The Basement Rug

I am currently working on a compilation post for a few of the many artists and other notables who died in 2008. Naturally the list below is not complete, but it gives you an idea on what I am drawing from for the compilation. The list was compiled from the following sources: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7.

January 7 - Philip Burnett Franklin Agee (CIA case officer) age 72
January 10 - Rod Allen (aka Rodney Bainbridge, lead vocalist and bassist for The Fortunes) age 63
January 15 - Brad Renfro, actor (Mark Shay in “The Client”) age 25
January 17 - Bobby Fischer (world class chess champion) age 64
January 18 - Lois Nettleton, actor (Evelyn in “Crossing Jordan”) age 80
January 19 - Suzanne Pleshette, actress (”Bob Newhart Show” and “Rome Adventure”), age 70
January 20 - John Stewart Musician, Songwriter (was a member of the Kingston Trio)
January 22 - Heath Ledger, actor (A Knight’s Tale” and “Brokeback Mountain”) age 28
January 26 - Christian Brando, son of actor Marlon Brando, age 49
February 1 - Shell Kepler, actress (Amy Vining on “General Hospital” ) age 49
February 2 - Barry Morse, actor (Lt. Philip Gerard on “The Fugitive”) age 89
February 5 - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (taught transcendentalist meditation to the Beatles) age 96
February 10 - Roy Scheider, actor (Police Chief Brodie in “Jaws”) age 75
February 12 - Van Johnson, actor (major star at MGM during WWII and after)
February 13 - David Groh, actor (Rhoda’s hubby Joe, on “Rhoda”) age 68
February 15 - William Patrick Bennett (Toronto blues singer) age 56
February 26 - George Allen Miles, Jr (aka Buddy Miles, drummer for Jimi Hendrix) age 60
February 27 - William F. Buckley (author and conservative commentator) age 82
February 28 - Mike Smith Musician (was the lead vovalist for The Dave Clark Five) age 64
March 2 - Jeff Healey (blues-rock guitarist and jazz trumpeter) age 41
March 13 - Martin Fierro (tenor saxophonist: jazz, freeform rock, avant-garde) age 66
March 18 - Arthur C. Clarke, writer (”2001: A Space Odyssey”) age 90
March 19 - Paul Scofield, actor (”A Man for All Seasons”) age 86
March 24 - Richard Widmark, actor (”How the West Was Won,” “Madigan” ) age 93
April 5 - Charlton Heston, actor (Moses in “The Ten Commandments”) age 84
April 8 - Cedella Booker (mother of Bob Marley) age 81
April 9 - George Butler (jazz record producer) age 78
April 18 - Joy Page, actress (appeared in Casablanca as the newlywed) age 83
May 5 - Jerry Wallace (1950’s country singer) age 79
May 8 - Richard Edward Arnold (aka Eddy Arnold, country music legend) age 89
May 11 - John Rutsey (original drummer for Rush) age 55
May 23 - Bruce “Utah” Phillips (anarchist folk singer and storyteller) age 73
May 24 - Dick Martin (Rowan & Martin’s Laugh In 1968-1973) age 86
May 24 - James Harrell McGriff (aka Jimmy McGriff, jazz/funk organist) age 72
May 26 - Earle Hagen (composer, Andy Griffith show theme) age 89
May 26 - Sidney Pollock, director (directed The Way We Were and many others) age 73
May 29 - Harvey Korman, actor (best known for his role on the Carol Burnett Show) age 81
June 2 - Bo Diddley, musician (one of the founding fathers of “Rock & Roll”) age 79
June 7 - Jim McKay, sportscaster (voice of “the agony of defeat” who anchored ABC Wide World of Sports)
