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Hi folks,
I'm pleased and proud to be taking part in the
annual shindig at one of the nicest performance
spaces anywhere, AS220. I'll be performing as
part of
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1am Sensual Dan (spinning hip hop, two step and drum n bass)
12am Mahi Mahi (electronic acoustic minimalist maximalist bliss)
11pm DJ Confucion v. DJ Vipat (spinning
breaks, bass and beats, downtempo, uptempo and in
between)
10pm <tfo> (with Matt Everett)
(beautiful happy trippy trancey blippy
dancey)
with live improvisational video by:
Sign System
Dr. T (http://foryourhead.com)
VJ She
============>>> FOOL'S BASSIS <<<===============
AS 220 is at 115 Empire St, Providence 401 831 9327 www.as220.org.
Directions to AS220
>From the North
RT 95 south to Exit 21 (Atwells Ave); At the top
of the ramp take your first left; Go Left at 2nd
light (after Holiday Inn) and go straight through
2 lights; AS220 is on Left after 2nd light.
>From the South
RT 95 north to Exit 21 (Broadway); At the top of
the ramp go Right Go through 3 lights; AS220 is
on left after 3rd light.
>From the West
Take RT 6 to downtown Providence. After exiting,
you will pass the Westin Hotel on your right.
Take a right, and then another right on Sabin
Street. Follow Sabin past the Convention Center
until you must take a left onto Empire; follow
Empire through two lights, AS220 is on the left
after 2nd light.
>From the East
RT 195 West to RT 95 North; RT 95 North to Exit
21 (Broadway); At the top of the ramp go right;
Go through 3 lights; AS220 is on left after 3rd
light
The entire event is described below
FOOLS BALL
Three Story House Party
AS220 is proud to announce the tenth anniversary
of the Fools Ball, our annual signature gala
event, bringing five days of revelry to the
Downtown Arts and Entertainment District, from
May 18th though 22nd.
The culminating event will take place on
Saturday, May 22, 2004, beginning at 6 PM with
our Sponsors Reception, followed by the House
Party at 9 PM. The party will feature the best
of local music including performances by the the
White Man, Rory Raven, Eric Fontana, the Kat-Fu
Crew, Mahi Mahi, Neo'90s Dance Band, Broad Street
Orchestra, Super Chief Trio and DJ Donald King.
Revelers should come festively (or foolishly)
attired to dance the night away, play wild
carnival games and party til the wee hours of
the morning! Tickets are on sale now, and space
is limited -- so don't be a fool, buy your ticket
today! $25
TENT
6-9pm Sponsor's Dinner
9-2am Party
6-7pm
Raoul Bjorkheim and Lukas Ligeti
Two very gifted improvisers and composers, Raoul
Björkenheim, guitar, and Lukas Ligeti, drums,
embark on, in Ligeti's words, "an exploration of
spontaneously created timbres and meters
coalescing into harmonies and forms." Those
searching for starkly new, extraordinarily
original music may find it in this duo. "This is
improvised music," Ligeti adds, "Our interplay is
conversational. We prefer to have several
distinctly different things happening at
simultaneously and having these elements maintain
precariuos yet discernible relationships to one
another."
Both musicians are trained in jazz and classical
Western music theory, and they share a keen
interest in African and Asian traditional forms
of music. All these influences, harnessed to
razor sharp intellect and instrumental dexterity,
give their music a sound unlike any other. Live,
Björkenheim and Ligeti continue the conversation
begun on their recent TUM release, Shadowglow,
always extending their language while
entertaining and nourishing intellectually
curious music lovers everywhere. This concert
marks the second stop on a tour of the Eastern
U.S. to support Shadowglow.
Raoul Bjorkenheim has worked with the Finnish
maestro of free jazz, Edward Vesala, with whom he
recorded on the ECM label, formed the progressive
jazz group Krakatau, which also recorded for ECM,
and the Scorch Trio, which continues to tour.
Composition commissions include three suites for
big band, an ambitious work for electric guitar
orchestra and three pieces for symphony
orchestra. The most recent, a concerto for
electric guitar, violin and Orchestra titled
"Situations", premiered in 2002 to outstanding
critical and popular acclaim. Raoul has been
awarder the Young Finland Prize, the Emma prize
(Finnish "Grammy"), Best Finnish Jazz Musician of
the Year and two nominations for the Nordic Music
Prize.
