Danton Boller Bass

Mx Justin Vivian Bond: The Return of Down on Creation – On Top of the World with The Carpenters, Bard
2018-07-07 20:30 (America/New_York) | Fisher Center for Performing Arts, 60 Manor Ave, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY, 12504, United States
Justin Vivian Bond: The Return of Down on Creation – On Top of the World with The Carpenters
One story that downtown cabaret star Justin Vivian Bond likes to tell involves Bond’s seven-year-old self-singing The Carpenters’ “Superstar” at school during show-and-tell from behind the classroom TV set. Fast forward to the present and the performance artist and transgender trailblazer has finally transformed this lifelong passion for The Carpenters into a gorgeous full-length show. For this special evening at Joe’s Pub, Mx Bond explores the extensive catalog of gender outlaw and body dysmorphia poster-girl Karen Carpenter, bringing a thoughtful new context to the troubled life of the ’70s icon. Experiencing the Carpenters’ classic American pop songs through the prism of a pioneering performance artist illuminates the artistry of both and shines a light on a tantalizing new corner of the American Songbook.

Gibb Droll Band, Funhouse Fest, Williamsburg, VA
2018-06-23 - 2018-06-24 | Funhouse Fest, Arts Museums of Colonial Williamsburg, 326 Francis St. W, Williamsburg, VA, 23185, United States
Virginia native Gibb Droll will appear at Funhouse Fest to preview his new collection of Americana influenced material. Droll is an American composer, songwriter, painter, and scorer of film. In addition to his tenure in Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers, Droll is noted for his numerous side projects including those with Ken Coomer (Wilco), Bryn Davies (The Tony Rice Unit, Jack White), and the prolific songwriter and poet Kevin Kinney. He has been highly sought after as a touring and studio guitarist most recently collaborating with his longtime friends Brandi Carlile, Keller Williams and Larry Keel. His earnest reputation and selfless nature have aided him in his successful emergence as a record producer.

Roy Hargrove Quintet, Philadelphia
2018-06-19 20:00, 2018-06-18 20:00 | South Jazz, 600 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19130
Trumpeter Roy Hargrove has firmly established himself among the premier players in jazz and beyond. Ever-stretching into more challenging and colorful ways to flex his musical chops, Hargrove has left indelible imprints in a vast array of artful settings.

Roy Hargrove Quintet, Tarrytown, NY
2018-06-16 20:00, 2018-06-15 20:00 | Jazz Forum, 1 Dixon Lane, Tarrytown, NY, 10591

Misha Piatigorsky Trio at Zinc Bar, NYC
2018-06-09 20:00, 2018-05-03 20:00, 2018-04-21 20:00 | Zinc Bar, 82 West 3rd Street, New York, NY, 10012, United States
Hailed by the Boston Globe as an artist who “beautifully merges the worlds of serious jazz and pop,” Misha Piatigorsky’s blend of powerful melodies with an unusual harmonic sensitivity gives his sound a deeply personal yet cosmopolitan dimension, reflecting his experience as a Russian-Jewish émigré growing up in urban America.

Taylor Mac, A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, Philadelphia
2018-06-02 12:00 - 2018-06-03 00:00 | Kimmel Center, 300 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia, NJ, 19102, United States
“24 hours doesn’t feel like enough.”
– Melbourne’s The Guardian
Unlike anything you’ve ever experienced, this epic 24-hour performance art concert exorcizes the social history of the United States—240 years in the making and 24 hours in the telling. It is a spectacular pop odyssey with over 24 musicians and more than 100 local performers, including burlesque performers, a choir, a marching band, knitters, and acrobats. The audience itself is essential to the performance with deeply touching, oftentimes hilarious, and immersive moments that build to a delicious illustration of our nation’s diverse and sometimes dysfunctional story, reinvigorating a distinctively American sense of possibility.
The only scheduled presentation of the complete 24-Decades on the East Coast, this epic event (hailed as a Ring Cycle for the 21st Century), will be presented as two 12-hour parts, the longest presentation segments since Taylor’s historic 24-hour marathon performance in Brooklyn last fall. Tickets can be purchased individually for the two 12-hour parts, or audience members can purchase the full 24 hours to see the pièce de résistance in its entirety— an experience that The New York Times called “one of the great experiences of my life.”
“Worried about the future of American theater… Look to Taylor Mac.”
– San Francisco Chronicle
Taylor Mac is a New York-based theater artist, playwright, actor, singer-songwriter, cabaret performer, performance artist, director, and producer whose many talents combine in the spectacular A 24-DECADE HISTORY OF POPULAR MUSIC. Taylor recently won the 2017 Edward M. Kennedy Award for Drama inspired by American History, the 2017 MacArthur Foundation ‘Genius’ Grant, and was a 2017 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Drama. A 24-DECADE HISTORY OF POPULAR MUSIC had the distinct honor of being included on an unprecedented three New York Times “Best of…” lists in 2016: Performance, Theater and Classical Music.