June 10 - Red Shea (guitarist for Gordon Lightfoot, Ian Tyson, Tommy Hunter) age 70
June 13 - Tim Russert, political journalist and host of NBC’s “Meet the Press”
June 17 - Cyd Charisse, dancer - stylized dance on screen (performed repeatedly with Fred Astaire)
June 22 - George Carlin, comedian (best known for his use of off color language) age 71
July 3 - Oliver Schroer (Canadian fiddle player who combined folk and classical arrangements) age 52
July 4 - Sen. Jesse Helms, (CIA goon, 5 term Senator from North Carolina and outspoken conserative) age 86
July 12 - Tony Snow, (reporter, White House Press Secretary until cancer forced his retirement) age 53
July 22 - Estelle Getty, actress (best known for her role on The Golden Girls) age 85
July 22 - Joe Beck (jazz guitarist) age 62
July 25 - Johnny Griffin (jazz saxophonist) age 80
August 9 - Bernie Mac, comedian (starred in his own sitcom titled The Bernie Mac Show) age 50
August 10 - Isaac Hayes, musician (famous for writing the musical theme to Shaft) age 65
August 18 - Pervis Jackson, musician (was the bass voice of the Spinners) age 70
August 19 - LeRoi Moore (saxophonist, Dave Matthews Band) age 46
August 30 - Eldon Rathburn (composer of Labyrinthe for NFB for Expo67) age 92
September 2 - Jerry Reed, Musician, Actor (co-starred in Smokey & the Bandit) age 71
September 15 - Richard Wright (keyboardist for Pink Floyd) age 65
September 20 - Napoleon Brown Culp (aka Nappy Brown, soul singer) age 78
September 26 - Paul Newman, actor, race car driver, philanthropist (starred in 50 films best known for Butch Cassidy and the Sun Dance Kid) age 83
October 10 - Alton Ellis (Founder of The Flames and creator of the rocksteady reggae beat) age 70 - (Flames bandmate David ‘Baby G’ Gordon also died at age 70, date unknown)
October 11 - Neal Hefti (jazz trumpeter, composer) age 85
October 15 - Frank Kerr (aka Frankie Venom, lead singer, Teenage Head) age 51
October 17 - Levi Stubbs, Singer (front man for the Four Tops) age 72
October 19 - Richard Blackwell, Fashion Critic (best known for his “Ten Worst Dressed Women” yearly list) age 86
October 24 - Merl Saunders, Musician/Keyboardist (played with The Grateful Dead) age 74
October 25 - Estelle Reiner, Actress (Wife of Carl and Mother of Rob Reiner) age 94
October 29 - Blair MacLean (comedian, MacLean and MacLean) age 62
November 1 - Yma Sumac (South American singer known for multi-octave range) age 86
November 1 - Jimmy Carl Black (born James Inkanish, Jr., drummer, The Mothers of Invention) age 70
November 4 - Byron Lee (leader of the Dragonnaires, a Jamaican ska, calypso and soca band) age 73
November 10 - Miriam Makeba (South African folk singer) age 75
November 12 - John “Mitch” Mitchell (drummer for Jimi Hendrix Experience) age 62
November 20 - Ermine Bramwell (Cherry Green, member of the original Wailers) age 65
November 24 - Kenny MacLean (bassist for Platinum Blonde) age 52
December 1 - Paul Benedict, Actor (best known as the quirky neighbor on the Jeffersons), age 70
December 2 - Odetta Holmes (American folk singer) age 77
December 11 - Bettie Page (1950s pin-up model) age 85
December 25 - Eartha Kitt, Singer (smooth purrr like voice, sang Santa Baby and many others), age 81
December 29 - Frederick Dewayne Hubbard (aka Freddie Hubbard, jazz trumpeter) age 70