Lukas Ligeti has composed music for Ensemble
Modern, the Kronos Quartet, and his own group
Beta Foly, which combines African and Occidental
music in experimental ways. His music has been
performed by the London Sinfonietta, San
Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Orchestre
National de Lyon, London Composers' Ensemble,
Amadinda, and Synergy. As an improvising
musician, he has worked with Henry Kaiser,
Elliott Sharp, Michael Manring, Wadada Leo Smith,
John Tchicai, Benoit Delbecq, Gianni Gebbia, Jim
O'Rourke, Thurston Moore, Ned Rothenberg, Marilyn
Crispell, and many others.cumbie
7-8:30pm
DJ Tim O'Keefe
8:30-9pm
Broad Street Orchestra
9-9:45
Super Chief Trio
The Superchief Trio plays a sassy mix of New
Orleans flavored blues and boogie, a touch of
swing, some old school R & B, and a waltz or two.
Their repertoire includes mostly original tunes,
as well as a few select covers of Professor
Longhair, Randy Newman, Mose Allison, Ernie K-Doe
and others. The band features Keith Munslow on
piano and vocals, Pamela Murray on trombone and
vocals, and the one-of-a-kind percussion antics
of John Cote.
http://www.keithmunslow.com
10-10:45pm
TRIO JAZZ
Young Min - guitar
Sean Noonan - drum set
Will Slater - bass
Trio Jazz is a modern jazz collaboration that
blends lyrical melodies with rhythmic group
improvisations creating an expressive and
original sound for jazz. Trio Jazz's is
harmonically interactive and spontaneous,
allowing the music to always explore different
angles.
The unique sound of guitarist Young Min has
earned him a respected profile as a jazz artist
in Korea. Young's music has been broadcasted
live on Korea's main television station "KBS" and
performed live for over 20,000 listeners in
various venues. Young is joined by Brooklyn
based drummer Sean Noonan who has been stunning
audiences from the United States to the United
Kingdom during his successful and ongoing career.
Noonan displays incredible amounts of energy and
creative talent that provide surprise whenever he
approaches the drum kit. Ted Belastock from
Quarter Notes Jazz says, "Sean Noonan's
involvement with Trio Jazz represents a giant
step in the rapidly developing career of this
gifted young jazz drummer and composer." Will
Slater is a young and emerging bassist where his
impressive skills just starting to be heard in
the Boston music scene. Since 1998 Trio Jazz has
performed with jazz greats such as John Lockwood,
Mike Mainieri, Bob Moses, and George Garzone. In
2004 Trio Jazz will release their anticipated
debut album that will reflect the group's strong
commitment to share a new sound to the jazz world.
11-11:45pm
Paul Austerlitz and Real People
"Afro-Universal Merengue Jazz" featuring Paul
Austerlitz, bass-clarinet, Dave Zinno, bass,
Royal Hartigan, drum set, Jesús Andújar,
Afro-Dominican percussion. Bass-clarinetist,
composer, and ethnomusicologist Paul Austerlitz
is Assistant Professor of Music at Brown
University, where he teaches jazz and world
music. Born in Finland and raised in the United
States, he combines his background as an
ethnomusicologist specializing in Afro-Caribbean
music with his creative work as a jazz musician.
His band, Real People, presents a unique fusion
of merengue rhythms from the Dominican Republic
with freely-improvised contemporary jazz.
Austerlitz has worked with Doc Cheatham, Gonzalo
Rubalcaba , Julius Hemphill, Dave Murray, Don
Byron, Roswell Rudd, Jimmy Knepper, Ed Blackwell,
Gunter Hampel, the poet Michael Harper, the
Haitian Vodou-Jazz group Fula, and the African
jazz group of Kwaku Kwaakye Obeng. His CD A Bass
Clarinet in Santo Domingo and Detroit (X-DOT 25)
presents original compositions and arrangements
blending Afro-Caribbean and free-jazz idioms with
sundry influences such as Indian classical music
and the didgeridoo. Austerlitz's CD Dominican
Dreams, American Dreams (Engine Studios 349)
features traditional Afro-Dominican rhythms and a
wah-wah bass-clarinet version of the "Star
Spangled Banner." Austerlitz's most recent CD,
Double-Take (innova 604) is a collaboration with
the acclaimed poet Michael Harper and presents
Harper's jazz-themed poems in conversation with
rhythmic bass-clarinet flights.
12-2am
Donald King DJ
Donald King is the artistic director of the
Providence Black Repertory Company. He is also
the resident DJ for electric relaxation Sundays
at Jerky's Bar and Grill.
CAFÉ
6-9PM DJS from BROWN STUDENT RADIO
8:45-9:30pm
The Anagram Ensemble
The Anagram Ensemble mixes edgy jazz sounds with
free improvisation with slight classical leanings.
