notloB Music to present Nic Gareiss for the fifth time, January 21, Harvard

notloB Music to present Nic Gareiss for the fifth time.*

This "in the round" dance concert will be presented in the intimate setting of the historic Hildreth House. Suggested donation is $20, with a $5 discount for seniors. Coffee will be provided, please bring a dessert to share. The room is small, seating is very limited, so reservations via eventbrite are recommended.

Sunday, January 21, 2018 

Doors: 4:15pm
Concert: 4:45pm (sunset).

Hildreth House

13 Ayer Road

Harvard, MA 01451
(for GPS, enter 15 Elm St., Harvard MA)
Reservations

Solo Square Dance is a one-person percussive dance show created and performed by Nic Gareiss commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Irish Dance Halls Act which banned citizens from dancing in homes. The show features new pieces inspired by this and other such dance bans, including the Elmore City, OK dancing ban that inspired the film Footloose and the most recently lifted dancing ban in Pound, VA (only lifted in 1999!) which required that dancing permits not be granted "to anyone who is not a proper person, nor to a person who is not a person of good moral character".  The 60-minute show, set in houses, explores the dialectic of public/private life and probes the subversive power of dancing+sounding bodies, recasting percussive dance as a vehicle of liberation and social transformation. 

Coffee will be provided, please bring a dessert to share.

Bio:

Michigan-born dancer Nic Gareiss has been described by the Irish Times as “the human epitome of the unbearable lightness of being,” and "the most inventive and expressive step dancer on the scene” by the Boston Herald. His work re-imagines movement as a musical practice, recasting dance as medium that appeals to both eyes and ears. Gareiss draws from many percussive dance traditions, weaving together a dance technique facilitating his love of improvisation, traditional dance footwork vocabulary, and musical collaboration. He has concertized internationally for over ten years with many of the luminaries of traditional music, including Frankie Gavin, Dervish, Bill Frisell, Darol Anger, Bruce Molsky, Phil Wiggins, Buille, Solas, Liz Carroll, Martin Hayes, The Gloaming and The Chieftains. Nic holds a degree in Anthropology from Central Michigan University and a MA in Ethnochoreology from the University of Limerick. Gareiss' essay, "An Buachaillín Bán: Reflections on One Queer's Performance within Traditional Irish Music & Dance" appears in the book Meanings and Makings of Queer Dance edited by Clare Croft on Oxford University Press. www.nicgareiss.com

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Since 2007, notloB Music has presented close to 200 folk, old-time, bluegrass, progressive string band, world, and Celtic concerts in unique listening room environments throughout the greater Boston area. Tickets are available at http://www.eventbrite.com/o/notlob-music-6730833315. For more information see its website – notlobmusic.com – or Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/notloBParlourConcerts/ - or email notlobreservations@gmail.com.

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#125 02/12/14 4TET (Jordan Tice, Brittany Haas, Cleek Schrey and Nic Gareiss) @ Watertown Private Residence

#148 01/17/15 Brittany Haas and Nic Gareiss @ Park Avenue Congregational Church

#149 01/18/15 Emma Beaton and Nic Gareiss @ Carriage House of Violins

#171 10/10/15 Emma Beaton and Nic Gareiss @ Gregorian Rugs

#194 01/21/18 Nic Gareiss @ Hildreth House

Emma Beaton and Nic Gareiss to Perform in Newton Lower Falls October 10

notloB Music’s Fall season continues at Gregorian Oriental Rugs' beautiful stone, brick and wood mill building overlooking the Charles River with old friends Emma Beaton and Nic Gareiss.

Emma Beaton: cello, banjo, vocals

www.emmabeaton.com

“She is a truly gifted musician in many genres and on many instruments. She is one of the most exciting young cellists in the folk music world today, taking the cello into unprecedented territory in the Celtic, Cajun, southern Appalachian old-time, and Scandinavian genres. As a vocalist, her clear, powerful voice is truly captivating...”