This tree is gone too. It was removed from a parking lot for the crime of taking up too much space. Six more Spiral Oak friends went along for the ride to meet their maker, or wherever it is that trees go when they die.

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time.

To do all those things you wanted to do or should have done.

“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” –John Lennon.

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but its sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way, but you’re older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

And then it’s on to “The Great Gig in the Sky” with Richard Wright (RIP). Perhaps he’s currently passing that comet that is going to slam into us in 2012, according to the kids, or the Mayans, or someone with a very large monocle.

I wrote about John Lennon’s famous words in a letter to my father on Christmas morning. It seems that nobody bothers to write letters any more. Maybe we should. Maybe it’s time to tune-out, turn-off, and drop-in on somebody you haven’t seen for years. Don’t call first - just show up! Oh but “it’s rude” you say. Well perhaps that’s the point.

“Political correctness is tyranny with manners.” –Charlton Heston.

Good old Chuck, rest his soul. As hard as he tried, his attempts at brilliant prose only managed to come off sounding like a non-sequitur. Oh well, we still have this:

“Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!“

and this:

“He’ll like you. You’re a helluva piece of furniture.“

But I digress.

The “moments” of this “dull day” are “ticking away” and I have little time to “fritter and waste”, so I am going to come straight to the point while you’re “kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town” and “waiting for someone or something to show you the way”.

This blog cannot continue the way it has been, as my “frittering” hours are shrinking as the eons come to a close (2012 is just around the corner).

The blog will continue - for how long I cannot say - but with some important changes.

I started this blog rather casually (like many I suppose), joining the masses who would take the time to rip and upload those long lost and/or out-of-print musical obscurities.

In the last 18 months I have watched the musical blogosphere grow exponentially, even as many blogs ran out of steam after only a year or two into their tenure.

“And so it goes.” –Kurt Vonnegut.

The whole experience has been a bit overwhelming.

Life was so much simpler before computers.

Taking a cue from Miles over at Birds With Broken Wings, I intend to slow down in 2009 and take a more deliberate approach to my blogging efforts.

Besides, I’d prefer to spend a whole lot less time in front of computer screens. As Miles put it, “I’ve never fallen for machines though, regardless of how intelligent, attractive, or sexy they might be.”

It wasn’t so long ago that mixed tapes “were” and blogs “were not.”

At that time the closest thing to a musical blog was sharing mixed tapes with friends.

Back in the heyday of vinyl I made a lot of mixed tapes that I gave to friends or took to parties (hey kiddies, it’s a lot harder lugging around 20 LP’s than your little iPod). My analog signature was using the entire tape - the last song always got cut off. I didn’t intend for it to be that way, but once I gained the reputation, I just sort of ran with it.

Miles is a master of the mixed tape.

If you haven’t already, you should check out his many compilations, but especially: “Short, Fast And Loud (Confessions Of An Angry Young Man)” and his two mini-series, “Chasing the Ghost of Keruoac” and the new “Jazzoetry.“

These compilations showcase Miles’ sharp radio talents (he was a free-form radio DJ), and have inspired me to focus more on quality, and leave the quantity postings to those who are interested in aiding and abetting the iPod generation in their quest to fill their last gigabyte of disk space.

The Basement Rug published 5 compilations in 2008, including 2 by co-contributor Blind Joe Death, who I hope we’ll hear more from in 2009. The other 3 compilations include the Obamamania Election Mix, dedicated to George Carlin and Utah Phillips; the Frank Garlock Remix Project, to remind you that Satan lurks in rock and roll; and Mystics, Vagabonds and Troubadours, a brief glimpse into Acerbus Americana.

At the end of January 2009, The Basement Rug will take on a new direction.

Hopefully you will join us.

Best wishes to you all for a happier and more peaceful New Year!

From the New York Times:

I just heard a few hours ago that Merl Saunders had passed on. I went looking for a new story and found this, along with a download of the Keystone Encores album (1973). Enjoy!

The following story is from th 24 October 2008 issue of the San Francisco Chronicle:

16:44 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — Keyboardist Merl Saunders, the gentle lion of the San Francisco music scene best known as co-captain of guitarist Jerry Garcia’s solo excursions outside the Grateful Dead, died Friday at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center after fighting infections.

The 74-year-old musician suffered a debilitating stroke 6 1/2 years ago and, although he lost the ability to speak, he made numerous sentimental guest appearances at shows over those years playing with one hand.

“I never met anybody so happy who had a stroke,” said Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart. “In the end, the only thing that lit him up was the music. Sometimes he’d cry, but I’ve never seen anybody so happy in the realm of music.”

The native San Franciscan attended Polytechnic High School with singer Johnny Mathis.

After serving in the Army from 1953 to 1957, he played jazz organ on the same circuit as Jimmy Smith and Brother Jack McDuff. He worked as musical director of the Billy Williams Revue and served in a similar capacity in Oscar Brown Jr.’s off-Broadway show “Big Time Buck White.” He backed up Dinah Washington and jammed with Miles Davis. Mr. Saunders, who was rarely seen in public without his trademark aviator shades and black leather fisherman’s cap, started playing with Garcia in 1971 at a small Fillmore Street nightclub called the Matrix, where the Grateful Dead guitarist liked to hold informal jam sessions on Dead nights off. Within months, the loose-knit band was playing to packed houses at small local clubs like the Keystone Korner in North Beach every weekend the Dead wasn’t working. Members sometimes included former Creedence Clearwater rhythm guitarist Tom Fogerty and former Journey rhythm guitarist George Tickner.

