The Gus Mancini Quintet, July 15, 8 PM, Green Kill Sessions
Green Kill Sessions presents the Gus Mancini Quintet featuring Hanna Dick on Orchestral Marimba on Tuesday, July 15, 8 PM.
Join The Gus Mancini Quintet on Tuesday, July 15, featuring Hannah Dick on orchestral marimba, Brian Melick on percussion, Zaire Blackshire on bass, Ken Lovelett on drums and Gus Mancini on synth and sax. Read about the performers below the ticket information
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Hannah Dick
Hannah Dick ’19, ’19E knew she wanted to pursue a college degree in music. But that wasn’t all.
“I’m a very curious person,” she says, noting that she wanted to explore other academic pursuits in addition to music.
She found the best of both worlds at the College, where she is a brain and cognitive sciences major, and the Eastman School of Music, where she is a percussion major.
“I’ve become great friends with the Red Line bus that runs between Eastman and the River Campus,” she says. “I almost have the schedule memorized.”
Dick grew up in Schenectady, New York, surrounded by music. Her dad filled the house with classical songs, and all five children played an instrument. Hannah’s sister, Erin Dick Over ’11, taught her piano, but she grew to love percussion because of the variety of instruments she could play.
“I wanted a drum set,” she says, “but the house could only hold so many instruments. I already had a marimba, snare drum, and two timpani.”
She has filled many roles during her time in Rochester: four-year member of Eastman’s InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (with a leadership role the past three years), resident advisor, member of musical ensembles, and captain of an intramural ultimate Frisbee team with fellow Eastman students. Dick also was cochair of the Student Advisory Committee for the University’s presidential search.
“That was quite an honor,” she says, “and I’m thrilled with the selection [of University of Wisconsin provost Sarah Mangelsdorf].”
Dick received a Fulbright US Student Grant, sponsored by the State Department, and leaves for Sweden in August to study improvisation and performance and pedagogy, with the goal of teaching and performing in the community one day. While based in the city of Örebro, she will be directing a high school percussion ensemble.
“I’ve known since I was in high school that I wanted to use music to help people,” she says. “I considered music therapy, and I definitely envision myself being involved with music in the community.”
—University of Rochester News Center
Ken Lovelett
My name is Ken Lovelett and I design and make unique percussion instruments. Mostly, I make percussion instruments that are derivatives from many different cultures. I will combine some of these differences into an instrument with some unique alterations.
I call my company American Percussion Instruments by Ken Lovelett to acknowledge and to celebrate the coming together of different ethnicities that bring culture, religion, art, cuisine and of course music together.
Over the years I’ve been asked many times if I made my instruments for kids, Well I finally decided to do it. “AMERICAN PERCUSSION FOR KIDS” These percussion instruments are smaller versions of the adult instruments. Please, know that they are not toys but real instruments made from quality materials and are mostly non breakable and should last a long time. Small wood disc shakers, Funky egg shakers, mini caxixi, shaker drums, mini rain wheels, mini rhythm chambers, mini klams, mini travolettes, mini spring things and more to come. Check in from timer to time to see what’s new!!
Please go to
http://www.americanpercussion.com/
Started my professional career at the age of 13. I have developed a wide range of experience as a drummer, multi hand percussionist, educator, designer, producer and presenter
Honored to be working with; Maria Zemantauski, Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company, Kevin McKrell, Bernstein Bard Quartet, Cathie Ryan, Martha Gallagher, Elizabeth Woodbury - Kasius & Heard, Seth Warden Trio, Seth & The Moodymelix, New York Players, Soul Session, Sonny & Perley, Joy Adler, Chris Shaw & Bridget Ball, Globetrotting and The World Percussion Quartet
Featured recording artist on over 375 commercially released recordings on independent as well as major labels highlighted by seven solo projects, "Percussive Voices" Hudson Valley Records (debut at 23 on the World Music Chart), “Diverse Elements”, “Uduboy”, “In Motion”, “Diverse World”, "Perpetual Motion" and "The Art of Udu" Gene Michael Productions. The last three of which were released as Sound Libraries. Which are now placed with Universal Pictures, MGM Studios, Columbia Pictures, Fox Network, Discover Channel, TLC, and with Disney.
