EVENTS from April 2001

BERKELEY, California:

ACME Observatory Contemporary Performance Series

Sunday April 1, 2001 at 8:00pm: Carlo Actis Dato - solo sax from Italy & Emergency String Quartet

The Emergency String Quartet is an innovative experimental quartet that perform written compositions by Bob Marsh, as well as collaborative spontaneous compositions. The quartet is Bob Marsh on Cello, Jeff Hobbs on violin, Adam Lane on Bass, and Tom Swafford on Violin.

Carlo Actis Dacto from Northern Italy makes a rare American visit and will perform solo on saxophone and bass clarinet. He is a founding member and composer for the Italian Instabile Orchestra. Since the early 70s he has been dedicated to concertistic and discographic activities, appearing in more than seventy records, figuring as leader or co-leader in half of them.
Performances at Tuva Space, 3192 Adeline in Berkeley, California. One block from the ASHBY BART Station - look for the "ANT" sign. All concerts begin at 8:00 pm. This series is a negative-profit institution your donation at the door [we suggest $10] is greatly appreciated! For details see http://sfSound.org/acme.html, phone 510-649-8744, or email katttmeow@aol.com.

Bob Marsh's Website: http://homepage.interaccess.com/~raf/bobbym.html

Carlos Actis Dacto's Website: http://www.actisdato.it/English/actisdato.htm

SAN FRANCISCO, California:

The JOHN INGLE & DAN JOSEPH DUO with special guest INDIA COOKE, violin

Sunday April 1, 2001 4pm at the San Francisco Community Music Center 544 Capp St., 415- 647-6015, $10/5

Formed in 1998 the John Ingle/Dan Joseph Duo have performed throughout the Bay Area at New Langton Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts,The Berkeley Art Center, the Julia Morgan Theatre, Clarion Music Center, The Luggage Store Gallery and others. In March 2000 they released their first CD trancepatterns on the Dendroica Music label. Featuring new studio recordings, the CD also includes live concert tracks with guest artists India Cooke on violin, and Miya Masaoka on koto. With the unusual instrumentation of alto saxophone and hammer dulcimer, trancepatterns offers a unique brand of 21st century other-world music. Influenced by free jazz, minimalism, Indian raga and Middle Eastern modalities, this music combines driving rhythm with complex patterns and improvisation. Unlike anything heard before, this music is entrancing and complex.

For more information, http://users.lmi.net/joseph.

LOS ANGELES, California:

DIMETRODON: Experimental Music Series at HOLLY MATTER Gallery

Friday, April 6, 2001

9:00 Dimetrodon Collective (Marc Levinthal / Jim McAuley); 10:00 Dan Clucas / Rich West; 11:00 Godzik Pink.

The best in L.A. New Music at Holly Matter: 710 N. Heliotrope Drive Los Angeles, Ca 90029. For information, phone 323.666.

Dimetrodon at holly matter happens on the first Friday of each month: http://www.hollymatter.com/dimetrodon/

SAN FRANCISCO, California:

Meridian Music: Composers in Performance proudly presents a solo performance by TOM BICKLEY

Tom Bickley--recorder and electronics, performing original compositions.

Friday, April 6, 2001 8 pm at Meridian Gallery,located at 545 Sutter (between Mason and Powell) in San Francisco; $10/$ 5 students, impoverished artists. For more information, call 415 398 7229 or email ryokan@value.net. Online at http://www.meridiangallery.org.

Meridian Music: Composers in Performance presents concerts the first Friday of each month in the intimate setting of Meridian Gallery. The series has been underway since fall, 1998 and is curated by Philip Gelb.

