EBS STAFF
Bozemanites can hear music on the fly this winter.
According to a press release from the City of Bozeman, the Improvised Music Concert Series is set, including nine performances, all free of charge with no tickets or registration needed. The Saturday afternoon concerts will take place from 2 to 4 p.m. on the second floor of the Bozeman Public Library.
Here’s the winter 2023 lineup:
Dec. 2: Bozeman guitarist Michael Testagrossa
Dec. 9: Bozeman guitarist Aaron Banfield
Dec. 16: Kearen Samsel, Michael Testagrossa
Dec. 23: Philadelphia vibraphonist Silas Stewart
Dec. 30: Eric Barnes
Jan. 6: Billings guitarist Alex Nauman
Jan. 13: Michael Steele
Jan. 20: Kearen Samsel
Jan. 27: Bozeman guitarist Alex Robilotta
Series Music Director Craig Hall, a Bozeman-based jazz guitarist, upright bassist, music instructor, composer and lifelong mountaineer, will perform at every show.
“Modern improvisers use freshly evolving harmonic principles, some buttons and knobs, and good-old-fashioned imagination and trial and error to try to encapsulate human joy and catastrophic shortcomings,” Hall stated in the release. “Improvised music at the library presents revolving and conjoined snippets of complex thick-harmony jazz, mournful celebratory folk and manipulated electronics that inspire the modern rural mountain-surrounded improviser.”
More information is available at bozemanlibrary.org or by calling 406-582-2410.
