for Great Small Works
Great Small Works Presents
A Fabulous and Feral Fundraiser for
Great Small Works' Ninth International Toy Theater Festival and Temporary Toy Theater Museum
May 30th through June 13th at St. Ann's Warehouse.
Hundreds of artists from around the globe and around the neighborhood!
Cutting edge meets tradition!
The tiniest blockbusters in town!
The Fabulous:
CHAMPAGNE CABARET
7:00-9:00pm at One Arm Red
100 Water Street in DUMBO
Performances
$50
The Feral:
DANCE YOUR FUNKIN' BRASS OFF!
10:00-2:00am at Saint Ann's Warehouse
38 Water Street in DUMBO
DJs and Live Bands, including Slavic Soul Party
$15 in advance or $20 at the door
OR GET A TICKET TO BOTH FOR $60
SPECIAL PARADE FOR THE LUCKY FEW!
More info and tickets at www.greatsmallworks.org
7:00pm
CHAMPAGNE CABARET: FOOD, WINE, PERFORMANCE!
MARGARET LENG TAN is renowned as a pre-eminent John Cage interpreter
and for her performances of American and Asian music that transcend
the piano’s conventional boundaries. She has been called “the queen
of the toy piano” by The New York Times. Over the past decade, Ms.
Tan’s diminutive music-theater of nostalgia and humor has delighted
audiences at festivals around the world. Her new album She Herself
Alone: The Art of the Toy Piano 2 has just been released on Mode
Records.
CLARE DOLAN is a Painter, Director, and Performer of Cantastoria, Toy
Theater, Outdoor Puppetry, and Stilt Dancing, while simultaneously
living a secret double life as a nurse in her small Vermont town.
She’s a veteran of the Bread and Puppet Theater, and founder of The
Museum of Everyday Life.
And of course…The scintillating and educational "Short Entertaining
History of Toy Theater"by Dr. John Bell with the Great Small Works
Orchestra.
10:00pm-2:00am
DANCE YOUR FUNKIN' BRASS OFF!!
SLAVIC SOUL PARTY is more than a band, it’s a promise. Anyone who has
seen them live can attest to that. The massive brass band is a
supercollider of Eastern European sounds from the Balkans and all the
funk of American musical traditions like second-line, gospel, and
jazz. “Fiery Balkan brass, hip-grinding American grooves, and ecstatic
anthems both new and old: Slavic Soul Party! is just what it says.
DEBO BAND is Boston’s own 11 piece Ethio-groove collective. Since
2006, Debo Band has been immersed in the unlikely confluence of
traditional East African polyrhythms and pentatonic scales, classic
American soul and funk music, and the instrumentation of Eastern
European brass bands, producing a unique form of dance music that
Ethiopian audiences instantly recognize as the soundtrack of their
youth, carried from party to kitchen on the ubiquitous cassette tapes
of the time.
SPANGLISH FLY defines its sound as “1968 Barrio” — meaning the
Spanish Harlem in the late 60s. The band is bent on cooking up a spicy
musical dish comprised of bugaloo, Latin soul and shingaling. Their
recipe, in their own words: “Two pounds of hot mambo stirred together
with fifteen ounces of Motor-City Motown, deep fried for three hours,
and you get a bucket load of mouthwatering soul latino.”
with DJ DUSTY WALKER mastering the mix on the twin turntables
For more information and to buy tickets go to www.greatsmallworks,org
ALL PROCEEDS GO THE THE PRODUCTION OF THE NINTH ANNUAL TOY THEATER FESTIVAL
