SUNDAY AT SIX FIRST ANNIVERSARY CONCERT IN CONJUNCTION WITH FUND ART NOW AT THE COLLECTIVE HARDWARE EASTER SUNDAY, 04 , APRIL 2010!

ADMISSION $10 INCLUDES FIRST DRINK

BOOKING: kapin.erika@gmail.com

ADMISSION:  FREE

SUNDAY, 31 JANUARY 2010 AT SIX PM

ERIKA KAPIN SOLO

Imagine two characters, a song bird and a clown, who have gone just a little crazy. Ms. Kveli, the lovely song bird, is renowned for her sweet and airy voice, but she does occasionally scream, growl or ramble. Our sweet clown, Ms. Tamura always tries to capture and torture the song bird with her mighty toys. They will tell their story using any method of communication, music primarily, adding dance, mime, colors and shapes...anything you can imagine.

The show is about the story of a song bird and a clown.  This is a marriage between the aural - visual experience with a healthy amount of laughter and tears, the exact combination you need to acHIEve true enjoyment.  Ms.Kveli, a virtuous vocalist, will perform the role of a beautiful song bird, singing, dancing and producing unbelievable sounds which will deeply move audience’s heart in any directions.  The clown will be played by Ms. Tamura, a musical entertainer, who is also a specialist of toys. She will chase the song bird wishing she could capture and torture the gorgeous bird.  Much of what you will see and hear will be improvised,  juxtaposed with well known classical music favorites. So, strip away all your expectations, and let yourself be meSmerized by the surrealism of this duo - (Tamureli??)

Miss Kveli is a Norwegian soprano, currently enrolled in the Contemporary Performance Program at the Manhattan School of Music. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Tromsø, Norway, where she also got her teaching degree as a voice teacher, focusing on voice therapy. A winner of the 2008 Fuchs Chamber Music Competition, Miss Kveli specializes in early and contemporary music, as well as composing her own music in a modern folk style.

Asami Tamura, a native of Japan, is an entertainer who loves to make her audience happy through things she purely loves.  Ms. Tamura’s main weapon to do so is music, so she call herself as a musical entertainer.   Trained in classical music, she holds both BM and MM in piano performance from Manhattan School of Music.  Her vast interests extend her experience to jazz, pop, rock, Indian, and Japanese music.  Recently, she found her love in toys, especially toy pianos, and had the honor to receive a piece for toy pianos written for her.  She also enjoys working with visual artists and the experiences that give her opportunities to bring out her theatrical abilities.   

SUNDAY,10 JANUARY 2010 AT SIX PM
JANELLE REICHMAN DUO

"Janelle Reichman and Steve Whipple look forward to bringing their jazz sax/bass duo to the Chair and the Maiden Gallery on January 10th. The two began playing duo together 8 years ago when they were next door neighbors in Cincinnati, Ohio. Over the years their duo has become increasingly dynamic, interactive, spontaneous, and improvisational, making their performance a treat for audiences large and small. They will perform a combination of jazz standards and original compositions at their performance at Chair and the Maiden."

SUNDAY,03 JANUARY 2010 AT SIX PM
NICOLE CAMACHO AND MEGAN SCHUBERT

Flutist, Nicole Camacho and soprano, Megan Schubert--a duo cemented by friendship and frequent collaboration--will present a program of art music that continues to bring the limits of expression and established languages and roles of their instruments into question.  From the sounds of Inuit Throat Singing to Schoenbergian Sprechstimme, many of the sonic and narrative ideas will collide and coalesce in the charged experience of live performance.  

Special guests: Domenica Fossati, flute, and Matthew Ferry, percussion.

Davy Mooney and the Ghosts is the new singer-songwriter project from world-renowned jazz guitarist Davy Mooney.  Mooney has been leading a double life for his entire musical career: he is well known on the international jazz scene as a melodic and harmonically sophisticated guitarist, but for the past 15 years he has been performing solo in coffee houses and small bars singing his bittersweet, nostalgic songs to old folkies and young indie-rockers.

Although some of the songs go back 10 years or more, Mooney hadn't gotten around to recording them until this past year. The CD is "Ghosts of Music, Past", and the band Mooney has put together to perform the music is called, fittingly, the Ghosts. Why the supernatural theme? Because Mooney has been haunted by these songs for years; they come from the past and are rife with regrets and shadowy memories. The record is stylistically diverse, but many of the songs deal with relationships, doubts, and complex, mixed emotions. The Ghosts are a band of virtuoso musicians that bring depth and musicality to Mooney's tunes. Listen and be transported!

SUNDAY, 13 DECEMBER 2009 AT SIX PM
KaleiDhaPhonic

KaleiDhaPhonic is a collage of colors stretched over a canvas of space and time to create a beautiful painting of sound - kind of like an artist's easel having a conversation with itself. 
The music is based on the interactive conversational dance between the tabla and mbira, and has the beautiful sounds and colors of kora and flute(s) that emphasize different highlights of the sound.   

