Friday, April 13, 2012
Doors open at 6pm (auction closes at 8pm)
Steve Bernstein performance @ 9pm
Don’t let superstition keep you away from this night of music, mystery and mischievousness!
Black Cat Brewisan eveninghonoring our Jazz on Vine music series and the artists that have played at the Bride. Jazz on Vine, Philadelphia’s longest running jazz series (39 years) was just awarded, for the second time, the ASCAP National Award for Adventurous Programming.
Taking place during National Jazz Month on Friday, April 13, 2012, Black Cat Brew will fill the Bride’s walls with live music and art, a Silent Auction & raffle, jazz karaoke hosted by Sugartown Productions, as well as dinner by 12th St. Catering and drinks. Headlining the evening at 9pm is Steve Bernstein (Grammy nominated composer/Sex Mob trumpeter), leading a stellar nine-piece ensemble playing Sly & the Family Stone’s music.
All funds raised from this event will be used to benefit Painted Bride Art Center and its programmatic and educational activities.
Silent Auction items include tickets to Chris’ Jazz Café, Live Arts Festival, Keswick Theater, Live with Kelly in NYC & Headlong Dance Theater…. signed CDs, posters & music memorabilia by Odean Pope, Bobby Zankel, Hannibal, John Hollenbeck, Papo Vazquez & Adam Rudolph…..SIGNED photos of past Bride jazz artists by Paul Kopicki, veteran Bride photographer……and MUCH, MUCH MORE!
Ticket prices:
$100 – Black Cat Brew AND Steve Bernstein performance {BUY}
$75 – Black Cat Brew ONLY {BUY}
$25 – Steve Bernstein performance ONLY {BUY}
Black Cat Brew Artist Committee
Elio Villafranca
Adam Rudolph
John Hollenbeck
Hannibal
Greg Osby
Ben Schachter
Bobby Zankel
Jamie Baum
Vijay Ayer
Sunny Jain
Papo Vazquez
Jaleel Shaw
Odean Pope
SPONSORS:
Domenick & Associates, Harriet Rubenstein & Marty Brigham, and Jennifer Jordan.
SALSA CALIENTE!
BYOB Cabaret and Dance Party Learn/dance to Latin big bands live Fri. June 1st | Dance Lessons: 8pm, Party: 9pm $20 in advance, $25 day of event 20% off for patrons in our Ticket Discount Program. Program members/Crush Card Holders CLICK HERE to SIGN IN and get the appropriate price. You will be directed back to this page for purchase.
“If you haven’t dance to a live Latin band, you haven’t danced salsa, embrace the heat!”
- Jesse Bermudez, Regional Latino cultural ambassador and Salsa Caliente co-producer
Philadelphia’s only BYOB cabaret concert and dance party series featuring two live Latin big bands returns for a second season at the Bride. Drawing from the buzz looming from last season’s wide appeal and diverse attendance, Salsa Caliente 2.0 continues its non-stop flight service from the fringes of Old City to the heart of Old San Juan alongside the hottest large music ensembles from the region such as Orquesta Herencia de Soneros and Papo Buda y Saboricua who performed last season. Plenty of room for dancers of all experience levels, each evening starts with FREE dance lessons from Flaco’s Dance Factory. Put some salsa on your sexy and come join the party!
Who is Jesse Bermudez? He is the Grammy-nominated producer/radio personality/arts education champion/music curator and co-producer of Salsa Caliente!, the new Latin dance concert series now in its second year at La Nova Pintada. And who knows more about live salsa bands than Bermudez? He is known for his instrumental role in Papo Vasquez’s 2008 Album, “Marooned/Aislado“, which garnered a Grammy nomination for Best Latin Jazz Album. His Saturday brunch-time show, ‘Sonido Diferente’ on Mega 1310 AM, showcases regional Latino talent, as well as highlights the multi-layered soul of the Latin music genre, with urban, soul, & jazz-inflected selections, that aren’t heard in mainstream Latin radio. A long-time collaborator with the Bride, Jesse Bermudez partners with the Bride once again – this time to share the tropical heat that only live musicians can deliver to salsa dance floors.
