Danton Boller Bass NYC

Misha Piatigorsky Trio at Zinc Bar, NYC
2016-12-17 20:00, 2016-10-12 21:00 (America/New_York) | 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. He works in New York City to advance the modern jazz sound beyond the standards with his trio featuring Danton Boller and Ari Hoenig.

Michael Leonhart Orchestra, Rockwood Music Hall, NYC
2016-12-14 21:15 | Rockwood Music Hall, 196 Allen St., NY, NY, 10002, United States
In the spirit of Ellington and Zappa’s bands, the MLO consists of unique improvisers/instrumentalists, performing Leonhart’s innovative arrangements.
At age 17, Michael was honored as the youngest Grammy recipient in history, cited as the most outstanding musician in a U.S. high school.
Michael has performed with Steely Dan since 1996, recording two albums with them, including 2000’s Grammy winning Album of the Year “Two Against Nature” on which he was a featured soloist, arranger and conductor. He has performed and/or recorded with music legends James Brown, Ringo Starr, Brain Eno, Paul Simon, Eric Clapton, Levon Helm, Yoko Ono, David Byrne, Dr. John, Steve Winwood, Bill Withers, Bette Midler, Michael McDonald, Boz Scaggs, Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth), Caetano Veloso, A Tribe Called Quest, Raekwon (Wutang Clan), Henry Mancini, John Barry, Steven Tyler (Aerosmith), Bobby McFerrin, Wynton Marsalis, Todd Rundgren and Bonnie Raitt. Michael has also worked with artists such as Mark Ronson, Alicia Keys, Sharon Jones and the Dapkings, Bruno Mars, Antibalas, Sean Lennon, Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, Charles Bradley and the Menahan Street Band, St. Vincent, Foster the People, Mos Def, Q-Tip, Busta Rhymes, Phish, Cibo Matto, Lenny Kravitz, Scissor Sisters, Aloe Blacc, Natalie Merchant, Slash (Guns and Roses/Velvet Revolver), They Might Be Giants and Jens Lekman.
Most recently, Michael can be heard playing trumpet on Mark Ronson’s #1 hit “Uptown Funk” featuring Bruno Mars.

Keller Williams, Grateful Grass in Richmond, VA
2016-11-26 20:00 | The National, 708 E. Broad Street, Richmond, VA, 23219, United States
Thanksforgrassgiving returns for it’s second year of post-feasting bluegrass festivities. This year Keller’s all-star cast of pickers will include Jeff Austin on mandolin, Danton Boller on bass, Nicky Sanders (Steep Canyon Rangers) on fiddle and Jay Starling (Love Canon) on dobro with special guests Love Canon kicking off both nights. This event sold out last year so don’t delay on gobbling up those tickets. Keller’s Grateful Grass delivers anything-but-traditional bluegrass versions of Grateful Dead favorites. Grateful Grass often times has a rotating lineup and so far, has included collaborations with The Keels, Keith Moseley (SCI), Jeff Austin (Yonder Mountain String Band), Michael Kang (SCI), Reed Mathis (Tea Leaf Green, Mark Benevento Trio) Bill Nershi (SCI), Allie Kral, Vince Herman (Leftover Salmon), Sam Grisman and The Infamous Stringdusters.

Keller Williams, Grateful Grass in Washington, DC
2016-11-25 20:00 | 9:30 Club, 815 V. Street N.W., Washington, DC, United States

Keller Williams KWahtro, Austin, TX
2016-11-19 20:00 | Historic Scoot Inn, 1308 E. 4th Street, Austin, TX, 78702, United States
The Keller Williams KWahtro featuring Gibb Droll, Danton Boller and Rodney Holmes is an evolution of Acoustic Dance Music. Using Keller’s songs as a template for creations involving improvisational bursts of new disco, reggae, drum and bass and jazz swing afro trap, all with two acoustic guitars, double bass and drums.

Keller Williams KWahtro, Dallas, TX
2016-11-18 20:00 | The Granada Theater, 3524 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX, 75206, United States

Keller Williams KWahtro, Houston, TX
2016-11-17 20:00 | White Oak Music Hall, 2915 N Main St., Houston, TX, 77009, United States

Keller Williams KWahtro, Asheville, NC
2016-11-12 20:00 | The Orange Peel, 101 Biltmore Ave., Asheville, NC, 28801, United States

Keller Williams KWahtro, Charlotte, NC
2016-11-11 20:00 | Neighborhood Theatre, 511 East 36th Street, Charlotte, NC, 28205, United States

Keller Williams KWahtro, Columbia, SC
2016-11-10 20:00 | Music Farm Columbia, 1022 Senate Street, Columbia, SC, 29201, United States