The Saunders-Garcia Band, as the group came to be called, backed Mr. Saunders on his 1971 solo album, “Heavy Turbulence,” and recorded two albums for Berkeley’s Fantasy Records.

“Merl was an ensemble guy, a groupist,” said Hart, who played with Mr. Saunders in his early ’80s solo group, High Noon. “He brought those sensibilities to the Garcia band. He let Jerry have his flights of fancy.”

Mr. Saunders told The Chronicle in 1972 that playing with Garcia offered them both an opportunity to experiment and explore different forms of music. “We do it just for fun,” he said.

With the addition of saxophonist Martin Fierro in 1974, the group transformed into the Legion of Mary and disbanded the following year. Mr. Saunders also played in Reconstruction with Garcia in 1979 and 1980. Garcia appeared on Mr. Saunders’ 1990 solo album and video, “Blues From the Rainforest,” a surprise hit on the New Age music charts.

After Garcia fell into a diabetic coma in 1986 and lost some of his basic motor skills, Mr. Saunders spent hours daily with the stricken guitarist running scales, working him out on jazz standards such as “My Funny Valentine.”

Mr. Saunders’ music appeared on such soundtracks as “Fritz the Cat” and “Steelyard Blues.” He worked on the TV series “Nash Bridges” and, as musical director of the 1985 TV series “The New Twilight Zone,” inveigled the Grateful Dead into a new recording of the classic theme song.

He recorded numerous albums, toured constantly and earned a welcome spot in the post-Dead jam band scene. Mr. Saunders headlined the Haight Street Music Fair for 24 consecutive years.

After his stroke, Mr. Saunders’ musician son, Tony Saunders, completed his final solo album, “Still Groovin’.” The album featured duets with Bonnie Raitt and Mavis Staples. Huey Lewis stepped up with a lead vocal after Mr. Saunders was disabled.

In his first public appearance following the stroke, Mr. Saunders attended the September 2004 CD release party at the Great American Music Hall, and played a handful of notes on the keyboard.

Mr. Saunders cheated death twice before. He was booked to return to San Francisco on United Flight 93 out of Newark, N.J., on Sept. 11, 2001, but decided to take an earlier flight so he could get home in time to watch the 49ers on Monday Night Football. In 2002, he underwent surgery for cancer, only weeks before his stroke.

He is survived by his longtime companion, Deborah Hall; his sons, Tony of Martinez and Merl Saunders Jr. of Novato; daughter Susan Mora of Oakland; six grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at First AME Zion Church, 2159 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco.

E-mail Joel Selvin at jselvin@sfchronicle.com.

Album review by Lindsay Planer (AMG):

This is the third of three CDs compiled from a two-night (July 10 and 11, 1973) stand at Keystone Korners in Berkeley. These recordings have likewise yielded a pair of additional volumes — all of which stem from the original Live at Keystone (1973) two-LP release. Merl Saunders (keyboards) and Jerry Garcia (guitar/vocals) lead a funky rhythm section — consisting of John Kahn (bass) and Bill Vitt (percussion) — through a variety of adeptly chosen R&B, Motown, and blues covers. Garcia and Saunders began performing sporadically throughout the end of 1970, reconvening in the Bay Area whenever the guitarist could find time away from his day gig with the Grateful Dead. Ultimately this loose aggregate became the prototype for a somewhat more formal Jerry Garcia Band, which continued until Garcia’s passing in 1995. By the time these recordings were made, this particular combo was holding court upwards of eight weeks a year and had developed a unique, laid-back persona, perfectly counterbalancing Garcia’s decidedly more aggressive contributions to the Dead. The musical centerpiece of this band is undoubtedly their uncanny ability to provide multiple layers of interpretation and variation on familiar themes. The combination of Saunders’ sweet and soulful organ leads and the pure tonality in Garcia’s solos is flawlessly supported by round upon round of Kahn’s assertively fluid interjections. The Motown cover of “How Sweet It Is” perhaps best-exemplifies this approach, as the bassist punctuates the established melody with his trademark second-nature harmonic counterpoint. Keen-eared Deadheads will undoubtedly be curious to hear the adaptations of “High Heel Sneakers,” “I Second That Emotion,” as well as the Chicago-style blues interpretation of Blind Lemon Jefferson’s “One Kind Favor” — which the Dead very occasionally worked into their earliest performances. The loose structure allows for extended soloing which rather inadvertently reveals a lighthearted and cherubic side to Garcia’s musical companionship. This is a recommended listen for potential fans as well as the seasoned enthusiast.

