Little (i) Music/jeff lederer: News

The Shakers n' Bakers will perform at the Local 269 (269 Houston St) as part of the Evolving Voice series - We will play 6:30-8pm followed by the great Jay Clayton at 8pm - should be a great night of vocalizing!

Still deep in the journals of Mother Rebecca Jackson - leader of the Phildelphia Shakers - will record new music inspired by her writings early in 2010...

if you are in the Los Angeles area - check out the premeire event on Dec 10 for their 2008 Festival DVD featuring the Shakers n' Bakers along with an incredible array of performers from around the worlds in many sacred music traditions. DVD's are available now and can be ordered from the festival site - www.festivalofsacredmusic.org

Please check the Ottowa Citizen for a different take on YFZ and Downbeat's review of it.

http://communities.canada.com/ottawacitizen/blogs/thrivingonariff/archive/2009/03/03/everyone-s-a-different-critic.aspx

Okay, so a critic named Bill Meyer compares YFZ favorably to two of the best records of all time ( Albert Ayler's New Grass and Music is the Healing Force of the Universe), and then acts like that's a bad thing!!??? Pick up the March Downbeat for more details!

The Shakers new record YFZ has inspired lots and lots of love in the press-and a couple of picks on 2008 top ten lists. Check out the "Press" section!

The artist/trombonist Sara Wildavsky has creating some amazing pieces ("scores") inspired by my score "Los Sazones" and her own experiences of the seasons-Showing/event will be April 26 in Brooklyn-email me for more details.

I am really getting into reading the journals of Mother Rebecca Jackson-founder of the only urban community of Shakers in Philadelphia during the second half of the 19th century-Great reading and I am starting to work on some music related to her visions.

A short film about the Shakers n' Bakers from their performance at the World Festival of Sacred Music in LA Fall 2008 is up on YouTube! The film was created by John Allen and Bella Nestour and is really cool-search "Shakers n' bakers" on youtube. This is just a teaser for a larger DVD project in the works for 2009.

YFZ; the Shakers n' Bakers second recording will be scheduled for release in Sept 2008-We will be having a bi-costal CD release celebration; Sept 19 the band is at the Tea Lounge in Brooklyn; Sept 20 it's Cafe Metropole in Los Angeles and Sept 21 we perform a very special concert for the World Festival of Sacred Music which highlights music from spiritual traditions around the world.

The Shakers n' Bakers will perform at the 2008 IAJE Convention in toronto on sat jan 12 at 7pm - Imperial Ballroom of the Royal York Hotel; Mary, Jeff and Miles will be joined by Michael Jefry Stevens (piano), Mike Formanek (bass) and Matt Wilson (drums) - as well as the singers of Westen Michigan University's "Gold Company" Choir!

Shakers n’ Bakers – Mother Ann’s Day Tour 2007

The Shakers n’ Bakers is a band made up of leading improvisers on the New York jazz/new music scene who perform reinterpretations of Shaker “vision” songs, received in states of inspiration by young women of the Shaker religious community during the years 1837-50. The group will be performing three special concerts this summer at sites of historical significance to the Shaker movement. The band’s tour will roughly retrace some of the travels of the founder of the Shaker movement in America, Mother Ann Lee, on the occasion of the celebration of the 233rd anniversary of her arrival in the United States from England.

On Friday August 3 the group will perform at the 1848 meetinghouse at Watervliet Shaker Village in Albany, NY at 8pm. This event is sponsored by the Shaker Heritage society (www.shakerheritage.org). On August 4 the Shakers n’ bakers travel to Guilford, Vermont; home to many early converts to shakerism, for a show at the very unique Kopkind Organ Barn at 9pm to close the grassroots film festival there-this event is being presented by Friends of Music at Guilford (www.fomag.org). On August 5 the group will travel to Canterbury,New Hampshire for a performance at the Canterbury Shaker Village for their Mother Ann’s Day celebration which will also include a performance by the authentic shaker music ensemble, the Canterbury Shaker Singers at 2 pm (www.shakers.org)

Shakers n' Bakers Unplugged! On july 30 WAMC's fine program "Performance Place" will feature jeff,mary and jamie doing shaker music a little more quietly than usual; tune in at 11:30 am

www.wamc.org

little (i) music announces innagural releases for Fall 2006!



little (i) music is a new label presenting creative music with a spiritual narrative. The first two releases are Shakers n’ Bakers and The Blue Guitar and will available this fall . Shakers n’ Bakers is the first recording by the group which performs “Vision” songs, pieces received in states of inspiration by members of the Shaker religious sect during the period of 1830-1850 (informed by the sounds of Ayler and Lennon) and is co-produced by Jeff Lederer and Jamie Saft. The Blue Guitar is Mary LaRose’s avante-rootsy tribute to songs sung by her father and features the guitar of Marc Ribot and Steve Bernstein on slide trumpet. Both recordings speak a language that freely moves through the worlds of free jazz and anthem rock, and are united in their underlying vision of spirit in sound.

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Please feel free to downloand the entire "Vision Song" from the Blue Guitar CD; It rocks and I think it will create good energies in your life - at least it has for me !

SHAKER VILLAGE TOUR AUG 2007! The Shakers will be performing Aug 3 at the meetinghouse in Watervliet (Albany,NY) Village at 8 pm; the original shaker community, Aug 4 at the Kopkind Organ Barn in Guilford, VT at 9pm and Aug 5 at 2om at Canterbury, New Hampshire. Look for more shaker dates in aug soon - we will also be recording for our second release.