SUNDAY, 06 DECEMBER 2009 AT SIX PM
MARTIN URBACH

" Through rhythmic and sonic exploration, Drummer / Human Being  Martin Urbach creates an environment where everything is game. Pretty/Ugly,Loud/Soft, In/Out, Solid/Liquid and everything in between. In this occasion, he will explore sounds from times and cultures far gone as well as the sounds that envelop our current world. The concert will consist of free improvisations on a green sparkle drumset, soundscapes using iPodtouch apps, classical pieces, field recordings from Ghana, frame drums,  poetry interpreted on percussion instruments and a percussive reflection on a a Surprise Work Of Art . "

SUNDAY, 29 NOVEMBER 2009 AT SIX PM
BECKY MIMIAGA

Becky Mimiaga was born and raised in Mill Valley
California. She started writing and performing her own songs in her
high school's rock and folk programs. She studied classical voice for
2 years before she transfered to the New School for Jazz where she is
currently finishing her degree in vocal performance studies. As she
continues to explore classical and contemporary vocal perspectives,
Becky  performs her own work around New York City.

The band: The band consists of vocalist Becky Mimiaga who writes and
performs most of her work from the piano. Bassist Rob Lundberg plays
contrapuntual arco lines to accompany her.

Her genre is best defined as contemporary blues and folk. Mimiaga's
chord progressions are complex and explorative while her lyrics are
all based on real events, both personal and historical.

SUNDAY, 22 NOVEMBER 2009 AT SIX PM
CURTIS STEWART'S SPACE INVADERS

A collective of musicians, the Space Invaders gather to explore those spaces between spaces, those musical territories potentially uncharted, as well as those frequently traversed… Lead by Curtis Stewart, violin, with Alex Hills on the Piano, Ian Baggette, on the Bass, and Andrew Swift on the Drums, each member of the group contributes their own energy, their own music, their own space; To boldly go where only some have gone before…

But in all seriousness, we are an energetically eclectic group, exploring and expanding music from many styles including hip-hop, jazz, latin, avante-garde and a little classical.  We play either our original compositions or outward leaning arrangements of standards.  The idea of the group is to re-organize normal sounds, to shine our contemporary light on tradition, to “explore musical spaces.”  We have collaborated with several different artists, video, and vocalists.  Every show features “special guests,” free elements, who explore the music in their own way and contribute their perspective to the group, transiently transforming the group in the process.

For the show at Chair and the Maiden, Darian Dauchan and the Mighty Third Rail will be rolling through:

The Mighty Third Rail, aside from being a clever riff on that special rail on the train tracks that will shock the ‘ish out of you, and aside from being a metaphor in politics to avoid controversial issues, is also a brand spanking new band that mixes the elements of hip hop poetry, beatboxing, violin and bass. A 3 man squadron lead by Actor/Poet extraordinaire Darian Dauchan and featuring the indelible Ian Baggette on Bass, and the charming Curtis Stewart on violin. When they're powers combine they produce a unique voltron of a sound the likes of which the world has never heard. But no one can be told what The Mighty Third Rail is, you have to experience it for yourself.

SUNDAY, 15 NOVEMBER 2009 AT SIX PM
RYAN PATE

Hello Potential Listeners, audience members, and gallery goers. In preparing this description of music I have composed for the weekly music series at Chair and the Maiden Gallery I initially began to write about myself and music in the third person. It went something like: Mr. Pate's music combines the aesthetics of Baroque Romanticism with a spontinaity of jazz steeped in the singer/songwriter tradition. Well first, that sounds lame, and second, I felt strange writing about myself and music that comes from a personal place in the third person. So against common practices, and at the risk of sounding self absorbed, here we go in the first person.
 
I like playing and composing music very much. I like the sponinaiety of jazz and the harmonies of 20th century "classical" music. I like songs. I like music that makes you think/percieve/feel things in a new light. I like Florida saltwater, New York streets, pretty dissonant chords, stabilized unpredictability, things that spark imagination, and paradoxes. Maybe my music sounds like some of these things. A subconscious amalgam of intentional unintendedness. Introspection maybe. Of course. Whatever the description may or may not be to/by the listener, I'm happy to be playing with astounding musicians this sunday that interpret music I've written through their own unique amalgamous filters of experience. They are Adam Schniet on Saxophone, Dylan Shamat on bass, and Devin Gray on drums. Thanks.'

SUNDAY,08 NOVEMBER 2009 AT SIX PM
INSELL:REGEV DUO

Duo: Judith Insell . viola

Reut Regev . trombone

Original Compositions

Original Soundscapes

Original Thought Collaborations 

Judith Insell, a New York native, is a versatile viola player who is at ease in a large rage of styles: Jazz, Classical, Avant Garde, R&B, Hip Hop, Pop & Rock. As an active member of the New York jazz scene since the mid nineties, she has recorded & performed with Lee Konitz, Greg Osby, Steve Coleman, Antonio Hart, Miguel Zenon, Elliott Sharp & Sojourner. Her "pop" music career includes performances with: Beyonce Knowles, India.Arie, Jessica Simpson, “Joe,” and the legendary John Cale. 

