Multi-instrumentalist and composer Dan Blake has developed a wide-ranging career as a contemporary composer, performer and educator that “regards tradition as a welcoming playground best approached with a sense of wonder and adventure” (The Boston Globe). Blake’s music has been called “stunning” (All About Jazz), and he was recently dubbed a “virtuoso” (The New York Times) for his work touring and recording both with his own projects and with luminaries of jazz and popular music like three-time Grammy winner Esperanza Spalding, NEA Jazz Master Anthony Braxton, and Velvet Underground founding member John Cale, among many others. As a composer of extended works for string quartet, orchestra, sound installation, as well as hybrid chamber/improvising ensembles, Blake gravitates toward collaborations with artists who share a desire to move beyond creative boundaries. He has found such collaborators in groups like Mivos Quartet, the Tri Centric Orchestra, Talea, and many others, who have commissioned and recorded his works. A musician keenly interested in bringing music together with social justice causes, Dan Blake produces the annual Concert To Feed The Hungry, a fundraising event celebrating the struggle to end hunger and malnutrition in poor communities around the world. He also holds a Ph.D. in composition from the City University of New York and is currently on faculty at the New School for Social Research, and at the Conservatory at Brooklyn College.
Thanks to all who came out to the 6th Annual Concert To Feed The Hungry! Along with Arturo O’Farrill, Dave Liebman, Slavic Soul Party!, Innov Gnawa, and Arta Jekabsone, we raised thousands of dollars toward the global struggle to end hunger and malnutrition!
We made the NY Times listings for Wednesday’s show with Dave Liebman, Pheeroan akLaff and Dmitry Ishenko! Come on down for the 7:30 of 9pm set for some brand new music written just for this group!
A little something from May 4, when we released The Digging upon the world! This features Dmitry Ishenko and Jeff Williams, our version of Steve Lacy’s “Clichés”. Find out more about the digging at http://sunnysidezone.com/album/the-digging!
On Saturday, April 9, 2016 at 7:00 p.m., Grammy-nominated pianist Fred Hersch, vocalist composer Becca Stevens, percussionist Rogerio Boccato, and Colombian folkloric ensemble "Cumbianda" will headline the 5th annual Concert To Feed The Hungry. Produced by jazz saxophonist Dan Blake, The Concert To Feed The Hungry supports the projects of Buddhist Global Relief, bringing together an all-star lineup of leading jazz artists with a global mission to assist impoverished communities around the world afflicted by hunger and malnutrition. For a limited time, we will offer tickets at a reduced price if you order before March 9, 2016! Visit http://www.concerttofeedthehungry.org for more information about the artists, Buddhist Global Relief's many projects around the world, and much more!
I’m really excited to announce this year’s 5th Annual Concert To Feed The Hungry! April 9, 2016 at 7pm, featuring Fred Hersch, Becca Stevens, Rogerio Boccato, and La Cumbiamba eNeYe. Early bird tix on sale ($20/$10 students) until March 9 so get yours today!
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