Celebrating 8 amazing years of local independent radio from Richmond’s own WRIR 97.3fm. YOUR radio station. YOUR party. We’ll be performing 3rd on the Main Stage.
Bands also performing: Dead Fame Canary Oh Canary Wolf//Goat
Date: Friday, February 1st
Venue: The Renaissance
Time: 7:00pm
Address: 107 West Broad Street # 300
We’re excited to be making our first live show appearance in Charlottesville opening up for 80s bluegrass band, Love Canon! Love Canon is vocalist/guitarist, Jesse Harper (of acoustic supergroup Old School Freight Train), bassist, Darrell Muller (also of OSFT), Adam Larrabee (jazz guitar/banjo virtuoso), Andy Thacker (mandolin), and Nate Leath (fiddle). It’s going to be an epic night with a finale featuring both ensembles on stage together performing new arrangements!
Fresh off from our recent “Live Art” show with SPARC, The Upper East Side Big Band is back and tighter than ever. And to add more awesomeness, jazz trumpet legend, John D’earth will be joining the UESBB horn section that night to blow your faces off!
For tickets, go to The Jefferson Theater’s website HERE:
http://www.jeffersontheater.com/love-canon
Doors open @ 8PM. UESBB performs @ 8:30PM.
UPPER EAST SIDE BIG BAND:
Samson Trinh: musical director, arranger, sax, clarinet, uke
VOX, KEYS, & ORGAN: Adrian Duke
VOCALS: Allyson Mills-Steele & Terri Simpson
GUITAR/MANDO: John Conley
BASS: Andrew Randazzo
DRUMS & PERCUSSION: Aaron Thompson, Andy Brockmann, and Mike Boyd
REEDS: Suzi Fischer (alto sax, flute), Dr. John Wittman (tenor sax), Jonathan Gibson (bari sax, flute)
TRUMPETS: Rob Quallich (lead) and special guest, John D’earth
TROMBONES: Pete Anderson & Josh Wright
Featuring students with and without developmental disabilities and hearing impairment performing alongside legendary musicians: Robbin Thompson, Steve Bassett, Susan Greenbaum, Jesse Harper, Josh Small, Marc Langelier, Samson Trinh and the Upper East Side Big Band. UESBB will be the house band under the musical direction of Samson. Richmond natives, Daniel Clarke (keyboardist for k.d. lang) and Jason Mraz will serve as artistic advisers for this mind blowing event! TICKETS ARE GOING FAST SO GET THEM NOW!
LINKS:
www.sparconline.org/liveart – ticket sales page
http://bit.ly/LiveArtExcerpt – 4 minute except from the LIVE ART documentary
sparcliveart.tumblr.com/ – LIVE ART tumble page @SPARConline- Twitter name
http://www.facebook.com/sparconline – Facebook page
Richmond Magazine awarded Samson Trinh & The Upper East Side Big Band Best Ensemble for the Theresa Pollak Prize for Excellence in the Arts! The issue hits the stands this October. Excellent write up and pics.
That’s right!!! Friday, June 10th at 8PM… FREE! Dogwood Dell has invited Samson Trinh & The Upper East Side Big Band to open up the Summer Concert Series again! Last year’s turn out was filled way past the 2,400 seat capacity. Joining them for the first set will be the six-piece Jazz/Americana group, the Mills Family Band.
The 20-piece big band will feature guest vocalists Adrian Duke, Allyson Mills-Steele, Curtis Mills, Desiree Roots Centeo, John Winn (from the Neighborliness Jazz Quartet), Terri Simpson (from the Butterbean Quartet), and Laura Ann Singh (from Quatro na Bossa). This is the DREAM TEAM of Richmond singers!!!
Why SO many vocalists? Because Samson’s going to present a smorgasbord of brand-spanking new musical arrangements, which will include new Samson Trinh originals, selections from The Beach Boys’ “Pet Sounds” album, and selections from The Beatles’ “White Album”! And to top it off, the big band will perform cuts from Samson’s first
album “Very Strange Night” to celebrate its 5th anniversary reissue.
And if that’s not enough, there will be three drummers on stage with a plethora of percussion toys! They’re going to be back and forth on drum sets, timpani, bass drum, bell chimes, xylophone, glockenspiel, cowbell, and more!
This is going to be a special and magical night. And the best part… it’s FREE! Spread the news to your friends and family. Pack a picnic and be prepared for us to blow your minds again! See you all on Friday,
June 10th at 8PM!
- Samson
THE LINEUP…
SET 1 – MILLS FAMILY BAND
Allyson Mills-Steele: vocals, guitar
Curtis Mills: vocals, guitar
Samson Trinh: sax, flute, clarinet
Rusty Farmer: bass
Andy Brockmann: drums, background vocals
Carter Gravatt: mandolin (special guest from Carbon Leaf)
SET 2 – UPPER EAST SIDE BIG BAND
Samson Trinh: musical director, composer, arranger, sax
VOCALISTS: Adrian Duke (keyboards/arranger), Allyson Mills-Steele,
Curtis Mills (guitar), Desiree Roots Centeio, John Winn, Terri Simpson,
Laura Ann Singh
GUITAR: Tom Patti
BASS: Rusty Farmer
DRUMS & PERCUSSION: Aaron Thompson, Andy Brockmann, Mike Boyd
SAXES, FLUTES, CLARINETS: Kevin Simpson, Suzi Fisher, Jonathan Gibson
TRUMPETS: Rob Quallich, Scott Frock
TROMBONES: Pete Anderson, Stefan Demetriadis
SPECIAL GUEST: Slashtipher Coleman
That’s right! On Friday, March 18, 2011, The Upper East Side Big Band will once again present our rendition of Abbey Road in its entirety! The concert will be held at The Steward School’s beautiful 500 seat Lora M. Robins Theatre in the Paul R. Cramer Center for the Arts! Seating is limited.
CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS NOW!
Samson Trinh & The Upper East Side Big Band’s “The Abbey Road Project” has been named as one of the Best Richmond Albums of 2010 by Richmond Playlist!
“Richmond had so many amazing albums come out this year, there was no way I could lump them in with national releases and narrow them down to 10. So I made a completely separate list. And it was still hard to do. Here are the best albums Richmond musicians had to offer for 2010.” – From the Article
Check out the full article HERE!!!
Inside Track: Richmond Music News
Beatlemania is alive and well in Richmond. In addition to the new all-girl Beatles tribute band, the Girtles, the Fab Four are getting the big-band treatment. The 19-piece Upper East Side Big Band, boasting a who’s who of local players from such bands as Bio Ritmo, the No BS Brass Band, Glows in the Dark and Bungalo 6, just finished up “The Abbey Road Project.” Arrangers Samson Trinh and Adrian Duke put their stamp on the Beatles’ 11th, and last recorded, album with the help of vocalist siblings Allyson Mills-Steele and Curtis Mills, the crux of the Mills Family Band. The Upper East Side Big Band will celebrate the CD’s release when it opens Dogwood Dell’s Summer Concert series June 11, first playing a swing set, then performing “Abbey Road” in its entirety.
Samson Trinh & The Upper East Side Big Band performing Amy Winehouse’s “Rehab”.
Samson Trinh & The Upper East Side Big Band performing Come Together from The Beatles’ “Abbey Road”.
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