Reut Regev, born and raised in Israel, has been living in the New York City area since 1998. 

A master of the Trombone and the Flugabone, Ms. Regev showcases her in versatility in many style: Jazz, Salsa, Rock, Funk, Brazilian, Blues, Classical, Contemporary, Jewish and Caribbean music.

She has collaborated with many outstanding jazz artists: Butch Morris, Anthony Braxton, Groove Collective, Frank London, Eddie Bobé, Eric Revis, Billy Bang, Michael Attias, Ras Moshe, Reggie Nicholson, just to name a few.

SUNDAY, 01 NOVEMBER 2009 AT SIX PM
NEMANJA REBIC DUO

Nemanja Rebic (composer of all songs on this site, guitar and percussion) was born 07.07.1979. in Novi Sad- Serbia. In Amsterdam he studied classical, jazz and world music at Conservatorium Van Amsterdam where he graduated in 2005. He also studied tabla and north indian musical systems in the Netherlands. December 2006 he went to India to play and study indian classical music where he stayed 6 months studying south indian vocal and percussion. Currently he resides in New York City where he plays, composes and teaches.
His music originates mainly from Jupiter and Venus, the strawberry fields of guitar-asia while he combines the various styles from planet Earth.
Among the other things he applies indian percussion techniques on guitar and lots of coconut oil.
He will be making music together with Tripp Dudley on various percussive instruments 

SUNDAY, 25 OCTOBER AT SIX PM
IN ONE WIND

In what seem like meager beginnings, In One Wind has blossomed from a one man act into a full fledged six piece ensemble, with a sound and reputation all their own. The brainchild of guitarist/vocalist Angelo Spagnolo, In One Wind also features vocalists Mallory Glaser and Lily Claire Nussbaum, bassist Rob Lundberg, percussionist Max Jaffe and multi-reedist Steven Lugerner. 

        Though steeped in the tradition of folk music, In One Wind incorporates a wide range of influences from jazz to country, even stretching effortlessly into the world of improvised music and the avant-garde. The ability to start a show with soft guitar strums and whispered vocals while seamlessly breaking into odd-metered grooves and lush three part harmonies enraptures their audiences. In One Wind is truly an idiosyncratic ensemble, an ensemble that appropriately represents their home - Brooklyn, NY. Being one of today's most distinguished musical hotbeds, it’s fitting that In One Wind shares their home with other Brooklyn luminaries such as Grizzly Bear, The Dirty Projectors and Sufjan Stevens. Their current residency at Williamsburg’s Spike Hill is just one example of their growing demand in the New York music scene. Plans are in motion for their first EP release, due out by the end of the fall.

SUNDAY, 18 OCTOBER 2009 AT SIX PM

KELSEY JILLETTE DUO

Sunday, October 18th, vocalist Kelsey Jillette will join organist kAZU for a performance of lyrical, wide-ranging straight ahead jazz: standards, folk and pop music steeped in the classic American jazz tradition. 6pm. $6 suggested donation. Also, don't miss the October 22nd show at Greenwich Village's 55 Bar, just down the street, with her 5-piece organ band. A current list of performances is posted on www.kelseyjillette.com along with live and studio music and free downloads.  

"Kelsey Jillette cuts to the heart of a song with a canny incisiveness that belies her age. Her voice, all honey dewed ripeness, seems to inhabit disparate styles as naturally as taking successive breaths. It’s been ages since I’ve heard such self-possession in a young jazz stylist. 'The Water is Wide' is her album and Jillette’s prospective horizon stretches as far, and beyond." 

— Kevin Lynch, award winning jazz journalist and author of the forthcoming “Voices in the River: The Jazz Message to Democracy.”

SUNDAY, 11 OCTOBER 2009 AT SIX PM
BRIAN LINDGREN

Brian Lindgren is a electronic artist and violist living in Brooklyn
NY.  He has performed in Europe and North America including venues
such as Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space, and Google.  His performance at
Chair and the Maiden will feature his solo electronic compositions.

SUNDAY, 04 OCTOBER AT SIX PM
TIBAGUI

Tibagui Trio, led by guitarist and composer Alejandro Flórez, started out as a project to perform the subtle, expressive music written for the Colombian guitar trio. The ensemble of bandola (relative of the mandolin), tiple (resembling the Cuban tres) and guitar has been for generations the standard of the music in the Andes of Colombia. Bambuco, guabina, pasillo, danza and marcha are some of the dance-able grooves played in the country’s mountainous regions. The music of Tibagui is directly related to this rich legacy made up of Indigenous, African and European elements.

Tibagui is now redefining its musical heritage. In its expanded version, the group features the guitars alongside the sophisticated sounds of clarinet, flute, double bass and percussion. The band members, well- versed in jazz and different Latin American genres, bring together their experiences to tell an exciting story of tradition and innovation.