In spite of our confusion about what season it really is, spring marches forward, trees bloom, seeds sprout (if we remember to plant!) and summer approaches. Fast!
The students/members of Naropa Afropop Ensemble rose to the occasion and gave spirited performances at the Laughing Goat and at the Music Dept concert. Two of them are in bands with record contracts! More importantly, I was impressed with their social maturity: the way they self-organized and looked out for each other - a great crew. Gives me hope for the new generation! As in the past, I am certain that I learned more than anyone in the class, musically and otherwise and for that I am grateful.
The Kailin Yong Peace Project album is really taking shape at Immersive Studio. Breathtaking, expansive, descriptions are hard to find. The Peace Project will play at Dazzle in Denver at 7pm, Tues, May 31, and with luck we will have a limited EP release for the show. Make your reservations now!
Additionally, plans for the Lionel Young Band 2011 tour are shaping up. We will be playing in NYC, Chicago & San Francisco in the coming months, and quite a few places in between. The schedule, ever shifting, is viewable at www.lionelyoung.net and I will send it to this list as well. Trying to get my national list back together, as I have never transferred it to the new list-server.
Meanwhile, I discovered that my monthly date 7:30 Thur, May 12 at Caffe Sole lacked a band - lots of busy schedules. SO, at the last minute a fun night is coming together with Jake Schepps, a banjo player I have admired for some time, ever since I heard a lovely tone poem he wrote at a workshop in Banff, Alberta for banjo and trumpet. Turns out he has caught the choro virus... and he lives only a block away! Plus a great mandolin player, Dave Goldenberg & sambista Carl Dixon. OK, you have all the chatter now. Here is the important stuff:
WED May 11, 10:30-11:30am Boulder Library Canyon Theater
Music Meditation wi Jesse Manno, Michael Stanwood, Jenna Woods, Dexter Payne
THUR May 12, 7:30-10:30pm Caffe Sole
Dexter Payne Quartet with Jake Schepps, Dave Goldenberg, Carl Dixon
SAT May 14, 10:40-11:40pm Toad Tavern (5302 S. Federal, Littleton 303.795.6877)
Lionel Young Band (Spring Blues Fest $12)
Lionel Young Band (Spring Blues Fest $12)
WED May 18, 8pm Lannie's Clocktower Cabaret
(16th & Arapaho, Den, 303.293.0075)
Lionel Young Band ($10)
FRI May 20, Fling Barn Hillsboro, OH
Lionel Young Band
SAT MAY 21, Charlie West Fest Charleston, WV
Lionel Young Band
WED May 25, 10:30-11:30am Boulder Library Canyon Theater
Music Meditation wi Jesse Manno, Michael Stanwood, James Hoskins, Jenna Woods, Dexter Payne
FRI/SAT May 27,28 Chautauqua Blues Fest (Sedan, KS)
Lionel Young Band
Lionel Young Band
TUE May 31, 7pm Dazzle (9th&Lincoln, Den 303.839.5100)
Limited seating- reserve now!
Kailin Yong Peace Project EP Release Party
See you there!!!
Dexter
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