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February NYC gig

Clockwork Mercury will give a rare NYC performance in Brooklyn on February 9th, as part of a new music series at Tiny Montgomery, a new venue within Threes Brewing, address below. 

Eric and Catherine will play one set at 9:30pm, there will be a second set after us- more details will be posted when we get them confirmed. 

Admission: $10

Threes Brewing

333 Douglass Street (btw 3rd & 4th Avenue) Brooklyn, NY 11217

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Some Kinda Crime, and more

Our cover of the Chrome Cranks tune Some Kinda Crime is now finished. Also, we will be joining Peter Aaron (lead vocalist of the Cranks, musician and writer) for a performance on April 23rd in New York City. This show is going to be a reading of some of the poetry of Lou Reed, see the flyer here for all the details and come join us!

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Chrome Cranks

Currently in the works is a cover version of "Some Kinda Crime" from the Chrome Cranks (see photos below of Clockwork Mercury onstage with them!). I'll keep you posted as things progress!

-Catherine

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What's next...

Coming up later this month we have a much anticipated trip to Portsmouth, NH to play the Jazzmouth jazz and poetry festival (http://jazzmouth.org/). It's always a joy to be a part of this festival, and to see our friends there again. We will be recording while in NH too, more on that to come in due time!

In the meantime, we're in NYC, working away, writing new music and making plans. All is well!

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Eric Mingus, performing at Prospect Park last Thursday as part of the Celebrate Brooklyn concert series. It was a great show, honoring the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Rides.

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2011 Plans

It is a beautiful, crystal clear sunny day here in NYC, though still pretty cold, and I am plotting my next projects.

The next few weeks will see a long time dream of mine realized in the form of a solo saxophone recording. I've been contemplating this for ages now, and in fact my year started in a wonderful way, with a solo performance on New Year's Day at the Brecht Forum in New York. It was a whole day of solo performances by some very exciting musicians, and was really inspiring. The audience was attentive and enthusiastic, I could not have wished for a better way to start the year.

January continued with several other nice musical events, including a show with François Grillot's Contraband at Local 269, performing compositions by François which are challenging and enormously fun to play. The band, François on bass, Anders Nillson on guitar and Michael Evans on drums, is just fantastic and I feel privileged to be a part of it. I also worked with Matt Lavelle, brass/reeds player extraordinaire, on a recording for the band Out Like Lambs; here's a link to a video of us that was done after the session: (thanks to MLS for this)

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1059025151#!/video/video.php?v=190312127668129

More news to come soon, including of course an update on the trajectory of Clockwork Mercury!

Catherine

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