Track Listing:

1) Hi-Heel Sneakers - 8:12
2) It’s Too Late (She’s Gone) - 7:44
3) I Second That Emotion - 10:57
4) One Kind Favour - 6:36
5) Money Honey - 8:19
6) How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You) - 10:20

This free digital sampler from the ECM label was just made available on amazon.com:

1) American Garage - Pat Metheny Group (4:11)
2) Lookout For Hope - The Bill Frisell Band (6:28)
3) Dreams So Real - Gary Burton Quintet (6:19)
4) Falling In Love With Love - Keith Jarrett (8:41)
5) I Hear A Rhapsody - Chick Corea (6:41)
6) Bass Desires - Marc Johnson (6:09)
7) Nemesis - Dave Holland Quartet (11:32)
8) I Took Up The Runes - Jan Garbarek (5:24)
9) The Pilgrim And The Stars - Enrico Rava (9:43)
10) Dwija - Charles Lloyd Quartet (6:43)

This story comes from the BBC:

A musician who underwent brain surgery to treat a hand tremor played his banjo throughout to test the success of the procedure.

Eddie Adcock is one of the pillars of Bluegrass Music and realised his tremor could threaten his ability to perform professionally.

Surgeons placed electrodes in Mr Adcock’s brain and fitted a pace maker in his chest which delivers a small current which shuts down the region of his brain causing the tremors.

A surgeon filmed the operation at the Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

Marshall Allen and the Sun Ra Arkestra are returning to Toronto with Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie for their world premiere performance of “Hymn to the Universe”, a cosmic celebration of music and dance.

The performance will launch the 2008 X Avant Festival and will take place at Palais Royale in Toronto, on Tuesday, 21 October 2008. The theme of X Avant is “Space is the Place“.

I saw Marshall and the gang a few years ago at the Lula Lounge and it was an experience and a half!

Advanced tickets are available online and at Soundscapes (572 College St.) and Rotate This (now at their new location, 801 Queen St. W.).

The Sun Ra Arkestra with Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie
Palais Royale - Toronto, ON
1601 Lake Shore West

Tuesday, 21 October 2008
Doors at 7:00 PM
Concert at 8:00 PM

Tickets are $30-$60.

Individual tickets (regular price only) also on sale at Soundscapes (572 College St.) and Rotate This (801 Queen W.) in Toronto.

The Music Gallery and Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie team up to present a world premiere performance that takes the audience on a cosmic journey through the music of Sun Ra and the choreography of Bill Coleman.

Performed by the 14-piece Sun Ra Arkestra — the band led by African-American visionary Sun Ra, now under the direction of Marshall Allen — and dancers of Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie, “Hymn to the Universe” will be a memorable gala launch to the Music Gallery’s X Avant / Space is the Place Festival. Taking place in the lavish, Jazz Age ballroom of the Palais Royale, contemporary choreography will meet 1930s-style hoofing — cosmic visual creations performed to the Arkestra’s trademark mix of big-band jazz and free-form, space-age improvisation. The diverse cast of performers will form a community that celebrates humanity’s ascent towards the future. The production is supported by award-winning Métis visual artist Edward Poitras and lighting designer Christopher Dennis, with costumes by Hoax Couture design.

