March 28th, 2010 | Jazz - The Gustavas Jazz Lab Band
Music Celebrations International, in association with the All Things Project, is pleased to present the Gustavus Jazz Lab Band at NCGV. The nationally renowned Lab Band will perform a program featuring the music of Strayhorn, Jobim, Ellington, Davis, Jones and more...

Show starts at 7:30 and is FREE

Come and enjoy a big band sound in our intimate space!

March 19th, 2010 | Jazz - Preminger, Monder, Hirshfield
Noah Preminger: sax
Ben Monder: guitar
Jeff Hirshfield: drums

A FREE SHOW

Doors Open at 8
TWO SETS

November 13th, 2009 | Song Writer - Steven Delopoulos
8 PM

$8 suggested cover
100% of the cover goes to the artist

Steven Delopoulos boasts a diverse range of musical influences including Harry Chapin, Abba, Andrew Lloyd Weber, and Greek folk music. If you can’t imagine how all these threads could create an artistically consistent whole . . . you'll have to come hear for yourself.

October 15th, 2009 | Song Writer - Jake Armerding
Thursday, October 15th @ 8 PM

$8 cover / $5 students
100% of cover goes to the artist

The Boston Globe calls singer-violinist Jake Armerding "the most gifted and promising songwriter to emerge from the Boston folk scene in years."

"This is organic music," the Boston singer-songwriter-violinist offers about his fifth album of originals, Her. "It's a bunch of us playing our instruments and singing, and getting taped while we're doing it. There's no pitch correction, no chemicals, no nothing." Armerding, along with some of the best players on the East Coast scene, holed up in a studio in North Reading, MA just before last Christmas, got completely snowed in, and made some beautiful, raucous, lasting music. Armerding confides, "For years I've been trying to get away from love songs -- everybody writes them, they're the easiest to write, all that stuff. But then I fell in love and got married, so it wasn't really an option." Singer and songwriter Mark Erelli, a longtime friend and colleague who contributed guitar and vocal tracks to the project, commented, "It's pretty great to listen to a whole record of love songs and not hear any of the usual love song cliches."

It was the early 1980s when Boston bluegrasser Taylor Armerding, co-founder of the band Northern Lights, started his 5-year-old son, Jake, on Suzuki violin. Jake studied classical violin into high school and absorbed bluegrass just by being around the house. At 13, he joined Northern Lights on fiddle and recorded three albums with the band during his high school and college years. He soon turned his attention to songwriting, and recorded his first CD, Caged Bird, while at Wheaton College (IL). In 2003, Nashville independent label Compass released Jake Armerding, a collection of folk-pop songs written over a year living in Music City. The Washington Post lauded Armerding's instrumental skills as "remarkable," while the Boston Globe heralded him "a master at bending boundaries ... his real achievement has been to break the conventions that define country music."

Armerding recently logged his thousandth performance. He has shared the stage with Bela Fleck, Nickel Creek, Josh Ritter, David Wilcox and Toad the Wet Sprocket.

COMING UP ON 11/13 Steven Delopoulus
8 PM

$8 cover - 100% of the cover goes to the artist

Steven Delopoulos boasts a diverse range of musical influences including Harry Chapin, Abba, Andrew Lloyd Weber, and Greek folk music. If you can’t imagine how all these threads could create an artistically consistent whole . . . you'll have to come hear for yourself.

September 24th, 2009 | Opening night - Blood and Fire
Sheetrock project by Rex Hausmann
Curated by Samuel W. Kho

Join us on opening night: 7 -9 PM
with dj set by Mickey House

Show runs from September 24 - October 25
Gallery hours: Wednesday - Saturday 1-6:30

Rex has worked on national projects in Georgia, Maine, Texas, New York, and California as well as international projects as far as Italy and Ireland with organizations such as Points of Light (George H. W. Bush's network for civic involvement) and The Hands On Network.

Recently graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a full scholarship, Rex has opened rexcontemporary in the hope of happily sharing his love for contemporary art with those who will look and listen.

Rex's Artist Statement:

My work is a collision of artifacts and events initiated by the people I meet and the things I read. The mindset and ideas of the western world from Plato’s Republic to the writings of CS Lewis are a constant fascination. By looking at the history of religion impressed against the theater of philosophy, I paint panels, and ponder. The histories of the Native American peoples and the Puritans are my present focus. The dance of the Kachina and the modest persistence of the Puritan are finding their way into my thoughts and canvases. Gauguin asked “Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?”. Rothko searched for the sublime. I wish to share with the world a painterly grin.

