upcoming...
May 31, 9:00 PM and June 1, 3:00 PM
SOLO PERFORMANCE: Tom Baker, guitar
Boise Experimental Music Festival (BEMF3), Boise Idaho
For all my friends in the Gem State: The 3rd Annual Boise Experimental Music Festival is a four-day event occurring May 29 through June 1, 2008 in Boise, Idaho, USA. The festival will feature approximately 40 musical performances, 12 headliners from out of state or other countries, 30 unique performers/groups, and over 20 hours of creative music. See website for tickets and prices.
June 5, 8:00 PM
Baker/Moore DUO: Tom Baker (guitar) and Dean Moore (percussion)
Gallery 1412, Seattle
A new ambient duo featuring gongs and fretless guitars. Some powerful meditative music with a twist of avant-ness. $5-$15
June 7, 8:00 PM
BHR: Tom Baker, Brian Heaney and Dennis Rea
Floating Tea Leaves, Seattle
"The Baker/Heaney/Rea Trio is a collaboration of three of Seattle's leading creative guitarists, whose other projects include the Tom Baker Quartet, Sunship, and Moraine. The trio's uncategorizable improvisations draw on modern jazz, free improvisation, adventurous rock, experimental soundscapes, and microtonality creating a richly detailed aural experience." $5
June 11, 7:30 PM
LECTURE: Tom Baker, composer
Composer Spotlight at Jack Straw Productions
"The Unadorned Composer and the Extravagant Art of Opera"
Composer Tom Baker will talk about his compositional process, and his evolving relationship with writing operas. He will be playing excerpts of a new recording of his chamber opera The Gospel of the Red-Hot Stars, a project in the 2006 Jack Straw Artist Support Program, as well as discussing his most recent operatic premiere, Hunger: The Journey of Tamsen Donner. FREE!
June 13, 8:00 PM
Jesse Canterbury Group
Chapel Performance Space
This new group features Chris Stover, trombone; Lori Goldston, cello; Tom Baker, guitar; and Jesse Canterbury, clarinet. All music by Jesse Canterbury: "an all-acoustic mix of chamber music, improvisation, and tune-oriented melodic material informed & inspired by the music of clarinetists Louis Sclavis and Michael Moore. $5-$15.
June 15, 8:00 PM
Tom Baker Quartet
Blue Moon Tavern
Mt. Non Fiction presents an avant garde night at the Blue Moon every Sunday. Two diverse as possible - think jazz paired with electronics or noise paired with minimalist - groups each play a short set which is followed by an open improvised jam session of different groupings with members of the 2 groups and members of the audience. Starts at 8pm sharp. 712 NE 45th St Seattle, WA. FREE!
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