Outpost 186 Concerts & Events February 2012
(note: the Thomas Helton gig has been cancelled)
OUTPOST: 186 ½ Hampshire St., Inman Sq. Cambridge - All Ages
URL: Outpost186.com
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(CONCERT & EVENTS CALENDER FOLLOWS BOILERPLATE, BELOW)
OUTPOST NEWS :
OUTPOST is now in the process of installing theatre lights for performances, four (4) pots with gels on a wall dimmer. No more screwing around with the track lighting, you little bastards! ;)
NEW DISC BY FORBES GRAHAM & LAURENCE COOK, recorded @ OUTPOST!
BERN NIX / DAVE BRYANT QUARTET LIVE @ OUTPOST - VIDEO
some video of the 28 Jan. '12 Bern Nix show here
Interview with Bern Nix
a new web drama shot in OUTPOST by Catzilla Productions is now up!
NOTE : SUNDAY LIFE DRAWING WITH DAVID LEE is back! Contact: dleeway1116@hotmaildotcom
OUTPOST now hosts life drawing classes, Sunday mornings 10am - 12:30pm
PROFILES OF LOCAL JAZZ & IMPROV MUSICIANS IN AAJ
BRILLIANT CORNERS - A BOSTON JAZZ BLOG
edited by Steve Provizer
ALSO :
STU VANDEMARK'S BOSTON JAZZ SCENE BLOG
OUTPOST GENERAL INFORMATION :
OUTPOST DIRECTIONS : Near cr. Prospect, opposite Hess gas, behind 7-11 parking lot. Big ‘186’ on R side. Follow walk at Left to gallery, REAR.
OUTPOST CONCERT INFO :
All shows 8pm door unless otherwise noted.
General admission, donations requested.
No reservations, come early!
All shows all ages.
No smoking, spitting, alcohol, ether, qat or laudanum please!
Note: nothing is served, it's just music & chairs, Pal!
Parking: are you feeling lucky? well are ya?
BOOKING: OUTPOST is currently available for public performances @ $50 per event.
CONTACT: Rob Chalfen, director: robchalfen@hotmail.com
DETAILS: OUTPOST PRODUCER'S HANDBOOK - You must read this before you produce a show @ Outpost!
AACHTUNG! You must be 21 to produce events at Outpost.
19 August 2008 - Outpost has acquired a fabulous Yamaha U3 full-size upright piano - come check it out!
WEEKDAY DAYTIMES @ OUTPOST :
OUTPOST 186 is also available for meetings, readings, film shoots, theatre rehearsals, & other (non-musical) weekday daytime events.
ART
Outpost regularly exhibits visual art! If you are an artist and would like to exhibit @ Outpost, please send your website url to robchalfen@hotmail.com, or arrange to show your portfolio. Outpost does not charge to display art.
GALLERY HOURS:
Gallery exhibits may be viewed during scheduled performances or by appointment.
CONTACT: robchalfen@hotmail.com
OUTPOST EVENTS
February
Friday 3 February @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
"First Fridays avec Le Prestige":
Le Prestige
Chris Forkey - bass / John Glenshaw - drums / Kit Buckley - tenor sax / Scott Getchell - trumpet / Jeff Platz - guitar
Hard-hitting, chill-out, groove music. Searching for the perfect lounge.
Saturday 4 February @ OUTPOST 186, 7PM, $5/10
Chagall Performance Art Collaborative Presents
Saturday 4 February @ OUTPOST 186, 7PM, $5/10
Chagall Performance Art Collaborative Presents
ChagallPAC meets The Bridgebuilders
This suede-boot-wearin’, meat grillin’, beard-growin, in-over-their-heads band is bringing bluegrass to the next level collaborating with ChagallPAC. ChagallPAC contributes the interdisciplinary and Soundpainting techniques to bring you a unique show in the intimate space we all know as the OUTPOST.
