Bill Adams, Sydney Albertini, Eric Banks, Susan Bradfield, Louis Brawley, Lucasen Brown, William Eric Brown, Edward Cortes, Andrea Cote, Jennifer Cross, Mary Daunt, Jeremy Dennis, Elizabeth Duffy, A.G. Duggan, Ellie Duke, Idoline Duke, Claudia Dunn, Louise Eastman, Natalie Edgar, Sabra Moon Elliot, Bethany Fancher, Cal Fish, Francine Fleischer, Pamela Collins Focarino, Saskia Friedrich, Robin Giannis, Elaine Grove, Kurt Gumaer, Elizabeth Hazan, Carl E. Hazlewood, Brianna Hernandez, Erica-Lynn Huberty, Tara Israel, Elizabeth Karsch, Ryan Kitson, Daisuke Kiyomiya, Laurie Lambrecht, Claude Lawrence, Julia Lee, Charles Ly, Wayne Magrin, Jesse McCloskey, Patrick McDonough, Sue McNally, Leeza Meksin, Grace Metzler, Brian Miller, Michael Morgan, Lindsay Morris, Jon Mulhern, Erin O'Connor, Avani Patel, Alix Pearlstein, Mark Perry, Erika Ranee, Brent Richardson, Sally Richardson, Jorge Rios, Elisa Rivas, Becca Rodriguez, Randall Rosenthal, Carol Saft, Kate Salke, Christine Sciulli, Arden Scott, Bruce Sherman, Jonathan Shlafer, Peter Spacek, Dr. Leslee Stradford, Sean Sullivan, Ian Swordy, Aurelio Torres, Raphel Vega, Lucy Villeneuve, Claire Watson, Ross Watts, Mark Webber, Mark Wilson, Charles Yoder, Almond Zigmund.
MINNIE JORDAN SEXTET: Original Suite Debut
Thursday, August 27 6-8 pm (rain date August 30)
Minnie Jordan (violin) Carrie Frey (viola) Raffi Boden (cello) Evan Main (keys) Charlie Lincoln (bass) and Eliza Salem (drums)
As a young fiddler growing up on a ranch in Texas, books and birds were my most constant companions; while I dreamed about the big city, I developed a love of natural melody and dramatic arc that remains with me to this day. This new suite of original compositions, which I will be debuting for this concert, weave together my many musical influences with a storyteller’s aesthetic, while remaining rooted in the jazz idiom. These compositions represent my core commitment to melodicism, empathy, and world-building through composition and improvisation, kaleidoscopically refracted through the polychromaticism of my life as a jazz musician in New York. My band, featuring Evan Main, Charlie Lincoln, and Eliza Salem, has been performing around New York for over two years, and I'm very excited about the sound we have crafted together, and the depth and imagination that they bring to my music. For this concert we will also be joined by the stellar Carrie Frey and Raffi Boden on strings.
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Video by Olga Goworek, 2020 and music featuring Shenel Johns, Noah Garabedian and Peter Watrous, 2019
THE ARTS CENTER AT DUCK CREEK is a vibrant, sustainable arts organization dedicated to the stewardship of Historic Duck Creek Farm as a place to inspire our community with creative programming that supports artists, celebrates diversity, and honors the East End’s cultural legacy.
Our free, inclusive programming is made possible through generous support from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, the Willem de Kooning Foundation, the Singer Fund and Robert and Maryann Singer, Suffolk County Legislator Ann Welker and the Department of Economic Development and Planning, the Kate W. Cassidy Foundation, and community members like you.
HISTORIC DUCK CREEK FARM is an 18th-century homestead including a farmhouse built by the Edwards family, members of the original settlers of the Maidstone Colony now known as East Hampton. The property was purchased by the Town of East Hampton with *Community Preservation Funds in 2004. Its restoration and adaptation as an arts center was spearheaded by a group of local residents, who now manage the property and its programming as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation called The Arts Center at Duck Creek.
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