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Jacob Richman

News + upcoming performances/events

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Interview with germiNation Feb. 16, 2022
Interview I did with Tina Sayers for their podcast germiNation. Topics include collaborative artmaking, social justice community art, and advice for building a sustainable creative career.

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Interview with I Care If You Listen, Feb. 9, 2022
I represented Verdant Vibes in this interview with about our Seventh Season, and broader issues of diversity, accessibility, and growing audience in the new music community.

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5pm(pacific)/8pm(eastern), Sept. 23, 2021
Tenderloin Opera Company will host an open mic with sister homeless advocacy groups zAmya Theater Project and Los Angeles Poverty Department. Music, poems, scenes, and videos based on experiences of homelessness from Providence, RI, Minneapolis, MN, Los Angeles, and all around the country.

Online on Zoom, Link HERE





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1-4pm, Sept. 18, 2021
Metropolis Ensemble will be performing Will Groove for Pizza, a piece collaboratively composed with Kirsten Volness, as part of their Biophony Project

Brooklyn Botanic Garden
990 Washington Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11225
free with admission to the garden








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8pm, Sept. 10 & 11, 2021
Artist Kevin Gilmore and I will perform our new audio-visual collaborative piece Moons of Jupiter at the Frosty Drew Observatory, featuring Astronomer Scott MacNeill.
Made possible from funding from the University of Rhode Island Center for the Humanities

Frosty Drew Observatory and Science Center
Ninigret Park, 61-62 Park Lane
Charlestown, RI 02813
FREE (though a $5+ donation to Frosty Drew is suggested)




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Fall 2019
I have moved to Portland, Oregon!

Kirsten got a job as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Music Department at Reed College, and I will be teaching as an adjunct in the School of Art and Design at Portland State University.

I already miss Providence a ton, but am excited for our new adventure in the Pacific Northwest.

Tenderloin Opera Company will continue, with the amazing Zan Berry as facilitator. Verdant Vibes is soon going to announce our 5th Season! Kirsten and I will be involved, but the local PVD people will take continue the local legacy of both groups.

If you live in Portland or know the area, please reach out to me with any suggestions for people/places/events to be aware of.

Cheers!
jr







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Tuesday June 25, 2019 – 7pm
Tenderloin Opera Company will be performing at an open mic in Groton, CT to benefit local free meal sites. Hosted by LUNCH (Local United Network to combat Hunger)

7-9pm
Groton Congregational Church
162 Monument St.
Groton, CT
$5+ suggested donation







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Friday & Sat., June 7 & 8, 2019
Tenderloin Opera Company will be taking part in the 134 Collaborative Open House, as part of PVD Fest 2019. The open house will present a number of homeless service and arts organizations that are part of the 134 Collaborative.

FRIDAY JUNE 7TH
@Mathewson St. United Methodist Church
193 Mathewson St., Providence, RI

From 12 - 3pm we will have a table with info about TOC, with videos of our songs playing, plus a screening of TOC member Oscar Dupuy D'Angeac's film Providence Lost, about eviction in Providence, RI.

3-5:30pm there will be an free meal available to everyone. TOC will be playing some songs for the around 4pm.

SAT. JUNE 8TH, 5PM
TOC will take part in the PVD Fest Parade!
Starting on Snow St., heading to Kennedy Plaza.

ALL PVD FEST EVENTS ARE FREE








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Friday, May 17, 2019 – 8 pm
Verdant Vibes Spring Festival
performing works by Boyd, Buhagiar, Carter,
Cerberville, Crowell, inti, and Longoria
with special guests Luminarium Dance Company
and Diary of Clouds (Jessika Davis + Federico Balducci)


Southside Cultural Center
Southlight
(dress for the weather)
393 Broad Street
Providence, RI
$10–20 at the door
















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May 11 and 18, 2019 – 2pm
Tenderloin Opera Company will perform our NINTH! opera:
THE STORM OF THE CENTURY!!!

about climate change, homelessness, superheroes, Martian Space Dogs, dinosaurs, and the power of love and hope.

2pm, Saturdays May 11 and 18, 2019
Mathewson St. United Methodist Church
134 Mathewson St., Downtown Providence

FREE















April 14, 2019
Windeye will be screened as part of the Pittsburgh Horror Film Fest! The estimated time Windeye will start is 6:02pm

Sunday April 14, 2019
The Parkway Theater
644 Broadway Ave.

Pittsburgh, PA 15136
$5 for block of films









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April 6, 2019
I will be performing a new, collaborative piece with dancer/choreographers Katie Moorhead and Glen Lewis, interacting with illusion mirror installation by Philippe LeJeune at the Designers Ball II: Surreal.
Will definitely be a trip!

