[Attackpanther] Sun nite at Blue Monday

[Jackwri444 at aol.com]

Sunday Nite 9pm 
at Goodbye Blue Monday
_http://www.myspace.com/goodbyebluemondayinc_ 
(http://www.myspace.com/goodbyebluemondayinc) 
 
1087 Broadway in Brooklyn
 
featuring Thollem McDonas, piano
and Jack Wright, saxes
and Andrew Drury, percussion
 
 
Thollem Mcdonas, pianist/vocalist/composer/improviser, recipient of the 2006 
National Endowment of the Arts Meet The Composer grant, was born and raised in 
the San Francisco Bay Area of Irish and Cherokee descent. He is touring 
perpetually, the previous year in Europe, currently in the U.S. He began his 
musical training as a young child rigorously studying the keyboard repertoire from 
the renaissance to the 20th century. After graduating with degrees in both 
piano performance and composition he chose to become homeless for several years, 
opting to wander and live out of a backpack, rather than pursue a career as a 
concert pianist with a suit and tie. It is because of these dichotomies and 
rich, wildly disparate experiences that his music is so dynamic and appeals to 
such a wide variety of audiences.

His travels as a performer have covered much of the North American continent 
and Europe. He has performed extensively as a soloist as well with groups. He 
is a founding member of several innovative ensembles, and is responsible, in 
full or in part, for many albums of original music, with both Pax Recordings 
and Edgetone Records,
as well as some self released. In the past year and a half he has played 
concerts in 6 different
European countries and logged 31,000 miles on the road throughout America.

Thollem has performed in theaters, art galleries, universities, elementary 
schools, concert halls, jazz clubs, rock clubs, festivals, warehouses, house 
concerts, streets, forests, the Shoshone Desert at the Nevada nuclear test site, 
on television, radio, in circuses, and riots. He has performed piano concertos 
with symphonies, played in many free improv groups, West African drumming 
troupes, and Javanese gamelan ensembles, all the while working as an accompanist 
and a composer for opera and modern dance.

Currently Thollem primarily plays his own comprovisations which he calls 
post-classical circus punk world jazz
free music, for people and everyone else. His music whispers/screams, "there 
are as many worlds in a life as
there are lives in the world".



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