Tag: Arts

From Terry McManus:

Born in Brooklyn, New York, guitarist Terrence McManus grew up in New Jersey and Connecticut. He has performed with Bill Frisell, Tim Berne, Ellery Eskelin, Mark Helias, Gerry Hemingway, Anthoney Cox, Kermit Driscoll, Gene Bertoncini, Russ Lossing, Marty Eurlick, and Michael Sarin, and has performed at Carnegie Hall, the New York Guitar Festival, Ellis Island, and the inaugural month at John Zorn’s The Stone. In November of 2004, Terrence was invited to perform in the first annual Minnesota Sur Seine jazz festival in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. An accomplished solo guitarist, Terrence performs his own compositions and arrangements, and has developed a unique style of improvisation, drawing on extended technique and prepared guitar. Terrence’s solo improvisations were featured in the New York City debut of the Fermin Cabal play Disappeared(Tejas Verdes). The play’s month long residency took place at the Richmond Shepard Theatre in September 2006. In 2006 Terrence formed Flattened Planet, a record label dedicated to the promotion of new, creative, and improvised music. In 2008 Terrence was featured in the book, State of the Axe: Guitar Master’s in Photographs and Words, by legendary photographer Ralph Gibson. The book, published on Yale University Press, was produced in conjunction with The Museum of Fine Arts, in Houston, TX, were the book’s images were on exhibition.

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES

Sunday, December 14
8-11pm
Flute-Gramercy
40 E.20th St.
NY, NY
Terrence McManus-solo nylon string guitar

Tuesday, December 16
The Dream of the Ants
This will be this ensembles first performance and will be premiering a new multi-sectional, through-composed work entitled, The Machine 9pm
Stain Bar
766 Grand St.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Terrence McManus-classical guitar
Ellery Eskelin-saxophone
Gerry Hemingway-percussion

Sunday, December 21
8-11pm
Flute-Midtown
250 E.54th St.
NY, NY
Terrence McManus-solo nylon string guitar

Thursday, January 1
Transcendental Numbers
8pm
The Stone
corner ave. C and e.2nd st.
NYC
Terrence McManus-acoustic and electric guitars
Mark Helias-bass
Gerry Hemingway-drum set
A classic (un)guitar trio acting as a derivative of the micro and the macro, brought to a state of unity, but retaining the original three separate substances.

Saturday, January 31
Terrence McManus/Gerry Hemingway Duo
8:30pm
Small World Cafe
14 Witherspoon St.
Princeton, NJ
Terrence McManus-acoustic and electric guitars
Gerry Hemingway-drum set