Info HERE



















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January, 23 2019
I wrote an article on Tenderloin Opera Company called, "Work the Work, Daily: Community-Building, Music-Making, and Conference Culture with Tenderloin Opera Company" that was published at New Music USA.















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January 2019 -
Happy to receive my new copy of The Double Bass-Voice: A How-To Guide by fantastic bassist and scholar, Cody Takács. An excerpt of my double bass-voice piece, Pretty Polly is used as an example in the book. Pick up your own copy HERE!



















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Friday & Sunday, December 14/16, 2018
Verdant Vibes Winter Warmer
New works by Joshua Carro, Patrick Castillo,
Thomas Feng, Ian Frederick, Victoria Malawey,
Patricia Martinez, and Nicole Murphy
featuring soprano Stephanie Lamprea
with special guests:
Christopher Johnson, spoken word artist
Matthew Azevedo, electronic musician

Friday the 14th, 8pm
Mathewson Street Theater
134 Mathewson Street
Providence, RI

$10–20 at the door

Sunday the 14th, 7:30pm
Firehouse Theater
4 Equality Park Place
Newport, RI
$10–20 at the door







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Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018
Andie Tanning Springer's album release party.
There will be a screening Windeye, as well as all the all the other audio-visual pieces on her album "Dandelion"


7:30pm at 
Cloud City
85 N. 1st St.
Brooklyn, NY

FREE















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Monday, Oct. 8, 2018
Tenderloin Opera Company will be performing and marching at PRONK, Providence Honk Festival. We're singing songs at the Artists' Tent at 4pm, Parade to the Hurricane Barrier at 5pm-ish


4pm on
South Water Street, near Point St. Bridge
Providence, RI
FREE










Thursday, June 21, 2018
I'll be playing trombone as part of Water Music:
a site-specific, environmental work inspired by the Charles River. It is one of the Anchor performances at Make Music Boston, a day-long musical celebration.

7:30pm
Charles River Esplanade
Boston, MA
FREE






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Saturday, June 9, 2018
I'll be playing with Verdant Vibes on the main stage, and Marching with Tenderloin Opera Company in the parade at PVD FEST, Providence's citywide arts festival.

6pm (w/ Tenderloin Opera Company) PARADE THROUGH TOWN!
10:30pm (w/Verdant Vibes)

50 Kennedy Plaza ("Food Village at the fest)
Providence, RI
FREE



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Monday, June 4, 2018
I'll be playing with Verdant Vibes at the Out of This World Gala, fundraiser for The Manton Avenue Project, a wonderful after-school program in playwriting and theater making for kids in from the Olneyville neighborhood of Providence.

6pm

Pell Chafee Performance Center
87 Empire St.
Providence, RI
get tix HERE



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Thursday, May 31, 2018
I'll be playing bass in a jazz combo with Kirsten Volness (piano), Keaton Nelson (guitar), and Jamie Cores in this fundraiser for 134 Collective, which hosts Tenderloin Opera Co., and many other homeless service and advocacy groups. The event will include a fantastic, four-course meal by chefs from local restaurants, wine, drinks, and a raffle. Details and tickets HERE.

6pm

Mathewson St. Methodist Church
134 Mathewson St.
Downtown Providence, RI



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Friday, May 18, 2018
Verdant Vibes will perform
for Anna Atkins

and the premiere of Alexander Dupuis's First Contact
New Music Gathering

11:30am at

8 Fenway: Seully Hall
Boston Conservatory/Berklee College of Music
Boston, MA





Saturday, April 28, 2018

 
I will be playing bass with my new music ensemble Verdant Vibes at show at as220 with local heroes Bismillah, Mystery Red Inferno (Alex K. Redfearn), and New Bedford’s own Baylies Band.
 
doors 8pm (we’re on ~9pm)
as220
115 Empire St., Providence, RI
$8










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10pm, Sunday, March 18, 2018
Kirsten Volness and I will be interviewed by Joe Shriner about our work on his new music radio show 20/21 on WTUL in New Orleans
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FEBRUARY 2018
I am honored to have received the MacColl Johnson Fellowship for Music Composition. I am doubly honored that Kirsten Volness was also awarded the Fellowship (independently). Here is a nice write up and pictured from the
Providence Journal.







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Here is a cute piece about me and Kirsten by Elizabeth Rau at the University of Rhode Island webpage.













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Saturday, Feb. 10th, 2018
My video WINDEYE will be screened as part of the Electro Acoustic Barn Dance
Conference at Jacksonville University.

