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A Fundraiser to Benefit the 9th International
Toy Theater Festival
- an Evening in Two Parts -
Friday May 21, 2010
7:00pm - The Fabulous
Hosted by One Arm Red - 10 Jay St
10:00pm - The Feral
Hosted by St. Ann's Warehouse - 38 Water St.
Use the Brown Paper Tickets links for
The Fabulous & The Feral fundraiser tix;
for Festival Information, click here!
About the Evening's Talent:
Margaret Leng Tan has established herself as a major force in the American avant-garde. She is renowned as a pre-eminent John Cage interpreter and for her performances of American and Asian music that transcend the piano’s conventional boundaries. She has been called “the queen of the toy piano” by The New York Times. After discovering Cage’s Suite for Toy Piano in 1993, Ms. Tan became fascinated with the artistic potential of the toy piano and, more recently, with other toy instruments as well. In her groundbreaking 1997 album, The Art of the Toy Piano (Point/Universal), she elevated a humble toy to the status of a real instrument. Over the past decade, Ms. Tan’s diminutive music-theater of nostalgia and humor has delighted audiences at festivals around the world. Her new album, She Herself Alone: The Art of the Toy Piano 2, has just been released on Mode Records.
Clare Dolan is a Painter, Director, and Performer of Cantastoria, Toy Theater, Outdoor Puppetry, and Stilt Dancing, while simultaneously living a secret double life as a nurse in her small Vermont town. She’s a veteran of the Bread and Puppet Theater, and founder of The Museum of Everyday Life.
Great Small Works will be presenting the scintillating and educational "Short Entertaining History of Toy Theater" by Dr. John Bell accompanied by the Great Small Works Orchestra
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Debo Band Boston’s own 11 piece Ethio-groove collective was created by Ethiopian-American saxophonist Danny Mekonnen as a way of exploring the unique sounds that once filled the dance clubs of “Swinging Addis.” Since 2006, Debo Band has been immersed in the unlikely confluence of traditional East African polyrhythms and pentatonic scales, classic American soul and funk music, and the instrumentation of Eastern European brass bands, producing a unique form of dance music that Ethiopian audiences instantly recognize as the soundtrack of their youth, carried from party to kitchen on the ubiquitous cassette tapes of the time. With a unique instrumentation – including horns, strings, and accordion – that is a nod to the big bands of Haile Selassie’s time, Debo Band is giving new life to these old sounds, and playing it forward to a new generation and a broader audience.
Slavic Soul Party! is more than a band, it’s a promise. Anyone who has seen them live can attest to that. The massive brass band is a supercollider of Eastern European sounds from the Balkans and all the funk of American musical traditions like second-line, gospel, and jazz. Hybridity isn’t just a buzzword with this New York City-based group – domestic and foreign, new and old – it’s a fact of life. The fusion even carries over into the title of the band’s fifth album, Taketron, mashing up Japanese drummer Take Toriyama’s love of electronic music with the rapid fire of Balkan brass, and the incessant creativity of some of New York’s finest musicians.
Spanglish Fly defines its sound as “1968 Barrio” — meaning the Spanish Harlem in the late 60s. The band is bent on cooking up a spicy musical dish comprised of bugaloo, Latin soul and shingaling. Their recipe, in their own words: “Two pounds of hot mambo stirred together with fifteen ounces of Motor-City Motown, deep fried for three hours, and you get a bucket load of mouthwatering soul latino.” In a recent review of Spanglish Fly's latest EP, Latin Soul y Bugalú, the blog Lucid Culture had this to say: "What Sharon Jones did for oldschool soul, what Antibalas did for Afrobeat... Spanglish Fly is doing for bugalu."
Roaring out of Brooklyn comes the Hungry March Band, NYC's legendary street brass march band in the anarchic style that has become their trademark Put on your dancing shoes and break out the fancy threads because they’ve got a party going on - a blazing parade of flesh, blood, steel, brass and wood. They are the music of the people! The Hungry March Band has earned a reputation for mythical revelry, having performed at a huge variety of fine venues and celebrated events. Such planned and spontaneous performances have included guerilla art events, mermaid parades, rural raves, subway parties, eccentric weddings, community affairs, protests, high art events, the Staten Island Ferry, Brighton Beach Boardwalks, MOMA, Lincoln Center, steps of the NYC Post Office, playing themselves in the final scene of John Cameron Mitchell's recent film "Shortbus" and many other forays into the territories of free spirit.
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Use the Brown Paper Tickets links for The Fabulous & The Feral fundraiser tix;
for Festival Information, click here!
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