Eastern Music Festival joins with ArtBeat and the Piedmont Blues Preservation Society for a sampling of EMF offerings from its classical, EMFfringe, and EMFjazz&blues programming. In addition, EMF and Print Works Bistro are using ArtBeat Greensboro to launch a new monthly series called Late Night EMFjazz&blues held on the first Fridays of each month.
For seven years, Eastern Music Festival has produced a spring series of events as a prelude to its internationally-known and critically-acclaimed summer music festival and school. This spring there will be an eclectic mix of concerts to highlight the diversity and depth of offerings the festival provides for its audiences. Tickets and reservations available NOW!
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“…a hard-swinging bassist…solid hard-bop music, played with consummate skill…”
– jazz.com
“Brown’s woody bass tones are resounding and full of soulful authority…brilliant bass solo…solidly swinging and full of deep feeling from start to finish.”
– Jazz Times
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EMFjazz&blues Presents
WEDNESDAY, MAY 5 at 7pm
UNDERCURRENT RESTAURANT
327 BATTLEGROUND AVE., DOWNTOWN GREENSBORO
PROFESSOR JAZZ AT THE UNDERCURRENT
FREE with dinner reservations
EMFjazz&blues welcomes back GRAMMY nominee and “Professor Jazz” bass player John Brown, who has appeared everywhere from Carnegie Hall to the Blue Note, Kennedy Center and the Montreal Jazz Festival. Brown and his Trio will perform at the Undercurrent Restaurant. www.jbjazz.com
Admission is free with dinner reservations. Reserve your table early as this event has sold out in previous years.
Reservations: 336.370.1266 or online at:
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“I was thrilled by the musical sensitivity, nice phrasing and rich nuance …especially the interpretation of mazurkas. They had both the rhythm of Polish folk dances and Chopin’s aristocratic mode of expression. These are not easy to unite – the performer needs deep musicality, knowledge and taste.”
-Joanna Maklakiewicz, Associate Professor of Piano, Frederic Chopin University, Warsaw
“Pamela Howland is a great musician, pedagogue, psychologist, and actress!"
- Graduate Student, Yeveran State Music Conservatory, Armenia
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EMF Presents
THURSDAY, MAY 6 at 8pm
Mack and Mack Clothing
220 S. Elm Street, Downtown Greensboro
PAMELA HOWLAND'S REMEMBERING FREDERIC: A Musical Conversation between Chopin and George Sand
Tickets: $17 General Admission
Premiered in Warsaw to herald the 200th anniversary of Chopin’s birth, “Remembering Frederic” examines the tortured relationship between the gifted Polish composer and the Frenchwoman George Sand, herself a gifted writer whose words form the basis for this musical journey in time. Pamela Howland, pianist and educator, conjures Sand talking to Chopin six years after his death as she finishes her autobiography. Chopin responds through Ms. Howland’s gifted hands in the music of his mazurkas, waltzes, preludes and, in his closing remarks, the Nocturne in E Minor.
Ms. Howland currently teaches at Wake Forest University and formerly at Salem College and UNCG. www.pamelahowland.com
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"...slinking and rich musical pieces that are full of the simple life getting tainted by modern aspirations and such." - Daytrotter
“I’m in the glorious dilemma of trying to ascertain whether I love the vibraphone, keys, lyrics, or hooks the most – or perhaps just the way they all fit together.” - Popmatters
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EMFfringe Presents
THURSDAY, MAY 6 at 8pm
TRIAD STAGE
232 S. ELM STREET, Downtown Greensboro
THE OLD CEREMONY
Tickets: $15 General Admission
The Old Ceremony draws water from a deep well of music ranging from the Beatles to Beck, Leadbelly to Led Zeppelin. Unorthodox instrumentation meets superb songwriting to create a unique interpretation of brooding, orchestra rock ’n roll.
After three highly acclaimed albums and six years of touring, the Chapel Hill, NC band has built a large and loyal following. Their live show is an incendiary experience that leaves concertgoers with a smile on their faces and a renewed belief in the power of rock music. TOC has performed with CAKE, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Chuck Berry, Polyphonic Spree, Mountain Goats, and Avett Brothers, and was included in PASTE Magazine's "Top 100 Albums of 2006." In 2008 they won the Best Band award in the Independent Weekly Reader’s Poll, which is no small triumph in an area renowned for its bustling music scene.
TOC is fronted by songwriter/singer/guitarist Django Haskins, and includes bassist Matt Brandau, drummer Dan Hall, vibraphonist/organist Mark Simonsen, and violinist/keyboardist Gabriele Pelli. |
“Larry Keel and Adam Aijala are fantastic flatpicking guitar players and singers”
– Americana Roots.com
“The guitarist, Adam Aijala, is the one standout musician, excellent flat-picker”
– Random Musings blog
“Hank Garland, Tony Rice, and Larry Keel” – Del McCoury when asked who his favorite guitar players are.