10pm @ Endangered Wise Men Studios
2728 Phyllis St., Jacksonville, FL






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Dec. 21 + 24, 2017
Tenderloin Opera Company will be making a cameo appearance at Trinity Repertoire Company's production of A Christmas Carol!

Dec. 21, 7:30pm and
Dec. 24, 12pm and 6pm
@Trinity Rep,
201 Washington St. Providence, RI

Tickets HERE (select date on their schedule)








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Saturday, Dec. 9, 2017
VERDANT VIBES WINTER WARMER
I will be playing bass in the first concert of season 3 of Verdant Vibes, the new music ensemble and concert series I co-direct with Kirsten Volness.
We will be playing new music/media by Osnat Netzer, Kristina Warren, David Jason Snow, João Pedro Oliveira, and Amanda Feery.
With special Guest Kelly Moran

8pm @ Mathewson Street Theater
134 Mathewson St., Providence, RI
$10 at the door







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Monday, Oct. 9, 2017
Tenderloin Opera Company will be performing at PRONK! – the Providence Street Band Festival

2-6pm, near the HOT CLUB
and the Hurricane Barrier
25 Bridge St., Providence, RI
FREE






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Friday, Oct. 6, 2017
I will be playing bass at the First Fridays Concert Series Featuring Michael DeQuattro and Friends. Michael is an incredible percussionist, check it out!

8pm @ the Music Mansion
88 Meeting St., Providence, RI
$10 suggested donation






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Thursday/Friday, June 22/23, 2017
I will be playing bass and trombone with J.P.A. Falzone and his PROVIDENCE RESEARCH ENSEMBLE in Brooklyn and Providence.

8pm Thursday, June 22, 2017
Willow Place Auditorium
26 Willow Place
Brooklyn, NY
FREE

7pm Friday, June 23, 2017
Music by J.P.A.Falzone
CD RELEASE PARTY!
Aurora
276 Westminster Street
Providence, RI

$5 at the door or $15 entry + CD






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Thursday, May 11, 2017, 6pm
My new piece SWARM! will be performed at the MFA in Boston as part of the Sound Bites concert series.

SWARM! is a roving performance piece for musicians, dancers, and audience-responsive electronics based on themes of insect breeding swarms (mayflies), environmental degradation, and rebirth. The piece sprouted from the idea of a mysterious insect species that develops in the trash we humans discard everyday. They grow and molt and incorporate components of our waste into their bodies. They move and dance, and when the time is right, come together in an apocalyptic swarm.

This performance will take place in various locations throughout the Linde Family Wing of the MFA starting at 6:00pm and ending around 7pm with a culminating performance near the stairway in gallery 168.


Museum of Fine Arts
465 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA
Performance is included with price of museum admission




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Saturdays, April 29th and May 6th, 2017, 2pm
Tenderloin Opera Company will perform our newest opera The Chronicles of KP: The Monkey, The Angel, and the Skunky Weed

Mathewson St. Methodist Church
134 Mathewson St.
Providence, RI
FREE








Sunday, April 23, 2017 6-10pm
Verdant Vibes will finish up its second season with a Festival of Music and Art, featuring the Verdant Vibes Ensemble performing selections from their call for scores, premieres and performances by students from our workshops at Trinity Academy from the Performing Arts, singer-songwriter Orion Rigel Dommisse, and Philly-based percussion trio Square Peg Round Hole.

Southside Cultural Center
393 Broad St., Providence, RI
$10-25 sliding scale
Under 18 FREE



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Saturday, April 22, 2017 8pm
Verdant Vibes will be playing a double bill with Philly-based percussion trio Square Peg Round Hole in Boston at

The Record Co.
960 Massachusetts Ave.
Boston, MA
$10-15 suggested donation
doors @7:30 show @8


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Saturday, February 11, 2017, 7pm
Verdant Vibes Benefit Concert!
I will be playing bass with Verdant Vibes, the new music ensemble and concert series I co-direct with Kirsten Volness. We will perform new music by Judah Adashi, Julie Barwick, Michael Genese, Ssu-Yu Huang, Evan Williams, and Frances White.

The Music Mansion
88 Meeting Street
Providence, RI
$25 suggested donation
Doors (+free drinks) at 6:30

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Weds January 25,  2017
Tenderloin Opera Company will be playing at the Homeless Memorial at Praise Tabernacle church in Cranston this morning at 11am. We will be playing two new songs, one in memory of Carl Freese, and the other for Melanie Siegel, and we'll be there to honor all those from the homeless community who passed last year. Hope to see you there!!!

