Come on by for a listen after dinner at one of our fine restaurants. Bring your dinner receipt and get a free CD!
Grass Routes Bluegrass Band
Friday November 5th, 2010
8 pm, $10 suggested donation
Grass Routes Band
Grass Routes is a Connecticut five-piece bluegrass band. Since 1980 they have been delighting audiences with a repertoire ranging from traditional bluegrass standards to folk and contemporary songs all performed in their own unique bluegrass style. Skillful instrumental work and strong vocals give Grass Routes their own characteristic sound. Showcasing especially tight harmonies, vocals include duets to four part harmonies. What make Grass Routes unique is that each member sings lead. With five lead vocalists, Grass Routes presents a different style and material with each vocal arrangement.
Members of the band include Joe Lemeris, banjo and dobro;
Bill Reveley, mandolin and fiddle; Marilyn Toback-Reveley, rhythm guitar; Dave ‘Tex’ Orlomoski, lead guitar; Joe DeLillo, upright bass. Grass Routes has appeared on radio and television and performed at major concerts and bluegrass festivals throughout the Northeast. Grass Routes currently has four recording projects. Their musical style appeals to audiences of all ages.
The band members enjoy each other as friends as well as musicians. Their latest music project, SOMETHING NEW, features a wide range of material from the likes of Bill Monroe, Nickel Creek and James Taylor, all done with that Grass Routes flair.
Dan Pugach Jazz Trio
Saturday, November 6th, 8:00 PM
$10 Suggested Donation
The Dan Pugach Trio is comprised of an international cast of top-level musicians from New York. This group of artists have worked together in various capacities for the past few years and is now focused on performing their original compositions as well as inventive arrangements of the standard jazz repertoire.
Daniel Meron – Piano
Craig Akin – Acoustic Bass
Dan Pugach – Drums
Dan was Born in Raanana, Israel in 1983 and at age 11 began playing the drums. He studied with the finest drum instructors Israel has to offer.
During his musical studies at Metro-West High School he continued to study jazz and in 1999 won the first prize in the Israeli Jazz Performance Competition with his sextet.
Right after he graduated from high school he joined the army, where he was selected to serve as an the official drummer for the Air Force Band. During those 3 years in the army Dan managed to complete a full program at the Rimon School of Jazz, majoring in jazz performance.
In 2003, he won the Rimon Jazz Competition and was chosen to represent the school at the IASJ meeting in Freiburg, Germany. During his studies at Rimon Dan performed with International artists, such as, Airto Moreira and Frank Gambale.
In 2006, after four months of Portugues lessons, Dan traveled to Rio de Janeiro, Brasil and studied drumset and percussion with the leading samba musicians, such as Jorginho do Pandeiro, his son Celsinho Silva, Marcos Suzano, Marcio Bahia and Paulinho Braga.
Soon enough, Dan was awarded the Berklee World Scholarship Tour and moved to Boston to begin his studies at Berklee College of Music, majoring in jazz performance. There he studied with Hal Crook, Dave Santoro, Terri Lyne Carrington, Dave Samuels, George Garzone, and Joe Lovano.
Today Dan resides in Brooklyn, New York and is pursuing a career in music. He is a graduate student at the City College of New York, majoring in jazz performance. His recent activities include performances and recordings at venues such as, Blue Note Jazz Club, Zinc Bar, Red Sea Jazz Festival, New Orleans Jazz Festival, BeanTown Jazz Festival, just to name a few, as well as working towards a debut album.
Sunday we have a special POETRY Book Launch - sure to be interesting! Meet new folks and have some refreshments while letting your mind wander and your emotions get all stirred up ... (Sunday November 7th - Free - 3-5 pm)
This will be a book launch for two Antrim House poets, Sherri Bedingfield and Mollie Pilling, each of whom will be reading from her new book. Sherri’s book is entitled Transitions & Transformations, and Mollie’s book is entitled Journeys. A summary of each book follows:
In her first book, Sherri Bedingfield’s transitions and transformations are many. How naturally she moves from joy to deep sorrow and back to hard-earned joy, which she finds in the world of nature and in the dance of love; and how seamlessly she shape-shifts from human to animal existence and back again.This is a poet deeply in tune with psychic and physical mysteries.
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Anne-Marie Cannata
Executive Director NEAR, Inc. /
The Buttonwood Tree Performing Arts & Cultural Center
605 Main Street / Middletown, CT 06457
www.buttonwood.org / 860-347-4957 /
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