Quarantine Jam 7/18/2020
WHEN:
Saturday: 7/18/2020
6pm
WHERE:
Open Source Gallery (306 17th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215)
WHAT:
Open Source will be hosting “Quarantine Jams” at the gallery on 17th and 6th ave. Putting together some of the neighborhood’s great musicians, for casual jam sessions, Open Source will be putting these on at various times this season. With no inside gigs, let’s take advantage of summer and of Open Source’s wide open gallery space. Wander by, give a donation and maybe dance!
Quarantine Jam 7/18
Martha Partridge has a rich and varied background as a dancer, musician, body worker and educator. With an MFA in Dance from Sarah Lawrence College, Martha taught and performed at American Dance Festival, Laban Institute in London, and NYU Tisch School of the arts, among many others. As a body worker, she ran a practice in Manhattan for 20 years, treating people with Parkinsons Disease and other ailments through Trager work, Cranial Sacral work and Pilates. As a musician she recently spent 8 years learning English Change Ringing, a complex bell ringing tradition, and most recently has begun studying voice with Rachel Levine, and singing in the Brooklyn BVS chorus. She and Benford have collaborated for decades, making body percussion pieces, dance scores and CDs.
Tigger Benford is a percussionist, composer and educator, specializing in hand drumming, improvisation and music for dancers. Over the years he has produced six full length CDs of original material, and two anthologies of dance scores. He produced a number of body rhythm pieces in collaboration with Martha Partridge. He also spent 12 summers on staff at Bates Dance Festival, in Lewiston, Maine, and 4 summers at American Dance Festival. He is a Professor Emeritus at Mason Gross School of the Arts Dance Department at Rutgers University, where he directed music for the Department of Dance for 30 years, producing numerous dance scores and teaching courses in music for dancers.
Francis Jacob is a French born traveling musician, who lived in France, Switzerland, Brasil and, for the past 20 years, New York.
Initially a Jazz artist, he has been playing with an impressive variety of West African artists. Kine Lam, Sekouba Kandia Kouyate, Ibro Diabate, to name a few. While being a core member of various African related bands in New York City, he also works on his personnal project, the band “IF”, based in France. His latest band, interrupted by Dr.Covid, is called “BrassBrook”, and is devoted to playing the Music of composer Georges Brassens, along with Nigerian Percussionists and Senegalese Bass.
Twice nominated for the Grammys awards for his compositions, Francis Jacob has been releasing CD’s with the labels Universal, Sunnyside and Naïve.
Lily White is a professional saxophone player living in the New York area. Playing with various groups of her own and composing her own music for over twenty years, she has won many awards including, Meet the Composer, National Endowment for the Arts, and a DCA grant last year for composing for treble choir. She makes her living teaching piano, sax and flute and performs all over the world. She has produced three CDs of her original quintet music along with a CD of her organ band, Big Blue Line.
