Interference Series Presents: Thollem McDonas
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CONCERT
Sunday, September 14
Doors 6 pm; Show 7 pm
In conjunction with the Southwest Collaborative Music Convergence.
“Listening to Thollem play the piano is an astonishing experience. He has an innate ability to compose transcendent music using the piano as his expressive voice and to explore the depth and range of the instrument like no one else.” (Joan Jeanrenaud, Kronos Quartet)
Thollem’s music is genre-bending, code-switching, omni-idiomatic, and intersectional. Quality Revolutionary Entertainment! His music expresses the culmination of his life’s experiences in dialogue with the universe and fellow human beings. As a result of growing up in the culturally diverse SF Bay Area, his classical piano training, and his itinerant lifestyle since, Thollem’s interests, influences and inspirations range widely. He has spent most of his life performing and collaborating with hundreds of artists and communities throughout N. America and Europe and has released well over 100 albums on 27 different vanguard labels. Multitudes have inspired and influenced him as a pianist from Scriabin to Monk, Scarlatti to Nina Simone, Glenn Gould, John Cage, Art Tatum, as well as his contemporaries. Thollem’s parents were both pianists, and his earliest memories were of climbing up to play the inside of the piano.
“Thollem is a modern griot who has absorbed sounds from every place he has visited.”– William Parker, from Conversations II (Rogue Art)“Thollem displays a chameleonic ability to adapt to suit whatever musical context presents itself…there is more than one way to access the infinite.”- Daniel Spicer, The Wire“Blue collar virtuoso.”- Detroit Metro Times
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Interference Series Presents
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FESTIVAL
Thursday, September 19 – Saturday, September 21
Please join us at the Coconino Center for the Arts to celebrate the 2nd Annual Southwest Collaborative Music Convergence!
Spanning three days and nights of concerts and presentations, this is a one-of-a-kind experience for musicians and audiences alike. Along with co-director Thollem McDonas, Interference Series has invited 30 individual musicians from around the Southwest to create unique sonic experiences that express the dynamics of the Southwest ecologically, socially, politically, and in response to CCA’s two exhibits, Shades of Route 66 and Route 66: Alternative Perspectives. We are grateful for the opportunity to bring together all of these exceptional artists who have spent their lives honing their craft through collaboration with others. Most of all, we are excited to share it with the community!
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CONCERT
Monday, September 22
Annea Lockwood, is a composer born in Aotearoa, New Zealand, and currently based in the U.S., bringing to her work vibrant energy, relentless curiosity, and profound openness. Her fascination with the physical and environmental perception of sound has led to pieces for concert performance, performative art, and multimedia installations.
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CONCERT
Thursday, September 26
Gareth Pearson is referred to as “The Welsh Tornado” which is particularly appropriate, seeing as this special talent combines fingerstyle pyrotechnics, with explosive lead runs making Pearson one of the most exciting acoustic musicians gigging today.
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