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the improvisor festival
Jackson Mississippi
Sunday August 1, 2010 8:00 p.m.
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Bruce Golden, Evan Gallagher, Jeb Stuart and others will perform improvised music at The North Midtown Arts Center, 121 Millsaps Avenue as part of The Improvisor Magazine's country-wide Improv Festival in celebration of it's 30th year. (simultaneous with the NYC opening) In the spirit of this 30 year anniversary, old friends and 80's-era Ars Supernova ensemble-mates will reconvene in improvisation to ruminate on their past and the suprising future they now find themselves in. This event will provide Jacksonians a chance to engage in this month-long festival of improvisation not just with Jackson musicians who were around even before when this thirty year stretch began, but will put them in a venue which was also inspiring Jacksonians to improvise in creative ways back in the day. The concert is sponsored by the M!A and is free. (347-209-5595) the improvisor festival August 2010 The Improvisor, the international magazine journal of free improvisation, was founded in 1980 as a networking and philosophical sharing medium for the Improvisors Network (NYC). Initially begun as a newsletter of I.N., The Improvisor documented the earliest free improvisation experiments and practices in America. The Improvisor published eleven hard copy editions throughout the 1980’s & 1990’s, and for the last fifteen years published the Internet edition, promoting the art of free improvisation today. To recognize the 30 year anniversary of The Improvisor, a festival celebration is planned for the month of August 2010 to commemorate its contribution to the growth and development of improvisation as a viable and now nearly mainstream art form. Throughout the month of August 2010, there will be festival concerts throughout the Southeast, with satellite concerts across the USA. The Improvisor's Network (I.N.) founded in 1979 in New York City, was comprised of artists and musicians interested in the practice and development of free improvisation as a fundamental musical medium, and sought to network improvisors, who were practicing across the U.S.A., forming alliances and exchanges among the artists, bringing this new music into many communities, forging grassroots & community efforts in the development of free improvisation as a vital art form, sustained by collective activity, the personal practice, and the inquiring ears of its audience. |