Upcoming concerts: May 4, 2001 Toyoji Tomita - trombone, didjeridoo, Marianne McDonald - harp; Wendy Burch poetry; June 8, 2001 Liz Falconer solo koto; June TBA Barre Phillips solo bass !!!!!!! July 6 2001 3rd annual Meridian Midsummer Music festival featuring short solo sets by Kathy Kennedy, Katt Sammon, Phillip Greenlief, Damon Smith, and Ron Heglin; August 3, 2001 TBA Philip Greenlief - winds; September 7, 2001, Pauline Oliveros/Shoko Hikage/Toyoji Tomita; October 5, 2001 John Tchicai - saxophones and Adam Lane - bass; November 2 2001 TBA; December 7, 2001 Fred Frith.

NEW YORK CITY:

MAROON at b u t t a f l y

4/21 Maroon, with special guest drummer Pheeroan AkLaff @ buttafly

769 Washington Avenue (@St. John's Place), Brooklyn o (718) 636-1900 Saturday 4/21, 10pm o $5

MAROON is an alternative jazz group led by vocalist Hillary Maroon and pianist Benny Lackner, featuring Andrew Emer on bass and very special guest Pheeroan AkLaff on drums. Primarily, the group performs Hillary and Benny's songs, some written solo, some collaboratively. Borne of the rock/R&B era, MAROON also seeks out "new standards," unearths lesser known jazz and pop gems, and dives into nonstandard readings of older favorites.

to buttafly by subway: Take the 2 or 3 to the Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum stop. Go up the left staircase and walk straight (down Eastern Parkway). Take your first left onto Washington Avenue. b u t t a f l y is two short blocks down, on the right side of the street just past St. John's Place.

NEW YORK CITY:

SOFT BOOT: Interactive Sonic Art & Digital Video at Medicine Show

April 20-21, 2001 -- 7:30 PM -- $10

MEDICINE SHOW THEATER 549 West 52nd Street (between 10th & 11th) NEW YORK CITY

Subway: C E or 1 9 to 50th street, N R to 49th street, B D E to 7th Avenue.

Information: 718 493 5920 or john@ballibay.com; Reservations: 212 262 4216 or "http://www.medicineshowtheater@juno.com

Holland Hopson: soprano saxophone, sipsi & electronics

John J.A. Jannone: dataglove, dataviolin, bass guitar, electronics

Kurt Ralske: interactive digital video

Lukasz Lysakowski: interactive digital video

SOFT BOOT, the multimedia quartet of Holland Hopson (soprano saxophone, electronics), John Jannone (dataglove, dataviolin, electronics), Kurt Ralske (interactive digital video), and Lukasz Lysakowski (interactive digital video) will be performing two evenings of interactive electronic music and video at the Medicine Show Theater, located at 549 West 52nd Street (between 10th & 11th) in New York City, on April 20th and 21st, 2001 at 7:30 PM. Admission will be $10.

Members of SOFT BOOT have been performing together in duets and trios since 1996.ð This event will mark their first appearance as a quartet. In March of 2000, Jannone, Hopson and Ralske performed to a packed house at the Medicine Show Theater as part of the multimedia quintet PENTET.0+55. Lukasz Lysakowski and Kurt Ralske both perform with custom-designed digital video systems for the non-linear, real-time composition of visual elements. They will be using their systems as visual instruments, creating visual and sonic agreements, conversations, duets and solos throughout the evening, projected on a large video screen. At the core of Ralske's video system is the acclaimed NATO.0+55 software designed by the controversial artist/activist Netochka Nezvanova. Lysakowski's system is based on Image/ine, a real-time image manipulation system developed at the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM) in The Netherlands.

John J.A. Jannone has developed an electronically expanded performance technique in which the sounds of his collaborators become the raw material for a cybernetic instrument. Jannone's custom built dataglove and dataviolin are the virtual instrument in which sounds are simultaneously captured, layered, transposed and re-performed.

Holland Hopson plays a saxophone extended with electronic sensors. Holland's custom machine listening software enables his computer to listen to his playing and respond to it with real-time signal processing, samples, and synthesized sounds.

These four artists will perform in various combinations throughout theevening, developing sonic and visual dialogues ranging from ambient to aggressive, from lush to stark.

