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SUMMARY:Bruce Gertz Quartet (Fall Concert Series)
DESCRIPTION:Join Fivesparks and Fugitive Productions in an intimate setting for a four-event concert series in Harvard’s beautiful town center.  \nCome to the whole series:\nThursday\, September 11: 440 Gypsy Jazz\nThursday\, October 16: RD King\, plus Lindsay Straw & Andy Cambria\nThursday\, November 13: Cassandre McKinley\nThursday\, December 4: Bruce Gertz Quartet \nAbout Bruce Gertz\nBruce Gertz is an award-winning\, bassist\, composer\, author\, educator\, touring and recording artist\, and is on the staff of Berklee College of Music. In addition to a raft of Boston Music Awards\, Gertz has garnered a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Performance grant\, a composition award from the Massachusetts Cultural Council\, and recognition from the music rights organization ASCAP\, Billboard magazine\, and other organizations. \n“Gertz has shown a consistency that the vast majority of his better-known contemporaries have failed to match. The music he creates has the power to evoke feeling\, thought\, and motion. He continues to work at it\, and the fruit of his efforts is unmistakable every time he plays” ( Boston Globe). \nGertz was named “Outstanding Bassist” by Boston Music Awards. His contribution to music education has earned him multiple recognition awards from The International Association of Jazz Educators and the Jazz Education Network and he serves on the advisory board of the International Society of Bassists. \nAs a bandleader\, Gertz has recorded more than 20 albums. He has performed and recorded with such artists as Gary Burton\, Jerry Bergonzi\, John Abercrombie\, Joey Calderazzo\, Kenny Werner\, Mick Goodrick\, Kurt Rosenwinkel\, Billy Hart\, Bill Frisell\, Bob Berg\, George Cables\, Gil Evans\, Tom Harrell\, Jon Hendricks\, Diane Schuur\, Dave Brubeck\, George Garzone\, Mike Stern\, Larry Coryell\, Joe Lovano\, Cab Calloway\, Maynard Ferguson\, Count Basie\, and many others. \nDoors: 7pm • Performance: 7:30–9:30pm • $22/advance\, $27/door (incl. fees) •  Tickets \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.fivesparks.org/event/bruce-gertz-quartet-fall-concert-series/
CATEGORIES:Fugitive Fall Series,music
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SUMMARY:Cassandre McKinley (Fall Concert Series)
DESCRIPTION:Join Fivesparks and Fugitive Productions in an intimate setting for a four-event concert series in Harvard’s beautiful town center.  \nCome to the whole series:\nThursday\, September 11: 440 Gypsy Jazz\nThursday\, October 16: RD King plus Lindsay Straw & Andy Cambria\nThursday\, November 13: Cassandre McKinley\nThursday\, December 4: Bruce Gertz Quartet \nAbout Cassandre McKinley\nBoston native\, Cassandre McKinley\, is a singer\, recording artist\, composer\, producer\, vocal coach and educator. As an artist and singer\, she channels a vast spectrum of genres that include Soul\, Jazz\, Blues\, R&B\, Pop\, and Country and has unwittingly unified them into a singular sound that is primitively hers. McKinley’s consensual freedom from stylistic boundaries has become her signature approach to making music. \n“There’s a music style called ‘jazzsoul’ (we made it up) and our anointed queen is Boston native Cassandre McKinley” (Boston Globe). \nMcKinley is deeply rooted in a recording career\, having released five solo albums\, and is revered for her spirited and impassioned live performances. Her most notable collaborations include those with Peter Eldridge (New York Voices)\, Duke Levine\, Dave Mattacks\, Clay Osborne\, Bernard Purdie\, Herb Pomeroy. She appeared as a regular featured artist alongside the great J. Geils in his named Jazz & Blues Review to sold out audiences throughout New England. Her music can be heard on hundreds of national and international radio stations\, cable and internet music outlets including iHeartRadio\, Spotify\, Pandora and XM Radio. She serves an Associate Professor in the Voice Department at Berklee College of Music in Boston and Berklee Online. \nFeatured Performers\nTim Ray\, piano • Dave Mattacks\, drums • Robert Nieske\, bass \nDoors: 7pm • Performance: 7:30–9:30pm • $22/advance\, $27/door (incl. fees) •  Tickets
URL:https://www.fivesparks.org/event/cassandre-mckinley-fall-concert-series/
CATEGORIES:Fugitive Fall Series,music
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SUMMARY:RD King plus Lindsay Straw & Andy Cambria (Fall Concert Series)
