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90 minutes to
2 hours max
(varies – show is improvised)
one intermission
all ages
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RovaArts 21 Informances:
BEATS, SOUNDS, STICKS AND WIRES
Written & Performed by Scott Amendela
Amendola performs and informs, focusing on drumming with and without electronics for the 23rd and 24th centuries. He will inform you at The Marsh exactly one week before his appearance in Rovaté 2008: Rova/Nels Cline Celestial Septet at Yoshi’s San Francisco on May 28. Questions about that show will be answered.
Improv:21 host Derk Richardson’s oft-quoted observation that “If Scott Amendola didn’t exist, the San Francisco music scene would have to invent him,” is truer than ever. But what’s become evident in recent years is that this extraordinarily resourceful drummer has evolved into a paragon of self-invention, a bandleader, composer and invaluable creative collaborator at the center of a vast array of improvisational ensembles.
While rooted in the San Francisco Bay Area scene, Amendola has woven a dense and far reaching web of bandstand relationships that tie him to influential figures in jazz, blues, groove, rock and new music. An organizer by nature, he has become a creative nexus for a community of musicians stretching from Los Angeles and Seattle to Chicago and New York.
While he first gained widespread notice a decade ago for his work in eight-string guitar ace Charlie Hunter’s trio, in recent years Amendola has stepped forward as the leader of several compelling bands that showcase his supremely supple trap work. He continues to work as a sideman, accompanying artists such as the tart-toned vocalist Madeleine Peyroux, guitarist and singer/songwriter Kelly Joe Phelps and the Nels Cline Singers (a volatile instrumental trio without a vocalist), but it’s as a bandleader that Amendola’s dynamic, ever-evolving style is best showcased.
The brainchild of Larry Ochs and the renowned Rova Saxophone Quartet, Improv:21 seeks to explore the connection between composition, interpretation and improvisation. Hosted by critic and KPFA radio host Derk Richardson, the evenings are a shifting mix of lecture, dialogue, demonstration and performance with a liberal sprinkling of audience questions. The Marsh, former home to Bajones jazz club, is acoustically excellent for music.
These events are accessible to people from a wide variety of musical backgrounds, from professional and amateur musicians to music lovers of all levels of interest and experience.
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All seating for this performance is first-come, first-served.
This show is not appropriate for children under 16.
Please do not bring infants to the show.
This show is 90 minutes long, with one intermission.
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THE STOVE IS WHITE
Written & Performed by Jeanne Haynes
The Marsh presents Jeanne Hayne's, The Stove is White. Dedicated to her African American stepchildren and bi-racial children, Haynes presents unflinching personal civil rights tales. (from New York Citys entertainment world, Southern sit-ins and San Francisco race riots.)
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