For more information contact John J.A. Jannone at 718 832 5429 or john@ballibay.com.

For reservations, contact the Medicine Show Theater at 212 262 4216 or "http://www.medicineshowtheater@juno.com.

NEW YORK CITY, New York:

Soundoff: The Second in a Series of New Sound Performances

Saturday, April 21, 20001, 7 pm

Neil Benezra (usa): Neil Benezra's K.A.O.S "Kinetic Amplified Organization of Sound" Featuring Todd Schroeder and Scott Fulmer

John Hudak (usa): "fun with sound" - an exploration in the aesthetic possibilities of sandpaper as a sound source for linear manipulation.

AC Project Room 453 West 17th Street, 2nd floor near 10th Avenue New York, NY 10011 (212) 645-4970

Directions: The best subway to take is the A-C-E line to 8th ave. and 14st. walk to 17 st. make a left then straight until 9th ave, the gallery is between 9th and 10th (closer to 10th).

SAN FRANCISCO, California:

Hugh Livingston presents his work based on Xu Bing's Book from Sky

8pm Saturday April 28 at New Langton Arts on 1246 Folsom Street San Francisco, CA 94103.
Phone: 415 626 5416 Fax: 415 255 1453

http://www.newlangtonarts.org/the/the_intro.html.

Chinese artist and Macarthur Award-winner Xu Bing's Book from Sky (Tian Shu) is many volumes written in an imaginary language that he developed based on the components of Chinese. There are 4000 ideograms which have no meaning and are unpronounceable. Hugh Livingston has envisioned the language as being readable as musical notation, and each ideogram has been assigned a cello sound. This first San Francisco presentation will be the world premiere of a new section, the pronunciation dictionary, which contains 627 characters. The nine pages will be hung from the ceiling, enlarged as if a giant celestial book.

Advance reservations are strongly recommended. My last two shows this spring were standing room only. A discussion and reception will follow. Pages of the 'dictionary' section of Book from Sky will be on display. Read more about the unusual work with text by Xu Bing at http://www.xbstudio.org/.

LOS ANGELES, California:

COME TO CARNIVALARIUM!!!

a riotous calliope ride of art, dance and music on Sunday, April 29 at Holly Matter Gallery 710 Heliotrope (off Melrose) Doors open at NOON

Admission price: $10 if dressed as 'Spring on Earth or Mars' $15 if not

Performances by: eric richards & mikko wantanabi & ralph, perpetua & co., 31 birds, janet klein w/ tom marion, michael whitmore, double naught spy car,steve & rob, godzik pink, radio vago, ape has killed ape, leather hyman, petra haden & julie adler, saccharine trust, acoustic guitar trio (nels cline+jim mccauley+rod poole), cycle to end, nikki walker, guitar party, banyan, fire ants, fire bug, 3rd grade teacher and NostraDumAss.

SAN FRANCISCO, California:

Trio Natto plus Chris Brown & The Lords of Outland celebrating the CD release of Avatar in The Field

7:30 pm Sunday, April 29th, 2001 at Musicians' Union Hall 116 Ninth St., in San Francisco; $10 general $8 student/senior.

Opening for the Lords of Outland will be San Francisco's premier Shakuhachi player Phil Gelb with Tim Perkis-synth, Shoko Hikage-koto, and Chris Brown-piano.

First set:
Trio Natto plus Chris Brown
Philip Gelb - shakuhachi
Shoko Hikage - koto
Tim Perkis - electronics
Chris Brown - piano, electronics

Second set The Lords of Outland celebrating the CD release of Avatar in The Field (a tribute to Albert Ayler) Rent Romus - saxophone
Toyoji Tomita - trombone
Bill Noertker - bass
Dave Mihaly - drums

BERKELEY, California:

ACME OBSERVATORY April 29th: Loren Chasse and Koji Asano

For more information, please contact Kattt Sammon (510) 649-8744.

