SpiderMonkey Stories: November Joys

Taylor Ho Bynum discusses some upcoming shows.

9pm, Fri 11/14 – THB Trio (with Mary Halvorson, guitar; Tomas Fujiwara, drums). Did you see the fabulous NY Times piece on Mary?

10:30pm, Fri 11/14 – THB Sextet (with Matt Bauder, tenor sax & clarinet; Jason Kao Hwang, violin & viola; Mary Halvorson & Evan O’Reilly, guitars; Tomas Fujiwara, drums). The sextet’s set at the Vision Festival last June was just broadcast on BBC 3 Radio, along with an interview, it’s streaming this week on the BBC website, check it out. I tried to find a way to say “and now for something completely different”, but I think they edited it out.

9pm & 10:30pm, Sat 11/15 – THB & SpiderMonkey Strings (with Jason Kao Hwang, violin; Jessica Pavone, viola; Tomas Ulrich, cello; Pete Fitzpatrick, guitar; Joseph Daley, tuba; Luther Gray, drums; Kyoko Kitamura, vocals & electronics). We’ll be performing an extended suite called Madeleine Dreams, using text from my sister Sarah Shun-lien Bynum’s novel Madeleine is Sleeping, along with music from our first CD Other Stories and original arrangements of compositions by Ornette, Duke, Sun Ra. (By the way, she’s got a new book out, Ms. Hempel Chronicles. Read it!)

Then SpiderMonkey Strings hits the road. We’ll be playing in Boston for the first time since 2004 and making the group’s New Haven debut.

3pm, Sun 11/14, FREE – THB & SpiderMonkey Strings
Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, 527 Tremont Street, Boston MA

8:30 & 10pm, Fri 11/21 – THB & SpiderMonkey Strings
Firehouse 12, 45 Crown St, New Haven CT

Other than a December performance in Poland with Braxton, these will be my last concerts of 2008. After a wild and woolly year, I’m hoping to take a few months to lay low and compose some new music, go into the proverbial woodshed for a bit, maybe even do some blog writing. And we got to make sure “they” don’t try and blow up the world in their final two months! Good luck to us all.

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