Mark Levesque
Nov-12-2007, 5:45pm
Brazil-Whirled
A traditional roda da choro from Rio de Janeiro
with special guest artists:
Judy Handler & Mark Levesque - guitars & bandolim
and
Tom Rohde – solo guitar
Following short sets by the featured artists, the performance will continue as a traditional “roda da choro” (circle of choro)-- a jam session that anyone in the audience is welcome to join. Choro leadsheets will be available for all. Celebrate the coming of spring in Rio before heading into the depths of New England winter. Snacks and drinks will be available for purchase.
Sunday November 18 at 3:00 PM
Perishable Theatre 95 Empire Street,
Downtown Providence
Admission $8 at the door
Information: 401-331-2695 x 101
For more information on the music and musicians, you may contact Marilynn Mair @ mmair@marilynnmair.com to arrange a phone or in-person interview.
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Perishable, Rhode Island Research & Development theatre, is pleased to announce the second concert in the first full season of its new music series, "Live/Whirled". The concert is set for 3:00 PM, Sunday, November 18, 2007. Live/Whirled, developed by Perishable Artistic Director Vanessa Gilbert and American/Brasilian mandolinist Marilynn Mair, is designed to create a different sort of concert experience, combining performance with collaborative and improvisational elements to create unique music events.
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The series’ November 18th concert, Brazil-Whirled, presents a Brazilian “roda da choro” – the traditional setting for performances of choro music, the roots music of samba, bossa nova, and MPB. The featured artists will each present a short set of Brazilian music, and then join together with any one in the audience who can read melody or chord symbols from a leadsheet and brings along an instrument, to play the music communally, its most traditional setting. Leadsheets will be available for all, including Bb instruments.
Marilynn Mair, the Live/Whirled series director, spent 4 months in Rio in 2007, and is heading back for 5 more in 2008. She is part of a choro “regional” in Rio, Âgua no Feijão, and plays regularly in roda da choros in Rio and the surrounding area. She wants more than anything to be able to start a regular weekly roda da choro in Providence, and this Brazil-Whirled concert marks a first step. Marilynn has invited some of her favorite choro musicians from Connecticut and Massachusetts to perform, and she will be leading the choro roda session that follows their performances.
Judy Handler and Mark Levesque play international music for guitar and mandolin, and have performed over 1,000 concerts together throughout the Northeast and Midwest. They have also recorded and released 2 critically acclaimed CDs, Acoustic Blend & Two Guitars Live! The duo is based in Hartford CT, and are on the roster of artists for Cantaloupe Music Productions in Manhattan, the New England Foundation for the Arts, and the Connecticut Commission on Culture. More information and complete bios are available on their website, www.judyandmark.com, #and their press photo is attached. They will be performing music by Jacob do Bandolim, Waldir Azevedo, and Ernesto Nazareth.
Tom Rohde, guitar, has performed both in and out of Brazil, specializing in choro and axé music. He studied at the New England Conservatory and teaches at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts. He will be performing some of the virtuoso Brazilian solo guitar works by Garoto and Dilermando Reis, and his own arrangements of the music of Ernesto Nazareth and Guinga.
In keeping with the party atmosphere of a roda da choro, snacks and drinks will be available for purchase, and the audience is encouraged to bring along acoustic instruments, or percussion instruments, to join in the roda that will end the concert.
A traditional roda da choro from Rio de Janeiro
with special guest artists:
Judy Handler & Mark Levesque - guitars & bandolim
and
Tom Rohde – solo guitar
Following short sets by the featured artists, the performance will continue as a traditional “roda da choro” (circle of choro)-- a jam session that anyone in the audience is welcome to join. Choro leadsheets will be available for all. Celebrate the coming of spring in Rio before heading into the depths of New England winter. Snacks and drinks will be available for purchase.
Sunday November 18 at 3:00 PM
Perishable Theatre 95 Empire Street,
Downtown Providence
Admission $8 at the door
Information: 401-331-2695 x 101
For more information on the music and musicians, you may contact Marilynn Mair @ mmair@marilynnmair.com to arrange a phone or in-person interview.
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Perishable, Rhode Island Research & Development theatre, is pleased to announce the second concert in the first full season of its new music series, "Live/Whirled". The concert is set for 3:00 PM, Sunday, November 18, 2007. Live/Whirled, developed by Perishable Artistic Director Vanessa Gilbert and American/Brasilian mandolinist Marilynn Mair, is designed to create a different sort of concert experience, combining performance with collaborative and improvisational elements to create unique music events.
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The series’ November 18th concert, Brazil-Whirled, presents a Brazilian “roda da choro” – the traditional setting for performances of choro music, the roots music of samba, bossa nova, and MPB. The featured artists will each present a short set of Brazilian music, and then join together with any one in the audience who can read melody or chord symbols from a leadsheet and brings along an instrument, to play the music communally, its most traditional setting. Leadsheets will be available for all, including Bb instruments.
Marilynn Mair, the Live/Whirled series director, spent 4 months in Rio in 2007, and is heading back for 5 more in 2008. She is part of a choro “regional” in Rio, Âgua no Feijão, and plays regularly in roda da choros in Rio and the surrounding area. She wants more than anything to be able to start a regular weekly roda da choro in Providence, and this Brazil-Whirled concert marks a first step. Marilynn has invited some of her favorite choro musicians from Connecticut and Massachusetts to perform, and she will be leading the choro roda session that follows their performances.
Judy Handler and Mark Levesque play international music for guitar and mandolin, and have performed over 1,000 concerts together throughout the Northeast and Midwest. They have also recorded and released 2 critically acclaimed CDs, Acoustic Blend & Two Guitars Live! The duo is based in Hartford CT, and are on the roster of artists for Cantaloupe Music Productions in Manhattan, the New England Foundation for the Arts, and the Connecticut Commission on Culture. More information and complete bios are available on their website, www.judyandmark.com, #and their press photo is attached. They will be performing music by Jacob do Bandolim, Waldir Azevedo, and Ernesto Nazareth.
Tom Rohde, guitar, has performed both in and out of Brazil, specializing in choro and axé music. He studied at the New England Conservatory and teaches at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts. He will be performing some of the virtuoso Brazilian solo guitar works by Garoto and Dilermando Reis, and his own arrangements of the music of Ernesto Nazareth and Guinga.
In keeping with the party atmosphere of a roda da choro, snacks and drinks will be available for purchase, and the audience is encouraged to bring along acoustic instruments, or percussion instruments, to join in the roda that will end the concert.