8:00pm Sunday April 29th, 2001 at TUVA Space, 3192 Adeline @ MLK Street, Berkeley, CA

INFO: 510-649-8744 or email us at acme@sfsound.org Or visitwebsite at http://sfSound.org/acme.html

TICKETS: $10.00

Loren Chasseôs synthesis of neglected places are creation of a dioramic miniature landscape that uses its materials as instruments while simultaneously attempting to activate the inherent ambience of the performance space.

Koji Asano's powerful but sensitive music is created by using a laptop computer and microphone as instruments. By changing the position of the microphones, Asano is able to amplify the movement of sound waves. This electroacoustic-musicis distinguished by its lack of constraint and free style. He has released 20titles of CD that are so wide-ranged from Computers, Solo Piano, Guitar Bands,Experimental electronics to Strings, his group Koji Asano Ensemble in Tokyo.

ACME Observatory: http://sfSound.org/acme.html

Loren Chasse http://www.23five.org/chasse.html

Koji Asano http://kojiasano.com/

Loren Chasse is an instructor for the San Francisco School District where he has been leading 'listening' hikes for afterschool programs during the past four years. Through these events, Chasse has been documenting the sonic activities and the imaginative listening of children. He also records and performs both as solo artist and with the groups idBattery and Thuja. Chasse's approach toward sound is to activate areas of a landscape and the objects in them as "instruments"; Loren Chasse received his M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and is currently completing the Teaching Credential program at San Francisco State.

Koji Asano is creating anoriginal world of music through his use of various instruments. This electroacoustic-music is distinguished by its lack of constraint and freestyle. 20 titles of CD works are so wide-ranged from Computers, Solo Piano, GuitarBands, Experimental electronics to Strings, his group Koji Asano Ensemble inTokyo. Besides album works, he also produces original sound tracks for danceperformances, films, Video art. Collaborated with sculptors and painters forseries exhibitions in Moscow, Puskin and Latvia in 1997, also composed thestring quartet piece for Bruno Letort's project "Megapoles" performed by The Smith Quartet at Vingtieme theatre in Paris last June 1999. He is requested by Banda Municipal de Barcelona to compose new orchestra piece which will shown at L'Auditori de Barcelona in October 2001. Living in Barcelona now for more projects and concerts in all Europe.

ACME Observatory Contemporary Performance Series
@ Tuva Space 3192 Adeline @ MLK Street in Berkeley, CA
One block from the ASHBY BART Station - look for the "ANT" sign
All concerts begin at 8:00 pm

OAKLAND, California:

Kristin Miltner's Thesis Concert

Kristin Miltner's Thesis Concert
will be performed outdoors
on the lawn behind the Baerwald Art Building
at Mills College
5000 MacArthur
Oakland, CA
FRIDAY APRIL 27 FREE

Begins at dusk (8pm).

Musicians use projected video as a score. The sounds of I-580 become material for making music.

Dress warm, bring blankets.

For more info: 510 251 2297

VALENCIA, California:

e a s t music from india, macedonia, bulgaria, and valencia

saturday, april 28th 8:00pm ROD Hall CalArts

a graduation recital for john heitzenrater

featuring: carolyn balfe
eric barber
kate conklin
evan fraser
randy gloss
art jarvinen
milen kirov
jonathan marmor
tara speiser
jon stehney
miroslav tadic
yunior terry
christin webb
austin wrinkle

HARBOR CITY, California:

THE EMILY HAY COLLECTIVE & NICE JAQUET

ON SATURDAY APRIL 28, 2001 at 8:00PM

L.A. HARBOR COLLEGE MUSIC RECITAL HALL LIRA/LAHC CONCERT SERIES PRESENTS

THE EMILY HAY COLLECTIVE with
Brad Dutz (percussion)
Emily Hay (flute/vocals)
Michael Intriere (cello)
Sara Schoenbeck (bassoon)
...Performing improvised chamber music which will entice the outer fringes of your imagination and test your pre-conceived notions of sound and musical form.