Last season’s artistic line-up notes:
An African influenced Latin rhythm section driven by congas, timbales, bass and piano seamlessly interwoven with the soaring sweet harmonies of a jazz improvisation produced by tenor sax, trumpet, and trombone – this is the structure and styling of Latin Jazz – one Café Con Pan Latin Jazz Band has truly mastered since its 2005 inception. Bandleader Rick Rodriquez is far from being a stranger to the region’s “cuchifrito” circuit and has shared the stage with both Latin and R&B greats including Isidro Infante and Puchi Colon as well as Lou Rawls and Phillis Hyman. Equipped with a hand-picked all-star roster of musicians, Rodriquez’s big band has been satisfying both the listening and dancing pleasures of salsa fans throughout the tri-state area.
Student and Senior tickets are only available in person or over the phone with valid ID. Please call 215-925-9914
The Crazy Cloud Collection May 5 | 8pm $25 in advance/$30 day of show
Founded by Shinichi Iova-Koga in 1998, inkBoat is a performance collective working in fractured, filmic, delicate and decayed environments, inkBoat’s performances evoke both the traditional and the experimental, drawing heavily from movements (political, artistic, personal) of challenge. Each performance is a dialogue between the apparent and hidden worlds.
“The Crazy Cloud Collection” results from the intersection of Ko Murobushi, recognized in Japan as a leading inheritor of Hijikata’s original vision of Butoh, and Shinichi Iova-Koga, whose aesthetic balances between the known and unknown, improvising image within and without the body. Together, these artists invite the ghost of Ikkyu, a 15th century monk known for provocative, biting and unorthodox poetry, to share the stage with them.
The presentation and tour of ”The Crazy Cloud Collection” was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project (NDP). Additional tour funding comes from Performing Arts Japan, a program of Japan Foundation.
“The Crazy Cloud Collection” is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund/Forth Fund Project, produced by inkBoat, the U.S./Japan Cultural Trade Network, Inc. and the San Francisco International Arts Festival.
Steve Bernstein’s MTO Plays Sly Friday, April 13 | 9pm $25 in advance/$30 day of show
*This concert is the culmination of our Black Cat Brew. Enjoy the show + dinner and festivities. More info HERE.
Ticket prices:
$100 – Black Cat Brew AND Steve Bernstein performance {BUY}
$75 – Black Cat Brew ONLY {BUY}
$25 – Steve Bernstein performance ONLY {BUY}
“When the time comes, Bernstein clicks an invisible switch and the band pops into semi-flawless unison. At that point, you might imagine yourself in Harlem in 1929…” —Village Voice
Tearing into witty and funky new arrangements of little-known jazz nuggets from the 1920s and ‘30s, as well as radically transforming songs by artists such as Prince and the Beatles, Steven Bernstein (Grammy-nominated composer/Sex Mob trumpeter) leads an improvisational nine-piece outfit playing irreverent 21st-century jazz. On this evening audiences can expect an ambitious, yet reverent take on Sly & the Family Stone’s music, spirit, and legacy.
The evenings STELLAR line-up:
Steven Bernstein-trumpet, slide trumpet
Curtis Fowlkes- trombone
Charlie Burnham-violin
Marty Ehrlich- clarinet, tenor sax
Michael Blake- tenor/soprano sax
Erik Lawrence-baritone/soprano sax
Will Bernard-guitar
Ben Allison- bass
Ben Perowsky-drums
John Medeskii-organ
Dean Bowman-vocal
KUN-YANG LIN/DANCERS Thurs-Sat, March 29-31 | 8pm $30 in advance, $35 day of show
”In the most enchantingly evocative fashion, choreographer Kun-Yang Lin’s new evening-length work, “Beyond the Bones,” transports us back to the beginnings of humanity and deep into the wellsprings of our beings. ” – Backstage
The Bride welcomes back one of Philadelphia’s most heralded dance companies, Kun Yang Lin/Dancers (KYL/D) for their exclusive 2012 home season performance engagement. Living up to his reputation as a choreographer who “combines a fresh approach to conventional craft with a commitment to contemporary social-consciousness” – Backstage, Kun-Yang Lin works through his lens as an immigrant artist grappling with the complexities of Eastern and Western dualities. On the heels of company’s world premiere of Mandala Project: Entering the Circle last February fans can expect a full evening of dance featuring both brand new works as well as familiar signature favorites.