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EMFfringe Presents
FRIDAY, MAY 7at 8pm
TRIAD STAGE
232 S. ELM STREET, Downtown Greensboro
Yonder MOUNTAIN’S ADAM AIJALA
AND GUITAR VIRTUOSO LARRY KEEL
featuring High Lonesome Strings Bluegrass Association's Wide Open Bluegrass (6-7:30pm)
Tickets: $22 General Admission
EMFfringe and Mountain Roots Management are proud to present an evening with flatpicking masters Larry Keel and Adam Aijala. Keel is a world renowned, internationally touring, Mountain Music Troubadour. Aijala is a founding member of Yonder Mountain String Band, and has consistently brought flat picking prowess and vocal importance to the popular and original Boulder-based bluegrass/rock/folk outfit. For this tour with Keel and Aijala, expect more bending, twisting, and genre defying feats of guitar mastery and fiery vocals; rooted firmly in a tradition that is rich within both of their individual music!
www.larrykeel.com www.yondermountain.com
 
Local youth band Wide Open Bluegrass featuring Haley Owens, banjo; Daniel Greeson, fiddle; Luke Van Hine, mandolin; Joey Doss, bass; Jordan Robertson, dobro; and Adam Van Hine, guitar, all of the High Lonesome Strings Bluegrass Association, will be playing traditional bluegrass music in the lobby of Triad Stage in celebration of Downtown Greensboro Inc.'s First Friday and ArtBeat from 6-7:30pm. This portion of the concert is free and open to the public and part of Downtown Greensboro's First Friday events.
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EMFjazz&blues
and Print Works Bistro Present
FRIDAY, MAY 7 from 10pm-12:30am
PRINT WORKS BISTRO
702 GREEN VALLEY ROAD, GREENSBORO
(Adjacent to Proximity Hotel)
Print Works Bistro’s Late Night EMFjazz&blues featuring RAY “SWEET DADDY”BURNETT AND ROB MASSENGALE
Eastern Music Festival and Print Works Bistro are proud to introduce a new series of monthly events held the first Friday of every month beginning in May 2010. Extend your first Friday nightlife year-long with cool EMFjazz&blues at the vibrant Print Works Bistro adjacent to the eco-friendly and stylish Proximity Hotel. Join us each month from 10pm – 12:30am for live music while you dine and drink late night. The series kicks off on Friday, May 7 featuring Ray “Sweet Daddy” Burnett and Rob Massengale. This event is in collaboration with Piedmont Blues Preservation Society.
Ray "Sweet Daddy" Burnette is a Greensboro-based guitarist/ vocalist that has been performing for over forty years. Leader of "Sophisticated Blues" for over ten years and guitarist for the show band "Black & Blue" for forty years. Ray's repertoire covers a variety of blues styles, jazz, bossa nova, R&B, and easy listening. A seasoned entertainer with a love of spreading joy through music. www.myspace.com/swtdaddyo528
Greensboro native Rob Massengale (electric bass and upright bass) followed in the footsteps of his father, the well-known bandleader Burt Massengale. Rob has been playing professionally since 1968 and has performed with various artists, such as The Drifters, The Coasters, The Platters, Lou Christy, Penguins, and Percy Sledge, to name a few.
www.robmassengale.com
Reservations: 336.379.0699 or online at:
www.PrintworksBistro.com
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Piedmont Blues Preservation Society
and EMFjazz&blues in association with
YES! Weekly Presents
 
SATURDAY, MAY 8 at 2pm
Festival Park (Gates open at 1pm)
200 N. Davie Street, Downtown Greensboro
24th Annual Carolina Blues Festival
Move over, guys. It’s the ladies’ turn in the spotlight this year as the Piedmont Blues Preservation Society presents the 24th Annual Carolina Blues Festival, in association with YES! Weekly, Saturday, May 8th at Festival Park, downtown Greensboro. The Carolina Blues Festival is the closing event in the annual EMFjazz&blues Series.
1:00 Gates open
2:00 Sleepy-Eyed Jay & Chicago Slim
3:15 Charlley Ward Band
4:45 Matt Walsh Band
6:30 The Debbie Davies Band with Robin Rogers
8:30 Tinsley Ellis
Two of the top nationally touring female blues artists will co-headline and perform together at the Carolina Blues Festival: guitarist/vocalist Debbie Davies and singer/harmonica player Robin Rogers.
One of the world’s hottest blues guitarists, Tinsley Ellis, will make his first appearance at the Carolina Blues Festival. Also on the bill this year is Raleigh-based retro blues guitarist Matt Walsh, and the two winners of the 2009 PBPS Blues Challenge, Greensboro’s Charlley Ward Band and Richmond, VA-based duo Sleepy-Eyed Jay and Chicago Slim.
Once again this year, The Music Academy of North Carolina will operate the Kids Area at the Carolina Blues Festival in partnership with the PBPS. The Academy will offer exciting events including demonstrations of Early Childhood Music programs and the very popular instrument petting zoo. Popular activities such as face painting and arts & crafts will continue. Information about the MANC and its programs will be available, and faculty and staff will be there to answer questions. This year we are proud to welcome MANC’s own Kevin Dollar as our Kids Area performer.
A huge thank you our Associate Sponsor YES! Weekly. Big thanks to Rock 92, WNAA 90.1 FM, Smith Stokes Chrysler, Dodge Jeep Chevrolet, The Bank of Oak Ridge, Greensboro City Arts, Stonefield Cellars Winery, Natty Greene’s Brewing Co., Grateful Bread, City Arts - Greensboro and Downtown Greensboro, Inc.
Advance tickets $18, day of show $30. Buy your tickets in advance and save $12 per ticket.
Charge by phone (336) 333-2605 Carolina Theatre Box Office, downtown Greensboro (on Greene Street)
box office hours 12pm-5pm
All Bank of Oak Ridge locations in the Triad or Stonefield Cellars Winery, Stokesdale
www.piedmontblues.org or 336.275.4944
www.debbiedavies.com
www.robinrogers.com
www.tinsleyellis.com
www.mattwalshblues.com
www.myspace.com/charlleywardbannd
www.myspace.com/sleepyeyejaychicagoslim
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