FW: bootstrap improvisational music festival

["Liebig, Steuart A." <LiebigSA@Maritz.com>]

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> YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND:
> 
> bootstrap:  creative emergence
> Music Festival
> June 11-13, 1999
> Electric Lodge, Venice, CA
> 1416 Electric Ave.
> 
> Tickets: $15 per event ($10 for students w/valid ID)
> Tickets on sale one hour before performance time. Seating is limited
> Please Use Free On-site Parking
> e mail:  om@metarecords.com
> Schedule details:  Working Class Productions: 323-692-8080
> 
> Performance Schedule:
>  
> FRIDAY June 11 8pm
> Shankar with Kevin Eubanks, Bob Hurst and Adam Rudolph
>  - One of the world's foremost Indian classical musicians and
> cross-cultural music innovators on vocal and double-neck violin presents
> a new group featuring Tonight Show band leader, Eubanks and others.
> Larry Karush Ensemble with Trey Henry, Kendall Kay, Luca Brandoli and
> Bob Fernandez
>  - Known for his work Oregon and Steve Reich, Karush's music places
> elements of Indian, African, Brazilian and contmporary western art music
> in the framework of a percussion flavored jazz ensemble. 
> 
> 
> SATURDAY June 12 3pm
> Bennie Maupin and Friends
>  - Woodwind innovator Bennie Maupin is known for his groundbreaking work
> with Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock.  Look for new compositions
> debuted by this new ensemble.  
> 
> David Cherry and "Impressions of Energy" with Javier Vergara, 
> Jon Williams, Ollie Elder Jr., Robert Ikiz
>  - David's music is harmolodic world music: a multi-kulti blend of roots
> and textures influenced by Don Cherry's Organic Music and Ornette
> Coleman's Harmolodic concepts.
> 
> 
> SATURDAY June 12 8pm
> Adam Rudolph Metamusic Ensemble with I Nyomen Wenten, Charles Moore,
> Ralph Jones, G.E. Stinson, and Jeff Rona
>  - Fresh from recent touring with Yusef Lateef and Pharoah Sanders,
> Rudolph returns to Los Angeles with the premier of his new ensemble. 
> Hailed as "a pioneer in world music" (NY Times), Rudolph's new
> composition features live computer generated electronics, Indonesian
> percussion, guitar and winds in an improvisational exploration. 
> 
> Namah with Pejman Hadadi, dancer Banafsheh, Greg Ellis, Ramin Torkian,
> Afshin Mehrassa, and Shahram Hashemi 
>  - Namah is a contemporary expression of Persian classical music with
> percussion, strings & dance improvisation.
> 
> SUNDAY June 13 3pm
> Bobby Bradford and Vinny Golia Quartet with Alex Cline and Roberto
> Miranda
>  - Bobby Bradford has long been acknowledged as one of the great
> improvisors on the LA scene.  Known for his work with Ornette Coleman,
> he reunites here with fantastic LA woodwind/composer Vinny Golia and his
> other longtime collaborators for bootstrap.
> 
> Leimert Park Artists Collective with Billy Higgins, Kamau Daaood, Dwight
> Trible and Derf Reklaw 
>  - Legendary jazz drummer Billy Higgins will be joined by members of the
> Pan Afrikan People's Arkestra and percussion great Derf Reklaw. 
> 
> 
> SUNDAY June 13 8pm
> World Premeire of "Saxophone Trio" Opus 2 No. 2 composed by Yusef Lateef
> performed by Ralph Jones, Bennie Maupin and Vinny Golia.
>  - Legendary composer/performer Yusef Lateef has generously contributed
> his support to the bootstrap festival by composing this new work.
> 
> Joshua Natural Sound (solo) 
>  - The multi instrumentalist will present a 15 minute solo work for
> bamboo flutes and kalimbas.
> 
> New Music Monday Collective with Emily Hay, G.E. Stinson, Alex Cline,
> Karou, Jeff Gauthier, Steuart Liebig
>  - A Tribute to Alligator Lounge New Music Monday Series combinations of
> trios, quartets and electrified improvisation
> 
> 
> bootstrap improvisational music festival:  a celebration  aural
> possibilities, will feature internationally acclaimed touring and
> recording composer/improvisers who live in Los Angeles.  bootstrap will
> present these artists in newly commissioned compositions and premieres
> of ensembles created especially for the festival. 
> 
> bootstrap creative emergence also marks the grand opening month of the 
> Electric Lodge, Venice's beautiful multipurpose community arts center
> and is a collaboration between the above mentioned artists, Electric
> Lodge and Working Class Productions who brought you RISE and the new 
> TRANSMISSIONSERIES.
> 
> bootstrap exists free of any corporate sponsorship or endorsements
> 
> 
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> Website:  http://www.metarecords.com