Category: Music

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BAMA@30

The Birmingham Art Music Alliance (BAMA) is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. One part of the celebration is a series of virtual concerts. The first one dropped on Friday, October 10 and features music by Cynthia Miller, Shane Lamb and me.

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Future virtual concerts will premiere every Friday afternoon. Over 100 composers have been active in BAMA during its 30 years of supporting new music in Alabama. So there’s a wide range of interesting pieces to come: chamber music, solo piano, improvisations, electronics, and more. Follow B’ham Art Music Alliance on YouTube to see them all.

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Handsome Molly in Pensacola

I’m premiering a new piece for banjo, voice and electronics tomorrow at the Pensacola ComposerFest XX. The piece is based on the traditional tune “Handsome Molly.” Other composers on the program include Michael Coleman,, Kadisha Onalbayeva, William Price and Robert Voisey.

Sunday, September 28, 2025 2:30pm
Pensacola ComposerFest XX
Pensacola State College
Ashmore Auditorium
Pensacola FL

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Iron Giant Free Association Record Release

Iron Giant Free Association is celebrating the release of their first record, Terry Riley’s In C with a free, in-store performance at Seasick Records on Thursday. I’m one of the special guests invited to join the group for the performance. Other guests include John Albea, Mika Carpenter, Jim Fahy, Justin Greene, Davis Little, Melissa Noble and more.

Thursday, September 4, 2025 6pm
Iron Giant Free Association plus special guests
Seasick Records
3131 5th Ave South
Birmingham AL
Record release party for Terry Riley’s In C

Seasick will host an album listening party for David Byrne’s Who Is The Sky? at 5pm on the same day. Byrne’s tune “The Avant Garde” makes a great intro to the event:

“There’s only one place, that’s the avant garde
I wanna go there
I wanna go there
I’ll take you with me
The things that we’ll see
Just look around and you will observe
It’s a passionate life, it’s ahead of the curve”

Come for Byrne; stay for Riley.

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Iron Giant in Montevallo

Tonight! Iron Giant Free Association plays the Parnell Memorial Library Theatre in Montevallo, Alabama. The group will perform a set of modular pieces for which they’ve developed their own, unique arrangements. My work, 2 out of 3, will be one of the pieces performed.

Also on the concert are improviser LaDonna Smith and vocalist Melanie Williams.

Friday, August 8, 2025 7pm
Iron Giant Free Association
Parnell Memorial Library Theatre
277 Park Dr.
Montevallo AL

This concert is supported in part by the Alabama State Council on the Arts.

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Field Song at Flyover Fest

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Field Song, a docu-poem short film featuring the poetry of Hannah Drake with the (Un)Known Project will be screened Saturday as part of the 2025 Flyover Film Festival in Louisville, Kentucky. I composed the score to the film along with vocalist Jamilah Cooper. A great group of collaborators led this project: Barbara Jane Brickman, John Haley and Catherine Roach.

Saturday, July 26, 2025 3pm
Flyover Film Festival
Speed Art Museum
South 3rd Street
Louisville KY

Field Song is in excellent company for the rest of Saturday’s program: Appalshop, Freeman Vines, Berea College, and more. I wish I could be there in person!

By the way, Field Song was a finalist at the International Poetry Film Festival in Los Angeles.