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MEMBERS’ EXHIBIT
Please pick up your work from the Members’ Exhibit Tues Aug 10th and Thurs Aug 12th from 3-6pm.
If you need to make other arrangements, please… Read more …
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It’s Time To Show Off!
Tuesday - Saturday, July 13 - 30 12noon - 5pm, always free
Reception Saturday July 17 3pm
Exhibit open during the Lowell Folk Festival Friday- Sunday July 23 - 25.
Marc Bisson, Amy Boger, Anne Brown, Joe Brown, Kathleen Cammarata, Steven Carvalho, Deidre Christiansen, David Crane, Mike Dailey, Ivy Demos, Donna Dodson, Lillian Helen Graham, Chehalis Hegner, Jim Higgins, Dian Hosmer, Anna Isaak-Ross, Jim Jeffers, Jan M Johnson, Alyshia Lien, Denise Manseau, Nicole Mason, Bill McCann, Stephen Mishol, Andy Moerlein, Noredin Morgan, Dorothy Oja, John Riedell, Dan Rocha, Dave Robinson, Elaine Seidel, Elizabeth Sheehan, Margot Stage, Steve Syverson, Emile Tobenfeld, Michal Truelsen, Brenda Van Der Beek, Kellie Weeks, Jean Winslow, Jennifer Yuenger
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Soriah with Ashkelon Sain + Ajda the Turkish Queen
Friday July 30 8pm, donation at the door.
The unique vision of the Portland musician and ritual artist known as SORIAH draws from performance and musical traditions both ancient and modern–raga, shamanism, the revisionist arts of electro-acoustics, noise, butoh, and free improvisation.
Soriah is a practitioner of traditional Tuvan (Mongolian) throat singing, in which two or more pitches are sung as overtones. While the underpinnings of Soriah’s music reach back to Centr…al Asia, he traces his roots back to his father’s homeland of Mexico. His explorations of the cities and wilderness of Mexico and research into the Aztec mysteries have deeply affected his pan-cultural ethos.
Through costume, movement and mediation, Soriah evokes an otherworld of profound mystical import. Since 2008, Soriah has collaborated with musician/ producer ASHEKELON SAIN, bringing their work to a higher level of artistic and spiritual expression. Soriah and Ashkelon Sain will perform at 119 Gallery in Lowell on July 30 and at Lindsay Chapel at First Church of Cambridge on July 31. On Sunday afternoon, August 1, Soriah will lead a workshop in Tuvan throat singing at the YMCA in Cambridge.
Ajda the Turkish Queen is a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist originally from Houston, Texas. An unconventional approach to writing and playing music has led Ajda to experiment with unique instrumentation, gratifying the natural desire to collect numerous instruments that afford her an arsenal of sounds. Many of her instruments were gifts, or somehow randomly appeared in her life. Her current focus lies with her band Black Fortress of Opium, and in solo endeavors. “[A] powerful, often sultry voice accompanied only by a mandolin…lulling you into a sort of dream state”-Kevin Renick, Playback StL.
For more information–
on Soriah, on Ajda, on this series of events
Lowell Poetry Network
Thursday July 29 6:30pm
Monthly meeting and open mic.
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Lowell Folk Festival Weekend
Friday - Sunday July 23 - 25 Gallery open through the weekend, donations welcome.
Friday July 23
12:00pm Members’ Exhibit featuring work by 40 local and regional artists.
6:30pm UNUNI - kittens caught in a wood chipper [Fitchburg]
8:00pm Loup-Garou - arnica montana [Lowell's Lower Highlands]
9:00pm Joe Brown - guitar, vocals [Lowell]
10:00pm Gaetana - guitar, vocals [Leominster]
11:00pm Stephanie Lak Band - dark side of folk [Lowell & Beyond]
Saturday July 24
12:00pm Members’ Exhibit featuring work by 40 local and regional artists.
7:00pm The Cabinet of Natural Curiosities - alight as the hours burn your hair white [CT, NY]
8:00pm The Doctors Fox - world music [Boston MA]
9:00pm birdorgan - funked up folk [Lowell, Manchester NH]
10:00pm Andrea Pensado - cosmic comics [Salem MA]
11:00pm PARADE!!!
Sunday July 25
12:00pm Members’ Exhibit featuring work by 40 local and regional artists.
Tatsuya Nakatani + Forbes Graham & Loup-Garou
Thursday July 22 8pm, $10 donation requested.
Tatsuya Nakatani - solo percussion [Easton PA]
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Loup-Garou: [Werewolf]
Setheyny Pen - toy pianos, drums
Walter Wright - electronics, video
featuring
Forbes Graham - trumpet
Tatsuya Nakatani, percussion, is originally from Osaka, Japan. In 2006 he performed in 80 cities in 7 countries and collaborated with 163 artists worldwide. In the past 10 years he has released nearly 50 recordings on CD. He has created his own instrumentation, effectively inventing many instruments and extended techniques. He utilizes drumset, bowed gongs, cymbals, singing bowls, metal objects, bells, and various sticks and bows to create an intense, organic music that defies category or genre. His music is based in improvised/ experimental music, jazz, free jazz, rock, and noise, yet retains the sense of space and beauty found in traditional Japanese folk music.
