Dear Ones,
We hope you are well.
We are dreaming all sorts of musical experiences into the world, some of them are ready to be shared and some are still in the cocoon phase. Ready to be shared this weekend are the World Perspectives concerts – we’re super excited and we do hope you’ll consider coming out.
In the cocoon phase are general music assemblies for all the North Fork Valley schools, a Monday night community stage and parade band, more adult marimba classes, summer concerts, kids marimba summer-camps, kids summer groove camp, and a world music concert series. We’ll keep you posted as they are unveiled.
blessings,
Arlyn and David
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David Alderdice and Friends – World Perspectives in Concert
Friday, March 6
7:30pm at the Blue Sage in Paonia
Jazz meets classical in an inspiring musical journey. The program will include Klezmer, Balkan, Celtic, Spanish, Polish, Brazilian, Cuban, Zimbabwean, jazz, and classical musical traditions. Featuring the award winning virtuosic violinist Dr. Marcin Arendt (IRIS Orchestra, Sphere Ensemble, Celtic band Feast); the classically trained pianist Joseph Mentoni (student of iconic jazz pianist Alan Swain, Northwestern University); the up and coming double bassist Mitch Montealegre (Master of Music, The Julliard School); and the multi-faceted percussionist, teacher, and rhythm enthusiast David Alderdice (Embodying Rhythm Marimba Project) and special guest Arlyn Deva Alderdice on marimba and percussion. Advance tickets: $12 ($8 students). At the door $15 ($10 students). www.bluesage.org
Drop us an email if you’d like to volunteer for the event.
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David Alderdice percussion, Marcin Arendt violin (from FEAST) and friends
Saturday, March 7, 2015, 3:00pm at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Grand Junction, CO
Sunday, March 8, 2015 3:00pm at the Montrose Pavilion
Marcin and David will explore classical music and ethnic folk music with a rhythmic world perspective. Expect to experience some familiar classical pieces as well as some exciting pieces that will surely be new to you! Guest artists Joseph Mentoni on piano and Mitch Montealegre string bass will complete the ensemble.
tickets range $27 – 7
information and tickets: www.junctionconcerts.com/index.html
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Cyrano de BurgerShack
David Alderdice, Daniel B, Jeannette Carey, and Paul Fraizer accompany the Hotchkiss High School Musical Play
Thursday March 19
Friday March 20
at Hotchkiss High School – 438 Bulldog St. Hotchkiss, CO 81419 | 970-872-3882
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David accompanies the Paonia Fashion Show
Friday April 3
Saturday April 4
At the Paradise Theatre in Paonia
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Altius Quartet with the NFV Embodying Rhythm Marimba Project
Saturday, April 18 7:30pm
This concert features both string quartet and marimba ensemble music (separately and together). The Altius Quartet has quickly become one of the most exciting young ensembles in America and has received numerous awards. They are currently the Graduate String Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Colorado-Boulder where they are mentored by the Takács Quartet. The Embodying Rhythm Marimba Project led by David and Arlyn Alderdice will feature local musicians, teachers, and students. Including Jeannette Carey, Daniel B, Eric Baumheier, Matt Drbohlav, Osha Foster, Joseph Mentoni, and more.
Advance tickets: $12 ($8 students), At the door: $15 ($10 students)
Proceeds will go to building the local marimba project one marimba and school program at a time.
Sweet and Savory snacks will be available to benefit The Learning Council.
Drop us an email if you’d like to volunteer for the event.
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David and Arlyn duo Sunday, May 3, 5:00pm
David and Arlyn present their love of polyrhythms as a percussive duo for a Salon performance at Justice Snows in Aspen, CO
Justice Snow’s 328 East Hyman Avenue Aspen, CO 81611
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What to Remember When Waking
–by David Whyte (Dec 30, 2013)
In that first hardly noticed moment in which you wake,
coming back to this life from the other
more secret, moveable and frighteningly honest world
where everything began,
there is a small opening into the new day
which closes the moment you begin your plans.
What you can plan is too small for you to live.
What you can live wholeheartedly will make plans enough
for the vitality hidden in your sleep.
To be human is to become visible
while carrying what is hidden as a gift to others.
To remember the other world in this world
is to live in your true inheritance.
You are not a troubled guest on this earth,
you are not an accident amidst other accidents
you were invited from another and greater night
than the one from which you have just emerged.
Now, looking through the slanting light of the morning window
toward the mountain presence of everything that can be
what urgency calls you to your one love?
What shape waits in the seed of you
to grow and spread its branches
against a future sky?
Is it waiting in the fertile sea?
In the trees beyond the house?
In the life you can imagine for yourself?
In the open and lovely white page on the writing desk?