HERE Announces 2018-2019 Season Of Boundary Pushing Performance
HERE (Kristin Marting, Founding Artistic Director, and Kim Whitener, Executive Director) is proud to announce its 2018-2019 season, which marks the OBIE-winning institution's 26th year of producing of daring new hybrid performance by new artists from all disciplines - theatre, music, art, dance, puppetry, and media art.
The Ballard Institute And Museum Of Puppetry Presents 'American Puppet Modernism' Exhibition
The Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut is currently featuring ground-breaking modernist performance sculptures first designed by famed Connecticut sculptor Alexander Calder for the 1936 production of Socrate at Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum, as part of its current exhibition, American Puppet Modernism: The Early 20th Century, on display Tuesday-Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., now through July 1 at the Ballard Institute, located at 1 Royce Circle in Downtown Storrs. The sculptures were reconstructed with Calder's approval for a 1976 performance of Socrate produced by conductor Joel Thome, the director of the Orchestra of Our Time, as part of the National Tribute to Alexander Calder in New York City.
NYC Funk-Jam Band Gridline Release Debut Album 'Soul Brew'
On Friday (9/22), New York City funk meets jam-band--GRIDLINE--released their debut full-length album, Soul Brew. Through an intent to record everything live to tape, GRIDLINE's Soul Brew recreates the essence of a live band; a sound they honed through countless late night sets performing at after-hours clubs around New York City.
Premiere Funktastic Second Single from GRIDLINE's Debut Album SOUL BREW
New York City's favorite funktastic jam-band--GRIDLINE--release 'W.M.F.P.' as the second single from their debut album Soul Brew, due out September 22. Premiered today on Live Nation's up-and-coming blog, Ones To Watch, Maxamillion Polo says of the single: 'Despite “W.M.F.P.” being only the second single from GRIDLINE's forthcoming debut album Soul Brew, it exudes a level of musical precision and expertise that makes one question where this band has been hiding all this time.'