Jan. 25, 11am
Praise Tabernacle Church
330 Park Ave. Cranston, RI
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Sunday December 4,  2016, 7pm
I will be performing in the Season 2 opening concert for the new music ensemble and concert series I co-direct:

VERDANT VIBES WINTER WARMER

Verdant Vibes is pleased to present the first concert of our second season, featuring new electro/acoustic music and multimedia by composers from around the world! 

VERDANT VIBES ENSEMBLE will perform pieces both dynamic and sublime selected from our free call for scores:

James Bohn — Pantone* 
Joo Won Park — Armor+2
Caroline Mallonée — Throwing Mountains
Alex Weiser — Rumbling Waves
Bekah Simms — bud
Molly Jones — Conduction #4*
*world premiere

Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016 7pm
Zabinski Music Studio 
at the Hope Artiste Village
999 Main St, Ste 711A, Pawtucket, RI

$10 at the door
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November 28 - December 16,  2016
I will be curating this gallery show:

GULAR FLUTTER / SOLAR RATTLE:
THE WORK AND VISION OF BLEVIN BLECTUM


Bevin Kelley, aka Blevin Blectum, is an electronic musician and multimedia artist from Providence, RI whose work combines sound, imagery, and costume to create eccentric and mesmerizing performances and studio work that explore topics from science fiction to ornithology. She specializes in unique collaborations with other musicians, artists, and clothing designers. This show is a collection of her audio and video work, posters and graphic design, and some of the specially made costumes and sculpture she performs with. 

November 28 – December 16, 2016
(regular gallery hours Mon. - Fri. 12-4pm) 
 
OPENING RECEPTION:
Weds. Nov. 30, 3:45-5:30pm (performance 5–5:30)
 
AFTERHOURS OPENING/PERFORMANCE: Sat. Dec. 10, 7–10 pm 
featuring: Blevin Blectum, Alex Dupuis, Domestique, Asha Tamirisa, Caroline Park, Ryan Junell and more tba!

University of Rhode Island Art Gallery
105 Upper College Road, Kingston, RI
​FREE

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October 1,  2016
I will be performing with a jazz combo for Wine & Waterfire, a fundraiser dinner for HeadUpRI, the hosting organization for Tenderloin Opera Company, that specializes in service and outreach for the homeless community in Providence as well as supporting community-based theater. Tickets  will include a multi-course gourmet meal by local chefs, drinks, raffle, and entertainment.

United Methodist Church
134 Mathewson St., Providnece
5-8pm
$50 donation, includes multi-course gourmet meal by local chefs, drinks, raffle, and entertainment
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 September 27,  2016
Verdant Vibes and Tenderloin Opera Company Win Dorry Awards!!!
Delighted and proud that two groups I'm a member of won DORRY awards tonight. Verdant Vibes for best classical/opera performance. And Tenderloin Opera Company for best "curveball" performance. Thanks and congrats to all our group members and folks who voted!
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through September 15,  2016
Two of my groups are nominated for a local arts/culture award: The Dorrys!
And you can help!
Please VOTE HERE for Tenderloin Opera Company in the categories, "Production of the Year" and "Curveball of the Year"
and Please VOTE HERE for Verdant Vibes in the categories, "Performance of the Year" and "Ensemble of the Year."
–Voting ends Sept. 15
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September 1, 2016 – Verdant Vibes
Verdant Vibes, the new music ensemble and concert series I co-direct with Kirsten Volness, announces its second season. Thank you to the 400 fabulous composers and artists who submitted over 800 pieces to our call for scores! For a full line up of featured composers, guest artists, and concert info, please click HERE.

Also, Rhode Island-based culture and events guide Law and Order Party has nominated Verdant Vibes for 2 Dorry awards: Best Performance – Classical/Opera, and Ensemble of the Year. Please vote HERE by Sept. 15 and help us win these awards! The awards ceremony is Sept. 27 at Aurora in Providence.
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Sunday June 20, 2016 – 8pm
I will be performing as part of the
Nakatani Gong Orchestra, accompanying percussion genius Tatsuya Nakatani in his unique style of improvised percussion music.
More info here.

Aurora
276 Westminster Street
Providence, RI
$10 advance / $12 door
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Sunday May 22, 2016 – 8pm
Verdant Vibes, a Rhode Island-based new music ensemble and concert series founded by me and Kirsten Volness, will perform the final concert of our successful first season.

We will perform my new piece, Pixie Goes for a Walk, for electric guitar, double bass and, vibraphone, as well as new music by Rhode Island based composers Kirsten Volness, Eva Kendrick, Elliot Miles McKinley, and James Bohn. I will also be performing Steven Serpa's beautiful/devastating An Ally, An Adversary for double bass solo.

