 Fred Anderson
Bohemian National Home and New Detroit Sounds is proud to present The 3rd Annual Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music on May 30 & 31 at Bohemian National Home in Detroit. This two day festival showcases the finest in free jazz, improvisation and new music from around the world and right here in Detroit. In addition, we'll have food available from two Detroit culinary institutions, Slows Bar BQ and Avalon International Breads, as well as a CD mart from Stormy Records.
This year's line-up includes artists at the forefront of creative music: The Matthew Shipp Trio, Sabir Mateen Ensemble, The Andrew Lamb Trio, Ellery Eskelin and Sylvie Courvoisier, EDGE and many more. We will also featuring a headlining set by Fred Anderson, one of Chicago's most influential saxophonists, in his first Detroit appearance that anyone can remember. He'll be supported by a cast of premiere Detroit musicians- Skeeter Shelton, Ali Allen Colding and the return of native son Hakim Jami. For the first time, the festival will feature an improvisation workshop conducted by Tatsuya Nakatani, whoise amazing percussion playing has been preserved for posterity by The Smithsonian. Bohemian National Home is a grass-roots, artist run venue that presents the finest in living arts in all mediums. A festival of this scope would not be possible without the contributions of our local sponsors: Robert Loomis and Assoc., Pat Frisco, Niraj Ganatra, Stormy Records, Barberella, Avalon International Breads, Modati.com, International Minute Press (now@ 450 W. Fort), Car City Records, Slows Bar BQ, Cass Cafe and The Corktown Inn. Corktown Inn will also help contribute $15 to the festival for every room rented, so mention Bohemian National Home if you book a room there.
Here 's how the line-up stands. All times are subject to change...
Friday, May 30th doors at 5 pm
10:00 Matthew Shipp Trio with Joe Morris/Whit Dickey
9:00 Faruq Z Bey and the Northwoods Improvisers
8:00 Tatsuya Nakatani
7:00 The Raw Truth
6:15 Joe Morris/Ben Hall/Hans Buetow
5:30 Michael Carey/Piotr Michalowski
Saturday, May 31st doors at 2pm
11:45 Sabir Mateen Ensemble (Michael Wimberly/Warren Smith / Jane Wang / Shiau-Shu Yu /
Raymond A. King)
10:30 Fred Anderson/Skeeter Shelton/Hakim Jami/Ali Allen Colding
9:30 Andrew Lamb Trio (Tom Abbs, Warren Smith)
8:30 Ellery Eskelin/Sylvie Courvoisier
7:30 Saris (Sara Schoenbecck, Harris Eisenstadt)
6:30 EDGE (Jason Hwang, Taylor Ho Bynum, Ken Filiano, Andrew Drury)
5:45 Jack Wright
5:00 The Vizitors
4:15 Hasan Abdur Razzaq/Ryan Jewell
3:30 members of New Music Detroit
2:00 Improv workshop with Tatsuya Nakatani
Here what the critics have said about some of this year's performers:
Sabir Mateen Ensemble: "With musicians this strong, you simply can’t go wrong: they have decades of experience under their belts, and they’re guided by the venerable Mateen, one of the modern masters of creative music."—allaboutjazz.com
Matthew Shipp Trio: "One of the most daring and original pianists in jazz" — Paul Edelstein (Rolling Stone)
Fred Anderson: "Almost in spite of himself, he's easily one of the most important jazz musicians ever to come out of Chicago" — Peter Margasak (Chicago Reader)
For more information or for interviews with performers or Bohemian National Home, contact Joel Peterson at:
313 737 6606 or
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General Admission: $25 Friday/$28 Saturday
Advanced 2 day pass: $45
Advanced reserved seating: $30 a day
The best deal in New Music Festivals!
You can mail a check made out to Joel Peterson to:
Joel Peterson
3009 Tillman St.
Detroit, MI
48216
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