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Live From Lock One is a series featuring some of the most creative artists on the local live music scene. Each performance is recorded with a studio audience and streamed live over the internet. This season we'll be focusing on some of the region's great blues talents, hosted by JV & The Cutters. Featured singers include Thomasina Winslow (left) and Mother Judge (right).

The Persian-American poet/singer/songwriter Haale will perform at 9 PM on Saturday, November 7, 2009 at The Sanctuary for Independent Media, 3361 Sixth Avenue in Troy.  Admission to the all-ages show is $10 (free to patrons of the Indymedia 10th Anniversary Film Festival, which immediately precedes this show).  Call (518) 272-2390, email info@MediaSanctuary.org, or visit www.MediaSanctuary.org for directions and more information.

Drawing on Persian mystical and American folk traditions, Haale weaves engaging lyrics and trance-inducing melodies in a rare solo acoustic set.  She will sing new songs as well as songs from her album "No Ceiling," hailed by the Boston Globe as "one of the most memorable releases of 2008."

This show is available online here (click on individual tracks at right) and on DVD directly from Downtown Music Gallery.

The Thirteenth Assembly is a touring collective made up of four musicians and four different and musically distinct small ensembles.  Styled somewhere between the classic r&b/soul revues of the 60’s and a post-modern traveling circus, the Thirteenth Assembly presents a selection of some of the fastest-emerging young artists and bands in New York’s creative music scene in one package.
 
Over the course of the evening of Saturday, December 1, 2007, each group performed a short thirty-minute set, offering a glimpse of the vibrant and varied stylistic diversity and creativity of this particular musical community. Especially for this Thirteenth Assembly Tour, these four close friends and frequent collaborators formed a new quartet, with each member contributing original compositions.
 
THE BANDS
 
Taylor Ho Bynum/Tomas Fujiwara Duo
 

Two of the Capital Region's hottest bands--Taína Asili y la Bande Rebelde and The Ameros--will be featured in a performance webcast live from The Sanctuary for Independent Media, 3361 6th Avenue in Troy, on Saturday, May 23, 2009 beginning at 7 PM.  The show will be recorded for later release on DVD.  Beer, wine and other refreshments will be available for purchase by the studio audience.  Admission to this all-ages event is by donation ($10 suggested, $5 student/low income). For information and directions, email info@MediaSanctuary.org, visit www.MediaSanctuary.org or call (518) 272-2390.

This show is the first of a regular series called "Live From Lock One," documenting some of the most creative local artists on the live music scene.  Each of the performances will be recorded with a studio audience and streamed live.

Taína Assili y la Bande Rebelde
www.TainaAsili.com

The poet icon and political activist Amiri Baraka performs with Rob Brown, one of the New York City downtown music scene’s most in-demand saxophonists, in a reading of his new book Somebody Blew Up America & Other Poems.

Admission: $10.

This event in the “Free Jazz from the Sanctuary” series is co-sponsored by
the Arts Department at RPI and the Albany Sonic Arts Collective, with support
from the NY State Council on the Arts and the NY State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

Our press release:

Percussionist William Hooker, the genre-bending free jazz legend, will improvise a live soundtrack to pioneering African-American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux’s 1920 silent film classic The Symbol of the Unconquered, originally advertised as a chance to come see “the annihilation of the Ku Klux Klan.”

Join the live studio audience as we record an evening of performances by some of the Capital
Region’s top musical talents representing a variety of genres.

Admission by Donation

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