We will be joined by special guests Akiko Hatakeyama and closing band Mystery Red Inferno (Alec K. Redfearn and Chris Sadler).

Aurora
276 Westminster Street
Providence, RI
$10 at the door
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Saturday  May 7, 2016 – 2pm
Tenderloin Opera Company will perform our new production, Island of Love

Mathewson St. United Methodist Church
134 Mathewson St., Providence, RI
FREE
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Sunday  March 13, 2016 – 6:30pm
Kirsten Volness and I are presenting a Benefit Concert to support our new music ensemble and concert series: Verdant Vibes.

Come early for complimentary drinks including beer donated by Lagunitas and Foolproof Breweries, make new friends, chat with the artists, and stay for a concert of new electroacoustic, solo, and chamber music by Rhode Island composers.

Peter Scartabello — R'lyeh (world premiere)
Richard Anatone — The Passage of Time (featuring Yukiko Fujimura)
Barbara Kolb — Extremes
Julien Touafek — Hold On
Alexandra Medeiros — Family Conversations (world premiere)
Kirsten Volness — Nocturne

Concert at 7:00
(Doors/complimentary drinks at 6:30)
The Music Mansion

88 Meeting St, Providence, Rhode Island
$25 suggested donation in advance or at the door
-PLEASE SUPPORT OUR TALENTED PERFORMERS/COMPOSERS WITH A TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATION TO
OUR FUNDRAISER HERE.
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Friday  March 11, 2016 – 8:30pm
Andie Tanning Springer will be performing my piece Windeye and other solo violin/voice pieces, along with new music performed by Anti-Social Music in ASM vs. Andie Springer.

IBeam
168 7th Street
Brooklyn, NY
$15 suggested donation for both sets



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Saturday  February 6, 2016 – 7:30pm
Ensemble/Parallax will be performing an evening of contemporary music at Aurora in Providence. I will be screening a new video to accompany their performance of Mortan Feldman's the viola in my life (1).

Aurora
276 Westminster St.
Providence, RI
$10 ($5 students) cash at the dooe



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Wednesday  January 27, 2016 – 11am
Tenderloin Opera Company will perform a new song, "Catfish," at the Homeless Memorial Service and Luncheon. The Homeless Memorial is a public tribute to those homeless people and homeless advocates who were lost this past year. Catfish is a song dedicated to Jim Gillen, a talented musician and tireless advocate for the homeless community. He was also dedicated to the support of those recovering from addiction and founded Anchor Recovery.

St. Michaels Church
239 Oxford St.
Providence, RI


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Thursday January 7, 2016 – 3:30pm
Tenderloin Opera Company members will present on a panel "New Music and Community Building" at the New Music Gathering conference. We will perform a couple of songs fallowing the panel discussion, and will present, perform, and meet with local homeless advocacy groups while in Baltimore.

The Peabody Institute
1 East Mount Vernon Place
Baltimore, MD
Tickets for the Conference available HERE

Please support our trip by donating to OUR FUNDRAISER


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Sunday December 6, 2015 – 8pm
Violinist/vocalist Andie Tanning Springer will perform my piece
Windeye as part of the Verdant Vibes Launch Party.

Verdant Vibes is pleased to present the first concert in a new series focusing on new music by living composers who work within a diverse sphere of influence, combining acoustic, electronic, and multimedia performance. Season one features Rhode Island artists and numerous world premieres.

VERDANT VIBES ENSEMBLE will also perform works by Alexander Dupuis, Anthony Green, Noreen Inglesi, and Kirsten Volness

with special guests
PROVIDENCE RESEARCH ENSEMBLE
kaleidoscopic ambient acoustic by J.P.A. Falzone and friends, including a collaboratively composed percussion piece*
&
THE TRAVELING BUBBLE ENSEMBLE
two multimedia sci-fi radio plays by Bevin Kelley, Mike Kelley, and Elise Kuder -
'Doc Labyrinth's Preserving Machine' and
'Terms of Addition'


Aurora
276 Westminster Street
Providence, RI
$10 at the door

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October 12, 2015
Tenderloin Opera Company
will march at Pronk
Burnside Park to Fox Point Hurricane Barrier, Providence, RI
                                                Parade Starts at 5:30pm


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September 6 - October 7, 2015
Three Scenes from Fox Point
will be presented at part of the
University of Rhode Island Art Faculty Biennial Exhibition
105 Upper College Rd, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI





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Events and news prior to September 2015 are located on the previous version of this blog HERE
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