The Sun Ra Arkestra:

Marshall Allen — alto saxophone + bandleader
Elson Nascimento — percussion
Knoell Scott — alto saxophone
Farid Abdul-Bari Barron — keyboards
Wayne Anthony Smith Jr. — drums
Junie Booth — bass
Danny Thompson — baritone saxophone
Fred Adams — trumpet
Dave Davies — trombone
Dave Hotep — guitar
Charles Davis — tenor saxophone
Cecil Brooks — trumpet
Yayah Abdul-Majid — tenor saxophone

Dancers:

Bill Coleman, Laurence Lemieux, Peter Chin, Robin Poitras, Won Myeong Won, Carol Prieur, Junghm Jo, Jennifer Dahl, Robert Regala

Sun Ra Arkestra — Biography

Eclectic, outrageous, sometimes mystifying but always imbued with a powerful jazz consciousness, the music of Sun Ra has withstood its skeptics and detractors for three generations. And well it should, since Sun Ra has been both a part of, and ahead of, the jazz tradition. Like Duke Ellington and swing-era pioneer Fletcher Henderson, Sun Ra learned early on to write music in an arranged form that showcased the specific talents of his individual band members. On the other hand, Sun Ra was the first jazz musician to perform on electronic keyboards, the first to pursue full-scale collective improvisation in a big band setting, and his preoccupation with space travel as a compositional subject predated bands psychedelia by about 15 years. All this from someone who claims to have arrived from Saturn.

In the 1940’s Sun Ra became the house arranger for stage shows at the famous Chicago night spot, the Club DeLisa and played for the band led by Fletcher Henderson. In the early 50’s, Ra’s more radical compositions and arrangements found their way into his own groups, which featured exotic costumes and unusual instruments. By 1955 while in Chicago, Herman “Sonny” Blount had become Sun Ra, leader of the Intergalactic Solar Arkestra, which has also been known by many other names, and included core members John Gilmore, Pat Patrick, and Marshall Allen. The Arkestra itself started as what was thought to be a hard-bop big band, but soon was incorporating free improvisation. As such, it was a major influence on the emerging avant-garde in Chicago.

From its inception, the Arkestra’s music was infused with Sun Ra’s unique philosophy, an unexpected hybrid of space-age science fiction and ancient Egyptian cosmology. This philosophy gained a visual manifestation in the colourful robes, mock-metallic capes, and space headgear worn by the band. In 1960, Sun Ra moved his earthbound base of operations to New York, then in 1968 settled in Philadelphia. In both cities, as in Chicago, the band lived and worked as a sort of collective. Throughout the following decades, Sun Ra continued to record for his own Saturn Records label, while touring widely and continuing to spread the fame of his live performances.

After suffering a stroke in 1992, Ra let his band tour without him. On May 30, 1993, Sun Ra made his ascension back to Saturn, eight days after his 79th “arrival day.” In 1995, Marshall Allen took over leadership of the Arkestra. Under his direction the band toured incessantly and made its first new recording since Ra’s death with A Song for the Sun. In 2008, they continue to tour and perform, with Allen celebrating his 84th birthday on stage at New York City’s Sullivan Hall.

www.elrarecords.com

Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie

Founded in 2000 by husband and wife Bill Coleman and Laurence Lemieux, Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie is a professional dance organization that creates, produces and presents works on a local, national and international scale. CLC has distinguished itself as one of the most dynamic forces in the Canadian artistic milieu, thanks to the scope of its artistic vision and to the accomplishments of its founders. Coleman and Lemieux have not only been hailed among the country’s finest dancers and choreographers (Lemieux is a recipient of the Dora Mavor Moore Award and Coleman of the Jacqueline Lemieux Prize), they are also producers of ground-breaking events that bring together artists at forefront of their fields with diverse communities “off the beaten track”.

Since incorporation in 2000, the company has experienced rapid growth and success both here and abroad. CLC’s 2006 performance at the Fall For Dance Festival in New York City was acclaimed the “jewel of the festival” by The New York Times. CLC’s 2007 Asia tour saw the company share the program at the Fifth International Beijing Dance Festival with Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal and Alvin Ailey Dance Co., and they became the first major company to tour Mongolia, thanks to the support of the privately funded Mongolian Arts Council. CLC has just recently returned from Western Mongolia’s famed Altai Mountains where they created and performed in and around the path of the Total Solar Eclipse.

www.colemanlemieux.com