NICE JAQUET
...A large musical ensemble comprised of CalArts students and alumni rendering an array of cleverly devised compositions and theatrical stage play.

IN CONCERT AT L.A. HARBOR COLLEGE
Music Recital Hall
1111 Figueroa Place, Harbor City
Take the Harbor Fwy (110 South)
EXIT at ANAHEIM STREET - 1 offramp past PCH
Right turn to FIGUEROA PLACE
Left Turn at L STREET
Park in LOT H on your left hand side
PARKING IS FREE

$10.00 GENERAL ADMISSION; $5.00 STUDENTS with VALID ID
Call (323)267-1830 or (310) 827-0477 for further info

NEW YORK CITY:

Subversive Feminist Verse: Last Chance to catch "OYL" at the 45 Bleecker Theater

Banshee Productions -49 Bleecker St. 4th Fl. NY, NY 10012, (914) 582-8417

OYL SLIDES INTO THE LATE NIGHT SLOT AT 45 BLEECKER

Who: Banshee Productions - a theatre company devoted solely to producing "contemporary works by hep chicks." Artistic Director/Producer Emily Rems.

What: OYL a play about Popeye's lanky paramour adapted by Emily Rems from the controversial book of poetry by Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton.

Where: The Culture Project @ 45 Bleecker (corner of Lafayette) NYC. Subway - 6 to Bleecker, BDFQ to Broadway/Lafayette, NR to Prince.

When: March 30 - April 27, 2001. Friday nights at 10:30 PM.

Why: Because April is National Poetry Month. What better way to celebrate than with a Greek Chorus of 10 Olive Oyls intoning subversive feminist verse?

How: Tickets are $10 (cheap!) and can be purchased with cash only at the door on the evening of the performance. For reservations, information, and to arrange complimentary press tickets, call the OYL Hotline (914) 582-8417.

The Play- Olive Oyl has much more to say than "Help Popeye, help!" Luckily, poets Denise Duhamel (Winner of the 1999 Crab Orchard Poetry Prize) and Maureen Seaton (Winner of The Pushcart Prize, The Iowa Poetry Prize, the Lambda Literary Award and the Eighth Mountain Poetry Prize) have given the comic book heroine a new voice and have exposed the sexy little secrets and butchy savoir faire that are really behind Olive Oyl's remarkable staying power. Her various incarnations throughout history, her turbulent love triangle between Popeye and Bluto and her true yearnings for women and oversized boots are but a few of the revelations brought to life by the astonishingly surreal cast in this one-act-wonder.

Who's Who - The ensemble of 10 Olive Oyls, comprised of both men and women, includes: Lila Fenton, Cornelia Lorentzen, Jeanette Rivera, Caprice Royal, Lila Donnolo, Daniel Barcelowsky, Emily Skelton, Michael Cavazos, Will Harrell and Claudia Alick and features the improvisational song stylings of "Jazz-Diva-D-Luxe," Anya Singleton. OYL was Directed, Adapted, Produced and Designed by Emily Rems, Assoc Produced by Alpha Wong and Stage Managed by Joan Tuohy. Costumes constructed by Claudia Alick and Jeanette Rivera with Wig Mastery deftly executed by Will Harrell. Production photography provided by Barnaby Draper and web site design donated by Johanna Bates.

Check out OYL on the web at www.jerkvision.com/oyl/.

NEW YORK CITY, New York:

Magnetics: an exhibition featuring work by Katrin Grotepass, Golan Levin

Opening reception Thursday, April 5, 2000 6-9. Magnetics: an exhibition focused on the physical and virtual communications expressed through magnetic forces. Katrin Grotepass and Golan Levin reach to the opposite ends of the spectrum to relate the same principles in the explorations of Magnetism as a communicative medium.

