Description:$15 Members
$20 Adults
$10 Kids (16 & Under)
Premik Russell Tubbs and Edgar Paterson Mills combined both skill and diverse talents to create this multimedia, multi-instrumental concert that will not only lift your spirits but just maybe transport you to new dimensions of mind...through the marriage of sound and image.
Edgar worked for 2 year collaborating with dancers and yoga teachers for the images of this project. The modern dance troupe Circle of Dance (Huntington, NY) in conjunction with other dancers and yoga teachers, are choreographed images projected as synchronized complement to the instrumental compositions of Premik and Edgar....
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Description:$15 Members
$20 Adults
$10 Kids (16 & Under)
Premik Russell Tubbs and Edgar Paterson Mills combined both skill and diverse talents to create this multimedia, multi-instrumental concert that will not only lift your spirits but just maybe transport you to new dimensions of mind...through the marriage of sound and image.
Edgar worked for 2 year collaborating with dancers and yoga teachers for the images of this project. The modern dance troupe Circle of Dance (Huntington, NY) in conjunction with other dancers and yoga teachers, are choreographed images projected as synchronized complement to the instrumental compositions of Premik and Edgar.
The global live music for this evening will be performed by the producer of this project, Edgar Paterson Mills, Premik Russell Tubbs, Larry LeMasters and Steve Finkelstein.
Premik Russell Tubbs, an accomplished multi-instrumentalist, will be on soprano saxophone, flutes and wind synth (EWI). For background, his. 2008 and 2010 schedule had him playing Sting’s Rainforest Concert at Carnegie Hall. May of 2009 brought Premik to California for the Narada Michael Walden Foundation, Let the Sunshine In benefit concert. Premik has worked with Carlos Santana, Whitney Houston, Herbie Hancock, John McLaughlin, Ravi Shankar, Narada Michael Walden, Jean-Luc Ponty, Clarence Clemons, Jackson Browne, Lonnie Liston-Smith, Sting, Billy Joel and James Taylor, to name a few.
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Edgar Patterson Mills will be on bass. His multimedia works have appeared on PBS and as well he has performed with dance companies at the Merce Cunningham Theater. His studio credits include platinum album with Marcy Playground. Edgar is the bass player for the Brazilian rhythm band Hynosmoothie. http://www.naturalproductions.com/
Steve Finkelstein, a talented percussionist has recorded/toured and/or performed with Mairah Carey, Celine Dion Selena, Mary Wilson & the Supremes, The Sugar Hill Gang, Randy Brecker and others.
Steve's wife Nancy Brier choreographed the original dance piece for this project. This was captured on tape and incorporated into the Buddha On Mars multimedia musical experience.
Nancy has performed with the modern companies of Frank Ashley, Lenore Latimer, Barbara Jo Fleming, Julie Maloney, Soundance and others. She worked extensively in France and the French Ministry of Culture and the Federation Francaise de Danse presented her with an honorary diploma Professeur Agrege (doctoral equivalent), recognizing her as one of the notable American modern and jazz dance educators responsible for bringing these American art forms to France. She received her Master's degree in Dance from New York University and her CMA (Certified Laban Movement Analyst) from the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies in New York City. Nancy belongs to the faculty of the Dance Studies Program at Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus and is Co-Founder/Artistic Director of Post Concert Dance Company.
Experienced world percussionist Laurence “Larry” LeMasters will be on tabla and santoor. He was a member of the World Music Ensemble "Lothlorien" from 1976 to 1990. They were featured numerous times on John Schaefer's "New Sounds" program on WNYC. Larry plays various percussion instruments including the North Indian Tabla drum as well as Santoor; a hammered dulcimer like string percussion instrument from Kashmir. He was also director of the World Music Summer Series from 2004 through 2006 at Santosha Center for the Arts in Amityville that brought many outstanding world music performers to our local communities.
Take the journey!
Wine & Cheese Reception to follow the music
Cinema Arts Centre
423 Park Ave
Huntington, NY 11743
Box Office: 631-423-7611
Tickets24/7:
800-838-3006
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