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Béla Fleck, banjo & Edgar Meyer, bass & piano |
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Wednesday, October 13, 7:30pm Join us in kicking off the 5th annual Woodstock Film Festival Wednesday, October 13, when seven-time Grammy Award-winning banjoist Béla Fleck will team up with renowned bassist Edgar Meyer for an evening of acoustic music at the spectacular Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson. The evening's Program will be announced from the stage and include original works by Fleck and Meyer as well as classical selections, including pieces from the duo’s recently released, critically acclaimed album Music for Two and Fleck’s multiple Grammy Award winning recording Perpetual Motion. The evening will offer not only the three Bs– Bach, banjo and bass–but also a bit of jazz, baroque, and bluegrass. Any world-class musician born with the names Béla (for Bartok), Anton (for Dvorak), and Leos (for Janacek) would seem destined to play classical music. Béla Fleck–already a powerfully creative force in bluegrass, jazz, pop, rock, and world beat, and a pioneering banjo virtuoso and bandleader best known as the leader of Béla Fleck & the Flecktones–first made a classical connection with the album Perpetual Motion which won two Grammys, including Best Classical Crossover Album and Best Instrumental Arrangement (which Fleck shared with Meyer).
Béla Fleck is the only musician to be nominated for Grammys in the jazz, bluegrass, pop, country, spoken word, Christian, composition, and world music categories.
Meyer began studying bass at the age of five under the instruction of his father, and went on to study with Stuart Sankey. In 1994 he became the only bassist to ever receive the Avery Fisher Career Grant, and in 2000 became the only bassist to receive the Avery Fisher Prize. Béla Fleck's recording 'Perpetual Motion' is available at record
stores everywhere on Sony Classical Edgar Meyer records exclusively for Sony
Classical. His recordings 'Meyer Bottesini Concertos', ' Mr. Fleck is managed by David Bendett
artistsinc@aol.com and booked by Monterey
Peninsula Artists
Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer in Concert
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OPEN MIC with featured artist Mark Geary |
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 at the COLONY CAFÉ Saturday, October 16, 8pm (tickets at the door) Singer/songwriter Mark Geary came to NYC in 1995 with a one-way ticket from Dublin, $100 in his pocket, and a green card. Recognized today as one of the East Village’s favorite performers and a top 40 artist in Ireland (both albums “33 1/3 Grand Street” and “Ghosts” are almost GOLD there), Geary started out playing with Jeff Buckley at the legendary Café Sin-e (started by Mark’s brother Karl) and has since shared stages with Elvis Costello, The Pretenders, Coldplay, and Sinead O’Connor. Booker Kio Novina calls Geary “one of the best acts around.” Film/TV producer Gill Holland became so enamored with Mark’s music (not realizing until a live show at the Mercury Lounge that Mark Geary was NOT a famous Dublin resident, but in fact, Gill’s local bartender) that he started sonaBLAST! Records. So far in 2004, Mark’s song “Suzanne” has come out on the Starbucks – Hear Music Compilation. He was featured on NPR’s Open Mic and the nationally syndicated World Café with David Dye in February. He made his second appearance both at SXSW Music Festival in March, where his songs were in two films, [at the music festival??] and at NXNE in Toronto. His next record “Ghosts” opened at #12 in Ireland and features background vocals by Josh Ritter and Glen Hansard (from the Frames). He will appear on the Jay Leno show spring 2005, and was a featured guest on Atlanta’s FOX-5’s Morning Show in June (one million viewers). Citysearch says Mark is “part unself-righteous Elliot Smith, part multi-faceted Van Morrison” and that he “touches the heart the way David Gray wishes he could.” Time Out Magazine calls him “an engaging singer/songwriter…(who) writes delicate songs about love and defiance…recalls performers such as Richard Thompson and John Lennon.” |
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HOSPITALITY music
featuring Laurel Massé (sponsored by Burt's Electronics) |
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Equally at ease singing with a trio or with an orchestra, equally spellbinding singing an impassioned ballad, a unaccompanied Bach cello suite, or a swinging vocal improv, Ms. Massé is a singer of rare intuition and taste. Possessor of what some critics have called “the perfect voice,” she is one of the premiere jazz and cabaret artists of her generation. |
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HOSPITALITY music
featuring Studio Stu & Mark Dziuba (sponsored by Burt's Electronics) |
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This eccentric jazz duo takes the very best in classic jazz and originals, and twists and bends them into what they call ‘evocative jazz, exotic lounge’. In this ‘duo virtuosi’, nothing is sacred… improv is ampant… lyrics are changed at will… notes and chords are bent and perverted… familiar languages are obliterated… harmonies are sweet and sour perfection… tunes are put through a fun house mirror, and yet, serious, sophisticated and uncompromising in execution. The union is one in-tune, out-of-tune, offbeat outfit. Mark Dziuba, guitar wizard and director of jazz studies at SUNY New Paltz, moves with grace through impossible chord changes and rapid fire riffs on his 1961 Stratocaster, transforming these classic tunes into something more… a sort of ‘light shift’ in tone and nuance, going beyond the music’s original intent. And, as a composer, he brings a fresh, complex virtuosity to a seemingly inexhaustible genre. Studio Stu, with his state-of-the-art washtub bass, unique Brooklyn humor, and unusual, hypnotic vocals, is a master...a one string wonder, combining a traditional folk instrument and a classic music form, to create a third thing (one we haven’t quite figured out what to call yet)… fearless in delivery and willing to navigate uncharted paths through the improvisational wilderness; he is ‘el ultimo hombre del lounge.’
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New York City native, Béla picked up the banjo at the age of fifteen after being
awed by the bluegrass playing of Flatt and Scruggs. He began experimenting with
playing bebop on the banjo in high school. In 1982, he joined the progressive
bluegrass band New Grass Revival, where he made a name for himself in the
bluegrass world. In 1989 he formed the Flecktones, and the following year they
released a self-titled album. The music was dubbed “blu-bop” – a mix of jazz and
bluegrass–and they soon became a commercially successful, critically acclaimed,
award-winning band.
Prominently
established as a unique and masterful instrumentalist, Edgar Meyer combines
unparalleled technique and musicianship with a gift for composition. In
recognition of his unique place in the world of music, the MacArthur Foundation
named him one of the 2002 recipients of its prestigious “genius” grants.
Fruitful collaborations are the cornerstone of Meyer’s work. The most recent
example was the organization of a quartet completed by violinist Joshua Bell and
legendary bluegrass musicians Sam Bush and Mike Marshall. Shortly before this
collaboration, Meyer was involved in an inventive trio project with Béla Fleck
on banjo and Mike Marshall on mandolin, performing original compositions
marrying bluegrass, classical, and other traditional styles. Earlier in Meyer’s
career, from 1986 to 1992, he was a member of the progressive bluegrass band
Strength in Numbers, whose members included Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Béla Fleck,
and Mark O’Connor. 
Laurel
Massé, founding member of Grammy award-winning vocal group Manhattan
Transfer, toured internationally for seven years with the group and
recorded five albums. In 1979, a serious automobile accident forced her
departure. After two years of convalescence, she began touring again
both in the States and in Europe. She has released four solo CDs. The
first two, Alone Together and Easy Living, both hit the Billboard Jazz
charts; the third, Again, was a People magazine pick. Feather and Bone,
her 2000 release, was picked by audiophile magazine The Absolute Sound
as “a recording of extraordinary musical and sonic value.”