Justin Vivian Bond: The Return of Down on Creation – On Top of the World with The Carpenters, NYC
2018-05-18 21:00, 2018-05-13 - 2018-05-17, 2018-05-06 21:00 | Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette St., New York, NY, 10003, United States

GOAT, NYC
2018-05-16 23:00 | Bitter End, 147 Bleecker St., NY, NY, 10012, United States
Catch GOAT at the Bitter End.

Taylor Mac, A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, Montclair, NJ
2018-05-04 19:00 | Wellmont Theater, 5 Seymour St., Montclair, NJ, 07042, United States
Taylor Mac’s “A 24-Decade History of Popular Music” is an acclaimed, bedazzled mashup of music, history, and theater that decodes the social history of the United States—all 240 years—through 246 songs that were popular throughout the country, and in its disparate communities, from 1776 to the present day. This abridged performance will feature selections spanning the 24-hour work.

Jeff Austin Band, Charm City Bluegrass Festival After Party, Baltimore
2018-04-28 20:30 - 2018-04-29 01:30 | The 8×10, 10 E Cross St., Baltimore, MD, 21230, United States
Join the Charm City Bluegrass Festival After Party with the Jeff Austin Band.
“Jeff Austin blew the crowd away with his standout, electro-driven bluegrass…Austin and his bandmates have reinvented Americana music in a way that moves the genre forward.”
– jambase.com

Jeff Austin Band, Charm City Bluegrass Festival, Baltimore
2018-04-28 16:00 - 17:30 | Druid Hill Park, 900 Druid Park Lake Dr., Baltimore, 21217, United States
The 6th Annual Charm City Bluegrass Festival returns to its home in Druid Hill Park. This year will be bigger and better than ever. Union Craft Brewing returns as the beer of choice for the festival. Local food and craft vendors will be on hand to provide a variety of affordable options.

Broadway's Babies Annual Benefit, Highline Ballroom, NYC
2018-04-23 20:00 | Highline Ballroom, 431 W 16th Street, New York, NY, 10011, United States
Join some of Broadway and TV’s finest on Monday, April 23rd at 8pm at the Highline Ballroom for the return of the Broadway’s Babies Annual Benefit Concert to help raise awareness and money for children in need in NYC and around the world. Produced by Kate Pfaffl (War Horse) and Ben Houghton.

GOAT, NYC
2018-04-05 23:00 | Bitter End, 147 Bleecker St., NY, NY, 10012, United States
Catch GOAT at the Bitter End

Ben Perowsky, NY
2018-04-04 20:00 | NY
Danton Boller plays with drummer Ben Perowsky. Location TBD.

Taylor Mac A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, Los Angeles
2018-03-15 - 2018-03-25 | Center for the Art of Performance, 340 Royce Drive, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
Taylor Mac : A 24-Decade History of Popular Music

Thu, Mar 15 – Sat, Mar 24

“I believe theater is community and I think of myself as a community activist; someone whose job it is to bring people together, give them a shared experience and remind them of the things they’ve forgotten, dismissed or buried.” —Taylor Mac
For the past 20 years, Taylor Mac has created spectacular award-winning performance events that at once provoke and embrace his diverse audience with their passion. Equal parts community organizer, Elizabethan fool and bedazzled bon vivant, Taylor Mac “doesn’t just defy categorization; he makes the categories themselves seem irrelevant.” (Time Out NY)
In Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, he charts the history of popular music and activism in America, from the nation’s founding in 1776 to the present day. This uniquely original performance art concert featuring many special guests will be presented over 2 weeks. Winner of the 2017 Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History, and a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Drama, the production has been hailed by The New York Times critic Wesley Morris as “one of the great experiences of my life.”
[24-Decade] is “about becoming who we Americans want to be, by recognizing who we have been. It’s about artistic confrontation, reinterpretation and personal transcendence.” (Taylor Mac)

Thu, Mar 15, 2018
CHAPTER I: 1776-1836
The American Revolution from the perspective of the Yankee Doodle Dandy, the early women’s lib movement, an epic battle between drinking songs and early Temperance songs; a dream sequence where the audience is and the heteronormal narrative of colonization.

