BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//118 Elliot - ECPv6.15.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:118 Elliot X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://118elliot.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for 118 Elliot REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230804T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230804T200000 DTSTAMP:20260428T124757 CREATED:20230406T013143Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230815T010706Z UID:12423-1691168400-1691179200@118elliot.com SUMMARY:Nu Mu 2023: Music and Art Festival DESCRIPTION:Opens Friday Aug 4 Gallery Walk with ‘Sounds & Signs’ Community Art Making Event\, and extends through Sunday\, August 27\nFull Nu Mu Festival Schedule \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The Nu Mu Music and Art Festival returns to 118 Elliot for a second year as ‘Nu Mu Tu’. A community art making event at Brattleboro’s August 4th Gallery Walk begins a month of musical performances celebrating improvisational music.\nNu Mu Tu\, a collaboration between 118 Elliot’s John Loggia and Jeff Lederer’s Little(i)Music\, offers a creative convergence of new music and art organized around celebrated jazz musician and teacher Lederer’s yearly pilgrimage to the Brattleboro area and the spirit of ‘free jazz’ where everything is always new. \nThroughout August\, Nu Mu Tu will present a series of weekend performances by both established and up-and-coming musicians including: Jeff Lederer\, Payton MacDonald\, Jeremey Slater\, Ayumi Ishito\, Aron Namenwirth\, Paul Austerlitz\, Ayizon Sanon\, Julian Gerstin\, Bonnie Kane\, and John Loggia. A full Nu Mu Tu Festival schedule is available here.  \nHallie Lederer leads ‘Sounds & Signs’ \nDuring the August 4 Gallery Walk\, artist Hallie Lederer of Brooklyn’s Powerhouse Arts will lead participants in ‘Sounds & Signs’ an art making event to create ‘graphic scores\,’ visual representations of music that will be interpreted by the Community Improvisational Orchestra to close the festival at 6pm Sunday August 27. Select graphic scores will be exhibited as part of ‘Signs & Sounds’ exhibit up through August at 118 Elliot gallery. \n August 5th will feature Payton MacDonald’s ‘Sonic Peaks’ project. MacDonald makes graphic topographical scores of his mountain hikes and performs them on Marimba. \nOn the weekend of August 18\, Nu Mu will converge with XFest\, an invitational improvisational convergence of more than 50 musicians\, artists and dancers will be held at 32M Center for Creative Work in Ashuelot\, NH (just past Hinsdale). Performances will run from Friday evening through Saturday. Bring a lawn chair to enjoy non-stop creative experimentation from 6 – 11pm Friday and Saturday. \nThe closing weekend (Aug 25/26/27) will feature “Flowers for Albert” a musical Tribute to Albert Ayler concert at 118 Elliot on Saturday August 26th at 7pm. An Albert Ayler Benefit Golf Outing at 10am that same day will benefit local human services groups. Jeff Lederer will lead an ensemble that includes Ras Modhe\, Bonnie Kane and Dave Peck among others. For more information on the golfing event contact jeff@littleimusic.com.  Opening the weekend\, on Friday\, a night of interactive video and live music will feature Dave Seidel/Greg Kowalski\, Andrew Neumann”\, and Bonnie Kane/John Loggia performing a mix of analog electronics\, video projection and acoustic instruments . \nThe festival will close on Sunday\, August 27 at 6pm when Lederer leads the Community Improvisational Orchestra in interpreting and performing the graphic scores created by community members at the August Gallery Walk (more info here). Anyone interested in participating in the orchestra should meet at 118 Elliot on August 17th and 24th at 7pm to prepare for the final performance\, or write to 118Elliot@gmail.com for more information. A community celebration and dance party featuring Freakuency will follow at 7pm. \nA $15 suggested donation for each concert goes directly to the musicians. \nclick here for the full Nu Mu Festival Schedule \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n NU MU collaborators John Loggia and Jeff Lederer\n \n \n \n Jeff Lederer is a celebrated saxophonist/clarinetist/composer and teacher who has been included in the Downbeat Critics’ and Readers’ poll each year since 2014. He leads ensembles including the “Shakers n’ Bakers”\, “Sunwatcher Quartet” and “Brooklyn Blowhards” and is the founder and director of the Visionary Youth Orchestra. Lederer also plays in the groups of Matt Wilson\, Bobby Sanabria\, Allison Miller\, Jimmy Bosch and many others. Lederer was named as a “Musician to Watch in 2017” by JazzWise magazine in London and has appeared in the North Sea\, Molde\, Monterey\, Chicago\, Earshot Seattle\, Azores and Guimaraes Jazz festivals where he was the 2017 artist-in-residence. Lederer is currently serving as Director of Jazz Studies and professor of Jazz Saxophone at Long Island University. \nJohn Loggia is a multimedia artist who has worked in the visual arts and music throughout his career. As a musician\, John has performed with many great Jazz musicians including Bonnie Kane\, Daniel Carter\, Ras Moshe\, Erc Zinman\, Vance Provey\, Anders Nillen\, Stephen Gauci\, Zach Swanson\, Eric Plaks among others. John is a producer of the recent documentary on Free Jazz\, “Fire Music” that can be seen on the Criterion Channel. His new album\, Ventilation\, with Bonnie Kane\, will be released in August. URL:https://118elliot.com/event/nu-mu-2023/ LOCATION:118 Elliot CATEGORIES:Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://118elliot.