{"id":49266,"date":"2011-10-04T09:33:59","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T13:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=49266"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:21:51","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:21:51","slug":"olin25-performers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/10\/04\/olin25-performers\/","title":{"rendered":"Unpack the Elephant! and other delights at the Olin Arts Center anniversary party"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Two\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A family arts festival starting at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 8 kicks off the 2011-12 celebration of the Olin Arts Center’s 25th anniversary.<\/p>\n

Open to the public at no charge, the festival features the high-intensity New Vaudeville ensemble Two<\/a>, jazz pianist Ahmad Hussan Muhammad and New York’s avant-garde marching band Asphalt Orchestra<\/a>, which will lead tours of the building and perform in concert. The Bates College Museum of Art will be open.<\/p>\n

Activities include face painting and balloon animals. Bates students will present visual art, music and dance. A barbecue lunch will be offered (free to the first 100 arrivals).<\/p>\n

Asphalt <\/strong>performs in the Olin Concert Hall at 2 p.m. Admission is free, but tickets are required. For more information, to RSVP for the barbecue or to reserve concert tickets, please contact 207-786-6135 or olinarts@bates.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Created in 2009 by the founders of the dynamic new-music organization Bang on a Can, Asphalt takes innovative music out of concert halls, rock clubs and jazz basements and into the streets.<\/p>\n

The New York Times called Asphalt “part parade spectacle, part halftime show, and part cutting-edge contemporary music concert.” The group has all the components of a traditional marching band, but the sound and spectacle are anything but traditional.<\/p>\n

With movement directed by acclaimed choreographers and apparel by designer Elizabeth Hope Clancy, Asphalt comprises players from genres as diverse as modern indie-classical, Eastern European band music and contemporary jazz.<\/p>\n

At Bates, Asphalt presents its new stage show, Unpack the Elephant!<\/em> The program features music by Frank Zappa, David Byrne and Annie Clark, Yoko Ono and Bj\u00f6rk, as well as members of the ensemble.<\/p>\n

Asphalt’s residency will include a “flash concert” at Bates on Oct. 6; presentations at the Falmouth school campus, and, through a partnership with L\/A Arts, at the Lewiston and Auburn middle schools; and a First Friday Art Walk appearance in Portland on Oct. 7, presented in partnership with Portland Ovations.<\/p>\n

<\/strong>Maine brothers Matthew Tardy and Jason Tardy, aka Two<\/strong>, perform at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Oct. 8. The Tardys offer relentless wit, live music, high-tech juggling, fire eating and feats of contortion.<\/p>\n

<\/strong>A native of Cincinnati, Muhammad <\/strong>is a Bowdoin College graduate who has studied with Fred Hersch, Tony Malaby and Andy Milne. He is also a freestyle rapper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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