Forbes Graham is a composer, trumpet player, and electronic musician currently based in the Boston area. He has appeared on over 30 recordings, including studio appearances on such labels as Metal Blade, Tzadik, and Troubleman. Forbes has performed and recorded with a very diverse group of artists, including Erase Errata, Rakalam Bob Moses, Steve Lantner, Daughters, Raqib Hassan, and Tatsuya Nakatani.
Here’s a link to Essenses a CD by Tatsuya and Forbes.
Produced by Vanessa LeFevre
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Summer Blondes + The Cabinet of Natural Curiosities + Sinbusters
Tuesday July 22 8pm, donations anticipated.
Summer Blondes [Oakland CA]
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Cabinet of Natural Curiosities [CT, NY]
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Sinbusters [Lowell]
“The brainchild of singer-songwriter Jasmine Dreame Wagner, Cabinet of Natural Curiosities is the modern-day equivalent of a music box. With a sense of delicacy and intimacy that can only be accomplished by the fragile cogs and gears housed within, Wagner’s voice is quiet, understated and ephemeral. This is the kind of music you’d expect from a clockwork fever dream, softly punctuated by the rhythmic ticking of tambourine and acoustic guitar. Imagine traditional folky singer-songwriter fare performed by graceful automata.” — Jeff Echert, The Pacific Northwest Inlander
Brought to you by the SockHop Intergalactic.
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Return to Nibiru + Bisson / Xhrist Duo
Thursday July 15 8pm, donations appreciated
Return to Nibiru [Brooklyn NY]
Dave Ross - guitar
Alex Obert - double bass
Bob Hubbard - drums
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Bisson / Xhrist Duo [NH]
Marc Bisson - prepared guitar, objects
Dei Xhrist - voice, electronics
Dave Ross
“one the best avant/jazz guitarists I’ve heard in a while.” — Bruce Gallanter, downtownmusicgallery
“unleashes rippling Sharrock - like bursts that really light a fire under the band“. — Max Level, KJFC
“a ringing tone that frequently fleshes out the quartet sound in a unique, almost orchestral manner“. — Robert Iannapollo, AllAboutJazz
“You may hear an intensive and tight sound but never like cold barbed wire. The joy is perhaps winning over anger“. — Magnus Olsson-Forsyte, New Music Sweden
www.daverossmusic.com
“Alex Obert hunched over his double bass and created grating sounds with swifty bow runs. A looped, catchy groove-oriented bass line played underneath all the while. Obert’s music was tortured and haunting. He cautioned sadness with shaman-like incantations and created emotional release with a plucking flurry. It was music to stomp to. Get your attention span up, and be in a good, solitary mood before you go see this guy. The raw and experimental nature of the music will test your staying power.” — Jason Songe
Bob Hubbard digs the NYC free/creative scene, “I am in the city weekly for sessions. I am also there to be in the company of the great human beings I have been lucky enough to be invited and welcomed by in music and friendship.”
www.myspace.com/adrumsuprememusic
Spiral Summer Event
Thursday July 8 - Sunday July 11, exhibit, live music and fun events, see schedule below …
LOCAL ARTISTS:
Stephanie Lak, Kait Sturtevant, Danielle Leone, Posie Ferrell, Alyssa Ironhorse, Goiter Breath, Bill McCann, Mike Dailey, Setheyny Pen, Lisa Gagne, Giovanna Aviles, Jessica Hosman, Mark Eshbaugh, Joe MacFadzen, and Jeanette Maureen Renault-Caragianes.
There will be a photobooth, Exquisite Corpse creation, a Post Secret inspired secret sharing wall, and Artist Trading Cards!
LOCAL BANDS:
Thursday July 8 7pm doors, 8pm bands, donations appreciated.
Gaetana Brown, The Matt, Ben and Bill Family Fun Hour, Matt Studivan, Kevin Murphy, Adam, and Donovan Bilgewater
Friday July 9 7pm doors, 8pm bands, donations appreciated.
Los Bungalitos, Victory Lapse, Dig Safe
Saturday July 10 7pm doors, 8pm bands, donations appreciated.
Bella Birds, Baby Driver, Lonesome Republic
Sunday July 11 12noon-3pm. Join us for a potluck brunch!
Brought to you by the Spiral Collective.
Mike’s Mural Memorial BBQ [MMM BBQ]
Saturday July 3 3pm-12am, free, all ages
A special community get together with art, music, and performances in the gallery and food and drinks in the lane. Celebrate Mike Dailey’s mural that has graced the gallery exterior for the past year. Set up lawn chairs on the sidewalk. Bring a dish to share!
BBQ
3:00pm Angie & Mike, Joe Burgio (jerk chicken), Stephanie & Olivia (the vegan alternative)
5:00pm Painting over Mike’s mural … Marc, Dei, Gilbert, and Ashley.
Photo by Vanessa, see more here
MUSIC
6:30pm Packrat [Lowell]
7:15pm Meat Bingo (Mike & Angie) [Lowell]
8:00pm birdorgan
8:45pm Midi and The Modern Dance [CT]
9:30pm TRAGWAG [Lowell CT]
10:15pm Loup-Garou [Lowell]
Produced by 119 & The SockHop.
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