- Natalie Haas

It is no wonder that someone from the very edge of the North American continent would possess a voice as naturally captivating as the verdant Pacific Northwest. Emma Beaton, young cellist and singer from Qualicum Beach, British Columbia has what bluegrass super-star Laurie Lewis called, a "voice like a laser," clear, effortless, and striking to the core.

The child of two Scottish emigrants, Beaton is no stranger to the traditional music realm. She learned to play the cello amongst seas of fiddlers under Alasdair Fraser's San Francisco Scottish fiddlers and at music camps around the US. This forced her to develop her own style of folk cello, adapting dance tunes for the instrument and conjuring up her own rhythmic accompaniment style to suit the fiddle repertoire.

She has studied with other notable innovative cellists, under Natalie Haas at the Berklee College of Music as well as with Tristan Clarridge and Rushad Eggleston, both of Crooked Still. She has appeared on Scottish national television, performed at the Aberdeen Youth Arts Festival, and guested with Alasdair Fraser, Bruce Molsky, Back of the Moon, and Hanneke Cassel.

At the age of eighteen, Beaton won the Canadian Folk Music Award's Young Performer of the Year after the release of her debut recording, "Pretty Fair Maid." A year later, after moving to Boston to study cello on scholarship at Berklee, Beaton's grace and flair remain, now magnified by a year at conservatory.

Emma was a founding member of the modern American string band Joy Kills Sorrow, which recently released the band's first release with Beaton as frontwoman, titled Darkness Sure Becomes This City. Emma has also recently released a duo record with bouzouki-player, singer, and dancer, Nic Gareiss.

Nic Gareiss: bouzouki, percussive dance, vocals

www.nicgareiss.com

“The human epitome of the unbearable lightness of being...Gareiss is more fleet of foot than an Olympian sprinter and more buoyant than a helium-filled balloon...his restraint is palpable and freeform flight is inevitable.”

– Siobhán Long, The Irish Times

Michigan-born dancer, musician, and dance researcher Nic Gareiss has studied a broad variety of percussive movement forms from around the world.  At the age of eight he began taking tap lessons with Sam and Lisa Williams at Vision Studio of Performing Arts in Mount Pleasant, Michigan.  Soon after, he was exposed to fiddle music and traditional dance at the Wheatland Music Organization’s annual Traditional Arts Weekend.  It was there that he had his first instruction in Appalachian clogging with Michigan dance mentor, Sheila Graziano.  As a teenager, Nic also studied Irish step dance with John Heinzman, T.C.R.G., Appalachian flat-footing with Ira Bernstein, Québécois step dance with Benoit Bourque, and improvisation and composition with Sandy Silva.  

In 2001, Nic began an educational relationship with the internationally-renowned company, Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble.  After meeting Footworks’ director, NEA Choreography Fellow Eileen Carson at the Augusta Heritage Center dance camp, Nic was invited to spend nine weeks apprenticing with the company in Annapolis, Maryland.  While working with Footworks, Gareiss danced in their evening-length theater show, Incredible Feets as well as two new collaborative works: SoleMates, with StepAfrika and The Crossing, with Grammy-winning recording artist Tim O’Brien.

In 2007, Nic spent a year studying traditional Irish music and dance performance at the Irish World Academy at the University of Limerick, Ireland.  There he studied Cape Breton step dance with Mats Melin as well as Irish dance and choreography with Orfhlaith Ni Bhriain, T.C.R.G, A.D.C.R.G.  He also studied privately with contemporary dance artist and Irish dancer Colin Dunne and sean-nós dancer Seosamh Ó Néachtain.