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Nu_Mu_2023.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230804T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230804T200000 DTSTAMP:20260428T124757 CREATED:20230711T204854Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230727T151821Z UID:13749-1691168400-1691179200@118elliot.com SUMMARY:Sounds & Signs: Live Community Art-Making Event DESCRIPTION:Nu Mu Festival Overview\nNu Mu Festival Schedule\n  \n118 Elliot welcomes all to participate in a community art-making ‘Sounds & Signs’ event where visual representations of sound or ‘graphic scores’ will be made to be ‘played’ later by an improvisational orchestra. The free event\, which kicks-off 118 Elliot’s month-long Nu Mu Tu Music and Art Festival\, runs from 5 to 8 pm at the August 4th Brattleboro Gallery Walk at 118 Elliot\, 118 Elliot Street\, Brattleboro\, Vermont. \nThe event will be led by Hallie Lederer\, who works in community outreach at Brooklyn’s Powerhouse Arts. Some of the graphic scores created at this event will be interpreted by the Improvisational Community Orchestra on Sunday\, August 27 to close the Nu Mu Tu Festival and exhibited throughout the month as part of the ‘Sounds & Signs’ exhibit at 118 Elliot gallery. \n118 will be prepared for art making with various stations equipped with free art-making materials. There will be a large central collaborative composition that anyone can work on with guidance from Lederer. Various smaller stations\, each with their own art-making materials\, will be available to artists who prefer to work individually or in smaller groups. \nAdditionally\, ‘Sounds & Signs’ will feature an exhibition with a scholarly overview of graphic scores which will be on display throughout the month to guide participants and provide a context for the community project. \nInterested community members are also invited to participate in the Community Improvisational Orchestra performance on the 27th. Please come to our run-throughs on August 17th and 24th at 7pm at 118 Elliot to prepare. \nPlease see the 118 Elliot website for additional details or email 118Elliot@gmail.com. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n HALLIE LEDERER BIO\nHallie’s pursuit in life and art is focused on social change and impact. As an experimental artist from Brooklyn\, New York\, she works in many different mediums including oil and acrylic paints\, spray paint\, collage\, found object and recycled material sculpture\, drawing\, and digital art. In addition to these mediums\, she is the owner and founder of the streetwear clothing brand HailNYC. Her creative process is reflective of the experience of growing up in capitalist American culture. Hallie recently completed her Master’s Degree in Art Education from Brooklyn College. As an educator\, she is interested in using art making as a means for fostering community\, togetherness and creating social impact. URL:https://118elliot.com/event/sounds-and-signs/ LOCATION:118 Elliot CATEGORIES:General ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://118elliot.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/sounds-signs23.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230805T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230805T220000 DTSTAMP:20260428T124757 CREATED:20230726T033249Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230805T144455Z UID:13923-1691265600-1691272800@118elliot.com SUMMARY:Payton MacDonald's 'Sonic Peaks' DESCRIPTION:Nu Mu Festival Overview\nNu Mu Festival Schedule\n \nPayton MacDonald is a percussionist/composer who is also an avid mountain climber. In his multi-year project “Sonic Peaks\,” he climbs local mountains and creates graphic musical scores for improvising musicians to interpret. The audio/visual performance will feature MacDonald on Marimba and Jeff Lederer on wind instruments. URL:https://118elliot.com/event/sonic-peaks/ LOCATION:118 Elliot CATEGORIES:Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://118elliot.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/macdonald.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230812T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230812T190000 DTSTAMP:20260428T124757 CREATED:20230726T231630Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230726T231637Z UID:13944-1691866800-1691866800@118elliot.com SUMMARY:Musical Exchanges DESCRIPTION:Nu Mu Festival Overview\nNu Mu Festival Schedule\n \nA night of musical exchanges in an immersive environment of video projections. Featured musicians include Ayumi Ishito\, Jeremy Slater\, Paul Austerlitz\, Aron Namewirth\, Ayizan\, Sanon\, Ben James\, and Scott Moore. URL:https://118elliot.com/event/musical-exchanges/ LOCATION:118 Elliot CATEGORIES:Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://118elliot.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/murmur.