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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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Lane / Grassi / Whitecage

Submitted by remyyves on Tue, 02/26/2008 - 2:39pm.

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RUCMA/Vision Performace Series

Start: 03/07/2008 - 10:30pm

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

Mark Whitecage - Alto saxophone, clarinet
Adam Lane - Bass
Lou Grassi - Drums, percussion

Place: the Living Theatre
21 Clinton street (btw Houston & Stanton), New York, NY 10002

General admission: $10
Students & seniors: $7

A cooperative trio, Lane / Grassi / Whitecage was borne out of bassist Adam Lane's strong desire to play with saxophonist Mark Whitecage. The link between both musicians was drummer Lou Grassi, who works and records with both musicians in a number of groups. What began in the summer of 2006 as a "Let's get together and see what happens" meeting grew into a tight, empathetic unit able to play one another's compositions with assurance. Portugal's Clean Feed label immediately picked up on the group's unique sound and will release their debut CD in September 2008.