9:45-10:30
Reverend Glass Eye
10:45-11:30
Beat Circus (formerly Beat Science)
Beat Circus plays music time-warped out of the
1920's and 1930'sŠ.in an amalgam of circus music,
funeral dirges, music for burlesque, tangos and
marchesŠall jump started, braked, and accelerated
by their ringleader. Exasperated by all of this,
the musicians often rebel by soaring into wild
improvisations. Featuring the following cast of
characters: Brian Carpenter (slide trumpet,
trumpet and conductor), Ron Caswell (tuba,
turntables, bicycle horn), Jerome Deupree
(drums), Jim Hobbs (alto saxophone), Alec K
Redfearn (accordian) and Brandon Seabrook (banjo,
smapling).
11:45-12:30am
Neo 90's Dance Band
http://www.neo90s.com
12:30-2am
DJ TY JESSO
(of Wyld Card DJs (RI), Subway Soul Club (NYC) & Soulilujah) (Boston)
Spinning only the best 60's Northern
Soul-Mod-Jazz-Deep-Funk-Mod R-N-B & Rare Grooves
SECOND FLOOR STUDIOS/OFFICE SPACE
8pm - 11pm
BSS Office
The Wee One's Office
Weird Nook Space - rachels friend
Astrid
Plymouth Rock Studio
Laura Travis
Tom Sgouros
Pam Murray
Silk Screen Room
Rory Raven - Mentalist and Mindbender 9-11pm http://www.roryraven.com
Rory Raven knows what you're thinking. Rory
Raven will read your mind. Employing a set of
remarkable skills, he reveals thoughts, makes
predictions that come true, and generally bends
the minds of the audience. While he insists he
isn't psychic, you might not be so sure. He
offers an elegant and unforgettable form of
entertainment unlike anything you've ever seen.
The White Man
"Executive Coordinators for The White Man, Inc.,
have verified that The White Man will in fact
quite possibly, within the naturally
unpredictable parameters of various well-known
variables particular to the person of The White
Man himself, be gracing, with his presence,
vitality, and unfathomable ongoing interactive
energies of creation, the 2004 version of AS220's
primary annual fundwasting disaster,
conventionally known as The Fool's Ball and
devoted this particular year to a specially
preposterous and desultory incantation of a vague
conglomeration of pseudo-politically-correct
sentiments associated with an exaggerated
nostalgia for the reincarnation of a misconceived
notion of something called 'Harlem'. Artistic
Indicators indicate, at this time, that the form
of this grace that The White Man plans to bestow
seems to be careening irrevocably toward a random
interspersement of guerrilla-style
performance-events modeled loosely on the
traditional stereotype of the wandering acoustic
minstrel and designated for a diversified
assortment of locations and times in and around
the Downtown Providence Rhode Island Beatnik
League Complex on the night of 22 May 2004 and
perhaps into the early-morning hours of 23 May
2004. Potential spectators and revelers are
warned to be on their guard against possible
spontaneous manifestations of genuine charisma
and undeniably recognizable artistic quality."
UPSTAIRS GALLERY
8pm-12am
8pm - 10pm
ACME VIDEO PRESENTS: Films TBA (will be theme related)
10-10:30pm
Sentimental Favorites
http://www.cwroelle.com
Sentimental Favorites, the new and improved,
old-fashioned, yet so cutting edge duo, featuring
Sonny and Geoff Griffin.
10:45-11:45
Eric Fontana
Having gained invaluable experience as a
touring/studio musician, Eric's first performance
as a solo singer-songwriter was opening for
Kristen Hirsh of The Throwing Muses. Since then,
he has performed with such notables as Ben Folds,
Tanya Donelly, They Might Be Giants, Erin
Mckeown, Josh Ritter, Mellissa Ferrick, John
Wesley Harding and Soul Coughing lead singer
Doughty. Nominated for Best Male Vocal category
in the 2001 Providence Phoenix Music Poll, Eric
has also performed on the Local Stage at the
Newport Folk Festival and the Northampton Music
Festival, in addition to live radio broadcasts on
WBRU, WRIU, WXIN(R.I.) and WICN(Worcester,Ma.).
PERISHABLE CLASSROOM
10pm-2 am
Force Of Nature/A Dark And Tranquil Place Presents: DJ Peter Lee
DANCE STUDIO
10pm - 2am
============>>> FOOL'S BASSIS <<<===============
1am Sensual Dan (spinning hip hop, two step and drum n bass)
12am Mahi Mahi (electronic acoustic minimalist maximalist bliss)
11pm DJ Confucion v. DJ Vipat (spinning
breaks, bass and beats, downtempo, uptempo and in
between)
10pm <tfo> (with Matt Everett)
(beautiful happy trippy trancey blippy
dancey)
with live improvisational video by:
Sign System
Dr. T (http://foryourhead.com)
VJ She
============>>> FOOL'S BASSIS <<<===============
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