At Moving Image Gallery 414 Broadway 3 Fl NY, NY 10013

For more information, check out http://www.movingimagegallery.com or phone: 212.966.4741.

Katrin Grotepass: ¾My work is showing the mysterious interaction of + and - of magnetic energy. This invisible energy is made visible though physical mediums using magnetic, iron-filings, fluorescent light and paper. The energy of the creation of the work is a swell, and the catalyst for my ink, graphite drawings. - Ink is the free flowing energy following the gravity in its organic shape. - Graphite is compressed energy in its geometrical form seen in the rhythm Pencil stroke. Both elements are set in a dialogue. The graphite element seems to create a base for the ink element to fly."

Golan Levin: "My work has focused on the design of real-time environments, which allow people to explore abstract form, color and sound in ways that are direct, engaging, and expressive. Such environments inevitably investigate an interplay of natural and synthetic forces." 'Floo' disperses and deflects soft-edged tendrils in response to the interactant's movements, according to the patterns of magnetic fields. 'Flocculus' is a New Latin term for hairball. In this environment, ductile hairs drawn by the user swirl around a shifting, imaginary drain. 'Snoog Series' is a set of static/interactive computational forms intended as raw materials for phonaesthetic inquiry. 'Snoog Series' is a set of static/interactive computational forms intended as raw materials for phonaesthetic inquiry.

NEW YORK CITY, New York:

TONIC - various performances!

For more details, ticket info and updates please go to http://www.tonicnyc.com.

--Thu, Apr 05-- John Birdsong & Japa Keenan/Miho Hatori & Smokey Hormel Double Bill at 8:00pm Sparkle Projects: Matt Shipp, Charles Waters & Andrew Barker at Midnight --Fri, Apr 06-- Vinicius Cantuaria at 8 & 10:00pm Sex Mob at Midnight --Sat, Apr 07-- Joey Baron Workshop at Noon Peter Brotzmann & William Parker at 8 & 10:00pm Mateen+Heyner+Blum+Corsano at Midnight --Tue, Apr 10-- OACIS. (optics acoustics calculated in seconds) at 8:00pm --Wed, Apr 11-- Brad Shepik Trio at 8:00pm Satlah CD Release Party at 10:00pm --Thu, Apr 12-- Derek Bailey Solo/Thurston Moore & Loren Mazzacane Connors Double Bill at 8:00pm Sparkle Projects: Daniel Carter, Andrew Barker & Charles Waters at Midnight --Fri, Apr 13-- Joey Baron's Killer Joey at 8 & 10:00pm Steven Bernstein's Millenial Territory Orchestra at Midnight --Sat, Apr 14-- Derek Bailey & Susie Ibarra at 8:00 & 10:00pm Michael Blake's Mr. Carefree at Midnight --Sun, Apr 15-- The Meshuge Klezmer Band at 1:30 & 3:00pm The Holy Modal Rounders with special guest Gary Lucas at 8:00pm --Mon, Apr 16-- Jim Black's Alas No Axis at 8 & 10:00pm --Tue, Apr 17-- Derek Bailey & Will Gaines/IST: Rhodri Davies, Mark Wastell & Simon Fell Double Bill at 8:00pm Holz f¸r Europa at 11:00pm --Wed, Apr 18-- Company With Derek Bailey (guitar), Joey Baron (drums/percussion), Jennifer Choi (violin), Simon Fell (double bass), Rhondri Davies (harp), Min Xiao-Fen (pippa), Will Gaines (tap), Annie Gosfield (sampler), Mark Wastell (cello) & John Zorn (sax) at 8:00pm Vernon Reid's Chatroom in the Wine Cellar in the SubTonic Lounge at 7:00pm --Thu, Apr 19-- Company With Derek Bailey (guitar), Joey Baron (drums/percussion), Jennifer Choi (violin), Simon Fell (double bass), Rhondri Davies (harp), Min Xiao-Fen (pippa), Will Gaines (tap), Annie Gosfield (sampler), Mark Wastell (cello) & John Zorn (sax) at 8:00pm Sparkle Projects: Triochrome at Midnight --Fri, Apr 20-- Company With Derek Bailey (guitar), Joey Baron (drums/percussion), Jennifer Choi (violin), Simon Fell (double bass), Rhondri Davies (harp), Min Xiao-Fen (pippa), Will Gaines (tap), Annie Gosfield (sampler), Mark Wastell (cello) & John Zorn (sax) at 8:00pm Jim O'Rourke at Midnight --Sat, Apr 21-- Butch Morris Conduction #118 at 8:00 & 10:00pm Big Lazy at Midnight --Sun, Apr 22-- Vocolot at 1:30 & 3:00pm The Clogs/Mia Doi Todd Double Bill at 8:00pm --Wed, Apr 25-- Crumbs featuring Yuka Honda & other special guests at 8 & 10:00pm --Thu, Apr 26-- Saadet Turkoz, Mark Dresser, Eyvind Kang & Okkyung Lee at 8:00pm Ori Kaplan Percussion Ensemble at 10:00pm --Fri, Apr 27-- Kaffe Matthews with Zeena Parkins, Ikue Mori plus others tba at 8:00pm Liminal at Midnight --Sat, Apr 28-- Rashied Ali & Sonny Fortune at 8 & 10:00pm Clem Snide at Midnight --Sun, Apr 29-- The Klezminors at 1:30 & 3:00pm Chris Lee/Christina Rosenvige Double Bill at 8:00pm --Mon, Apr 30-- Judy Elkan & Kristen Kosmas' Little Theatre at 8:00pm

