which people from the neighbourhood were invited what explains the presence of stamping movements in some of the dances. During long time the church banned "kof-ha-kof" (stomach-to-stomach) dances, meaning dancing in pairs. These festivals were a chance for young people to meet and size each other up, on a social level, by their clothes, and to see how quickly they got tired, since dances sometimes continued for a long time and involved complex and swift steps that required effort and skill.These days, "Festoù Noz" are still very popular, mixing the different generations. Most of the villages have at least once a year a fest-noz, organised by the sports clubs, the school, etc... It is a way to express their culture and identity, and to share common values with friends of a night. As in many group folk dances one talk of sometimes reaching a trance state because of repetitive music, and physical exertion. During the summer and touristic season, in many ways, taking part in a fest-noz is for many people like an alternative way of going to a night club.- Wiki




The Folk Arts Center is pleased to present a Fest-Noz ("Night Festival") featuring the audacious sounds of Bagad New York and other musicians in various duos and trios. A bagadis an orchestra found in Brittany, France, consisting of any number of musicians playing mainly three kinds of instruments: the Scottish bagpipe, the Breton bombarde (a double-reed woodwind), and a variety of percussion. A fest-noz celebrates the traditions of Brittany and other Celtic nations with music by bagadoù (the three-instrument bands), circle and couple dancing for all, and refreshments.

Saturday, November 16, 20134–6 pm... Breton dance workshop led by Werner Ceusters6–8 pm... Breton crepe dinner, with cash bar 7:30 pm... Doors open for the dance party8–11 pm... Breton dance party with music by Bagad New York and other bands

Admission:
Dance workshop $17 • FAC members $15 • Students $14
Breton crepe dinner $8 per person (drinks not included)
Dance party $17 • FAC members $15 • Students $14
Dance workshop and dance party $26 • FAC members $22 • Students $20
Beginners, experienced dancers, singles, and couples are all welcome!

Our Fest-Noz is preceded by a dance workshop and a crepe dinner. Most of the evening's dances will be taught at the workshop and reviewed during the party. You do not need to have previous dance experience or to attend with a partner.

Contributions to the refreshment table are much appreciated. Please help protect the hall's wooden floor by changing from street shoes to clean, non-marking shoes before dancing. For the comfort and well-being of all our dancers, especially those with allergies or asthma, please do not wear perfume or fragranced personal products at our events. Thank you!

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Breton usually refers to: