From Pamela Z:
Pamela z and Switchboard Music Festival
March 29, 2009, 2pm-10pm, Dance Mission
Theater, San Francisco. (My set is 8:30-ish)
Since my local appearances are lot less frequent than they once were (most of my performances are out of town these days), I thought you’d like to know that I’ll be performing a solo set of my works for voice and electronics as part of the Switchboard Music Festival this coming Sunday evening at Dance Mission Theater in San Francisco. My set will be at approximately 8:30 pm.
Switchboard is a new (in its 2nd year) 8-hour music marathon reminiscent of New York’s “Bang on a Can” Festival or Common Sense Composers Collective’s “Opus 415 Marathon”. One notable difference is that the sets in this festival tend to be longer, so you can hear a good half hour of an artist rather than the customary 10 or 15 minutes that marathons are known for.
Other than a few upcoming collaborative, shared events and lecture/demos in San Francisco, most of my performing activity is taking place outside the Bay Area for the next several months. So, if you haven’t had a chance to hear me play a solo concert in a while, (or you have but would like to hear more!) this will be a good opportunity to hear my work. And come early and/or stay later for more works by outstanding Bay Area musicians, composers, and composer/performers.
Read on for the Switchboard press release copy (courtesy of the festival’s organizers) including a list of all of the composers and performers who will be featured next Sunday. Also, you can go to the Switchboard website for the full calendar.
http://www.switchboardmusic.com/schedule.html
Cheers,
Pamela
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SECOND ANNUAL SWITCHBOARD MUSIC FESTIVAL
PRESENTS A GENRE-DEFYING SPECTACLE
Sunday, March 29, 2009, 2:00-10:00 PM
SAN FRANCISCO, March 20, 2009: The second annual Switchboard Music Festival is an 8-hour, non-stop music spectacle presenting composers and musicians who push the boundaries of their respective genres. No other Bay Area music festival or concert series offers such an eclectic, genre-crossing, convention-breaking, bastardizing group of experimentalists, innovators, and musical omnivores in a single event. This is a concert designed for an audience grown accustomed to the boundary-free world of the internet and the iPod, where all music is equal and must meet only one criterion: It must sound good.
The Switchboard Music Festival will feature some of the Bay Area’s most original performers, including the ADORNO Ensemble, Classical Revolution, Edmund Welles, Japonize Elephants, Melody of China, Moe! Staiano, Pamela Z, Paul Dresher and Joel Davel, Ted Brinkley and Neptune's Rogue Apothecary, and Zoyres. The festival will also present living composers whose work challenges traditional ideas of notated music, including Mason Bates, Ryan Brown, David Lang, Jonathan Russell, Max Stoffregen, Ken Thomson, and Damon Waitkus.
The Switchboard Music Festival was founded by local composers and performers Jeff Anderle, Ryan Brown, and Jonathan Russell with the goal of bringing together many of the unique musicians working in the Bay Area. Their goal is to highlight musicians and composers who effortlessly float between genres, challenging and re-defining the music scene, Bay Area and beyond.
WHEN: Sunday, March 29, 2:00-10:00 p.m.
WHAT: Switchboard Music Festival
WHERE: Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th Street
San Francisco, CA
(at 24th St./Mission BART station)
Food and drink available for purchase.
PROGRAM: Non-stop, 8-hour marathon concert with performances by the ADORNO Ensemble, Classical Revolution, Edmund Welles, Japonize Elephants, Melody of China, Moe! Staiano, Pamela Z, Paul Dresher and Joel Davel, Ted Brinkley and Neptune's Rogue Apothecary, and Zoyres; and music composed by Mason Bates, Ryan Brown, David Lang, Jonathan Russell, Max Stoffregen, Ken Thomson, and Damon Waitkus.
TICKET INFO: $10-35 sliding scale, come and go as you please. Call 800.838.3006, or visit www.switchboardmusic.com to purchase tickets online.
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