Brian Melick
Started my professional career at the age of 13. I have developed a wide range of experience as a drummer, multi hand percussionist, educator, designer, producer and presenter
Honored to be working with; Maria Zemantauski, Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company, Kevin McKrell, Bernstein Bard Quartet, Cathie Ryan, Martha Gallagher, Elizabeth Woodbury - Kasius & Heard, Seth Warden Trio, Seth & The Moodymelix, New York Players, Soul Session, Sonny & Perley, Joy Adler, Chris Shaw & Bridget Ball, Globetrotting and The World Percussion Quartet
Featured recording artist on over 375 commercially released recordings on independent as well as major labels highlighted by seven solo projects, "Percussive Voices" Hudson Valley Records (debut at 23 on the World Music Chart), “Diverse Elements”, “Uduboy”, “In Motion”, “Diverse World”, "Perpetual Motion" and "The Art of Udu" Gene Michael Productions. The last three of which were released as Sound Libraries. Which are now placed with Universal Pictures, MGM Studios, Columbia Pictures, Fox Network, Discover Channel, TLC, and with Disney.
Zaire Blackshire
Gus Mancini
Gus Mancini, also known as The Sultan Of Sonic Soul, is a family member of the Woodstock Roundtable’s Sunday morning Radio Show on WDST at 100.1 FM. Gus has now performed on the show over 300 times, live on air, spanning 20 years and counting. The Sonic Soul Band is one of the most unique bands in the Hudson Valley because their performances are TOTALLY improvised. The Sultan, a master of improvisational saxophone, with a varied musical career spanning 60 years, has performed with many of the elite of all genres of music. Most notably he’s performed with the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra and the Hudson Valley Philharmonic and for many years in the great Cathedral of Saint John Divine in NYC. At the Cathedral, he’s been accompanied by the well known Native American contemporary group The Hawk Project.
Now what truly makes the Sonic Soul Band unique is the addition of Master Nfamara Badjie. Master Badjie is one of the very few remaining (drum)masters from Gambia, West Africa with dual citizenship in the USA. In fact, he is the only ONE in America playing the Bugaraboo drums. Nfamara is helping to keep this ancient tradition of gathering and dancing alive. Badjie has been drumming since he was 4 years old. The Sonic Soul Band creates grooves and explorations in the moment. Master Badjie plays his ancient rhythms with an unparalleled energy alongside world class improvisers weaving spontaneous musical forms ranging from modern experimental jazz to classical, to funk, and to blues soundscapes. As The Sultan likes to say about these performances, "What you’re hearing will be for the first time and the last!"
He has produced and performed on many albums including Samadhi and Sunrise with didgeridoo master Phil Jones on Intuitive Sound productions with both c.d.'s reaching the top 10 on the Indie charts. He has also produced a Parents' Gold choice award children's album, The Shooting Star Express. He has produced the eclectic group of jazz and poetry Odd City, and co-produced and performs with The Hawk Project, one of the leading contemporary Native American Jazz ensembles in the country.
He established the Brooklyn Conservatory Jazz Program and has lectured on the directions of world music at Oxford University and the Royal Conservatory in England. He is currently co-producing the Woodstock Roundtable radio show broadcast live on WDST radio in Woodstock, NY, and webcast over WDST.com and AOL. He performs with some of the top poets, writers and musicians in the nation such as poet laureate Robert Bly and author Robert Thurman.
Some of Mancini's compositions were recently performed by Mancini and The Hawk Project with the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra under the direction and orchestral arrangements by Maestro Randall Craig Fleischer in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Scott Kent, Sound Engineer
Scott Kent originally came to Woodstock in 1988 to work for Bearsville Studios. He taught guitar at Abrams Music and the Kingston Conservatory of Music before moving to San Diego in 1993. He taught Band and Orchestra for San Diego Unified School District for 18 years and returned to Mt. Tremper in 2016. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Professional Music from Berklee College of Music and a Master’s degree in Jazz Studies from San Diego State University.
