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Bennington College presents Milford Graves: A Mind-Body Deal

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The Bates Dance Festival, celebrating its 41st season, will present four distinctive dance performances in July at Schaeffer Theatre on the Bates College Campus as well as a recently added 4D sound performance from Maine-based James Allister Sprang at Trinity Episcopal Church, the annual fundraising event BDFête on July 22, and a number of free […]

A documentary about pioneering American percussionist and educator Milford Graves is screening at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts Saturday.

Running Jan. 13 to 15, I/O Fest presents concerts and events across Williamstown at the Clark Art Institute, Williams College Museum of Art and the college’s ’62 Center for Theatre

Paradise City Arts Festival returnsNORTHAMPTON — Now in its 28th season, the fall edition of the Paradise City Arts Festival, featuring the work of some 220 artists, will be held at the Three County Fairgrounds in Northampton Oct. 8 through 10.Though...

Milford Graves, singular drummer and polymath, dies at 79 by Giovanni Russonello (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- By the time Milford Graves took up the jazz drum kit, in his early 20s, he had spent years playing timbales in Afro-Latin groups. But on the kit he was confronted with the new challenge of using foot pedals as well as his hands. Rather than learn the standard jazz technique, he drew from what he already knew. In the Latin ensembles, “we’d be doing dance movements while we were playing,” he ...

How Milford Graves Reawakened the Spirit of the Drum How Milford Graves Reawakened the Spirit of the Drum Late percussionists radical approach galvanized everyone from Lou Reed to Albert Ayler, and built a bridge between music and the healing arts Hank Shteamer, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail In September of 2008, an unusual performance took place at downtown New York club Le Poisson Rouge. At stage right, opposite fellow six-string adventurer Marc Ribot, sat Lou Reed, conjuring clouds of fr...