The Bridgebuilders
Chris Murray - vocals, guitar, bass / Jeremy Van Cleave - fiddle, mandolin / Nathaniel Diamond-Jones - fiddle, bouzouki / Sam Swan - fiddle, bass / Peter Danilchulk - organ, piano
ChagallPAC
Dennis Shafer – Soundpainter, saxophone / Diana Norma – poetry / Jason Felitto – bass, piano
Sunday 5 February @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
MATADOR
Aaron Darrell- Bass / Michael Sachs- Sax / Jun Young Song - drums
+Vartan Mamigonian - solo sax
Monday 6 February @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Jack Pezanelli & Sheryl Bailey - guitar duets
Wednesday 8 Febrary @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
"Adventure In Sound" featuring
David Tronzo - guitar / Bruno Raberg - bass / Josh Rosen - keys / Dave Fox - drums
Thursday 9 February @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Luther Gray Quintet
Jim Hobbs - alto / Forbes Graham - Trumpet & electronics / Steve Fell - guitar / Winston Braman - bass / Luther Gray - drums
Friday 10 February @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Jeff Platz + Chris Forkeyin
"DUETS & DOUGHNUTS"
JEFF PLATZ - GUITAR / CHRIS FORKEY - BASS
compositions and improvisations, free doughnuts...
"maturato nei suoi lavori con i grandi organici, alle radici punk di Jeff Platz"
"matured in his works with major punk roots organic"???
2011 AAJ Italia
"Chris Forkeys most recent endeavor was spending much of the last three years "in the van"
realizing the beauty and power of the bass line"...2012 Bass Monster
Saturday 11 February @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Doctor T, VIdeo http://www.youtube.com/Tobenfeld
with Tim Mungenast and his Merry Men
Tim Mungenast -- Guitar
MIchael Bloom -- Bass and other strings,
Jon Proudman -- drums
Possible others TBD
Sunday 12 February @ Outpost, 3pm $10 or b/o
the small animal project reading series presents
Kate Colby, Kate Schapira, and Michelle Taransky
Kate Colby is author of four books of poetry, including Beauport (Litmus Press) andThe Return of the Native (Ugly Duckling Press). Her first book, Fruitlands, won the 2007 Norma Farber First Book Award. She hosts a quarterly poetry series at the Gloucester Writers Center in Massachusetts, and lives with her family in Providence, RI.
Kate Schapira is the author of How We Saved the City (Stockport Flats), The Bounty: Four Addresses (Noemi Press) TOWN (Factory School, Heretical Texts Series), and The Soft Place (forthcoming from Horseless Press in 2012), as well as several chapbooks with Flying Guillotine, Cy Gist, Rope-A-Dope and Horseless Presses and Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. She lives in Providence, where she co-runs the Publicly Complex Reading Series and teaches writing to college students and fourth-grade scientists.
Michelle Taransky is Reviews Editor for Jacket2 and the author of Barn Burned, Then (Omnidawn 2009), selected by Marjorie Welish for the 2008 Omnidawn Poetry Prize. Taransky lives in Philadelphia where she works at Kelly Writers House and teaches writing and poetry at University of Pennsylvania. A chapbook,No, I Will Be In The Woods, was just published by Brave Men Press.
For more info, visit smallanimalproject.com
Small Animal Project gratefully acknowledges partial funding from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Cambridge Arts Council for its 2012 readings.
Sunday 12 February @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Yuto Kanazawa
Yuto Kanazawa - guitar / Zwe Bell le Pere - bass / Hironori Suzuki -drums
Thursday 16 February @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Charlie Kohlhase's Explorer's Club
Charlie Kohlhase - alto, tenor & bari saxes / Jerry Sabatini - trumpet / Jeff Galindo - trombone / Eric Hofbauer - guitar / Jef Charland - bass / Mike Connors - drums
Friday 17 & Saturday 18 : 8pm, Sunday 19 February : 7pm $15
a reading to benefit the Cambridge Women's Center
Michelle Spages presents a V-day event:
A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer: a benefit reading to stop violence towards women and girls.
The readings are from a book of that title, a collection of writing for many different authors, activists and playwrights, edited by Eve Ensler, author of the Vagina Monologues. The website for the global movement is www.vday.org and the facebook for our show is www.facebook.com/pages/V-Day-Cambridge-MMRP.
Monday 20 February @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Habitual Human
Kenji Herbert - guitar / Jorn Bielfeldt - drums / Andrew Dow - bass
Wednesday 22 February @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Forbes Graham + Andrew Neumann
Forbes Graham - trumpet/electronics
Andrew Neumann - analog and digital electronics
23 Feb: we regret that the Thomas Helton solo bass gig has been cancelled.
Friday 24 February @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Junk Kitchen Series #2 - Get Out of Your Mini
While mini skirts are more than welcome, and may even get you a surprise at the door, this night is about an altogether other kind of mini: the miniature piece of music.
The miniatures featured in this Junk Kitchen installment are very, very short pieces of music, ranging from a matter of seconds to a minute, maybe two. But anything over two minutes isn't very mini anymore, now is it?