June 26th, 2009 | Jazz - Mike Baggetta Quartet
Mike Baggetta - guitar
Jason Rigby - Saxophone
Chris Lightcap - Bass
Jeff Hirshfield - Drums

sets at 9 and 10:30

F R E E S H O W

"As he demonstrates on his solid new album, “Small Spaces” (Fresh Sound New Talent), the guitarist Mike Baggetta seeks an adventurous but accessible dynamic in his music..." - Nate Chinen, NY Times

"A strong, wiry nature...Rare is the young musician who fuses avant garde and postbop mettles so effortlessly - “Small Spaces” is a refreshingly unsafe approach to modern jazz." - Clifford Allen, All About Jazz NY

June 12th, 2009 | Jazz - Ben Monder
You know within about three seconds that something original is coming out of Ben Monder’s electric guitar — a whispering flow of harmonic challenges that fold backward, sideways and across dimensions like time-space origami...He’s like a magician who slows a trick down to ox-cart tempo, and you still can’t figure out how he did it. Greg Burk - LA Weekly

Sets @ 9 & 10:30 PM

FREE SHOW

June 3rd, 2009 | FIGURE US FANCY opens with hardly-ever-before-shown videos
Artists' reception for FIGURE US FANCY on Wed., June 3rd, 7-9pm

The exhibition’s opening night will feature special video presentations: hardly-ever-before-shown gif animations of accomplished New York illustrator Stephen Halker (Zoo York, Sufjan Stevens, etc.), followed by stop-animations of childhood paper figures created by young artist Samuel van der Swaagh. In addition, the gallery’s second floor lounge previews Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni’s (October 29) solo show in the fall, immediately at the heels of a solo show featuring Rex Hausmann (September 24).

See "Art Show" tab for more info on FIGURE US FANCY.

May 16th, 2009 | Christy Tennant - Singer/Songwriter
Saturday - May 16th - 7:30 PM

Free Show

Christy is an acoustic singer/songwriter. Some have said she is reminiscent of Keith Green, with piano-driven music and lyrics that tell stories and beg - and sometimes demand - a response. Her band includes Steve Segarra (drums), Christopher Niles (bass) and various and sundry other musicians who pop in here and there on cello, percussion, flute and the like.

May 8th, 2009 | Jazz - Guiliana, Barsh, and Ferm
Mark Guiliana - Drums
Sam Barsh - Keyboards
Ned Ferm - Sax

Promises to be a great time!
You don't want to miss it!!

Sets @ 9 & 10:30

As always FREE FREE FREE

May 7th, 2009 | Photography Exhibition
LIfted Up in New York City
Photographs by Lanie McNulty

May 7—May 31, 2009

Since 2004, Lanie has been working on Lifted Up in New York City, images of Christians from all five boroughs of New York City, of every color, culture and class, worshiping in their own unique and intimate ways. Photographs from this project were selected for the Encounter 09 | Art in Action group show, a juried art exhibition by the International Arts Movement. Lifted Up in New York City was exhibited at Trinity Baptist Church in 2005 and at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in February 2009.

Opening reception: Thursday, May 7 from 6 - 8 pm with a special performance by Angela Workman and Eddy Bishai

Gallery Hours: Wed.- Sat., 1:00-6:30 p.m.
Admission is free and open to the public

April 22nd, 2009 | Jazz - Bennett Paster Quartet
The Good Feeling returns in an evening of modern, melodic jazz and Latin-jazz featuring original music from PRH's trio CDs and "Grupo Yanqui Rides Again".
The music is free- do join us!

Bennett Paster - piano
Gregory Ryan - bass
Keith Hall -drums
Alexander Pope Norris - trumpet

2 sets: 9pm and 10:30pm

April 18th, 2009 | Solo Bach - Elizabeth Chang
Performing Partita #1 in B minor; Partita #3 in E Major; Sonata #3 in C Major

7:30 PM - Free admission

Elizabeth Chang, violinist, has given solo recitals throughout the United States as well is in Europe and South America and she has appeared as soloist with orchestras both in the US and in Europe. She has been a guest artist and master teacher at the São Paulo International Chamber Music Festival in Brazil, and, most recently, gave master classes in Beijing, China. As a chamber musician she has collaborated with many of today’s most prominent artists, including Bernard Greenhouse, Paul Neubauer, Anne-Marie McDermott, Aaron Rosand, and Robert White.

April 15th, 2009 | EXTRA! EXTRA! opening on Wednesday, 7-9pm
Featuring new work by Janna Luttrell + Jay Henderson.

The third of seven exhibitions curated by Samuel W. Kho for All Things Project, EXTRA! EXTRA! runs from April 15- May 5, 2009.