The Descendants Vol. 2
Martha Redbone
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About this performance
The Descendants;
Music from the roots of our shared heritage as performed by composers and storytellers who mix American folk music into their exploration of worldwide culture.
The Martha Redbone Roots Project with Charlie Burnham, Fred Cash and Aaron Whitby back from shows at Wintergrass in Seattle, Off Center Festival at Segerstrom Center for the Arts, the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, Texas Tech, Honolulu and more.
Joined by John Caban on guitar and Tony Mason on drums for an American musical gumbo. An evening of material drawn from Redbone and Whitby’s Appalachian inspired settings of William Blake on the John McEuen produced “The Garden of Love”and songs rooted in Martha’s multi racial south Eastern heritage that look forward to an upcoming recording evoking a new Civil Rights era.
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Martha Redbone Presents: Zach Brock
Mar 13, 2016 - 7:00pm Curated by songwriting team Martha Redbone and Aaron Whitby, the Descendants will present music by musicians with deeply anchored roots, visceral connections to the past in their music and a forward thinking approach to creating art.
Zach Brock is heralded as “the pre-eminent improvising violinist of his generation,” Zach Brock is an award-winning jazz violinist and composer whose music draws on the traditions of jazz, classical, world, and popular music. Downbeat Magazine’s 61st Annual Critics Poll named Zach it’s “Rising Star” Violinist of 2013. His reputation as a sideman has spread through collaborations with legendary bassist Stanley Clarke, Grammy-award-winning super-group Snarky Puppy, Phil Markowitz, Dave Liebman, and more recently the Martha Redbone Roots Project!
Zach Brock is heralded as “the pre-eminent improvising violinist of his generation,” Zach Brock is an award-winning jazz violinist and composer whose music draws on the traditions of jazz, classical, world, and popular music. Downbeat Magazine’s 61st Annual Critics Poll named Zach it’s “Rising Star” Violinist of 2013. His reputation as a sideman has spread through collaborations with legendary bassist Stanley Clarke, Grammy-award-winning super-group Snarky Puppy, Phil Markowitz, Dave Liebman, and more recently the Martha Redbone Roots Project!
Martha Redbone Presents: David Amram
Mar 11, 2016 - 7:00pm This concert will introduce new material with featured performance by legendary David Amram, a pioneer of jazz French Horn and the NY Philharmonic's First Composer in Residence (1966). Amram has composed more than 100 orchestral and chamber music works, written many scores for Broadway theater and film, including the scores for the films Splendor in the Grass and The Manchurian Candidate; two operas, including the Holocaust opera The Final Ingredient, a comic opera Twelfth Night with a libretto by Joseph Papp; and the score for the 1959 film Pull My Daisy, narrated by novelist Jack Kerouac. He is also the author of three books: Vibrations, an autobiography; Offbeat: Collaborating With Kerouac, a memoir; and Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat, all published by Paradigm Publishers. He is currently writing his fourth book, "David Amram: The Next 80 Years." He also plays piano, numerous flutes and whistles, percussion, and dozens of folkloric instruments from 25 countries, as well as being an improvisational lyricist. He is one of BMI's twenty most performed composers of concert music of the last thirty years.
Martha and Aaron met David in 2004 when they shared the stage at the Fillmore West in San Francisco in support for America Indian Movement leader/co-founder Dennis Banks’ Annual Sacred Run Aniishinabe Great Canoe Race fundraiser for Native American causes. They reconnected with David through Grammy-winning John McEuen, producer of Martha Redbone Roots Project CD “The Garden of Love – Songs of William Blake’ in which David was a featured guest on “A Dream” playing a beautiful flute solo.
Martha and Aaron met David in 2004 when they shared the stage at the Fillmore West in San Francisco in support for America Indian Movement leader/co-founder Dennis Banks’ Annual Sacred Run Aniishinabe Great Canoe Race fundraiser for Native American causes. They reconnected with David through Grammy-winning John McEuen, producer of Martha Redbone Roots Project CD “The Garden of Love – Songs of William Blake’ in which David was a featured guest on “A Dream” playing a beautiful flute solo.
Martha Redbone Presents: Martha Redbone
Mar 12, 2016 - 7:00pm First in a series of weekends curated by songwriting team Martha Redbone and Aaron Whitby, the Descendants will present music by musicians with deeply anchored roots, visceral connections to the past in their music and a forward thinking approach to creating art.