The SUBTONIC lounge is now open every Thursday, Friday & Saturday night... phonomena at 9:00pm, $FREE in the SUBTONIC lounge; The Polar Bear Club at 9:00pm, $FREE in the SUBTONIC lounge; subtext at 9:00pm, $FREE in the SUBTONIC lounge.

TONIC SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT Tonic regular Steve Bernstein of Sex Mob and Diaspora Soul scored the new award-winning documentary Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale with Australian musician Paul O'Leary. The film is a thrilling odyssey about Native New York painter Tobias Schneebaum, who disappeared in the Amazon in 1955 for a year, and finally went back after 45 years to face his demons about a fateful day in the jungle. The film opens in NYC Friday, March 30 at the Quad (46 West 13th), and Clearview (62nd Street & 1st Avenue). Esquire recently called the film, "A stunning documentary, gripping from the very start" and the nations top critics from Roger Ebert to Lisa Schwartzbaum of Entertainment Weekly have praised the film including its elegant "pitch-perfect" score. For more information, including theater info see http://www.keeptheriver.com.

For more information, contact TONIC: 107 Norfolk Street (Between Delancey & Rivington) 212-358-7501 / http://www.tonic107.com

EAGLE ROCK, California:

Open Gate Theatre Spring Series

Sunday evening concerts will take place at the Eagle Rock Community Cultural Center, 2225 Colorado Blvd. (just west of Eagle Rock Blvd.) in Eagle Rock. Admission is $10. Free parking is plentiful. Further information can be obtained by calling 626.795.4989.

May 6 THE JEFF GAUTIER QUARTET is Jeff Gautier (violins), David Witham (piano), Joel Hamilton (bass), and Alex Cline (drumset & percussion). Also performing, THE STEVE LOCKWOOD TRIO is Steve Lockwood (piano), Peter Smith (bass), and Billy Mintz (drumset).

also appearing: THE STEVE LOCKWOOD TRIO Featuring Putter Smith - bass; Billy Mintz - drums.

Open Gate Theatre, twenty-year-old locally-based music-dance-theatre ensemble and host of the monthly concerts, includes the group's founder and director, flautist-vocalist-dancer Will Salmon, together with longtime collaborator percussionist Alex Cline.

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