Nic has performed many of the luminaries of traditional music from Ireland, Scotland, and North America, including The Chieftains, Dervish, Gráda, Beoga, Téada, FIDIL, Le Vent du Nord, Genticorum, Dr. Anthony Barrand, Buille, Liz Carroll, Frankie Gavin, Martin Hayes, Bruce Molsky, Darol Anger and Alasdair Fraser.  His dancing has been seen on CMT in Uncle Earl's music video, Streak O' Lean, Steak O' Fat, and also on Ireland's RTÉ 2 in the film Unsung, commissioned by the Irish Arts Council, which premiered during the 2008 Dublin Dance Festival. He has performed for the Irish head of state, An Taoiseach Brian Cowen and American Energy Secretary Steven Chu.  In 2011, Nic received two commissions from the Cork Opera House to create new solo percussive dance works for Reich’s pieces Six Marimbas and Clapping Music in honor of the composer’s 75th birthday.  The commissions were hailed by the Irish Times as “a leftfield tour-de-force with irresistible wow factor.

Nic continues to study, seeking out new forms of floor-music and shoe rhythms, recently studying flamenco with Felipe de Algeciras in Dublin and American percussive dance with Rhythm in Shoes founder and artistic director Sharon Leahy of Dayton, Ohio.  

Nic has taught workshops in percussive dance technique, American clogging, musicality and improvisation internationally.  He has had the pleasure of teaching at Alasdair Fraser’s Valley of the Moon Scottish Fiddle Camp in northern California, as well as for Scottish Culture & Traditions Organization, The University of Limerick, Michigan State University, Alma College, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and the North Atlantic Fiddle Convention in Derry, Northern Ireland.  Through workshops for both movers and musicians, Nic seeks to remind students of the crucial, intrinsic, and historic place that percussive dance has held in the formation and development of many world music traditions as well as encourage dancers with the innately sonic capabilities of movement.  
Nic holds degrees in anthropology and music from Central Michigan University.  In 2011, he earned a distinction from the Norwegian University for Science and Technology’s IPEDAM Erasmus Intensive for Ethnochoreologists.  Nic completed post-graduate work in 2012, earning a MA in ethnochoreology from the University of Limerick.  He continues to tour internationally, working with dance communities and presenting solo percussive dance choreography and dance research.

notloB Music Presents Emma Beaton and Nic Gareiss, Acoustic and Unplugged
Saturday, October 10, 2015, 8pm (doors at 7:30)

Gregorian Oriental Rugs

2284 Washington St, Newton Lower Falls, MA 02462

General admission $20

Seniors and students $15

Tickets are on sale through Eventbrite - http://www.eventbrite.com/o/notlob-music-6730833315

notloB Music presents Celtic, bluegrass, old-time and progressive string concerts throughout the greater Boston area. See its full schedule at https://sites.google.com/site/notlobmusic. Tickets for all concerts are available at http://www.eventbrite.com/o/notlob-music-6730833315. For more information see its Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/notloBParlourConcerts/ - or email

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The Emma Beaton Band, Arlington, 3/28 - CANCELLED

notloB Music Presents...

THIS CONCERT IS CANCELLED - WILL BE REBOOKED FOR OCTOBER.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

The Emma Beaton Band
featuring Nic Gareiss
Saturday, March 28, 8pm
Park Avenue Congregational Church
50 Paul Revere Road, Arlington

"...The Emma Beaton Band first coalesced at several music camps and began playing together late at night after square dances and evening-long fiddle tunes sessions. The songs they sang became the last music of the night.  Today, their music retains a sense of staid nostalgia and quiet, almost secretive intimacy, grounded in Celtic and Americana traditions, but ultimately all their own. Their eponymous CD was nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award for 'Traditional Singer of the Year...'"

Tickets and more info

Dinner and a show! Patrons who purchase tickets in advance through eventbrite for our Arlington shows get 10% off dinner at the nearby...

Thai-E-Sarn Cuisine, 1377 Massachusetts Ave, Arlington.

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Szechuan's Dumpling, 1360 Massachuetts Ave, Arlington.

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notloB Music's Spring Concert Season - 8 concerts in Arlington, Newton, Cambridge and Brookline

NotloB Spring Performances Our spring 2015 events range from up-and-coming performers to folk travelers. With the this long winter soon to be behind us, the rejuvenation of spring is the perfect moment to come out and show your support of local, talented performers. Tickets Sunday, March 22nd Ellie & Sumaia Jenna & Mairi  Cambridge, MA | Outpost 186 Sunday, March 22, 2015 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM Saturday, March 28th The Emma Beaton Band  Arlington, MA | Park Avenue Congregational Church (hall) Saturday, March 28, 2015 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM Wednesday, April 1st Jayme Stone Lomax Project  Arlington, MA | Park Avenue Congregational Church Wednesday, April 1, 2015 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM Thursday, April 16th Mari Black w/ Joseph Carmichael  Newton Upper Falls, MA Carriage House Violins of Johnson String Instrument Thursday, April 16, 2015 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM Friday, April 17th The Onlies  Cambridge, MA | Outpost 186 Friday, April 17, 2015 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM Saturday, April 25th Darol Anger and the Furies  Arlington, MA Park Avenue Congregational Church Saturday, April 25, 2015 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM Wednesday, April 29th Wrong is Right  Cambridge, MA | Outpost 186 Wednesday, April 29, 2015 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM Tickets Founded in 2007, notloB Music has presented more than 150 folk, old-time, blue grass, string band and Celtic concerts in unique venues throughout the greater Boston area. Concerts in your home can be arranged. Website - https://sites.google.com/site/notlobmusic/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/notloBParlourConcerts Twitter - https://twitter.com/notlobpresents Eventbrite (tickets) - http://www.eventbrite.com/o/notlob-music-presents-6730833315 Mail Chimp (mailing list) - http://tinyurl.com/notlobmail Share Tweet Forward

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Brittany Haas and Nic Gareiss, a benefit for the Old Schwamb Mill

notloB Music presents... 

Brittany Haas and Nic Gareiss

notloB veterans many times over, it will present Brittany and Nic not once, but TWICE!

On Saturday, January 17 notloB will end its 6-year hiatus from the Park Avenue Congregational Church, returning to the acoustically-alive wooden hall, where in 2008 it presented several concerts, including The Folk Arts Quartet, The Boston Boys, Joy Kills Sorrow and Blue Moose and the Unbuttoned Zippers.The concert will be a benefit for the Old Schwamb Mill.

Then on Sunday, January 18 Brittany and Nic will be presented a second time, at Carriage House of Violins' beautiful and intimate (just 50 seats) performance space.

ARLINGTON TICKETS 

NEWTON TICKETS

YouTube Video

Nic Gareiss and Brittany Haas at Shasta 2009

BRITTANY HAAS
http://brittanyhaas.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 minoring in music performance, composing with professor Dan Trueman) 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 Marshall, Alison Brown and others. Currently residing in Nashville, 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 Lauren Rioux, an all-girl indie old-time band called The Fundies, "4tet" with Cleek Schrey (hardanger fiddle/pump organ), Jordan Tice (guitar) and Nic Gareiss (percussive dance), a trio with Jordan Tice and Paul Kowert (bassist in the Punch Brothers), and a duo with Kai Welch.

"So here is a real roots musician in the most modern sense--Brittany Haas fiddles from a very deep and personal place, the way she feels it, the way she wants to hear it, with seemingly infinite facility, and a spirit that's simply uplifting." -- Bruce Molsky

"...a major fiddling talent has emerged." -- Mark O'Connor

"She can shove the whole room around with her fiddle." -- Danny Barnes

"A joy to listen to...” -- Alasdair Fraser

"There's no one I'd rather listen to play the violin than Brittany Haas – her playing just slays me." -- Matt Glaser

"Britt opens the window, gets out of the way, and the music floods through in a tide of joy." -- Darol Anger

NIC GAREISS
http://www.nicgareiss.com/
Michigan-born dancer, musician, and dance researcher Nic Gareiss has been described by the Irish Times as “the human epitome of the unbearable lightness of being,” and "the most inventive and expressive step dancer on the scene” by the Boston Herald. His choreographic work re-imagines movement as a musical activity, recasting dance as medium that appeals to both eyes and ears. Gareiss draws from many percussive dance traditions to weave together a dance technique facilitating his love of improvisation, traditional footwork vocabulary, and musical collaboration. He has performed with many of the luminaries of contemporary traditional music and dance, including The Chieftains, The Gloaming, Darol Anger, Dervish, Buille, Liz Carroll, Genticorum, Bill Frisell, Yvon Mimeault, poet Aonghas MacNeacail, Step Afrika!, Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble, Rhythm in Shoes, Bruce Molsky, Alasdair Fraser, and Martin Hayes. 

In 2011 Gareiss was commissioned by the Cork Opera House to create and perform two new solo percussive dance pieces to celebrate the 75th birthday of composer Steve Reich. In 2013, he served as community liaison for the Wheatland Music Organization's 40th Anniversary production 'Carry it on...', supervising a cast of 70 non-professional dancers from the state of Michigan. He received a Traditional Arts Commission from the Irish Arts Council to create a new duo fiddle and dance work with Caoimhín Ó Raghalliah. The resulting piece, MICE WILL PLAY had a sell-out run at the Project Arts Centre during the 2013 Dublin Fringe Festival. 

Gareiss has concertized in Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Ireland, Scotland, England, Canada, and New Zealand and continues to tour and teach internationally, working with dance communities and presenting solo percussive dance choreography. Nic holds degrees in anthropology and music from Central Michigan University and recently completed his MA in ethnochoreology at the University of Limerick.

notloB Music Presents... Brittany Haas and Nic Gareiss, a Benefit for the Old Schwamb Mill
Park Avenue Congregational Church
50 Paul Revere Road, Arlington, MA
Saturday, January 17, 2015
Doors 7:30pm
Concert 8:00pm

TICKETS
$20 VIP seats, 50% of the sales go to the Old Schwamb Mill
$15 regular 
$10 seniors and students
and, if not sold out, at the door 30 minutes before the concert begins.

Do you like Szechuan and/or Thai food? We have great news for you! Show your eventbrite ticket receipt for the 1/17 Park Ave Congregational Church concert to your server at Szechuan's Dumpling Chinese Restaurant, 1360 Mass Ave or Thai-E-Sarn Cuisine, 1377 Mass Ave in Arlington and get 10% off your dinner tab!

notloB Music Presents... Brittany Haas and Nic Gareiss
Carriage House Violins - of Johnson String Instrument 
1039 Chestnut Street
Newton Upper Falls, MA
Sunday, January 18, 2015
Doors 1:30pm
Concert 2:00pm

TICKETS
$20 First two rows (14 seats)
$15 regular 
$10 seniors and students (due to the small total size, we are limiting this to 15, first come first served)

and, if not sold out, at the door 30 minutes before the concert begins.


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Brittany Haas & Nic Gareiss / Peaks of Otter / Old Schwamb Mill / Salt Stage / 01.18.15

from Jason Elon Goodman 

A Traveling Salt Stage Production.

Recorded on a pair of "Edwina" microphones hand made by Philip Graham of ear trumpet labs. eartrumpetlabs.com

Salt Stage Presents both local artists and those on a migratory path through the state of Maine in intimate portraiture: musicians, poets, performers, chefs, farmers, painters, sculptors and more. These performances are archived live without over-dubbing or post manipulation unless insisted upon by the artist in the performance. A high resolution recording system and one or two camera angles capture a cinematic feeling full of both visual and sonic tonality, paired with simple & clean editing . When not outside on location, windows are often left open to incorporate gulls, rainfall and other sonic signatures of Maine. Vintage lenses are also integral to enhance the filmic look of the vignettes. The Salt Stage began in Old Port, Portland but has now expanded to everywhere and anywhere, as archived in the Traveling Salt Stage section.... Watch the video here.