Bones: the seat of affections, the place of deepest feelings. Within them, mind and instincts mingle and speak with a voice beyond the flow of time. Set on a collage of Eastern and Western music, Beyond the Bones ranges through world cultures’ and religions’ various mythologies to surpass consciousness in the search for purity. Beyond the Bones uses visual richness and bold imagery to speak a soul-seeking journey through our personal and public fear to a sense of wonder and celebration of life.
20% off for patrons in our Ticket Discount Program. Program members/Crush Card Holders CLICK HERE to SIGN IN and get the appropriate price. You will be directed back to this page for purchase.
AIN GORDON’S “IN THIS PLACE…”
Award-winning playwright, director and actor
Thurs-Sat, March 8-10 | 8pm
$25 in advance, $30 day of show 20% off for patrons in our Ticket Discount Program. Program members/Crush Card Holders CLICK HERE to SIGN IN and get the appropriate price. You will be directed back to this page for purchase.
Written/Directed by Ain Gordon
Featuring Michelle Hurst
Video by Joan Brannon
1830: Samuel and Daphney Oldham are the first free African-Americans to build their own home in Lexington, KY. Five years later they’re gone.
Now: 3-time Obie Award-winning artist Ain Gordon imagines the full story behind these bare facts from Daphney’s perspective.
This is the first installment of the Painted Bride’s two-year project examining place.
The second installment brings Ain Gordon into a new collaboration with award-winning Philadelphia filmmaker Nadine Patterson.
From Patterson “This project offers a chance to explore contemporary life within an historical context. Philadelphia is full of personal his/herstories centered in places where events of the past ripple out into the present and future.” From Gordon: “We are in search of Philadelphia’s disappearing history and the forgotten individuals who reside there.”
Look for this project’s premiere at the Painted Bride, Spring 2013.
This two-year project has been supported by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage though the Philadelphia Theatre Initiative.
In This Place… was originally a collaboration with LexArts made possible, in part, with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Multi Arts Production Fund (MAP) and produced by Pick Up Performance Co(s)
In this Place…has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts through the Philadelphia Theater Initiative and produced by the Pick Up PerformanceCo(s) in collaboration with LexArts with initial funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and the MAP FUND.
Student and Senior tickets are only available in person or over the phone with valid ID. Please call 215-925-9914
SALSA CALIENTE!
BYOB Cabaret and Dance Party Learn/dance to Latin big bands live Fri. March 2 | Dance Lessons: 9pm, Party: 10pm $20 in advance, $25 day of event 20% off for patrons in our Ticket Discount Program. Program members/Crush Card Holders CLICK HERE to SIGN IN and get the appropriate price. You will be directed back to this page for purchase.
“If you haven’t dance to a live Latin band, you haven’t danced salsa, embrace the heat!”
- Jesse Bermudez, Regional Latino cultural ambassador and Salsa Caliente co-producer
Philadelphia’s only BYOB cabaret concert and dance party series featuring two live Latin big bands returns for a second season at the Bride. Drawing from the buzz looming from last season’s wide appeal and diverse attendance, Salsa Caliente 2.0 continues its non-stop flight service from the fringes of Old City to the heart of Old San Juan alongside the hottest large music ensembles from the region such as Orquesta Herencia de Soneros and Papo Buda y Saboricua who performed last season. Plenty of room for dancers of all experience levels, each evening starts with FREE dance lessons from Flaco’s Dance Factory. Put some salsa on your sexy and come join the party!
Who is Jesse Bermudez? He is the Grammy-nominated producer/radio personality/arts education champion/music curator and co-producer of Salsa Caliente!, the new Latin dance concert series now in its second year at La Nova Pintada. And who knows more about live salsa bands than Bermudez? He is known for his instrumental role in Papo Vasquez’s 2008 Album, “Marooned/Aislado“, which garnered a Grammy nomination for Best Latin Jazz Album. His Saturday brunch-time show, ‘Sonido Diferente’ on Mega 1310 AM, showcases regional Latino talent, as well as highlights the multi-layered soul of the Latin music genre, with urban, soul, & jazz-inflected selections, that aren’t heard in mainstream Latin radio. A long-time collaborator with the Bride, Jesse Bermudez partners with the Bride once again – this time to share the tropical heat that only live musicians can deliver to salsa dance floors.
Last season’s artistic line-up notes:
An African influenced Latin rhythm section driven by congas, timbales, bass and piano seamlessly interwoven with the soaring sweet harmonies of a jazz improvisation produced by tenor sax, trumpet, and trombone – this is the structure and styling of Latin Jazz – one Café Con Pan Latin Jazz Band has truly mastered since its 2005 inception. Bandleader Rick Rodriquez is far from being a stranger to the region’s “cuchifrito” circuit and has shared the stage with both Latin and R&B greats including Isidro Infante and Puchi Colon as well as Lou Rawls and Phillis Hyman. Equipped with a hand-picked all-star roster of musicians, Rodriquez’s big band has been satisfying both the listening and dancing pleasures of salsa fans throughout the tri-state area.
Student and Senior tickets are only available in person or over the phone with valid ID. Please call 215-925-9914
Sheetal Gandhi’s Bahu Beti-Biwi (Daughter-in-law, Daughter,Wife) Fri-Sat, February 24-25| 8pm $20 in advance, $25 day of show
“There was not a single wasted gesture or sound. Gandhi’s portrayal of these two worlds — traditional Indian culture and contemporary Western culture — illustrates both their differences and similarities.”
- Megan Kennedy for Exploredance.com
A solo tour de force combining dance, stirring vocalization and punching text, Sheetal Gandhi’s magnetically rhythmic Bahu-Beti-Biwi (Daughter-in-law, Daughter, Wife) wraps North Indian music traditions and family characters into a contemporary exploration that segues between humorous portraiture and active resistance. Sheetal Gandhi, a multidisciplinary choreographer and performer, creates work that tells a story – stories which mirror her own life and embrace the human diversity she observes around her. Using a hybrid movement vocabulary influenced by Kathak, Modern and West African dance, as well as complex rhythmic structures, theatricality and vocally, her work reflects her love for Indian cultural tradition and disciplinary technique, with the equally urgent desire to break away from them. 20% off for patrons in our Ticket Discount Program. Program members/Crush Card Holders CLICK HERE to SIGN IN and get the appropriate price. You will be directed back to this page for purchase.
Student and Senior tickets are only available in person or over the phone with valid ID. Please call 215-925-9914
Sometimes
creative roads
come full circle.
When you’re lucky…
For her first length full evening, Philadelphia dancer-choreographer Lindsay Browning (Scrap, Group Motion, Olive Prince, Idiosyncrazy Productions) presents an intriguing multi-media journey in and out of several lucky lives told through sweeping choreographed movement, stunning visual imagery, original music and a deeply personalized and powerful portrayal of Abraham Lincoln. The work is filled with metaphorical interplay between time, place, person, existence and remembrance. It pulls from the past, acknowledges uncertainties of the present, and imagines the future.
Lindsay possibly discovered “Lincoln Luck” when she was just a child. Her father, who is an actor, was preparing to create the image of late president Abraham Lincoln in the den of their home. Lindsay was 7 years old and witnessed her father recreate Lincoln right in front of her. Twenty-one years later, she has created a performance work with his image of “Lincoln Luck” in mind.
