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Sounds From The Underground Concert Series Anniversary (Featuring AYAH DRUMMERS, STEPHEN WOOD AND ERIC FONTAINE!)
Sounds From The Underground was formed in February of 2012 by Jacob Deaton...who had realized after countless late night talks with Atlanta-based musicians that more venues were needed to support art based music. As we celebrate a year that featured over 40 different composers and hundreds of musicians we've decided to celebrate!
From Feb 11th-16th Elliott Street Pub will feature the best acts of this year PLUS brand new acts yet to be seen by audiences to celebrate the year gone by and the the years to come! Be apart of the movement in ATL! Creative music lives HERE!
***AYAH DRUMMERS***
An African drum experience led by the Atlanta legend Kinah Boto Ayah!
***STEPHEN WOOD***
Stephen Wood is a composer, performer, and educator based in Atlanta, Ga. With feet in many musical worlds, Stephen's main compositional vehicles are modern jazz and classical chamber experiments. Wood's compositional style brings forth and melds his cross-cultural musical studies into a deep, thoughtful, more traditional art form. Most recent studies and meditations have focused on the relationship of living energy and music specifically in relation to the sentience of plants.
The newly formed Chlorophyll: A Naturalist's Quartet is dedicated to the performance of music inspired by meditations on Plant Life, Earth's Natural Processes, and our Human Relationship to our Environment. As we receive happiness and joy from the aroma of a rose and the sight of a sunflower, we also absorb vibrations produced by those qualities. Plants are living beings who receive, transform, and produce energy. Through musical composition, Chlorophyll wishes to participate in the re-ignition of a once existing compassionate awareness between humans and plants.
Stephen holds an M.M. in Jazz Studies from Georgia State University and a B.A. in Music Composition from The Ohio State University. Compositional and performing highlights include two acclaimed modern jazz CD's with The Stephen Wood Ensemble and Postal, a commission from the Fisk University Jazz Ensemble, and a recent Composing in the Wilderness excursion to Denali N.P. resulting in a chamber ensemble performance at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks.
Please visit www.stephenwoodmusic.com for more information about upcoming activities, new music, and music for purchase.
***ERIC FONTAINE***
"Eric Fontaine with strings" existed as a dream of Atlanta jazz saxophonist Eric Fontaine that was finally was born into reality when a hip new label in town offered him an opportunity to record any experimental original music he wanted in a live acoustic setting. Taking a break from the traditional jazz format, he called up four of the best string players friends he knew in Atlanta, each who come a very different musical background, and wrote a bunch of dark soundscapes for string quartet to lightly solo over. The violinist, Rurik Nunan, does most of his gigs playing "fiddle" with blue-grass and country bands such as Plecktophilia and The Whiskey Gentry, but studied classical violin when he was younger. The violist, Cecilia Trode, currently studies classical viola performance at GSU. The cellist, Benjamin Shirley, comes from Connecticut where he studied with avant-garde pioneer Anthony Braxton. The bassist, Evan Sarver, is an extremely capable jazz and funk bassist new to town. And in charge of many various percussion instruments is Scotty Bryan. The compositions don't really fit one genre, but are part classical chamber music and part jazz with some brief moments of free improvisation, and generally sound like music that might be heard on a fantasy movie or RPG video game. You can listen to sample audio from the first album "Deceit & Usurpation" released in 2012 on BeHip Records at: http://artists.behiprecords.com/EricFontaine/DeceitAndUsurpation/
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LocationELLIOTT STREET PUB (View)
51 ELLIOTT ST
ATLANTA, GA 30313
United States
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