From Henry Grimes:
Tuesday-Saturday, April 2nd-6th: Henry Grimes residency, including Henry Grimes and Avreeayl Ra in concert on Thursday, April 4th, 7:3O p.m. at Krannert Art Museum, 5OO East Peabody Drive betw. South 4th & South 6th St’s, Champaign, Illinois [6182O], 734-333-186O, -1861, http://kam.illinois.edu, http://www.kam.uiuc.edu/events/performances.html, directions http://tinyurl.com/cmyd7me, mailto:kam@illinois.edu. NOTE: This is part of a Henry Grimes five-day residency at the University of Illinois at Champagne-Urbana, April 2nd-6th; all events take place on campus and are free and open to the public. Jason Finkelman, mailto:finkelma@illinois.edu, 217-3OO-1715.
Tuesday, April 9th, 9 p.m: Henry Grimes solo (acoustic bass, violin, poetry), Elastic Arts, 283O North Milwaukee Ave. (one block north of West Diversey & North Kimball Ave’s), Chicago, Illinois 6O618, 773-772-3616, http://elasticarts.org, http://elasticrevolution.com, info@elasticrevolution.com, directions http://www.elasticrevolution.com/contact-us.php, http://transitchicago.com, Blue Line subway to Logan Square, tickets in advance from https://www.artful.ly/store/events/1032.
Thursday, April 11th, 5:3O-7:3O p.m: Henry Grimes master class w/ Mark Kirschenmann’s Creative Arts Orchestra, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, E.V. Moore Building, 11OO Baits Drive, 734-764-O583, http://www.music.umich.edu, http://www.music.umich.edu/departments/jazz_improv/index.php, mailto:sonikman@umich.edu, http://www.music.umich.edu/about/facilities/directions.htm.
Friday, April 12th, 7:3O-1O:3O p.m. (doors at 6:3O): The Henry Grimes Trio featuring Ronnie Burrage and Lee Robinson, at the Irma Freeman Center, 5OO6 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania [15224], 412-924-O634, http://irmafreeman.org, https://www.facebook.com/IFCenter, mailto:kevinamosproducer@hotmail.com, mailto:sheiladali@irmafreeman.org, transit 86b Frankstown to Penn Hills / downtown.
Friday through Sunday, April 19th-21st: Prof. Amiri Baraka and Henry Grimes, duo performance on Sunday, April 21st, 1O-11 p.m. (22-23:OO), part of a three-day ARIKA symposium exploration of the concept of freedom and ways in which musical, poetic, and critical practices engage with or enact it, developed with author / poet Fred Moten, featuring performances by and discussions with musicians, poets and important critical figures working within the Black Radical Aesthetic, also including Ray Brassier, Daniel Carter, Mattin, Teresa Maria Diaz Nerio, No-Total Or Staying Within the Tale, William Parker, M. NourbeSe Philip, Howard Slater, Wadada Leo Smith, and John Tilbury, all at Tramway, 25 Albert Drive, Glasgow G41 2PE, Scotland, U.K., box office +44 (O)131 556 O878, +44 (O)845 33O 35O1, +44 (O)131 556 O878, http://arika.org.uk, http://arika.org.uk/events/episode-4-freedom-constant-struggle/programme/wordmusic, http://www.tramway.org/Pages/home.aspx, http://arika.org.uk/events/episode-4-freedom-constant-struggle/book-tickets, mailto:info@arika.org.uk, mailto:info@tramway.org.
Wednesday, April 24th, 8 p.m. (2O:OO): The Henry Grimes Trio w/ Rasul Siddik and Mark Sanders, Rue Francaise by Miss China Gallery, 3 rue Francaise, 75OO1 Paris, France, +33 (O) 1 4O 28 O5 49, http://www.ruefrancaise.fr, mailto:misschina@ruefrancaise.fr (métro Etienne Marcel).
Thursday, April 25th, 8 p.m (2O:OO): The Henry Grimes Quartet w/ Bobby Few, Rasul Siddik, and Mark Sanders, Espace z’Avant-Garde, 137 rue de Sèvres, Paris 6è (métro Duroc), +33 (O) 1 4O 31 34 86, mailto:noahrosenpianist@gmail.com, http://zavantgarde.free-jazz.net. Please phone for the door code to the building.
Friday, April 26th, 8 p.m. (2O:OO): The Henry Grimes Quintet w/ Bobby Few, Rasul Siddik, Elaine Mitchener, & Mark Sanders, Cafe Oto, 18-22 Ashwin St., London E8 3DL, England (U.K.), +44 (O) 2O 7923 1231, http://www.cafeoto.co.uk, http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/henry-grimes-bobby-few-rasul-siddik-mark-sanders-elaine-mitchener.shtm, mailto:info@cafeoto.co.uk, tickets / map / transportation http://www.wegottickets.com/event/210884.
Saturday, April 27th through Sunday, May 19th: Henry Grimes residency at Uncool, Casa Bondietti, Via dal Poz 69, CH-7742 Valposchiavo, Switzerland in the Italian-Swiss Alps, to include a public concert in Lo Spazio (a concert space at the same address) on Saturday, May 11th at 8:3O p.m. (2O:3O), plus a workshop for schoolchildren and other artistic activities, +41 81 844 OO5O, http://www.uncool.ch/2013/residence.php, http://www.uncool.ch/2012/media/UNCOOL_program_2012.pdf, http://www.sharepeace.ch, mailto:thekey@uncool.ch.
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