Pangaea Project Benefit with the Everyone Orchestra
I'm absolutely thrilled to be involved in the production of the upcoming Pangaea Project Benefit Concerts at the Crystal Ballroom here in Portland, OR. An annual tradition, the concerts benefit The Pangaea Project, a non-profit group that does local and international leadership development work with low-income students.
As if it weren't enough for the concerts to be for a good cause, they also manage to wrangle an absolutely smashing lineup of musicians each year -- and this year is no different: Steve Berlin of Los Lobos, Michael Kang from SCI, Will Bernard, Stanton Moore, Scott Law, and many others, all mixed into the magically delicious musical smoothie that is the Everyone Orchestra. Never the same band twice, EO, led by conductor Matt Butler, is a heady, excursive trip down improv lane, with twists, turns, jumps and shouts that never fail to delight.
EO's performing two nights -- May 16th and 17th -- and it's going to be a blast. We just finished a big push last week to get the website launched and the event announced, and I'm very happy with the results so far -- tickets, lineup, assorted eye candy, etc -- it's all here:
The Pangaea Project Benefit with the Everyone Orchestra
Hope to see you there!
New look
I've decided to even out the content & look of my personal domain -- it's been completely given over to music for some time -- so it represents a more balanced look at who I am and what I do, and provides me a place to pontificate as needed.
To that end, I''ve moved the music stuff over to myspace, and my upcoming gig mailing list is over at my shiny new music-marketing site, AudienceHype.
This site, in addition to being a glorified resume and playground for various projects in Ruby, Rails, PHP and whatever else I stumble upon, will be a clearinghouse for posts on anything on which I stop to formulate an opinion worth sharing. Enjoy!
Oh, and send Gene some mail. Gene likes mail.
cheers,
gene
Roundabout Roots @ the Jolly
After a couple of gigless months, I''m psyched to be bringing my new group Roundabout Roots to the Jolly Roger this Thursday!
John Lamb (drums), Jonathan Chase (bass), Ryan Cheng (sax), and I will be bringing the first of three monthly installments of funk, jazz, rock, and assorted genre-bending jamminess to the ever-hip Jolly Roger this Thursday, 2/28/08. We''re expecting some special guests -- it should be a great night, so come on down!
Roundabout Roots
Jolly Roger, SE 12th & Madison, Portland
Thursday, 2/28/08 -- 9PM - 1AM
FREE