Michael Leonhart Orchestra, Rockwood Music Hall, NYC
2016-11-09 21:00 | Rockwood Music Hall, 196 Allen St., NY, NY, 10002, United States
In the spirit of Ellington and Zappa’s bands, the MLO consists of unique improvisers/instrumentalists, performing Leonhart’s innovative arrangements.
Michael Leonhart – Conduction, Arrangements, Trumpet
Will Holshouser – Accordion
Jason Marshall – Sax (Baritone)
Daniel Freedman – Drums
Christine Kim – Cello
Pauline Kim Harris – Violin
Mauro Refosco – Percussion
Robbie Mangano – Guitar
Philip Dizack – Trumpet
Carter Yasutake – Trumpet
Jordan McLean (musician) – Trumpet
Ray Mason – Trombone
Alden Banta – Bassoon
Morgan Price – Sax (Tenor)
Danton Boller – Bass
Sara Phillips Budde – Clarinet

Keller Williams KWahtro, Tempe, AZ
2016-11-05 20:00 | Marquee Theater, 730 N. Mill Ave., Tempe, AZ, 480-829-0607, United States

Keller Williams KWahtro, Solana Beach, CA
2016-11-04 20:30 | Belly Up, 143 S. Cedros Ave., Solana Beach, CA, 92075, United States

Keller Williams KWahtro, Hermosa Beach, CA
2016-11-03 20:00 | Saint Rocke, 142 Pacific Coast Highway, Hermosa Beach, CA, 90254, United States

Taylor Mac, Belfast Ireland
2016-10-29 19:45 | Metropolitan Arts Centre, 10 Exchange St. West, Belfast, Ireland
In his first Northern Ireland appearance, the flamboyant and vocally gifted Obie Award-winning New York performer Taylor Mac brings a series of special, participative concerts to Festival.
Accompanied by a live band and dressed in a dazzling array of costume creations by Machine Dazzle, Taylor Mac is guaranteed to have audiences laughing, thinking and cheering as he reflects on notions of authority, class, empire, gender, patriotism and war and differing perceptions and attitudes to how history is made and viewed.
The Festival Closing Concert on 29 October will be a ten-decade spectacular from 1916, the year of the Battle of the Somme and the Easter Rising through to 2016.
Co-commissioned by Belfast International Arts Festival and 14-18 NOW: WW1 Centenary Art Commissions
Please note this event contains adult humour.
Add a ticket for Taylor Mac’s WW1 Years and More AND a ticket for the Festival Closing Concert and receive a discount.
All performances by Taylor are part of 14-18 NOW, the UK’s arts programme for the First World War centenary

‘Like any great dame, Mac makes us both forget ourselves and brings us together like a temporary community. Like the glittering vision on stage, we all briefly sparkle a little brighter’ **** – The Guardian

Taylor Mac, Belfast Ireland
2016-10-26 19:45, 2016-10-25 19:45 | Metropolitan Arts Centre, 10 Exchange St. West, Belfast, Ireland
In his first Northern Ireland appearance, the flamboyant and vocally gifted Obie Award-winning New York performer Taylor Mac brings a series of special, participative concerts to Festival.
Accompanied by a live band and dressed in a dazzling array of costume creations by Machine Dazzle, Taylor Mac is guaranteed to have audiences laughing, thinking and cheering as he reflects on notions of authority, class, empire, gender, patriotism and war and differing perceptions and attitudes to how history is made and viewed.
These first two concerts give Taylor Mac’s astute take on music and culture and span the years before, during and after the First World War from 1896 through to 1926.
The Festival Closing Concert on 29 October will be a ten-decade spectacular from 1916, the year of the Battle of the Somme and the Easter Rising through to 2016.
Co-commissioned by Belfast International Arts Festival and 14-18 NOW: WW1 Centenary Art Commissions
Please note this event contains adult humour.
Add a ticket for Taylor Mac’s WW1 Years and More AND a ticket for the Festival Closing Concert and receive a discount.
All performances by Taylor are part of 14-18 NOW, the UK’s arts programme for the First World War centenary

‘Like any great dame, Mac makes us both forget ourselves and brings us together like a temporary community. Like the glittering vision on stage, we all briefly sparkle a little brighter’ **** – The Guardian

Keller Williams KWahtro, Athens, GA
2016-10-22 20:00 | The Georgia Theatre, 215 N Lumpkin St, Athens, GA, 30601, United States

Keller Williams KWahtro, Charleston, SC
2016-10-21 20:00 | The Charleston Pour House, 1977 Maybank Highway, Charleston, SC, 29412, United States

Inyang Bassey featuring Binky Griptite, Brooklyn
2016-10-13 20:00 | BRIC Arts | Media House, 647 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11217
BRIC JazzFest Marathon: NIGHT 1
Sponsored by the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment
David Murray Infinity Quartet, Ben Allison & Think Free, Taylor McFerrin & Marcus Gilmore, Krystle Warren, Jason Marshall, Inyang Bassey w/ special guest Binky Griptite, Michael Leonhart Orchestra, Kenyatta Beasley, Bria Skonberg perform staggered sets spanning the BRIC House Ballroom, the Stoop overlooking the Gallery, and a jazz club inside the Artist Studio.

