monktail creative music concern

Due to insurmountable financial hurdles, Sounds Outside 2011 has been cancelled. 

This unfortunate decision comes with a great amount of regret, however we turn our focus, hope, and vision to the other powerful artistic performances and activities cultivated by each of our respective community organizations, musicians, supporters, friends and partners. 

More than ever, we encourage you to step outside of the box to connect, communicate, and collectively engage with each other. Though this decision marks the end of an era, it does not mark the end of an idea. 

Thank you for supporting 5 years of Sounds Outside: A Celebration of Adventurous Music & Community. 

Peace,

MCMC

Monktail Creative Music Concern presents the Monktail Composers Series

Sounds Outside: A Celebration of Adventurous Music & Community has for five years, brought creative music of the highest caliber to audiences, for free, in Seattle’s Cal Anderson Park.  Due to tremendous financial difficulties that have gravely impacted our local economy, the festival carries a debt this year, for the first time in its history.

As an effort to combat the deficit , the presenting collective has created an indoor series at the Chapel Performance Space, highlighting the works of its members. Each event features a stellar line-up of Monktail composers, with numerous performers of note participating in each concert. All proceeds from the events will benefit Sounds Outside.

Please help rally support for this important annual community event.

Featured Composers:

Thursday Nov. 11
Stephen Fandrich
John Seman

Thursday Dec. 16
Beth Fleenor
Gabriel C. Herbertson
Ken Jacobson
David Milford

Saturday Jan. 8
Scott Adams
Samantha Boshnack
Mark Ostrowski
Stephen Parris

Chapel Performance Space
Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Ave. N.

All events 8 pm / $5-15 sliding scale

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EARSHOT JAZZ 3429 Fremont Pl N #309, Seattle, WA 98103

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Monktail Creative Music Concern – Ten Years in Seattle

In celebrating ten years of music and advocacy in Seattle, the Monktail Creative Music Concern will be presenting a series of concerts the weekend of 10/10/10 as well as a brief Northwest tour of their “free improvisation commando unit,” the trio SPECIAL O.P.S.

SPECIAL O.P.S. NINTH ANNIVERSARY FIELD TRIP
Thursday, September 23: Egan’s Ballard Jam House 1707 NW Market St, Seattle 7PM
Friday, September 24: Mississippi Pizza 3552 N Mississippi Ave, Portland, OR 9PM
Saturday, September 25: The Jazz Station 68 W. Broadway, Eugene, OR 9PM
Sunday, September 26: The Matrix 434 NW Prindle St, Chehalis, WA 8PM
Tuesday, September 28: The Comet 922 E Pike St, Seattle, WA 9PM
Friday, October 1: Molly Maguires 610 NW 65th St, Seattle, WA 10PM

MONKTAIL TENTH ANNIVERSARY WEEKEND 10/10/10
Friday, October 8: Egans Ballard Jam House1707 NW Market St, Ballard 7PM
Sunday, October 10 (10/10/10): THE JOSEPHINE 608 NW 65th St N, Ballard 7PM

Organized by founder and director John Seman, Monktail represents a breadth and depth of musical experience unmatched in the region. Ensembles as diverse as their flagship improv big band NON GRATA, the overtone choir SEATTLE HARMONIC VOICES, the celebrated funk and jazz onslaught of REPTET, the bopcore trio FLOSS and chamber oriented DEAL’S NUMBER, Beth Fleenor’s shape-shifting FIGEATER, as well as death-jazz trio SPECIAL O.P.S. all have found their home under the umbrella of Monktail.

While in Seattle, Monktail has earned top honors as an arts organization, including a 2002 Earshot Jazz Golden Ear Award for Emerging Group and a 2002 Tablet Magazine Pretty Good Artist Award, as well as 2006 Golden Ear Awards for best Outside Group (Reptet) and Concert of the Year (The Monktail Raymond Scott Project). 

Monktail Records celebrated their ninth full-length release in 2010, the second Floss long player VITAMIN A, a bold mix of free jazz, psychedelic, and electronic sounds. Other MCMC releases include three acclaimed CDs from Reptet (2008 Independent Jazz Record Finalist), and releases from Non Grata, Seattle Harmonic Voices, Deal’s Number, and Special O.P.S. Four new releases are already in the hopper for release in 2011.

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Monktail Creative Music Concern presents
Sounds Outside 2009

Cal Anderson Park / 1635 11th Ave (between Denny & Pine)
Free and open to the public / Music from 1 – 8 pm

Saturday, July 25  

            1:00    Non Grata

            2:30    Moraine

            4:00    Washington Composers Orchestra (WACO) 

            5:30    Tu (Trey Gunn and Pat Mastelotto of King Crimson)

            7:00    Sugar Skulls

Saturday, August 15

            1:00    Melbatones

            2:30    Figeater

            4:00    Greg Sinibaldi

            5:30    Syncopated Taint Horn Quartet

            7:00    Bert Wilson

www.soundsoutside.com