▼ December 7, 7:30 pm An Evening with John Medeski
IT’S A JAZZY CHRISTMAS!
AN EVENING WITH JOHN MEDESKI
Friday, December 6, 6 pm $20 Adult – Reserved Seating, $10 Student – Free for children 5 and under (ticket required) Reserved Seating
Sunday, January 27, 3 pm $25 Adult – Reserved Seating $12.50 Students – Reserved Seating
The Peanut Gallery Jazz Trio will take concertgoers on a musical journey reminiscent of a 1940s radio serials, evoking images and emotions from an innocent childhood and days gone by. The concert begins. Suddenly, a news flash: the Holiday Spirit has been stolen. Can the band and the audience get enough Holiday spirit to save the day? With Guaraldi’s music made famous in the “Peanuts” holiday specials, it’s a perfect concert for the jazz lover and the entire family, just in time for the holidays.
As the keyboardist in the trailblazing instrumental trio Medeski Martin & Wood, solo performer, leader of his own project “The Itch,” film composer, and producer, collaborator, whirling-dervish improviser and sideman with countless other artists, Medeski consistently wrings sonic revelations from acoustic and electric piano, Hammond organ, Clavinet, Mellotron, assorted synthesizers and other instruments. He’s nearly as dynamic visually as aurally, windmilling his hands across the keys, leaning into a B-3 stab, reaching inside the piano to tap the strings with a screwdriver. “What’s music for?” the versatile musician asks rhetorically. “Making money? Entertainment? No. It’s a language, one that exists between the land of emotion and the land of intellect. Music can change your whole world.”