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230826T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230826T100000 DTSTAMP:20260428T124757 CREATED:20230727T000951Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230727T000958Z UID:13970-1693044000-1693044000@118elliot.com SUMMARY:The Albert Ayler Benefit Golf Outing DESCRIPTION:Nu Mu Festival Overview\nNu Mu Festival Schedule\n \n“Flowers for Albert” is a night of celebration of the musical legacy of the great free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler that will take place on Saturday\, Aug 26 as part of August’s Nu Mu Tu Music and Art Festival at 118 Elliot in Brattleboro\, Vermont. \nAlbert Ayler was a forward-thinking improviser who in his short lifespan (1936 -1970) revolutionized approaches to his instrument\, and to the jazz language as a whole. Saturday evening starting at 7pm\, we’ll host a community-based music making event interpreting the repertoire of Albert Ayler in new ways with a flexible ensemble of local musicians and guests. \nDuring the day on Aug 26 (starting at 10am)\, a very informally organized “Albert Ayler Memorial Golf Outing” will happen at the Brattleboro Country Club. Ayler was a championship golfer as a youth in Cleveland Ohio. Fees for this event will be donated to local social services organizations. Please contact jeff@littleimusic.com if you wish to participate or for more information. URL:https://118elliot.com/event/albert-ayler-golf-outing/ LOCATION:118 Elliot CATEGORIES:General ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://118elliot.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/golf.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230826T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230826T190000 DTSTAMP:20260428T124757 CREATED:20230711T002635Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230727T001248Z UID:13712-1693076400-1693076400@118elliot.com SUMMARY:'Flowers for Albert' Tribute Concert DESCRIPTION:Special Nu Mu Tu Event at 118 Elliot!\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Late saxophonist Albert Ayler performing in 1970\n \n \n \n Nu Mu Festival Overview\nNu Mu Festival Schedule\n \n“Flowers for Albert” is a night of celebration of the musical legacy of the great free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler that will take place on Saturday\, Aug 26 at 7pm as part of August’s Nu Mu Tu Music and Art Festival at 118 Elliot in Brattleboro\, Vermont. \nAlbert Ayler was a forward-thinking improviser who in his short lifespan (1936 -1970) revolutionized approaches to his instrument\, and to the jazz language as a whole. The night will be a community-based music making event interpreting the repertoire of Albert Ayler in new ways with a flexible ensemble of local musicians and guests. \nThis special evening will be led by saxophonist Jeff Lederer\, Nu-Mu part-time Guilford Vermont resident and the co-producer of the recent “Revelations” box set (Elemental Records)\, a re-mastered and for the first time complete recording of the final concert performances of Albert Ayler from July 26-28 at the Fondation Maegth in St Paul du Vence\, France. \nDuring the day on Aug 26\, a very informally organized “Albert Ayler Memorial Golf Outing” will happen in the Brattleboro area. Ayler was a championship golfer as a youth in Cleveland Ohio. Fees for this event will be donated to local social services organizations. Please contact jeff@littleimusic.com if you wish to participate or for more information. \nSuggested admission to the evening concert is $15 – pay as you are able – but all participants and audience members are encouraged to bring a flower. There will be a community meal prior to the performance at 6pm. Contact Jeff at the email above to RSVP. \n  \n“For all their abrasiveness and clamor\, these mid-sixties recordings have the feel of instant classicism; though lacking the underpinnings of pop-music forms\, they have the inner logic of intellectual conviction and emotional necessity. These recordings were instantly\, vastly influential\, as was Ayler himself”\n~from New Yorker review of Ayler “Revelations” box set (2022) \n  URL:https://118elliot.com/event/flowers-for-albert/ LOCATION:118 Elliot CATEGORIES:Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://118elliot.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/flowers_2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230827T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230827T180000 DTSTAMP:20260428T124757 CREATED:20230713T031336Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230727T021553Z UID:13863-1693159200-1693159200@118elliot.com SUMMARY:Improvisational Community Orchestra Plays Graphic Scores DESCRIPTION:more info to come… \nNu Mu Festival Overview\nNu Mu Festival Schedule\n  URL:https://118elliot.com/event/improvisational-community-orchestra/ LOCATION:118 Elliot CATEGORIES:Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://118elliot.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/galaxy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230827T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230827T190000 DTSTAMP:20260428T124757 CREATED:20230727T010512Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230727T010518Z UID:14052-1693162800-1693162800@118elliot.com SUMMARY:Community Celebration + Dance Party featuring Freakuency DESCRIPTION:more info to come… \nNu Mu Festival Overview\nNu Mu Festival Schedule\n  URL:https://118elliot.com/event/freakuency-dance-party/ LOCATION:118 Elliot CATEGORIES:Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://118elliot.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/dance.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR