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Vintage funk to infectious electronic futurism, blurring lines between virtuoso jazz & pop music. All ages, doors open at 7:30, music at 8.Known as the leader of the prolific and constantly surprising Claudia Quintet, drummer/composer/ bandleader John Hollenbeck formed GEORGE remotely during the pandemic. The group finally met in Montréal to record 2023’s Letters to George, followed that summer by shorts, four re-composed remixes based on improvisations from their initial remote recording session. With Anna Webber tenor sax/flute , Sarah Rossy voice/keyboards , and Chiquita Magic keyboards/voice alongside Hollenbeck, GEORGE’s sound is firmly planted outside any categories or labels, but “magic happens in the margins and the middle, between analog and digital textures, genre detours and a collective will which is dogmatically subject to change” ( DownBeat ). From vintage funk to infectious electronic futurism, this energetically enigmatic group “likes to blur the distinctions between the knotty virtuosity of jazz and the broad appeal of pop” ( Pitchfork ).
Anna Webber is a flutist, saxophonist, and composer whose interests and work live in the aesthetic overlap between avant-garde jazz and new classical music. She was recently named a 2021 Berlin Prize Fellow and was voted the top “Rising Star” flutist in the 2020 Downbeat Critic’s Poll.
Sarah Rossy is a vocalist, keyboardist, composer and producer based in Montreal, Canada. Sarah's practice combines live electronic processing with jazz, folk, and Arabic music to create autobiographical, ethereal, and socially-outspoken soundscapes. Recent themes in Sarah's work include ancestral continua, intergenerational linkage and community healing. A debut audiovisual album, a tender autobiographical soundscape imagined through a kaleidoscopic electronic jazz lens entitled 'OF WHO WE HAVE BECOME', is set for release in 2024.
Isis Paola Giraldo AKA Chiquita Magic is a latinx artist/producer hailing from Colombia and based in Canada. She uses microtonal synthesizers, her voice, and a drum machine to create a unique sound that can be described as futuristic electro pop with elements of EDM, hip hop, cumbia, funk, reggaeton, choirs & jazz.
Genre-crossing composer/percussionist John Hollenbeck , renowned in both the jazz and new-music worlds, has gained widespread recognition as the driving force behind the unclassifiable Claudia Quintet and the ambitious John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble, groups with roots in jazz, world music, and contemporary composition. He has earned six GRAMMY nominations and has worked with many of the world's leading musicians in jazz including Bob Brookmeyer, Fred Hersch, Tony Malaby, and is well known in new-music circles for his long-time collaboration with Meredith Monk.
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35 Mill Street,#Suite D,Littleton,03561,US, United States
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