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“Number One Progressive Drummer”

– Modern Drummer Magazine’s Readers Poll (3 times)

“Best Drummer”
– Rolling Stone Magazine’s Critics Poll

Two-time Grammy Award winner Will Calhoun presents a live world music concert-multi-media event. Internationally known as the virtuosic drummer/composer of NYC’s rock band Living Colour, Calhoun performs his own live electronic percussion loops, and drums and flutes, as he is joined by poet Louis Reyes Rivera, a nightly guest vocalist, and a dancer performing African dance and ballet. Synchronized images and film from Calhoun’s music research expeditions in Africa, Central and South America move in tempo to Calhoun’s rich sonic tapestry.

More about Will Calhoun

A 2-time Grammy winner, widely acclaimed drummer from the Bronx, New York, Calhoun graduated from the Berklee School of Music in Boston, where he received a Bachelors Degree in Music Production and engineering. He was also the recipient of the prestigious Buddy Rich Jazz Masters Award for outstanding performance by a drummer.

Will Calhoun is internationally known as the drummer/composer of NYC Rock Band Living Colour. In addition to his work with Living Colour, Will has recorded and/or toured with diverse artists including B.B. King, Mick Jagger, Mos Def, Jaco Pastorious, Harry Belafonte, Pharoah Sanders, Jack Dejohnette, Paul Simon, Lou Reed, The Allman Brothers, Lauryn Hill, Marcus Miller, Dr.John, Herb Alpert, Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood, Wayne Shorter (on the Grammy-winning CD “High Life”), Run-DMC and Public Enemy.

Will Calhoun photo by Bill Bernstein

www.willcalhoun.com

www.myspace.com/nativelands

Best of Boroughs Festival – Bronx

May 1 – May 4

Thursday at 7pm

Friday at 10 pm

Sunday at 7 pm

(no show Saturday, May 3)
More about the BOB Festival
Tickets from $20
$15 (students/seniors)
$10 (P.S. 122
members)
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Best of Boroughs 2008

B.O.B.

As part of our commitment to promoting excellence in the arts in New York City, P.S. 122 partners with esteemed arts organizations from all over the city to present B.O.B., a new and super-charged celebration that takes place at P.S. 122 while taking you on tour of the brightest local theatre, dance and performance.

Staten Island
Brooklyn
Queens
Bronx


Remember this Moment
Gabri Christa and Niles Ford
-Staten Island

In anticipation of their two year-old child’s fiftieth birthday, two older parents create a digital video – part time capsule, part time travel – and fill it with love and living memories, as a gift for their child to open in the future.

May 1- 4

Thursday at 10pm

Friday and Saturday at 7pm

Sunday at 4pm
More info/Tickets


Ayelet Rose Gottlieb
Mayim Rabim / Great Waters
-Brooklyn

A ten piece song cycle composed by jazz vocalist Ayelet Rose Gottlieb spans erotic love poetry from the bible. With director Franny Silverman and video artist Renate Aller, Gottlieb creates a multi-sensory experience that starts at the moment one steps into the theatre.

May 8-10
Thursday – Saturday at 8pm
More info/tickets


Vengeance Can Wait
Yukiko Motoya
-Queens

Influenced by anime and manga (Japanese graphic novels and comic books), Vengeance Can Wait navigates Japanese sub-culture as it charts a different kind of love story. A couple has the perfect domestic relationship: he spends his days planning the perfect revenge, while she awaits her perfect punishment. Dark, twisted and touching, the couple come to understand the “kinks” in their relationship – and embrace them.

U.S. Premiere

Friday, April 25 – Sunday, May 4

Tuesdays – Fridays at 8

Saturdays at 2 and 8;
Sundays at 4
More info/tickets


Black Holes
Will Calhoun
-Bronx

Two-time Grammy Award winner Will Calhoun presents a live world music concert-multi-media event. Internationally known as the virtuosic drummer/composer of NYC’s rock band Living Colour, Calhoun performs his own live electronic percussion loops, and drums and flutes, as he is joined by poet Louis Reyes Rivera, a nightly guest vocalist, and a dancer performing African dance and ballet.

May 1 – May 4
Thursday at 7pm
Friday at 10 pm
Sunday at 7 pm
(no show Saturday, May 3)
More info/tickets

April 25- May 10, 2008
ALL PERFORMANCES TAKE PLACE
AT PS122, 1ST AVE & 9TH STREET

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