DESCRIPTION:Join Fivesparks and Fugitive Productions in an intimate setting for a four-event concert series in Harvard’s beautiful town center.  \nCome to the whole series:\nThursday\, September 11: 440 Gypsy Jazz\nThursday\, October 16: RD King plus Lindsay Straw & Andy Cambria\nThursday\, November 13: Cassandre McKinley\nThursday\, December 4: Bruce Gertz Quartet \nAbout R.D King\nR.D. King is an award-winning fingerstyle guitarist\, composer\, and music educator. A captivating and energetic performer\, King blends guitar pyrotechnics with cinematic and evocative music. King is a TEDx Cambridge performer\, the winner of the 2017 Canadian Guitar Festival’s International Fingerstyle Guitar Competition\, and a finalist of the 2019 Walnut Valley Festival’s International Fingerstyle Guitar Competition. He has opened for Grammy-nominated Ari Hest\, Andy McKee\, Liz Longley\, and many others \nHis compositional prowess has earned him numerous awards and accolades\, including back-to-back Outstanding Achievement in Songwriting Awards in the 2023 and 2024 Great American Songwriting Contest\, placing as a finalist in the 2023 International Acoustic Music Awards\, and winning the 2018 Walnut Valley Festival’s NewSong Showcase (Instrumental Category).  \nR.D. King has released six albums of solo fingerstyle guitar music\, the latest of which is Songs of Spring (2023). He resides in Boston where he performs and is an associate lecturer at UMass Boston. \nAbout Lindsay Straw & Andy Cambria\nKnown among guitar circles for their work at The Music Emporium\, Andy Cambria and Lindsay Straw also share a love for pithy\, complex songs of the folk\, bluegrass and Celtic persuasion. Blending harmony vocals and double guitars\, Irish bouzouki and clawhammer banjo\, and throwing in some old-time tunes for good measure\, the duo loves tackling songs both traditional and contemporary — but there has to be a good story. Their music is sure to appeal to fans of folk duos like Gillian Welch & David Rawlings and the Murphy Beds. \nDoors: 7pm • Performance: 7:30–9:30pm • $22/advance\, $27/door (incl. fees) •  Tickets
URL:https://www.fivesparks.org/event/rd-king-plus-lindsay-straw-andy-cambria-fall-concert-series/
CATEGORIES:Fugitive Fall Series,music
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SUMMARY:440 Gypsy Jazz (Fall Concert Series)
DESCRIPTION:Join Fivesparks and Fugitive Productions in an intimate setting for a four-event concert series in Harvard’s beautiful town center.  \nCome to the whole series:\nThursday\, September 11: 440 Gypsy Jazz\nThursday\, October 16: RD King plus Lindsay Straw & Andy Cambria\nThursday\, November 13: Cassandre McKinley\nThursday\, December 4: Bruce Gertz Quartet \nAbout 440 Gypsy Jazz\nIn the style of hot club jazz\, 440 presents their toe-tapping original tunes and Django’s music arranged with beautiful harmony by violin and clarinet.  \nTomoko Iwamoto\, violin\, a leader of 440\, has been in Boston jazz scene for more than 30 years. Being a “jazzy” violinist with a strong classical background\, she expanded her repertoire in jazz\, rock\, pop to world music\, toured with Hypnotic Clambake\, while studying Jazz Composition and Arranging at Berklee College of Music. During her recent trip to Europe\, she jammed with world renown gypsy jazz musicians; Tcha Limberger & the members of Les Violins de Bruxelles\, and Chris & Julian Brunard. She appeared as a guest soloist with Mood Swings Orchestra and Women In World Jazz\, and collaborated with modern jazz guitarist\, Chris Mcdermott. \nJohn Clark\, clarinet\, is the founder of the Wolverine Jazz Band and has been a fixture on the New England Jazz scene for many years. He has played professionally in the Boston area with numerous traditional jazz and big bands\, including the High Society Dance Orchestra\, Dan Gabel’s Abeltones\, Commonwealth Jazz\, the New Black Eagle Jazz Band\, and the Paramount Jazz Band of Boston. John is an acknowledged authority on the history of jazz and has recorded extensively. He holds a PhD. in Musicology and has published books and articles on the foundations of Early Jazz. \nJack Soref\, guitar\, graduate of Berklee College of Music\,  became captivated by the music of Django Reinhardt after attending the International Django Reinhardt festival in Samois-sur-Seine France in 2002. Jack is a mainstay of Django Festivals Django in June\, where he has taught since 2009\, and the Midwest Gypsy Swing Fest\, where he has performed as recently as 2023.  \nGregory Toro\, bass\, was born and raised in Boston. He fell in love with music and rhythm as a child\, and at the age of 10 joined a neighborhood steel band that played calypso and church music on weekends. He found his true calling as a bass player when he was 16 years old. Greg studied electric and upright bass and jazz composition at Berklee\, where he collaborated with musicians from many countries and cultures. He has traveled the world with jazz and rock groups. \nDoors: 7pm • Performance: 7:30–9:30pm • $22/advance\, $27/door (incl. fees) •  Tickets
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