Global jazz by the highly regarded Julian Gerstin Sextet on Sunday, September 29 at 7:00 PM.
Tickets are $20 in advance through stage33live.com or at the door. Advance tickets guarantee entry — limited seating!
Julian Gerstin founded the Sextet to bring his wide range of instruments and influences to a jazz setting. The group includes some of New England’s most creative talents: clarinet virtuoso Anna Patton; versatile trumpeter Don Anderson; pianist Eugene Uman, who ranges across traditions and from funky grooves to experimentalism; bassist Wes Brown, whose career spans gigs with early jazz master Earl 'Fatha' Hines to avant-gardists like Wadada Leo Smith and Anthony Braxton; Ben James, who was John Tchicai’s drummer for several years and can both swing and go wild.
Gerstin has spent a lifetime playing music of the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, and the U.S. — funk, R&B, and jazz. He’s lived and studied in Martinique, Cuba and Ghana, mastering dozens of percussion instruments and hundreds of traditional rhythms. On a given song you might hear him playing congas, jawbone, an enormous beaded shaker, or the tanbou drum of Martinique on which he sits and uses his heel to change the pitch.
This is global jazz: music with lively Caribbean drums and sparkling trumpet, velvety clarinet and muscular piano. Music by turns lyrical and humorous, intense and peaceful, grooving and thoughtful, and always surprising.
“Global sensibilities on full display… Infusing jazz composition and instrumentation with his worldly orientation and rhythmic arsenal, Gerstin teases out the African and Caribbean elements so prevalent in jazz.” — JazzIz Magazine
“Full of danceable grooves, along with swirling irresistible ensemble playing and strong solos that are easy to listen to but far from being easy listening music… A magical musical stew.” — Ron Weinstock, Jazz and Blues Report
Julian Gerstin Sextet at Stage 33 Live on Sunday, September 29 at 7:00 PM.
or at the door. Advance tickets guarantee entry — limited seating! The performance will be recorded and filmed.
Thanks to Next Stage for letting us put a sandwich board up for this show at their concert on the Robertson Mill field the other day:
We've got just one show coming up in October, and it's a goodie.
John John Brown is a Kerrville New Folk winner, an Emerging Artist at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, and a winner of the South Florida Folk Fest singer/songwriter contest. He was invited to perform at the 50th Anniversary of Woodstock at the original site of the legendary festival. Steeped in storytelling and fingerpicking, he comes from deep in the singer/songwriter tradition.
John John Brown’s “Songs, Stories, & Art — Lessons from Strangers” brings giant comics, iconic photographs, and moving panoramas to the stage, weaving together storytelling songs and visual arts in live performance. The protagonists come from all walks of life — from an aging Vietnam Vet, to a trumpet playing orphan… a married couple debating evolution, to a young man with mental illness wandering the aisles of Walmart.
“So well written that every song could be a short story, a treat for lovers of narrative-driven tales.” — Americana UK
“John Prine is a clear influence in the way Brown rolls astute observations and a humorous slant into his lyrics.” — Post to Wire
“One of the more promising young names in folk music today.” — Elmore Magazine
“An imaginative musical performance woven into a unique visual experience.” — Gallery 25, New York
“A melting pot of humor, longing, satire, and hope, Brown invites us to explore the peculiar lives of individuals that, like us, don’t always have it easy but manage to persist despite life’s impending trials.” — Music Mecca, Nashville
Stage 33 Live on Saturday, October 19 at 7:00 PM.
or $20 at the door. Limited seating; recorded and filmed.
The "Happy In Bellows Falls" video is making the rounds again, nice!
Couple interesting things in it, most notably a quick shot of Stage 33 Live just as it was starting to come into existence, before we'd done any shows.
Stage 33 Live on the cusp of becoming. That's Mark with Ellen, Trish, and Cheryl from WOOL-FM's long-running but now-defunct ETC show.
For reference, a more recent shot of the ever-evolving space. Wow, we've made some progress.
This is the outside of the building we're in. There's Mark headed back inside after realizing all over again that he can't dance.
If you've ever gone looking for the petroglyphs on the riverbank about three blocks from our front door before a show and couldn't find them because they're tricky to spot, these are them.
Stage 33 Live is a casual and intimate industrial-rustic listening room in a former factory hosting local, regional, and national performances and presentations of original material. No bar or kitchen, the stage is the mission; coffee / soda / juice / water and weird snacks available by donation. More info about the nonprofit, all-volunteer project, and this and other upcoming events, online at stage33live.comStage 33 Live gratefully acknowledges the help of so many individuals without whom none of this would be able to happen, and institutional support this season from The Island Corporation, the Vermont Arts Council, Guilford Sound, WOOL-FM, the Rockingham Arts & Museum Project, and Chroma Technologies to help fund improvements and maintenance, and generally smooth out a lot of the rough edges. Stage 33 Live is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, and all donations are deductible to the fullest extent. Volunteers run the thing from stem to stern.