Sat, Mar 17, 2018
CHAPTER II: 1836-1896
Walt Whitman and Stephen Foster go head to head for the title of Father of the American Song culminating in the queerest Civil War Reenactment in history. Oh…and a production of the Mikado set on Mars.

Thu, Mar 22, 2018
CHAPTER III: 1896-1956
A Jewish tenement, a WWI trench, a speak-easy, a depression and a zoot suit riot all make the white people flee the cities.

Sat, Mar 24, 2018
CHAPTER IV: 1956-Present
Bayard Rustin’s March on Washington leads to a queer riot, sexual deviance as revolution, radical lesbians and a community building itself while under siege.

Taylor Mac, A 24-Decade History of Popular Music (Abridged), Kennedy Center, DC
2018-03-06 19:00 | The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 2700 F Street, NW Washington, DC, 20566, United States
The D.C. premiere of this live vocal and theatrical presentation offers a radical, queer reading of American history with fabulous entertainer Taylor Mac and local performers.
“Mr. Mac gave me one of the great experiences of my life”—The New York Times
This hit show from drag artist Taylor Mac—the genre-defying winner of a 2017 MacArthur “Genius” Grant, recipient of the 2017 Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama, and a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama—uses songs of the time to chronicle our country from its founding in 1776 to today. Years in development, the show was originally performed in 2016 as a one-time, 24-hour event that made the New York Times annual list of Best Performances, Theater, and Music.
This condensed version is a highly immersive and outrageously entertaining crash course in the 240 years (and counting) of American culture and dysfunction. Highlighting various musical styles and artistic voices ranging from murder ballads to disco, Walt Whitman to David Bowie, this night is “startlingly unique… a must-see for anyone who wants to see a kinder, gentler society” (Huffington Post).

Bridget Everett & The Tender Moments at Joe's Pub, NYC
2018-03-03 21:30, 2018-03-02 22:00, 2018-02-27 22:00, 2018-02-26 21:30, 2018-02-09 21:30, 2018-02-08 21:30 | Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette St., New York, NY, 10003, United States
“Who says the city no longer produces artists who challenge, provoke and even, on occasion, dare to disgust? She can rock hard and does!” –The New York Times
Hot on the heels of her critically acclaimed and completely sold out production of Rock Bottom, New York’s downtown darling Bridget Everett returns the stage with her band, The Tender Moments, and a bottle of chardonnay to sing all her favorite love songs and share the stories of the men that made her…feel? From tender moments to prison sex, come get inside her.
“She’s a one-woman liberation movement for anyone with genitals.” –New York Magazine
“You can call it making love, you can call it having sex, but somebody is getting fucked tonight.” –Bridget Everett

Steve Bloom Trio at Bar Next Door, NYC
2018-02-25 20:00 | Bar Next Door, 129 Macdougal St., NYC, NY, 10012, United States
Led by the always thrilling NYC guitarist Steve Bloom, the Steve Bloom Trio explores and expands upon the music of Thelonious Monk, Charlie Mingus, Wayne Shorter and Ornette Coleman. Featuring the powerful dynamics of drummer Jeremy Carlstedt and the solid expression of bassist Danton Boller, the Steve Bloom Trio brings a fresh energy and interpretation to the music of the giants. Two sets at 8 and 10pm.

Justin Vivian Bond, Lincoln Center
2018-02-15 20:00 | Lincoln Center, The Appel Room, 10 Columbus Circle, New York, NY, 10019, United States
Justin Vivian Bond is Down on Creation: On Top of the World with The Carpenters
One story that downtown cabaret star Justin Vivian Bond likes to tell involves Bond’s seven-year-old self singing The Carpenters’ “Superstar” at school during show-and-tell from behind the classroom TV set. Fast forward to the present and the performance artist and transgender trailblazer has finally transformed this lifelong passion for The Carpenters into a gorgeous full-length show. For this special evening, Mx Bond explores the extensive catalog of gender outlaw and body dysmorphia poster-girl Karen Carpenter, bringing a thoughtful new context to the troubled life of the ’70s icon.
