Title: A CHRISTMAS GIFT TO THE TYPHOON HAIYAN VICTIMS
Date: Saturday, December 21, 2013
Show: 8:00pm-
Venue: Shapeshifter Lab
Address: 18 Whitwell Place, Brooklyn, NY 11215 (Between 1st and Carroll Str- Park Slope)
Phone: (646) 820-9452
Map
Admission: $20.00 (all proceeds will be donated to the victims through Mercy Corps)
Schedule:
8:00pm – Rise of the Downtown Avengers
9:00pm – The Pookestra
10:00pm – The Pookestra and The Downtown Avengers with special guests
Typhoon Haiyan wiped out multiple Filipino towns and left over 2 million people in need of food and shelter. One can only imagine how their Christmas will be like this year. For this one of a kind celebration, musicians from all corners of New York City will join forces to raise money and awareness of this tragic disaster and send out a gift to the people in need.
The Pookestra (directed by Carolin Pook) and the Downtown Avengers (curated by Fung Chern Hwei) follow the same musical vision of gathering adventurous improvisers with different musical backgrounds to create a beautifully coherent sonic experience. Every member of the Pookestra will be featured as a soloist with their favorite Christmas song, and the Downtown Avengers -as always- will take the audience on a wild journey to wherever the music leads them.
[Rise of the Downtown Avengers]
– Fung Chern Hwei (Sirius Quartet) /violin
– Min Xiao-Fen / pipa
– Lola Danza / voice
– Gina Izzo (RighteousGIRLS) / flute
– Sylvain Leroux / fula flute
– Vasko Dukovski / clarinet
– Shoko Nagai / piano, electronics
– Satoshi Takeishi / drums,percussion
– Gregor Huebner (Sirius Quartet) / violin
– Pauline Kim Harris (String Noise) / violin
– Conrad Harris (String Noise) / violin
– Carolin Pook / violin
– Tyler Gilmore / electronics
– Michael Bates / double bass
– Ben Stapp / tuba
– Andrea Wolper / voice
– Keaton Akins / trumpet
– George Spanos / drums
and more musicians
[The Pookestra]
– Carolin Pook / arrangements
– Fung Chern Hwei / violin
– Jen Herman / viola
– Brian Sanders / cello
– Christof Knoche / bass clarinet, flute, harmonica
– Paul Orbell / electric guitar
– Craig Akin / double bass
– TBA / electric bass
– Jeff Gretz / drums
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