[NewMusicEvents] Jun 9-10 Matthew Sperry Memorial Festival

[Suki O'Kane]

June 9 & 10, 2007
Fifth Annual Matthew Sperry Memorial Festival

This year the festival features special guests drawn from Matthew's 
personal circle of all-stars: Sean Meehan (NY) and Ellen Fullman 
(CA).  These musicians who inspired Matthew and his music will 
perform over two nights, in both experimental gallery and intimate 
studio settings, in both solo sets and small ensembles, in a musical 
journey of remembrance and reunion. The festival tradition of 
commissioning new works for large ensemble continues with The 
Enormous Quartet, where a creative cloud of Bay Area musicians will 
perform in spontaneous combinations of four.

Saturday June 9 | 3pm
KFJC 89.7FM
Psychoacoustic Soundclash with Nozmo King
John Shiurba and Ellen Fullman will be in the studio with Nozmo, 
playing SperryMusic and talking about the Festival, with special 
guest live performances with Tom Djll, Tom Duff, John Ingle, Polly 
Moller and Theresa Wong.

Saturday June 9 | 8pm
21 Grand
416 25th Street at Broadway
Oakland
with special guest
Sean Meehan [http://home.earthlink.net/~overturnedbowl/]
solo and in trios with
Scott Rosenberg/John Shiurba and Bill Hsu/Gino Robair
and
The Enormous Quartet
(with many musicians!)
Admission is $6 - $600 sliding scale at the door

Sunday June 10 | 8pm
Casa Ninja
Berkeley
with special guest
Ellen Fullman [http://www.deepmedia.org/ellenfullman/]
solo and in duos with
Sean Meehan, Gino Robair and Theresa Wong
Admission is  $25 - $50
Seating is extremely limited
Advance reservations are required
Reserve at http://matthewsperry.org/tickets.php

The Festival will also have a new release of Matthew's music 
available for sale: a quartet of Matthew, Lesli Dalaba (trumpet), 
Fred Frith, and Gino Robair. Ellen Fullman has dedicated her latest 
release, a duo with Sean Meehan, to Matt. Learn more at 
http://www.cut.fm/

All proceeds from these benefit performances support the Matthew 
Sperry Memorial Fund.
Please visit http://matthewsperry.org for more information.