So this program will feature dozens of pieces—composed, improvised, covered or stolen—performed on oboe, piano, vibraphone, guitar, voice, and more!
featuring
—husband-wife duo Cotton Candy: a cappella vocals and small percussion
—compositions and performances by John McDonald (piano) and William Kenlon (piano, voice)
—US premier of miniatures for Esther Viola, oboe
+ First Worst Thirst:
Eric Hofbauer - guitar / Ben Dicke - drums
Saturday 25 February @ Outpost, 2pm by donation
John Mulrooney's Unafilliated Poetry Series
Saturday 25 February @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
"Aaron Darrell's Full Installation"
Michael Sachs - alto/soprano sax and bass clarinet
Patrick Breiner - clarinet and tenor sax
Davindar Singh - baritone sax
Jun Young Song - drums
Aaron Darrell - bass
Sunday 26 February @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
DAVE BRYANT - solo piano
Tuesday 28 February @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Steve Lantner Quartet
Allan Chase - saxophones
Steve Lantner - piano
Joe Morris - bass
Luther Gray - drums
march
Friday 2 March @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
"First Fridays avec Le Prestige":
Le Prestige
Chris Forkey - bass / John Glenshaw - drums / Kit Buckley - tenor sax / Scott Getchell - trumpet / Jeff Platz - guitar
Hard-hitting, chill-out, groove music. Searching for the perfect lounge.
Sunday 4 March @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
MATADOR
Aaron Darrell- Bass / Michael Sachs- Sax / Jun Young Song - drums
Thursday 8 March @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Ted Roland - solo bass clarinet
American Standards in the Decomposed / Recomposed style of Eric Dolphy
Saturday 10 March @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Dr T presents Visual Music Live featuring
Doctor T with "Four Winds Blow" -- four of the best wind players in
(or out of) the Boston area
Doctor T - Video mixing
Neil Leonard - Reeds
Tom Plsek - Trombone
Jim Hobbs - Alto Sax
Forbes Graham - Trumpet
Sunday 11 March @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Jack Finucane - tenor sax / Hennry Fraser - bass / Michael Sachs- Sax / Jun Young Song - drums
+ Ro Sham Beaux
Luke Marantz - keyboards / Jacob Cole - drums / Zac Shaiman - sax / Oliver Watkinson - bass.
Thursday 15 March @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Charlie Kohlhase's Explorer's Club
Charlie Kohlhase - alto, tenor & baritone saxes / Jerry Sabatini - trumpet / Jeff Galindo - trombone / Eric Hofbauer - guitar / Jef Charland - bass / Mike Connors & Curt Newton - drums
Friday 16 March @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Kenji Herbert - solo guitar
and duo with Sung Ho Choi - guitar
+Willful Creatures
Andrew Dow bass
Sung Ho Choi guitar
Chris Juris guitar
Rafael Aguiar alto sax
Xavier McHugh drums

Thursday 22 March @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Ross Hammond - solo guitar (on tour, Sacramento CA)
+ Ken Field - sax
Ross Hammond is a West-Coast electric guitarist playing solo free-jazz improvisations, folk songs and soundscapes.
I'll be playing a solo electric show (live looping/improvising over folk themes/original instrumentals/electronics, etc). I play frequently with Vinny Golia, Alex Cline, Scott Amendola, Steve Adams, Lucio Menegon, Amy Reed, poets Josh Fernandez and NSAA, Phillip Greenlief, Lisa Mezzacappa and many more. I'll be touring in support of a new record I just made with Alex Cline, Vinny Golia and Steuart Liebig.
Friday 23 March @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Junk Kitchen Series #3 - The Sound of Found
Saturday 24 March @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Jacob William 'Para' Quintet
Forbes Graham - trumpet / Jim Hobbs - alto sax / Steve Lantner - piano / Jacob William - bass / Laurence Cook - drums
Sunday 25 March @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Emily Murphy - vocal, jazz standards with piano acc.
Tuesday 27 March @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Steve Lantner Quartet
Allan Chase - saxophones
Steve Lantner - piano
Joe Morris - bass
Luther Gray - drums
Thursday 29 March @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Dave Bryant Quartet
Dave Bryant - keys / Neil Leonard - saxes and electronics / Junko Simons - cello / Curt Newton - drums
Friday 30 March @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Rafael Aguiar ensemble
April
Monday 16 April @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Eric Zinman Quartet
Eric Zinman - piano
Jason Zappa - tenor & soprano sax
Jacob William - bass
Laurence Cook - drums, percussion & electronic percussion
Wednesday 18 April @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Charlie Kohlhase's Explorer's Club
Friday 20 April @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Jon Damian Quartet
Jon Damian - guitar and rubbertellie / Allan Chase - sax / Bob Nieske - bass / Ralph Rosen - percussion
Monday 23 April @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Jack Pezanelli & Sheryl Bailey - guitar duets
Friday 27 April @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Junk Kitchen Series #4 - Do You Do Duo, Two?
