Here’s a glimpse of what I’m doing during my non-work hours in Upstate New York.
Metal man! A man from the past, living in the present, hurtling towards the future.
🎺 🌱 🇺🇦 Dear friends, I hope you will consider attending this important fundraising and cultural event on Memorial Day Monday at Arrowood Farm. Many beloved Hudson Valley musicians will be performing and there will be delicious food and great items to bid on as well. And.....it's FREE! Of course, we hope you will donate to the cause.
## Humanitarian Aid Fundraiser For Ukraine
**Arrowood Farm**
236 Lower Whitfield Rd., Accord, NY 12404
Memorial Day Monday, May 30
Noon to 9 pm
All Proceeds go to Ukrainian American Youth Association of the Hudson Valley toward Humanitarian Aid for Ukraine
### Borscht! Live Music!
### From the Shawangunks to the Carpathian Mountains
Blues, Jazz, Balkan, Ukrainian, Indian & the Undefinable!
Join this community event with all proceeds going to the Ukrainian American Youth Organization of The Hudson Valley toward Humanitarian Aid for Ukraine.
Composer, performer and producer Andy Teirstein has created one of a kind music program. Renowned artists from a variety genres generously volunteered to perform at the event.
- Admission is free
- Fundraising will happen via silent auction
- Bidding opens at 12 noon
- Winners to be announced at 5:15 PM.
- Auction items are from a wide range of businesses including CSA and season passes to the local farms, wide range of art pieces, theater tickets, restaurants and much more!
### Performers
- Stephan Said – 2 pm
- David Lopato with Rich Syracuse-bass Harvey Sorgen-drums – 2:45 pm
- Borscht Blues — 3:15 pm
- Steve Gorn — 3:45 pm
- Sxip Shirey — 4:15 pm
- Vanaver Caravan — 4:45 pm
- Bourbon and Breastmilk — 5:3pm
- Mac & Cheez Balkan PowerTrio — 6:0pm
- Teryn Kuzma — 6:3pm
🎺 🌱 🇺🇦 Dear friends, I hope you will consider attending this important fundraising and cultural event on Memorial Day Monday at Arrowood Farm. Many beloved Hudson Valley musicians will be performing and there will be delicious food and great items to bid on as well. And.....it's FREE! Of course, we hope you will donate to the cause.
## Humanitarian Aid Fundraiser For Ukraine
**Arrowood Farm**
236 Lower Whitfield Rd., Accord, NY 12404
Memorial Day Monday, May 30
Noon to 9 pm
All Proceeds go to Ukrainian American Youth Association of the Hudson Valley toward Humanitarian Aid for Ukraine
### Borscht! Live Music!
### From the Shawangunks to the Carpathian Mountains
Blues, Jazz, Balkan, Ukrainian, Indian & the Undefinable!
Join this community event with all proceeds going to the Ukrainian American Youth Organization of The Hudson Valley toward Humanitarian Aid for Ukraine.
Composer, performer and producer Andy Teirstein has created one of a kind music program. Renowned artists from a variety genres generously volunteered to perform at the event.
- Admission is free
- Fundraising will happen via silent auction
- Bidding opens at 12 noon
- Winners to be announced at 5:15 PM.
- Auction items are from a wide range of businesses including CSA and season passes to the local farms, wide range of art pieces, theater tickets, restaurants and much more!
### Performers
- Stephan Said – 2 pm
- David Lopato with Rich Syracuse-bass Harvey Sorgen-drums – 2:45 pm
- Borscht Blues — 3:15 pm
- Steve Gorn — 3:45 pm
- Sxip Shirey — 4:15 pm
- Vanaver Caravan — 4:45 pm
- Bourbon and Breastmilk — 5:3pm
- Mac & Cheez Balkan PowerTrio — 6:0pm
- Teryn Kuzma — 6:3pm
🎺 🌱 🇺🇦 Dear friends, I hope you will consider attending this important fundraising and cultural event on Memorial Day Monday at Arrowood Farm. Many beloved Hudson Valley musicians will be performing and there will be delicious food and great items to bid on as well. And.....it's FREE! Of course, we hope you will donate to the cause.
## Humanitarian Aid Fundraiser For Ukraine
**Arrowood Farm**
236 Lower Whitfield Rd., Accord, NY 12404
Memorial Day Monday, May 30
Noon to 9 pm
All Proceeds go to Ukrainian American Youth Association of the Hudson Valley toward Humanitarian Aid for Ukraine
### Borscht! Live Music!
### From the Shawangunks to the Carpathian Mountains
Blues, Jazz, Balkan, Ukrainian, Indian & the Undefinable!
Join this community event with all proceeds going to the Ukrainian American Youth Organization of The Hudson Valley toward Humanitarian Aid for Ukraine.
Composer, performer and producer Andy Teirstein has created one of a kind music program. Renowned artists from a variety genres generously volunteered to perform at the event.
- Admission is free
- Fundraising will happen via silent auction
- Bidding opens at 12 noon
- Winners to be announced at 5:15 PM.
- Auction items are from a wide range of businesses including CSA and season passes to the local farms, wide range of art pieces, theater tickets, restaurants and much more!
### Performers
- Stephan Said – 2 pm
- David Lopato with Rich Syracuse-bass Harvey Sorgen-drums – 2:45 pm
- Borscht Blues — 3:15 pm
- Steve Gorn — 3:45 pm
- Sxip Shirey — 4:15 pm
- Vanaver Caravan — 4:45 pm
- Bourbon and Breastmilk — 5:3pm
- Mac & Cheez Balkan PowerTrio — 6:0pm
- Teryn Kuzma — 6:3pm
🎺 🌱 🇺🇦 Dear friends, I hope you will consider attending this important fundraising and cultural event on Memorial Day Monday at Arrowood Farm. Many beloved Hudson Valley musicians will be performing and there will be delicious food and great items to bid on as well. And.....it's FREE! Of course, we hope you will donate to the cause.
## Humanitarian Aid Fundraiser For Ukraine
**Arrowood Farm**
236 Lower Whitfield Rd., Accord, NY 12404
Memorial Day Monday, May 30
Noon to 9 pm
All Proceeds go to Ukrainian American Youth Association of the Hudson Valley toward Humanitarian Aid for Ukraine
### Borscht! Live Music!
### From the Shawangunks to the Carpathian Mountains
Blues, Jazz, Balkan, Ukrainian, Indian & the Undefinable!
Join this community event with all proceeds going to the Ukrainian American Youth Organization of The Hudson Valley toward Humanitarian Aid for Ukraine.
Composer, performer and producer Andy Teirstein has created one of a kind music program. Renowned artists from a variety genres generously volunteered to perform at the event.
- Admission is free
- Fundraising will happen via silent auction
- Bidding opens at 12 noon
- Winners to be announced at 5:15 PM.
- Auction items are from a wide range of businesses including CSA and season passes to the local farms, wide range of art pieces, theater tickets, restaurants and much more!
### Performers
- Stephan Said – 2 pm
- David Lopato with Rich Syracuse-bass Harvey Sorgen-drums – 2:45 pm
- Borscht Blues — 3:15 pm
- Steve Gorn — 3:45 pm
- Sxip Shirey — 4:15 pm
- Vanaver Caravan — 4:45 pm
- Bourbon and Breastmilk — 5:3pm
- Mac & Cheez Balkan PowerTrio — 6:0pm
- Teryn Kuzma — 6:3pm
🎺 🌱 🇺🇦 Dear friends, I hope you will consider attending this important fundraising and cultural event on Memorial Day Monday at Arrowood Farm. Many beloved Hudson Valley musicians will be performing and there will be delicious food and great items to bid on as well. And.....it's FREE! Of course, we hope you will donate to the cause.
## Humanitarian Aid Fundraiser For Ukraine
**Arrowood Farm**
236 Lower Whitfield Rd., Accord, NY 12404
Memorial Day Monday, May 30
Noon to 9 pm
All Proceeds go to Ukrainian American Youth Association of the Hudson Valley toward Humanitarian Aid for Ukraine
### Borscht! Live Music!
### From the Shawangunks to the Carpathian Mountains
Blues, Jazz, Balkan, Ukrainian, Indian & the Undefinable!
Join this community event with all proceeds going to the Ukrainian American Youth Organization of The Hudson Valley toward Humanitarian Aid for Ukraine.
Composer, performer and producer Andy Teirstein has created one of a kind music program. Renowned artists from a variety genres generously volunteered to perform at the event.
- Admission is free
- Fundraising will happen via silent auction
- Bidding opens at 12 noon
- Winners to be announced at 5:15 PM.
- Auction items are from a wide range of businesses including CSA and season passes to the local farms, wide range of art pieces, theater tickets, restaurants and much more!
### Performers
- Stephan Said – 2 pm
- David Lopato with Rich Syracuse-bass Harvey Sorgen-drums – 2:45 pm
- Borscht Blues — 3:15 pm
- Steve Gorn — 3:45 pm
- Sxip Shirey — 4:15 pm
- Vanaver Caravan — 4:45 pm
- Bourbon and Breastmilk — 5:3pm
- Mac & Cheez Balkan PowerTrio — 6:0pm
- Teryn Kuzma — 6:3pm
🎺 🌱 🇺🇦 Dear friends, I hope you will consider attending this important fundraising and cultural event on Memorial Day Monday at Arrowood Farm. Many beloved Hudson Valley musicians will be performing and there will be delicious food and great items to bid on as well. And.....it's FREE! Of course, we hope you will donate to the cause.
## Humanitarian Aid Fundraiser For Ukraine
**Arrowood Farm**
236 Lower Whitfield Rd., Accord, NY 12404
Memorial Day Monday, May 30
Noon to 9 pm
All Proceeds go to Ukrainian American Youth Association of the Hudson Valley toward Humanitarian Aid for Ukraine
### Borscht! Live Music!
### From the Shawangunks to the Carpathian Mountains
Blues, Jazz, Balkan, Ukrainian, Indian & the Undefinable!
Join this community event with all proceeds going to the Ukrainian American Youth Organization of The Hudson Valley toward Humanitarian Aid for Ukraine.
Composer, performer and producer Andy Teirstein has created one of a kind music program. Renowned artists from a variety genres generously volunteered to perform at the event.
- Admission is free
- Fundraising will happen via silent auction
- Bidding opens at 12 noon
- Winners to be announced at 5:15 PM.
- Auction items are from a wide range of businesses including CSA and season passes to the local farms, wide range of art pieces, theater tickets, restaurants and much more!
### Performers
- Stephan Said – 2 pm
- David Lopato with Rich Syracuse-bass Harvey Sorgen-drums – 2:45 pm
- Borscht Blues — 3:15 pm
- Steve Gorn — 3:45 pm
- Sxip Shirey — 4:15 pm
- Vanaver Caravan — 4:45 pm
- Bourbon and Breastmilk — 5:3pm
- Mac & Cheez Balkan PowerTrio — 6:0pm
- Teryn Kuzma — 6:3pm
🎺 🌱 🇺🇦 Dear friends, I hope you will consider attending this important fundraising and cultural event on Memorial Day Monday at Arrowood Farm. Many beloved Hudson Valley musicians will be performing and there will be delicious food and great items to bid on as well. And.....it's FREE! Of course, we hope you will donate to the cause.
## Humanitarian Aid Fundraiser For Ukraine
**Arrowood Farm**
236 Lower Whitfield Rd., Accord, NY 12404
Memorial Day Monday, May 30
Noon to 9 pm
All Proceeds go to Ukrainian American Youth Association of the Hudson Valley toward Humanitarian Aid for Ukraine
### Borscht! Live Music!
### From the Shawangunks to the Carpathian Mountains
Blues, Jazz, Balkan, Ukrainian, Indian & the Undefinable!
Join this community event with all proceeds going to the Ukrainian American Youth Organization of The Hudson Valley toward Humanitarian Aid for Ukraine.
Composer, performer and producer Andy Teirstein has created one of a kind music program. Renowned artists from a variety genres generously volunteered to perform at the event.
- Admission is free
- Fundraising will happen via silent auction
- Bidding opens at 12 noon
- Winners to be announced at 5:15 PM.
- Auction items are from a wide range of businesses including CSA and season passes to the local farms, wide range of art pieces, theater tickets, restaurants and much more!
### Performers
- Stephan Said – 2 pm
- David Lopato with Rich Syracuse-bass Harvey Sorgen-drums – 2:45 pm
- Borscht Blues — 3:15 pm
- Steve Gorn — 3:45 pm
- Sxip Shirey — 4:15 pm
- Vanaver Caravan — 4:45 pm
- Bourbon and Breastmilk — 5:3pm
- Mac & Cheez Balkan PowerTrio — 6:0pm
- Teryn Kuzma — 6:3pm
🎺 🌱 🇺🇦 Dear friends, I hope you will consider attending this important fundraising and cultural event on Memorial Day Monday at Arrowood Farm. Many beloved Hudson Valley musicians will be performing and there will be delicious food and great items to bid on as well. And.....it's FREE! Of course, we hope you will donate to the cause.
## Humanitarian Aid Fundraiser For Ukraine
**Arrowood Farm**
236 Lower Whitfield Rd., Accord, NY 12404
Memorial Day Monday, May 30
Noon to 9 pm
All Proceeds go to Ukrainian American Youth Association of the Hudson Valley toward Humanitarian Aid for Ukraine
### Borscht! Live Music!
### From the Shawangunks to the Carpathian Mountains
Blues, Jazz, Balkan, Ukrainian, Indian & the Undefinable!
Join this community event with all proceeds going to the Ukrainian American Youth Organization of The Hudson Valley toward Humanitarian Aid for Ukraine.
Composer, performer and producer Andy Teirstein has created one of a kind music program. Renowned artists from a variety genres generously volunteered to perform at the event.
- Admission is free
- Fundraising will happen via silent auction
- Bidding opens at 12 noon
- Winners to be announced at 5:15 PM.
- Auction items are from a wide range of businesses including CSA and season passes to the local farms, wide range of art pieces, theater tickets, restaurants and much more!
### Performers
- Stephan Said – 2 pm
- David Lopato with Rich Syracuse-bass Harvey Sorgen-drums – 2:45 pm
- Borscht Blues — 3:15 pm
- Steve Gorn — 3:45 pm
- Sxip Shirey — 4:15 pm
- Vanaver Caravan — 4:45 pm
- Bourbon and Breastmilk — 5:3pm
- Mac & Cheez Balkan PowerTrio — 6:0pm
- Teryn Kuzma — 6:3pm
🎺 🌱 🇺🇦 Dear friends, I hope you will consider attending this important fundraising and cultural event on Memorial Day Monday at Arrowood Farm. Many beloved Hudson Valley musicians will be performing and there will be delicious food and great items to bid on as well. And.....it's FREE! Of course, we hope you will donate to the cause.
## Humanitarian Aid Fundraiser For Ukraine
**Arrowood Farm**
236 Lower Whitfield Rd., Accord, NY 12404
Memorial Day Monday, May 30
Noon to 9 pm
All Proceeds go to Ukrainian American Youth Association of the Hudson Valley toward Humanitarian Aid for Ukraine
### Borscht! Live Music!
### From the Shawangunks to the Carpathian Mountains
Blues, Jazz, Balkan, Ukrainian, Indian & the Undefinable!
Join this community event with all proceeds going to the Ukrainian American Youth Organization of The Hudson Valley toward Humanitarian Aid for Ukraine.
Composer, performer and producer Andy Teirstein has created one of a kind music program. Renowned artists from a variety genres generously volunteered to perform at the event.
- Admission is free
- Fundraising will happen via silent auction
- Bidding opens at 12 noon
- Winners to be announced at 5:15 PM.
- Auction items are from a wide range of businesses including CSA and season passes to the local farms, wide range of art pieces, theater tickets, restaurants and much more!
### Performers
- Stephan Said – 2 pm
- David Lopato with Rich Syracuse-bass Harvey Sorgen-drums – 2:45 pm
- Borscht Blues — 3:15 pm
- Steve Gorn — 3:45 pm
- Sxip Shirey — 4:15 pm
- Vanaver Caravan — 4:45 pm
- Bourbon and Breastmilk — 5:3pm
- Mac & Cheez Balkan PowerTrio — 6:0pm
- Teryn Kuzma — 6:3pm
🎺🌱🎥📹 On the job site this morning with Jim from the Rosendale improvement association brass band and Steve Duffy from every brass band in the world at the Mike Kingston kids 5-year anniversary parade in midtown Kingston.
Thank you all who came out! It was a super super super fun morning. It felt like we were in New Orleans! Lots of smiles all around.
We wish we could stay for the carnival and the circus but we are heading to Brooklyn to play an 8-hour wedding today!
Smooches to all! You make life great with your art, spirits, enthusiasm, musicality, creativity, energy, and vitality.
Thanks for pic @goatdog61
@mykingstonkidsonline @duffsrv @stevendduffy @darius_christian @bindlestifffamilycirkus
#neworleans #secondline #mardigras #kingstonny #brazzzamataz
It does make me wonder, yes.
Looking for brass, reed and percussion players for events and a parade in Kingston on May 20 and 21st.
Plus dancers and second liners
The more the merrier!
DM for more info.
Who loves ya, baby?
This is the look that got me plastered on the walls of the NYC Subway system some years ago.
Still rocking it!
Beautiful evening around the campfire. Happy May Day everybody.
🎺 🌱 Hey everybody! We'd like to introduce you to our Brazzamatazz Volunteer Coordinator, Jason Vance @yatesnvance
"Hey dude your food in your beer something it's cookie."
When Jason isn't helping to coordinate an incredible community brass festival, he can be seen roaming the streets on @sinterklaas_hudson_valley day dressed as The Polar Bear.with @macncheezbpt
Or playing banjo as a one man band or with others.
Or teaching kids about music.
Jason is an all-around great guy and you will love working with him.
We have many roles available to make this year's Brazzamatazz Festival @ Seed Song Farm a huge success.
Please see our website for our volunteer sign up form. Shifts are filling fast. link in bio.
#brazzzamataz #volunteer #teamwork #manyhandsmakelightwork
🎺 🌱 TONIGHT in Kingston, NY! Excellent lineup at @tubbyskingston with @arnoldhammerschlag, @jimyanda, @free.bass with opener @darius_christian playing trombone and electronics.
SWDYT V.2
Arnold Hammerschlag / Jim Yanda / Rashaan Carter + Darius Christian
SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2022
6:00 PM 9:00 PM
TICKETS EARLY SHOW!
Tubby's Kingston
586 Broadway
Kingston, NY 12401
Map: https://www.tubbyskingston.com/
Website: https://www.tubbyskingston.com/
The second installment of So What Do You Think? at Tubby's Kingston, featuring trumpeter Arnold Hammerschlag with guitarist Jim Yanda and bassist Rashaan Carter working as a drummer-less trio, and Darius Christian performing solo -- trombone, electronics, voice, and whatever else he might bring to the table. This will be a night focused on local/area musicians and it should be wild.
Tickets are being sold advance for $10, which in this case is the same as the door cost. But it doesn't hurt to grip your spots early -- and as always, every cent goes to the musicians.
“Further definitions of new music, composed, free, and in between. Occasional journeys into the maelstrom, tempered by Hammerschlag's eye of the hurricane trumpet classicism.”
-- Andrew Freund (5/4 Jazz Magazine)
#trombone #trumpet #jazz #kingstsonny #tubbyskingston #brazzamatazz
Cha Cha Cha recorded in Cuba is my jam this afternoon.
@dj_mr_chips would love to hear an all cha Cha Cha show sometime!
😻 Be nice to the cat or leave. Following the rules around here!
The ultimate hipster setup
🤔 Pop Quiz Time!
What NYC-Based brass band in the list below has sprouted/seeded/ 10+ bands and celebrated their 5th anniversary last night with a prom in Brooklyn featuring 8 related bands? Hint...this band performed at the first-ever @brassrootsfestival @seedsongfarm in 2018.
A. @3rdraildrumline
B. @adhocbrassband
C. @brassbytheslice
D. @brassqueensnyc
E. @darktidebrass
F. @ltrainbrass
G. @notusnyc
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L TRAIN BRASS BAND!
"L Train Brass Band is a modular collective of nearly 100 brass, reed, and percussion musicians. This nonprofit community organization is composed of diversely talented musicians who are genuinely excited by the opportunity to play anywhere and everywhere, covering a wide variety of music, from pop and hip-hop—to funk and traditional NOLA jazz—to eclectic original charts. LTBB embodies a music for life ethos by empowering busy adults to pick up an instrument and make music within a safe, structured environment that promotes creative self-expression and welcomes individuals from all musical backgrounds and walks of life.
Founded in 2017 by some nostalgic band-geeks-for-life, the L Train Brass Band serves the NYC community by providing a truly unique, engaging—and most importantly, FUN—experience for adult musicians of all experience levels. They’re on a mission to empower adults to pick up an instrument and make music. They engage with the public, community leaders, and educational organizations to support and accelerate the accessibility of NOLA brass band music in NYC, and beyond.
While our American brass band tradition is deeply rooted in the New Orleans style jazz, we pride ourselves in performing a diverse repertoire that is influenced by British, Latin, and Balkan band music as well as a mix of hip-hop, funk, R&B, pop, and fun/weird originals."
#brasslove
#getonboard
#ltrainbrass
#communitybuilding
#musicbuildsresilience
#musicislove
🎉 Congrats on FIVE GREAT YEARS!!! And thank you 🙏🏼 all the great work you've done and will continue to do! 🎈
This was my day. How about you?
Thank you for the Ukrainian singing workshop last night, @marusia81 . There are no words for the heaviness I and many others feel about the tragedy that is unfolding in Ukraine right now, but singing these songs helps ease the pain a little bit.
#stopwarinukraine
#solidaritywithukraine
#standwithukraine
#musicheals
#folkmusic
#bardcollege
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Thank you for the Ukrainian singing workshop last night, @marusia81 . There are no words for the heaviness I and many others feel about the tragedy that is unfolding in Ukraine right now, but singing these songs helps ease the pain a little bit.
#stopwarinukraine
#solidaritywithukraine
#standwithukraine
#musicheals
#folkmusic
#bardcollege
🇺🇦🧍🧍♀️🧍♂️
#peaceforukraine
#nowarinukraine
#westandwithukraine
# 2022-03-16 Ukrainian Song Workshop
## Let's lift up our voices in support of the victims of war around the world
Dear Friends,
I traveled to Ukraine with my friend Maria Sonevystky about 10 years ago and accompanied her to a remote village in the Carpathian Mountains where she was doing research for her master's thesis.
We had many adventures during that week we traveled together and I felt extremely lucky to experience Ukrainian folk culture of that region first-hand and deeply grateful to Maria, a fluent Ukrainian speaker with deep interest and love of the music and rituals of Ukraine. She was a terrific guide and travel companion.
Needless to say, those were much happier times for Ukraine and for the world at large.
Please come out tomorrow night to Bard Hall at Bard College and join Maria's Ukrainian Song Workshop, either as a participant or a singer. The world is full of strife. Let us find a way to peaceful coexistence, somehow.
We hope to see you there.
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### Ukrainian Song Workshop
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Bard Hall at Bard College
70 N Ravine Rd
Annandale-On-Hundson, NY 12504
Map: https://goo.gl/maps/CagQToNUD9yf5CkN8
This workshop is open to all -- no prior experience required, all voices welcome. You are also welcome to show your solidarity just by listening.
Maria will teach two songs: an archaic spring calling song, a cry for renewal, that she learned from Prof. Yevhen Yefremov (Kyiv Academy of Music), and a 3-part polyphonic song about heartbreak that she learned from the Kriachkivka (Poltava) repertoire.
COVID PROTOCOLS: Please wear a mask, and only attend if you have no symptoms. If possible, I recommend that you take a rapid test before attending.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Human Rights and the Arts (CHRA), and the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Program
#solidaritywithukraine
#ukraine
#nowarinukraine
Thank you @costumejim and @kostumekult for organizing the fantastic talk last night at the National Arts society in Manhattan. We've been thinking about the conversation all day.
#participatoryculture
#collectiveeffervescence
And great to meet you @adamrealman @rosievonlila and talk moderator (forgot to write down your name) and hear your thoughts, Jeanne Fleming about @nychalloween.
It was a brilliant night!
Thank you @costumejim and @kostumekult for organizing the fantastic talk last night at the National Arts society in Manhattan. We've been thinking about the conversation all day.
#participatoryculture
#collectiveeffervescence
And great to meet you @adamrealman @rosievonlila and talk moderator (forgot to write down your name) and hear your thoughts, Jeanne Fleming about @nychalloween.
It was a brilliant night!
Thank you @costumejim and @kostumekult for organizing the fantastic talk last night at the National Arts society in Manhattan. We've been thinking about the conversation all day.
#participatoryculture
#collectiveeffervescence
And great to meet you @adamrealman @rosievonlila and talk moderator (forgot to write down your name) and hear your thoughts, Jeanne Fleming about @nychalloween.
It was a brilliant night!
Thank you @costumejim and @kostumekult for organizing the fantastic talk last night at the National Arts society in Manhattan. We've been thinking about the conversation all day.
#participatoryculture
#collectiveeffervescence
And great to meet you @adamrealman @rosievonlila and talk moderator (forgot to write down your name) and hear your thoughts, Jeanne Fleming about @nychalloween.
It was a brilliant night!
Thank you @costumejim and @kostumekult for organizing the fantastic talk last night at the National Arts society in Manhattan. We've been thinking about the conversation all day.
#participatoryculture
#collectiveeffervescence
And great to meet you @adamrealman @rosievonlila and talk moderator (forgot to write down your name) and hear your thoughts, Jeanne Fleming about @nychalloween.
It was a brilliant night!
Thank you @costumejim and @kostumekult for organizing the fantastic talk last night at the National Arts society in Manhattan. We've been thinking about the conversation all day.
#participatoryculture
#collectiveeffervescence
And great to meet you @adamrealman @rosievonlila and talk moderator (forgot to write down your name) and hear your thoughts, Jeanne Fleming about @nychalloween.
It was a brilliant night!
Thank you @costumejim and @kostumekult for organizing the fantastic talk last night at the National Arts society in Manhattan. We've been thinking about the conversation all day.
#participatoryculture
#collectiveeffervescence
And great to meet you @adamrealman @rosievonlila and talk moderator (forgot to write down your name) and hear your thoughts, Jeanne Fleming about @nychalloween.
It was a brilliant night!
Thank you @costumejim and @kostumekult for organizing the fantastic talk last night at the National Arts society in Manhattan. We've been thinking about the conversation all day.
#participatoryculture
#collectiveeffervescence
And great to meet you @adamrealman @rosievonlila and talk moderator (forgot to write down your name) and hear your thoughts, Jeanne Fleming about @nychalloween.
It was a brilliant night!
Thank you @costumejim and @kostumekult for organizing the fantastic talk last night at the National Arts society in Manhattan. We've been thinking about the conversation all day.
#participatoryculture
#collectiveeffervescence
And great to meet you @adamrealman @rosievonlila and talk moderator (forgot to write down your name) and hear your thoughts, Jeanne Fleming about @nychalloween.
It was a brilliant night!
Thank you @costumejim and @kostumekult for organizing the fantastic talk last night at the National Arts society in Manhattan. We've been thinking about the conversation all day.
#participatoryculture
#collectiveeffervescence
And great to meet you @adamrealman @rosievonlila and talk moderator (forgot to write down your name) and hear your thoughts, Jeanne Fleming about @nychalloween.
It was a brilliant night!
Aww,,, look at the baby!
Aww,,, look at the baby!
Aww,,, look at the baby!
Aww,,, look at the baby!
What we, us, ours learned on our recent trip to @drbobart tourist trap/joy gallery in New Orlean: "Be nice or leave".
And don't forget to be nice to the cat.
So simple.
Nice.
Goes such a long way.
Nice.
Or leave.
Some are nice.
Others leave.
Joy all around.
Coming and going.
Joy all around.
That's all.
What we, us, ours learned on our recent trip to @drbobart tourist trap/joy gallery in New Orlean: "Be nice or leave".
And don't forget to be nice to the cat.
So simple.
Nice.
Goes such a long way.
Nice.
Or leave.
Some are nice.
Others leave.
Joy all around.
Coming and going.
Joy all around.
That's all.
What we, us, ours learned on our recent trip to @drbobart tourist trap/joy gallery in New Orlean: "Be nice or leave".
And don't forget to be nice to the cat.
So simple.
Nice.
Goes such a long way.
Nice.
Or leave.
Some are nice.
Others leave.
Joy all around.
Coming and going.
Joy all around.
That's all.
What we, us, ours learned on our recent trip to @drbobart tourist trap/joy gallery in New Orlean: "Be nice or leave".
And don't forget to be nice to the cat.
So simple.
Nice.
Goes such a long way.
Nice.
Or leave.
Some are nice.
Others leave.
Joy all around.
Coming and going.
Joy all around.
That's all.
What we, us, ours learned on our recent trip to @drbobart tourist trap/joy gallery in New Orlean: "Be nice or leave".
And don't forget to be nice to the cat.
So simple.
Nice.
Goes such a long way.
Nice.
Or leave.
Some are nice.
Others leave.
Joy all around.
Coming and going.
Joy all around.
That's all.
What we, us, ours learned on our recent trip to @drbobart tourist trap/joy gallery in New Orlean: "Be nice or leave".
And don't forget to be nice to the cat.
So simple.
Nice.
Goes such a long way.
Nice.
Or leave.
Some are nice.
Others leave.
Joy all around.
Coming and going.
Joy all around.
That's all.
What we, us, ours learned on our recent trip to @drbobart tourist trap/joy gallery in New Orlean: "Be nice or leave".
And don't forget to be nice to the cat.
So simple.
Nice.
Goes such a long way.
Nice.
Or leave.
Some are nice.
Others leave.
Joy all around.
Coming and going.
Joy all around.
That's all.
What we, us, ours learned on our recent trip to @drbobart tourist trap/joy gallery in New Orlean: "Be nice or leave".
And don't forget to be nice to the cat.
So simple.
Nice.
Goes such a long way.
Nice.
Or leave.
Some are nice.
Others leave.
Joy all around.
Coming and going.
Joy all around.
That's all.
What we, us, ours learned on our recent trip to @drbobart tourist trap/joy gallery in New Orlean: "Be nice or leave".
And don't forget to be nice to the cat.
So simple.
Nice.
Goes such a long way.
Nice.
Or leave.
Some are nice.
Others leave.
Joy all around.
Coming and going.
Joy all around.
That's all.
Here's to curvaceousness!
"Don't worry. We got you. XO"
The lovely creature on the right pointed us the right direction, for SURE.
The lovely creature on the left looks so much like my friend Ivan, it's crazy.
(Just had to repost this, Elyse, because it's so good. And big love to you, dear Ivan! We shall all be together again at some point.)
Tired kukeri monsters after a GREAT Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
More happy faces from Mardi Gras 2022
More happy faces from Mardi Gras 2022
More happy faces from Mardi Gras 2022
More happy faces from Mardi Gras 2022
More happy faces from Mardi Gras 2022
More happy faces from Mardi Gras 2022
More happy faces from Mardi Gras 2022
More happy faces from Mardi Gras 2022
More happy faces from Mardi Gras 2022
Another happy reunion in New Orleans with Alita Edgar from the Brooklyn days.
We're gonna Brazzamatazz tonight at Mardi Gras #balkanmardigras
Yeah... Just this at Allways Lounge & Cabaret
Bound for New Orleans for Balkan Mardi Gras! It's been a bit since I was last down that way. Looking forward to music, friends and celebrating life in all its richness
TONIGHT! Hope to see you in Woodstock for a great evening of music and dancing, not to mention food, drinks and friends.
🎉 Mardi Gras Party 🥳
Feb 24 in Woodstock, NY
At Colony Woodstock
@colonywoodstockny
@cocek_brass_band
@darius_christian
@weinmanjeff
@brazzamatazz
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cocek-brass-band-new-orleansbalkan-mountains-mardis-gras-party-tickets-252410355167
TONIGHT! Hope to see you in Woodstock for a great evening of music and dancing, not to mention food, drinks and friends.
🎉 Mardi Gras Party 🥳
Feb 24 in Woodstock, NY
At Colony Woodstock
@colonywoodstockny
@cocek_brass_band
@darius_christian
@weinmanjeff
@brazzamatazz
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cocek-brass-band-new-orleansbalkan-mountains-mardis-gras-party-tickets-252410355167
TONIGHT! Hope to see you in Woodstock for a great evening of music and dancing, not to mention food, drinks and friends.
🎉 Mardi Gras Party 🥳
Feb 24 in Woodstock, NY
At Colony Woodstock
@colonywoodstockny
@cocek_brass_band
@darius_christian
@weinmanjeff
@brazzamatazz
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cocek-brass-band-new-orleansbalkan-mountains-mardis-gras-party-tickets-252410355167
TONIGHT! Hope to see you in Woodstock for a great evening of music and dancing, not to mention food, drinks and friends.
🎉 Mardi Gras Party 🥳
Feb 24 in Woodstock, NY
At Colony Woodstock
@colonywoodstockny
@cocek_brass_band
@darius_christian
@weinmanjeff
@brazzamatazz
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cocek-brass-band-new-orleansbalkan-mountains-mardis-gras-party-tickets-252410355167
TONIGHT! Hope to see you in Woodstock for a great evening of music and dancing, not to mention food, drinks and friends.
🎉 Mardi Gras Party 🥳
Feb 24 in Woodstock, NY
At Colony Woodstock
@colonywoodstockny
@cocek_brass_band
@darius_christian
@weinmanjeff
@brazzamatazz
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cocek-brass-band-new-orleansbalkan-mountains-mardis-gras-party-tickets-252410355167
TONIGHT! Hope to see you in Woodstock for a great evening of music and dancing, not to mention food, drinks and friends.
🎉 Mardi Gras Party 🥳
Feb 24 in Woodstock, NY
At Colony Woodstock
@colonywoodstockny
@cocek_brass_band
@darius_christian
@weinmanjeff
@brazzamatazz
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cocek-brass-band-new-orleansbalkan-mountains-mardis-gras-party-tickets-252410355167
❄️⛸️⛷️🏂🚠🥽📸 Brazzamatazz Director Max is at the Bearsville Olympic Games this month and finding some time to relax in between the many festivals, music events and parades he produces throughout the year.
When is the last time you went to Mardi Gras?
#MardiGras
#MardiGras2019
#MardiGras2022
#mardigrasparade
🎉 Mardi Gras Party
Feb 24 in Woodstock, NY
At Colony Woodstock
@colonywoodstockny
@cocek_brass_band
@darius_christian
@weinmanjeff
@brazzamatazz
🥳
Getting my Mardi Gras costume together for the Colony show on Feb 24 with @cocek_brass_band, @darius_christian and @weinmanjeff - gonna be a great night!
Just received my Kickstarter reward from @upstate_films for supporting The Orpheum and BOY is it classy! Notice the simple typeface and the yellow label on the sleeve. Nice job, folks!
He (Andy Warhol) taught us not to be bogged down by the past, or nostalgia, and to be open and ready for the next thing that comes along...
Words to live by.... 2022...We're on!
Sarah reading during the blackout.
Power out in Bearsville. Firing up ye olde camp stove!
Just found this really cute mailbox in Woodstock. Which of course made me think of my family cuz I grew up in a bus like this and my sister @lindsay_fass_graham
🎉 Mardi Gras Party Time!!!
Balkan/New Orleans Mardi Gras
Thursday, February 24, 2022
8 pm
$15/advance ~ $20/day of show
Colony Woodstock
22 Rock City Rd
Woodstock, NY 12498
Map: https://goo.gl/maps/qgTU7fpiZAG2
Website: http://www.colonywoodstock.com/
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/636203610926343/
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cocek-brass-band-new-orleansbalkan-mountains-mardis-gras-party-tickets-252410355167
In honor of winter carnival season in Eastern Europe and Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Colony Woodstock is pleased to welcome Cocek! Brass Band back to the Colony Ballroom on Thursday, February 24.
Cocek! Brass Band plays original compositions inspired by music of the Balkans, New Orleans and other brass bands from around the world. You can come dressed as a pagan monster covered in bells like you might see in a village in Serbia or go full out in New Orleans finery! But however you dress, be prepared to dance!
Simply put…this a Mardi Gras party you don’t want to miss!
“Half serious as a heart attack and half hilarious with enough singular clevernesses to provoke a college course in the study of them” - Mark Tucker, FAME
In performance spaces ranging from hollowed out warehouses and arts spaces in Boston and NYC to the Kennedy Center in D.C., The Burlington Discover Jazz Festival, WorldFest in Louisville, KY and the 11th Annual NY Gypsy Music Festival, Cocek! can be found sprinkling their magic dust on audience members all over the world.
Bandleader Sam Dechenne started the ensemble in the Winter of 2014 and composes all the music for the band. The music of Cocek! Brass Band is influenced by Eastern-European and New Orleans dance songs, Afrobeat, Klezmer and elements of reggae and Western classical pieces.
Cocek! Brass Band has released two full length albums and in 2018 put out a new single every month, each one featuring a guest artist from across the country. Painters, instrumentalists, designers, cartoonists, singers and electronic producers were each featured throughout that year in a one-of-a-kind project.
Chase evil winter spirits away with a night of spirited dancing, music and merriment in a New Orleans/Balkan Mou
Chikns & Roostrs! The January art project continues.
Winter art practice continues... Please meet Sam the Rooster.
And speaking of Sam, come to Colony Woodstock on Feb 24 for a very special Balkan/Trad New Orleans Mardi Gras party with @samdechenne, @cocek_brass_band and other special guests. Are you a can't wait for spring chicken? We'll if so, come down and dance w us. Chicken dance if you must. No judgement.
Sarah and I are having a lovely working staycation in Bearsville while her mom is traveling in warmer climes. We love walking around the hood to stretch our legs in the afternoon.
It's a snow day in the Hudson Valley and I am basking in the warmth and beauty of my surroundings plus the incredible Chinese New Year Concert last night at @fishercenterbard by @theorchnow . So many amazing soloists, six row seats, soaring music, great friends. It was a perfect evening.
It's a snow day in the Hudson Valley and I am basking in the warmth and beauty of my surroundings plus the incredible Chinese New Year Concert last night at @fishercenterbard by @theorchnow . So many amazing soloists, six row seats, soaring music, great friends. It was a perfect evening.
It's a snow day in the Hudson Valley and I am basking in the warmth and beauty of my surroundings plus the incredible Chinese New Year Concert last night at @fishercenterbard by @theorchnow . So many amazing soloists, six row seats, soaring music, great friends. It was a perfect evening.
The January farm implement series continues. Gotta name for this odd piece of machinery? I thinks its a boomatazznamanator from the 1940s.
Powerful, striking and unusual show of Wharhol's lifetime connection to Eastern European Catholicism at @brooklynmuseum . No matter what you think of him or his work, definitely worth seeing.
Powerful, striking and unusual show of Wharhol's lifetime connection to Eastern European Catholicism at @brooklynmuseum . No matter what you think of him or his work, definitely worth seeing.
Powerful, striking and unusual show of Wharhol's lifetime connection to Eastern European Catholicism at @brooklynmuseum . No matter what you think of him or his work, definitely worth seeing.
Powerful, striking and unusual show of Wharhol's lifetime connection to Eastern European Catholicism at @brooklynmuseum . No matter what you think of him or his work, definitely worth seeing.
Powerful, striking and unusual show of Wharhol's lifetime connection to Eastern European Catholicism at @brooklynmuseum . No matter what you think of him or his work, definitely worth seeing.
Powerful, striking and unusual show of Wharhol's lifetime connection to Eastern European Catholicism at @brooklynmuseum . No matter what you think of him or his work, definitely worth seeing.
Powerful, striking and unusual show of Wharhol's lifetime connection to Eastern European Catholicism at @brooklynmuseum . No matter what you think of him or his work, definitely worth seeing.
Powerful, striking and unusual show of Wharhol's lifetime connection to Eastern European Catholicism at @brooklynmuseum . No matter what you think of him or his work, definitely worth seeing.
The Emperor is back in town for a few hours. The Official Balkan Party Emperor of New York City that is!
Matt Moran designated me this at a @slavicsoulparty show once and it stuck! Now try to remember who gave me the hat. Was it you @passemoilesel ?
Long winter nights are great for sketching practice.
Anyone know this lovely laughing mermaid on the cover of this month's @chronogram ? @wordygurl @reneerenatabergan @jengapay @missgschultz