PERFORMERS:
LINDSAY BROWNING, DAVID BROWNING, JOHN LUNA, MYRA BAZELL, AXEL RIMMERMAN, AND TOMMY BURKEL
ORIGINAL MUSIC: THOMAS FLANAGAN
LIGHTING DESIGN: MADISON CARIO & GAETAN SPURGIN
CHOREOGRAPHY: LINDSAY BROWNING WITH JOHN LUNA
VIDEO INSTALLATIO/ PROJECTIONS: JOHN LUNA
SET DESIGN: LINDSAY BROWNING & JOHN LUNA
COSTUME DESIGN: LINDSAY BROWNING
PHOTO CREDITS: ALAN KOLC & P. BROWNING
20% off for patrons in our Ticket Discount Program. Program members/Crush Card Holders CLICK HERE to SIGN IN and get the appropriate price. You will be directed back to this page for purchase.
Student and Senior tickets are only available in person or over the phone with valid ID. Please call 215-925-9914
DAVID “FUZE” FIUCZYNSKI’S SCREAMING HEADLESS HENDRIX
A Birthday Tribute to a Legendary Light
Guest curator: J. Michael Harrison Saturday, February 4 | 8pm $25 in advance, $30 day of show
20% off for patrons in our Ticket Discount Program. Program members/Crush Card Holders CLICK HERE to SIGN IN and get the appropriate price. You will be directed back to this page for purchase.
Opening Act: Marina Vishnyakova’s Quartet, featuring Marina Vishnyakova (violin), Frank Velardo (guitar), Josh Machiz (bass), and Alex Maio (drums).
The premiere of David ‘Fuze’ Fiuczynski’s most recent live project Screaming Headless Hendrix – a tribute to the incomparable spirit of innovation presented to the world by the late legendary guitar hero Jimi Hendrix (11/27/42 – 9/18/1970). This tribute concert, curated by Philly-based radio personalityJ. Michael Harrison, marks the first in a series of events leading up what would have been the icon’s 70th birthday.
At the crossroads of new beats, microtonal harmonies, melodic inflections and improvisational concepts, new musical ideas are on the horizon. David “Fuze” Fiuzynski and The Planet MicroJam Institute ensemble celebrate the music, life and legacy of Jimi Hendrix. On fretted and fretless guitars Fiuczynski leads his 5-piece ensemble including Kenwood Dennard (drums), Freedom Bremner (vocals), Utar Dundarartun (microtonal keyboards), and Justin Schornstein (bass) through the most challenging landscapes of blues, jazz, rock, soul, funk and punk.
For sheer chops, imagination and raw abandon, no one can touch this Fuze.” — Pulse!Known for colliding sonic aesthetics, creating innovative music driven by hard grooves, influenced by eastern melodies, Fiuczynski draws from a diverse palette of raw emotion to deliver a powerful fusion of eastern and western elements offering listeners the chance to drift into a colorful trance. For Screaming Headless Hendrix, Fiuczynski’s fans can expect newly inspired arrangements of Hendrix’s 3rd Stone from the Sun, House Burnin’ Down, Steppin’ Stone, among others, as well as original ‘Fuze’ pieces influenced by Hendrix. “Cutting edge sounds that define today’s musical landscape.” — Billboard
Iconoclastic and prolific jazz-rock guitarist David ‘Fuze’ Fiuczynski, a jazz player who “doesn’t want to play just jazz”, has been hailed by world press as an incredibly inventive guitar hero, who continues to deliver with music that is unclassifiable, challenging and invigorating. An innovative musician who has released nine CD’s and a double live DVD, Fuze is best known as the leader of the Screaming Headless Torsos. A current Guggenheim fellow, ‘Fuze’ and hasworked with luminaries across the spectrum including Jack DeJohnette, Bernie Worrell, John Zorn, Muhal Richard Abrams, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Stewart Copeland, Cindy Blackman, Vernon Reid, John Medeski, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Bill Bruford, Hasidic New Wave, Gongzilla, Steve Coleman and Meshell NdegéOcello among many others.
Need the “bottle” in BYOB? Stop by Pinot Boutique (227 Market St) on the way to the show and pick up your wine. Mention the Painted Bride and receive a 10% discount!