Saturday 28 April @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Eric Dahlman + Jim Warsheuer
Eric Dahlman - trumpet / Jim Warsheuer - reeds
May
Wednesday 16 May @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Charlie Kohlhase's Explorer's Club
Thursday 16 May @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Kenji Herbert - guitar
Devin Drobka - drums
Aaron Darrell - bass
Saturday 18 May @ Outpost, 8pm #10 or b/o
Bill O'Connor and Friends
Bill O'Connor Jr. leads small group jazz ensembles in the Boston area. Working in the trio, quartet, and vocal format, Bill's penchant for 40s thru 60s standards is evident in his programming and performance.
http://www.myspace.com/billo39connorjr
Friday 25 May @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Junk Kitchen Series #5 - Raymond Scott Review
June
Friday 22 June @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Junk Kitchen Series #6 - Postcards From Brazil
July
Friday 27 July @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Junk Kitchen Series #7 - New Music Night
August
Friday 24 August @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Junk Kitchen Series #8 - Bachrach Bachelor Pad
September
Friday 28 September @ Outpost, 8pm $10 or b/o
Junk Kitchen Series #9 - Read It and Weep
(some) CONCERT SERIES AT OUTPOST:
JACOB WILLIAM MUSIC SERIES
www.transientones.com
www.myspace.com/jacobwilliambass
VORTEX - 1st Fridays, 8pm $5/10
Microtonal soundscapes painted over a radiant sea of anarchy. New and improvisational music, featuring various guest artists in different incarnations, seeking truth and the voice that brought them to this point. Hosted by Todd Brunel - http://www.clarinetconspiracy.com
INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTS CABARET with SOUNDS IN BLOOM3rd Fridays, 8pm
http://www.myspace.com/dnorma
Sounds in Bloom is an internationally performing poetry-music-movement-art collaborative that performs in theaters, bookstores, concert halls, art galleries, educational settings. and forests. Sounds in Bloom recently started the Chagall Performance Art Collaborative Series, which is currently in residence at Outpost 186 in Cambridge every third Friday of the month.
Together with saxophonist/composer Dennis Shafer (co-founder), they collaborate with a variety of international artists, and give workshops to children and adults.
subconsciouscafe new chamber music : - occasional Saturdays, 8pm $10 or b/o
Rob Chalfen's long-running improvised music series continues at OUTPOST and elsewhere. Innovative chamber music at play on the spectra of jazz, electronic, classical and world. Also may be dug by the non-subconscious mind.
robchalfen@hotmail.com
Junko Simons' Green Umbrella Series: 3rd Saturdays 8:00pm
THE WHIMSY! - 1 Sunday/mo, 8PM $5 or b/o
Song & poesy, bohemian vaudeville, open mic
Hosted by Markus Nechay - markusnechay@yahoo.com
Steve Lantner presents : 4th Saturdays
slantner@comcast.net
Dave Pryant presents : monthly, by announcement
DaveBryant1@comcast.net
SERIES PRODUCERS:
subconsciouscafe : Rob Chalfen : robchalfen@hotmail.com
Junko's Green Umbrella: Junko Simons: junkosimons@yahoo.com
VORTEX : Todd Brunel : thbrunel@earthlink.net
The Whimsy! : Markus Nechay - markusnechay@yahoo.com
Steve Lantner presents : slantner@comcast.nethttp://stevelantner.com/
Courtney Brown
Dave Bryant presents : DaveBryant1@comcast.net
Josh Jefferson : jefferson.joshua@gmail.com
Joseph Moffett : moffjazz@comcast.net
John Mulrooney : poetics - jmulrron2002@yahoo.com
DISCLAIMER:
This disclaimer is for reflexive and tautological purposes only, and may not be construed as eluding responsibility for any errors, typos, or logical absurdities, real or imagined, that may be contained in this notice, without further notice.
Thank you,
Harlan T. Flash
Corresponding Secretary,
Outpost World Enterprises














