Thursday, July 30 2009

July 16th - Mark Shilansky, piano; Willie Sordillo, saxophone & Tyra Penn, vocals featuring Jazz and music of Bob Dylan

July 30th - Pianist Erin Craig

Gleason’s Twins is an ensemble obsessed with the blur between speech and music, word and sound. The duo performs a kind of modern art song in which the group sets its own poems to music, infusing pre-composition with improvisation. With an unusual and spare instrumentation, voice and trumpet, they seek to expand the sonic ranges of their respective instruments while finding ways for the two sounds to mingle, contrast, and collapse. The work of Steve Lacy and Irene Aebi is a major inspiration and point of departure for the duo, as well as the compositions of Morton Feldman and György Kurtág, and the poetry of Robert Creeley and George Oppen.

For more information on the artists, please check out: http://www.myspace.com/gleasonstwins

For information on the venue and directions: www.stjohns-jp.org

On June 25th Joanna Soucy was lost in a tragic accident. All proceeds from this concert will be donated for the care of her two young daughters.

Featuring the music of: The Missing, Since January, G.S. Picard, Jeff Root, Jonee Earthquake, Tim Cahill, Bill Kasper and some special surprises!