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Wednesday: Joshua Smith Quartet/Organism
by High Mayhem Newsletter 16 Dec '12

16 Dec '12

[image: joshplayingshot2] *Joshua Smith Quartet / Organism* *Wednesday, December 19 at **7:30pm* *O'Shaughnessy Performance Space, Benildus Hall* *Santa Fe University of Art and Design, 1600 St. Michael's Drive, Santa Fe* *Tickets: $10 (General Public) or $5 (seniors & students w/valid ID) at the door* Renowned San Francisco / Bay Area modern jazz saxophonist / composer Joshua Smith returns to perform at SFUAD – One Night Only! “Joshua Smith plays saxophone on a world-class level. An outstanding technician, he articulates very clearly, and his improvisations are consistently rich in content.” -Harvey Pekar, Jazziz Magazine *Joshua Smith Quartet / Joshua Smith Organism *Quartet: Joshua Smith – Saxophones; Ben Wright – bass; Robert Muller – piano; Dave Wayne – Drums & percussion. Organism: Joshua Smith – Saxophones; Milton Villarrubia - Drums & electronics, Al Faaet - Drums & percussion, Chris Jonas – Saxophone, Carlos Santistevan - Bass, Jeremy Bleich - Bass, plus special guests… Fresh off a gig at ‘The Stone’ in New York City with the Scott Amendola Quartet (w/special guest, guitarist Nels Cline), Josh brings his saxophone virtuosity to Santa Fe to make more joyous musical mayhem with long-time associates Jeremy Bleich (bass / oud / guitar), drummers Milton Villarrubia and Dave Wayne, saxophonist Chris Jonas, and others. Joshua Smith is one of the leading lights of the always innovative, ever-vital Bay Area music scene. Smith has recorded and performed with a long list of creative music’s most important voices such as Joe Maneri, Cuong Vu, Ben Goldberg, Myra Melford, Karla Khilstedt, Jamey Haddad, and many more. For the past two years, he has been a regular member of The Scott Amendola Quartet. His large-scale projects include co-writing and performing the music for the Harvey Pekar / Dan Plonsey opera collaboration, “Leave Me Alone,” which debuted at Oberlin Conservatory’s Finney Chapel in January 2009. This performance drew a rave review from AllAboutJazz.com ( http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=31852#.ULwx0NuF9AN) Joshua is no stranger to the Santa Fe music community. The Cleveland, Ohio native performed recently at the GiG Performance Space with his folk / Americana duo The Old Way (Joshua and Irena Smith on vocals and guitars), and at several High Mayhem Festivals with Birth (featuring Santa Fe resident Jeremy Bleich on bass and Joe Tomino on drums), The Cleveland Trio (with Bleich and drummer Carmen Castaldi) and Amitosis (with Tomino, Jonas, and bassist Kurt Kotheimer). Guitarist / vocalist Irena Smith is traveling with Joshua, so don’t rule out a brief impromptu set by The Old Way. Please join us for a night of compelling fringe jazz improvisations at Santa Fe’s premier venue for new and adventurous music! Joshua Smith is presented in collaboration with Santa Fe University of Art and Design’s Contemporary Music Program. www.highmayhem.org www.facebook.com/highmayhem https://www.facebook.com/events/263857033741367/

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High Mayhem & T-Cubed present Horse Feathers w/ Frank Fairfield THIS SATURDAY
by High Mayhem Newsletter 05 Dec '12

05 Dec '12

*Horse Feathers w/ Frank Fairfield* *Saturday, December 8* *Doors open at 7:30pm* ** *At High Mayhem Emerging Arts, **2811 Siler Lane, Santa Fe* High Mayhem, in conjunction with T-Cubed Productions, is excited to present HORSE FEATHERS with very special guest Frank Fairfield! This marks Horse Feathers' first-ever performance in Santa Fe. High Mayhem is an intimate listening space and tickets for this show are LIMITED. Get yours now at http://www.ticketssantafe.org/tsf/event_calendar/detail/1664 <http://www.ticketssantafe.org/tsf/event_calendar/detail/1664> *ABOUT HORSE FEATHERS* "Two factors elevate the band to greatness: 1) That is a hell of a stirring string section, which helps Horse Feathers achieve rare exquisiteness; and 2) singer Justin Ringle knows how to use his warm, kind tenor to mask powerful lyrics about dark secrets and bruised souls." -NPR "The indie music scene has been trending toward the electronic side for some time now, making this acoustic indie band a refreshing pleasure to see live. Without the help of effect pedals, Horse Feathers relies on their musical abilities, the vocals of all four band members, and their creative experimentation with their instruments to create different sounds that many other bands are only capable of producing with the help of computers. The resulting music is pure and simply beautiful." - New Music Collaborative "Heartbreaking and pretty, the scenes in Horse Feathers’ music are shaped by stark piano, moody upright bass and Ringle’s folksy fingerpicking....Sustaining an uneasy, somber mood through minor chords, the group plays with enough quiet strength to keep the feeling of defeat at bay. Even without a trace of sunshine, Horse Feathers’ melancholy, country-flecked chamber-folk is buoyed by a sense of redemption that could convert the gloomiest cynic." Time Out Chicago "The transformation from album to stage was actually quite amazing, the instrumentation had even more of a presence live than it does on their albums (I didn't think it was possible). " - Twin Cities Daily Planet *ABOUT FRANK FAIRFIELD* "It’s difficult to imagine Frank Fairfield living in an apartment, let alone using e-mail or a cell phone. It’s much easier to picture him supine in the back of a boxcar, plucking his battered banjo while shuttling across a black Southern sky. Or camped by the bank of some slow-moving tributary, fiddling forgotten Appalachian murder ballads, surrounded by hobos chomping cold beans. Or stepping out of a Faulkner novel, all gun smoke, ancestral ghosts and gee-tar." - LA Weekly www.highmayhem.org www.facebook.com/highmayhem https://www.facebook.com/events/557664537581325/

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