7/8 | Terrence McManus (NYC) & BC Grimm @ Ritual Barbers

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Fri, 7/8  |  @ Ritual Barbers (Madison, WI)

117 S Pinckney St, Madison, WI 53703

7:30p door / 8:30p music / $5-10 suggested donation / BYOB

TERRENCE MCMANUS (NYC) – electric guitar + electronics

BC GRIMM (Mad) – pipa, guqin, frankencello + electronics

A native of Brooklyn, New York, guitarist/composer/sound artist Terrence McManus has been called “… one of New York’s latest guitar heroes …” (All About Jazz), and that he has “… hit on an entirely new language.” (Gambit), and “… possesses the goods to impart a significant impact …” (jazzreview.com). Time Out New York calls him a “Texture-minded guitar abstractionist …” and the NY Times times has described him as a “guitarist drawn to abstract texture”.

He has performed or recorded with many of the major innovators in contemporary music, including John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Tim Berne, Gerry Hemingway, Mark Dresser, Don Byron, Ellery Eskelin, Herb Robertson, Mark Helias, John Hollenbeck, Ben Monder, Russ Lossing, Randy Peterson, Mat Maneri, Tom Rainey, Michael Sarin, and Marty Ehrlich. He has performed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Carnegie Hall, the New York Guitar Festival, Jazz Festival Willisau (Switzerland), Jazzfestival Saalfelden (Austria), the New Orleans Jazz National Historic Park, and the inaugural month at John Zorn’s The Stone. Terrence was featured in the book State of the Axe: Guitar Masters in Photographs and Words, by legendary photographer Ralph Gibson.

Terrence currently performs with the Gerry Hemingway Quintet, the Gerry Hemingway/Terrence McManus Duo, the John Hébert/Terrence McManus Duo and in a trio with John Hébert and Billy Mintz. Terrence is featured on the Gerry Hemingway Quintet release Riptide (Clean Feed Records) and the Hemingway/McManus Duo release Below the surface of (Auricle Records). In 2010 the Hemingway/McManus Duo toured the Midwest, performing and teaching in Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Minnesota. That same year the John Hébert/Terrence McManus duo performed and taught in New Orleans, LA.
 
Terrence is also a member of multiple NYC groups including the Cellar and Point and Bryan and the Haggards, and he has been a guest musician with the new music group Ensemble Pampelmousse.
 
Terrence has also provided music for the theater, in a production with the New York City players at the historic NYC theater venue the Performing Garage.
 
Terrence’s previous ensembles include Transcendental Numbers, with Mark Helias and Gerry Hemingway, which has a recording entitled Transcendental Numbers (NoBusiness Records) that Time Out New York calls “… a set of subtle, highly textural trio improvisation.” He also lead a chamber ensemble that included Ellery Eskelin, Mat Maneri, Russ Lossing and Gerry Hemingway, which performed a sixty minute, multi-sectional, through-composed work titled The Machine; the piece has also been performed in a trio configuration and in a solo guitar setting.
 
An accomplished solo guitarist, Terrence performs his own works on electric and classical guitar and has developed a unique style of improvisation, drawing on extended technique and prepared guitar. His solo recording Brooklyn EP was described as having “… visceral, stimulating fabrics.” (The New York City Jazz Record). He has done numerous solo tours, performing in California, Oregon, Washington, Texas and Alaska. In 2011, Terrence was selected as a semi-finalist on classical guitar in the Portland State University Guitar Festival.
 
Actively involved in education, Terrence has taught at The University of California, San Diego, Hochschule Luzern (Luzern, Switzerland), The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, Rutgers University (Newark), California State University, Bakersfield, Loyola University New Orleans, the University of New Orleans, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Saddleback College.

 

3/25 Milwaukee, 3/26 Madison – Lovely Socialite Live!

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Fri  3/25  8pm  $5 cover
@ Linneman’s Riverwest Inn
1001 E Locust St
Milwaukee, Wi 53212

Sun//Decrease (MILWAUKEE, WI)
Percussion by Devin Drobka
Upright Bass by Barry Paul Clark
Vocals by WC Tank

LOVELY SOCIALITE (MADISON/MILWAUKEE, WI)
Cello – Pat Reinholz
Cello/Pipa/Gaohu – Brian Grimm
Trombone – Corey Murphy
Vibraphone – Abe Sorber
Upright Bass – Ben Willis
Percussion – Mike Kozewski

Trench (MILWAUKEE, WI)
Guitar-Jay Mollerskov
Soprano Saxophone-Steve Nelson-Raney
Percussion-Devin Drobka


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Sat  3/26  8pm  $5 door
@ The Frequency
121 W Main St
Madison, WI 53703

LOVELY SOCIALITE

HONEYMOONERS

JOHN PRAW & THE NORTH AMERICAN COUNSEL FOR A MOONLESS TOMORROW


5/30 | MSAC Faculty Recital

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Monroe Street Arts Center Faculty Recital

@ St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church

1833 regent St, Madison WI

Free, All Ages Welcome

Join us for an entertaining evening as our talented music faculty perform some of their favorite songs.  Enjoy performances by MSAC instructors Matt Dahm, Leigh-Ann Balthazor, Lisa Mott, Yohan Kim, Brian Grimm, Jaime Guiscafre’, Marina Hegge, Kyeol Lee, and more. A reception and light refreshments will follow. Admission is free but donations are welcome. We hope to see you there!


Redolent Spires (2012) now on Spotify, Amazon, iTunes, Rdio, Beats, G.Play & more!

4/15 |    The Brothers Grimm 2012 release Redolent Spires” 

Now available on all major digital music platforms.
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– simply search for Redolent Spires & add it to your library!

* scheduled for release on Pandora next month

On Spotify > The Brothers Grimm – Redolent Spires

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