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A Benefit Concert for Partners in Health, an
organization providing medical care to earthquake victims in Haiti. The
concert will feature singer/songwriters Allysen Callery, Celia
Slattery, and Allyssa Jones, along with accompanist Mark Shilansky. The Concert kicks off a larger fundraising effort
which includes the release of Songs of Hope for Haiti - a new
internet compilation album featuring local artists, many of who have
performed at the Nave. All proceeds from the album will go to
Partners in Health. Each of the artists appearing at the
Benefit Concert have contributed a track to the album. Allysen Callery's debut studio album Hopey was
chosen one of the "Top Local CDs of 2007" by the Providence Phoenix who
wrote: "Fragile picking and a haunting delivery reverberate with the
ghosts of British folk like the hybrid, conjoined spirit of Sandy Denny
and Nick Drake." Celia Slattery's latest release, Cast of
Characters weaves elements of jazz, pop and folk/rock with perceptive
lyrics inspired by artists like Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen and
Richard Thompson, all of whose music she also covers. Allyssa Jones has a sound like Sarah Vaughan on a
Sheryl Crow kick. Allyssa embraces her soul and songwriter roots,
along with her jazz and classical training. Her new CD 35 follows the
moods of a diva: playful, pissed-off powerful. Mark Shilansky, who will be accompanying Celia
and Allyssa, is an in-demand accompanist, arranger, producer and player
with many groups and singers around town. His own most recent
release is the CD, Join the Club, an album of creative arrangements of
jazz and popular songs. Partners In Health (PIH) works to bring modern medical care to poor communities in twelve countries around the world, and has been working on the ground in Haiti for over twenty years. The work of PIH has three goals: to care for their patients, to alleviate the root causes of disease in their communities, and to share lessons learned around the world. Based in Boston, PIH employs more than 11,000 people worldwide, including doctors, nurses and community health workers. The vast majority of PIH staff are local nationals based in the communities they serve.
 21 MARCH 2010, 3 p.m., ZEFIRO at The Nave Zefiro • Zefiro at The Nave Podcast $15 general admission / $10 for students and seniors Zefiro is a Boston- and Providence-based ensemble of eight singers devoted to performing vocal music of the 14th-17th centuries. Founded by six members of the group formerly known as Passio, this award-winning group takes inspiration from specialist groups from around the world such as the Tallis Scholars, the Sixteen, and the Taverner Consort. Zefiro's credits include winning a project grant from the Somerville Arts Council, chapter of the Massachusetts Cultural Council and National Endowment for the Arts, and serving as artists in residence (as Passio) to Bennington College in Vermont.
   10 APRIL 2010, OPENING RECEPTION, ''THE BEAST IN ME—JOHNNY CASH' at The Nave Exhibit page Performances by Vanessa Hayes and Greg Mullen Vanessa Hayes • Greg Mullen Rebel, lover, family man, adulterer, addict, believer, sinner—Johnny Cash is the epitome of struggle. And, while we all suffer the contest between our wickedness and our righteousness, perhaps what makes this man different from most is that he embraced both. Desires to destroy/create, compassion born from being in the muck, a joy that comes through when one knows sorrow so well—that is grace, that is Johnny Cash. Bad men and bad women—we've all met them, we've all been 'em. This exhibit aims to recognize that sometimes the worst parts of humanity attend to its virtue; that the actual measure of man's vitality is the labor to accept our inherit ill will but to not be bent—too much—by it.
   21 APRIL 2010, 8 p.m., MICHAEL WINOGRAD KLEZMER TRIO at The Nave michael winograd • youtube $10 In the 3rd week of April, clarinetist Michael Winograd, accordionist Patrick Farrell and bassist/singer Benjy Fox-Rosen will pack their instruments into a car and head north, performing concerts in eight cities. This Brooklyn trio features three of the busiest musicians playing Klezmer music in New York today. Blending traditional Yiddish songs, and new Klezmer compositions with chamber-like improvisations and spontaneous arrangements, this ensemble creates a new program for each individual audience. Clarinetist Michael Winograd has recorded and performed with SoCalled, Budowitz, Frank London, and the Klezmer Conservatory Band. He has led workshops and concretized near and far, with highlighted performances in Reunion Island, the Dawson City Music Festival (Yukon), the Winnepeg and Calgary Folk Festivals, Klezmore festival (Vienna) and Carnegie Hall in New York City. He has taught Klezmer music at the Paris Klezmer week, KlezKanada, and Living Traditions KlezKamp. In his spare time he produces records, composes music and plays synthesizer in the Brooklyn based metal band Yiddish Princess. Accordionist/composer Patrick Farrell, specializes in new-music, free-jazz, cabaret, theater, klezmer and various other forms of East-European folk music. He leads his own group, Stagger Back Brass Band, as well as playing with Ljova and the Kontraband, Frank London's Klezmer Brass All-Stars, Veveritse Brass Band, Romashka and in multiple other groups and odd situations around New York City. Bassist/vocalist Benjy Fox-Rosen has toured internationally performing throughout the United States and Europe as a member of the Luminescent Orchestrii (and with his own ensemble, performing new renderings of Yiddish folk songs as well as original setting of the poetry of Krakow's Mordechai Gebirtig. Benjy performs regularly as a bassist with many of New York's finest Klezmer, Hungarian, Jazz and improvising musicians.   30 APRIL 2010, 8 p.m., AUDREY RYAN and RACHEL EFRON at The Nave audrey ryan • rachel efron Since releasing her debut record, “Passing Thru”, in 2004 Audrey Ryan has been on the road touring both solo and with a band. Her second full length record “Dishes & Pills” was released by Folkwit Records in 2008. Her music started out in the jazz/pop vein and has evolved into an eclectic form of singer-songwriter indie rock of some alien breed using backwards loops, finger pianos, and other unique instrumentation. Overall this music blends together her early influences of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and Bob Dylan with contemporaries such as Robert Wyatt, Radiohead, Dungen, Wilco, Steroelab, and Arcade Fire. She performs nationally and internationally and resides in Somerville. To listen to a Rachel Efron song is to be led across an inner-landscape at once beautiful, dangerous, serene, and startling. Rachel offers that rare combination of sophisticated musicianship and commanding lyricism. There is a delicacy and astuteness to her perspective on the world, and she possesses that most precious and rare artistic quality of being able to honestly share herself with her listeners. She is versed in classical, jazz, folk, and pop music, and travels unabashedly between the soulful and sweet, saucy and swinging, by way of her alternately sincere and comically cynical portraits of life and love.
This is a call for artwork that not only speaks of our obsession with our pets, but art which is inspired by our furry (or not) loved ones. Some pieces might evoke this human-animal bond; others might try to imagine life from the animals’ perspective. We look forward to viewing artwork, literal or interpretive, that touches on this theme. All media including video and installation will be considered.
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