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Housing News

475 Kent - An Interview with Connie Crothers

Submitted by conniecrothers on Sun, 07/06/2008 - 11:38pm.

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Housing News

Friday, May 30, 2008

Lorenzo Sanguedolce: You have your piano now, and you have almost all your sound equipment set up... so, is it life and work back to normal here?

Connie Crothers: No, and I think that is not the case for people in the building in general. It was quite a dislocation - we were out of this space for three-and-a-half months, which, when you live and work in the same place, is a dislocation. So, though we all might have anticipated that we'd get it all back together in a day or two,

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People's Revolutionary Party - Sunday, Aug. 31st at 9 PM - Brecht Forum

Submitted by jameskeepnews on Wed, 08/13/2008 - 10:34am.

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Non-RUCMA Event

Start: 08/31/2008 - 9:00pm

End: 08/31/2008 - 10:00pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

People's Revolutionary Party, a 9-piece improvising big bang, will bring their advanced ideological line to Brecht Forum on Sunday, August 31 at 9 PM. Tickets will be $10 general admission and $8 for students and seniors.

Performing music described by the group's founder, guitarist/laptopist James Keepnews, as "post-everything Ascension funk," People's Revolutionary Party combines the hardcore fire of downtown jazz with the real-time processing and sampling of contemporary experimental electronic music, occasionally engaging with excerpts from speeches given by noted figures from the struggle for social liberation, ranging from Malcolm X to Bill Hicks. The vigorous, spontaneous vibrational fire of these nine accomplished musicians in performance is something wondrous to hear and behold.

People's Revolutionary Party is:

Daniel Carter on saxophones, clarinet, flute and trumpet; Tomchess on saxophones, flute and Turkish ney; Welf Dorr on saxophones; Nick Gianni on saxophones; Michael Golub on drums; James Keepnews on guitar, laptop and electronics; Matt Lavelle on trumpet and bass clarinet; Ras Moshe on saxophones and flute and subbing for Ted McEvoy, Todd Nicholson on bass.