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From Present Music:

Spontaneous Creativity Compliments Present Music
D/IVA featuring Iva Bittová – March 19, 2011

(Milwaukee, WI-January 18) The Present Music Ensemble will perform with Iva Bittová, a Czech singer, violinist and composer on Saturday, March 19 at 7:30pm at the Humphrey Scottish Rite Masonic Center. Bittová’s irresistible charm, original use of voice, and fondness of melodies sit on the border of avant-garde and folk music. Her compositions are deeply rooted in classical and gypsy music. The Present Music Ensemble will also perform Steve Reich‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning Double Sextet.

Iva Bittová was born in 1958 in Bruntál in northern Moravia in what was then Czechoslovakia and is now the Czech Republic. Bittová attended drama pre-school, specializing in violin and ballet. She gained admittance to the Music Conservatory in Brno where she graduated in drama and music. During her studies, Bittová worked as an actress and musician in Brno’s Divadlo Husa na provázku (Goose On A String Theater). She cites these engagements as some of the most formative and influential of her life.

Present Music: 158 North Broadway, Milwaukee, WI 53202
Humphrey Scottish Rite Masonic Center: 790 N. Van Buren St., Milwaukee, WI 53202

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From the Deep Listening Institute:

Under the Radar Concert with Mia Zabelka
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 – 8:00pm
$10 Adults/$8 Students & Seniors
Deep Listening Space, 77 Cornell St, Suite 303, Kingston NY

Art on the Wall Virtual Gallery presents 100 Artists/ 100 Dreams Preview
Saturday, February 5, 2011 – 5:00pm – 8:00pm
Deep Listening Space @ The Shirt Factory

Under the Radar Concert with Steve Gorn & Curtis Bahn
Saturday, March 12, 2011 – 8:00pm
$10 Adults/$8 Students & Seniors
Deep Listening Space @ The Shirt Factory
Deep Listening Space
77 Cornell St, Suite
Kingston, NY 12401

A live performance at Ireland’s Stet Lab:

Featuring the Belfast-based drummer, performer and composer Stephen Davis, the next Stet Lab (which will also be the last event to be curated by Stet Lab founder Han-earl Park) will take place on Monday, February 7, 2011, upstairs @ The Roundy, Castle Street, Cork, Ireland. Also performing will be Stet Lab (ir)regulars including Helena Reilly (vocals), Kevin Terry (guitar) and Dan Walsh (drums).

From NYTimes.com:

For the dozens of artists who participated in the opening marathon concert of the Ecstatic Music Festival at Merkin Concert Hall on Monday, the event was less a defining breakthrough moment than the establishment — temporary or not — of an uptown beachhead for a flourishing alliance normally encountered in downtown and Brooklyn spaces like Le Poisson Rouge, Galapagos Art Space, Issue Project Room and Joe’s Pub.

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• Darcy James Argue To Collaborate With Newspeak, Vijay Iyer, Nicole Lizée And David T. Little At Ecstatic Music Festival February 24th (improvisedcommunications.com)
• Ecstatic Music Festival kicks off on 1/16, runs through 3/28 (updated schedule w/ tUnE-yArDs, Dan Deacon, Owen Pallett) (brooklynvegan.com)