NouveauCliche
Senior Member
Very happy to announce that out of many applications - two projects I'm working on have road the Jazz Road Creative Residency Grants for 2021/22
The first project is an Indigenous Big Band that will bring indigenous musicians from all over the country together to create and travel and perform in a big band setting - though no performing music you might traditionally expect out of a "Big Band". We'll be exploring the instrumentation style and creating original pieces through an indigenous lens...so no faux Buddy Rich action from me from the drums hopefully. This will be led by my dear friend Julia Keefe and decade long bandmate Delbert Anderson.
The second project is one I'm really proud of. It's called "Painted Mountains" - which has very long story behind the title which I share if you're interested.
Anyways - it's a partnership with the Bureau of Land Management - our band D'DAT will be touring 6 national monuments - meeting with the original land owners and indigenous tribes where the monuments set, learning their songs and composing new songs based on their traditional melodies (which is something we've done with our past couple of albums) and performing concerts at each monument. We will be traveling with a documentary team as well and the final product will be a new album that will be available at the monuments and all the regular music spots as well. We be joined at one of the monuments by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior - Deb Haaland. This year is sponsored by Jazz Road - but in meetings we had nearly 300 sites that wanted us to come and play, etc. so the BLM is literally making a budget to reproduce this year after year with us.
Fun stuff!!
The first project is an Indigenous Big Band that will bring indigenous musicians from all over the country together to create and travel and perform in a big band setting - though no performing music you might traditionally expect out of a "Big Band". We'll be exploring the instrumentation style and creating original pieces through an indigenous lens...so no faux Buddy Rich action from me from the drums hopefully. This will be led by my dear friend Julia Keefe and decade long bandmate Delbert Anderson.
The second project is one I'm really proud of. It's called "Painted Mountains" - which has very long story behind the title which I share if you're interested.
Anyways - it's a partnership with the Bureau of Land Management - our band D'DAT will be touring 6 national monuments - meeting with the original land owners and indigenous tribes where the monuments set, learning their songs and composing new songs based on their traditional melodies (which is something we've done with our past couple of albums) and performing concerts at each monument. We will be traveling with a documentary team as well and the final product will be a new album that will be available at the monuments and all the regular music spots as well. We be joined at one of the monuments by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior - Deb Haaland. This year is sponsored by Jazz Road - but in meetings we had nearly 300 sites that wanted us to come and play, etc. so the BLM is literally making a budget to reproduce this year after year with us.
Fun stuff!!