Taylor Mac, A 24-Decade History of Popular Music at St. Ann's, Brooklyn
2016-10-08 12:00 - 2016-10-09 12:00 | St. Ann’s Warehouse, 45 Water St., Brooklyn, NY, 11201, United States
“a staggering magnum opus” – The New York Times
“Mac’s musical survey … is offered in the spirit Whitman had in mind when he said that he heard America singing.” –The New Yorker
Taylor Mac’s glittering performance art concerts chart a (highly) subjective history of popular music and activism in America from the nation’s founding in 1776 to the present day. Created with a bevy of collaborators, including music director / arranger Matt Ray, co-director Niegel Smith, 2015 MacArthur Fellow Mimi Lien, lighting designer John Torres, and longtime fellow traveler and costume provocateur Machine Dazzle, this highly anticipated World Premiere will be the first time Taylor Mac performs the complete 24-decade history in its entirety.
“Fabulousness can come in many forms, and Taylor Mac seems intent on assuming each and every one of them.” – The New York Times
Stay Up All Day and Night: Taylor will perform one 24-Hour Marathon without intermission. Yes, Mary, we ask you to stay for the entire performance.
24-Hour Marathon Oct 8-9 | Noon – Noon
Tickets $400 | Extremely limited | Sorry Mary, you may not share your Marathon ticket.
About the Acts:
ACT I: 1776-1806
Founding Father Drag, Women’s Lib, and Crazy Jane
The American Revolution from the perspective of the Yankee Doodle Dandy and an epic battle between drinking songs and early Temperance songs. Starts with an orchestra of 24.
ACT II: 1806-1836
Young Love, Blindfolds, and Murder Ballads
Destined for Broadway, this romp through such chestnuts as “Old Oaken Bucket”, “An Apparition of a Dandy” and that #1 hit, “Poor Little Gypsy” is certain to be a surefire sensation, if not the greatest jukebox musical in the history of mankind.
ACT III: 1836-1866
Puppets, Whitman, and Civil War
Two men fall in love while escaping slavery; Walt Whitman and Stephen Foster go head to head for title of “Father of the American Song” culminating in the queerest Civil War Reenactment in history.
ACT IV: 1866-1896
Circus, Mikado, and the Oklahoma Land Rush
A dinner theater production of The Mikado set on Mars, plus the queerest land grab in history.
ACT V: 1896-1926
Tenements, Trenches, and Speakeasies
A Jewish tenement, a WWI trench reenactment and a dance-off between 12 ukulele playing Tiny Tims and 12 Charles Dickens Tiny Tims.
ACT VI: 1926-1956
The Depression, Prison Fantasies, and the Atomic Bomb
Oh the Depression, ain’t it great… Zoot Suit Riots, Japanese Internment Camps, and white people flee the cities.
ACT VII: 1956-1986
A March, a Riot, and a Backroom Sex Party
Bayard Rustin’s March on Washington leads to Queer riots; sexual deviance as revolution. Due to popular demand, Act VII will be performed twice.
ACT VIII: 1986-2016
Direct Action, Radical Lesbians, and Originals
A community builds itself under siege, radical lesbians avenge, and Taylor performs original songs for 2016.
“Taylor Mac seduces you, breaks your heart, patches it back up again and sews sequins along the scars.” – The Irish Times
“The love child of David Bowie and Liza Minnelli” (LA Times), Taylor Mac is an Obie Award winning performance artist, playwright and actor who is a 2016 winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship and Doris Duke Artist Award.

Sven Ratzke & Band: From Amsterdam to Mars, Lincoln Center, NYC
2016-09-29 19:30 | David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, 64th and Broadway, New York, NY, 10023, United States
The transgressive Dutch/German cabaret star is a diva in the perfect sense: brilliantly entertaining, wicked, full of humor, and musicality and highly original. Berlin runs in his blood and that means Sven Ratzke is a first-class entertainer who tours the world from sold-out shows at New York’s Lincoln Center or Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, to long runs in Berlin, Sydney, Edinburgh, and Vienna. He has worked with the some of the great entertainers on this planet, from punk goddess Nina Hagen to New York legend Joey Arias, Fassbinder muse Hanna Schugylla to The Tiger Lillies.
In this evening-length performance, Ratzke pulls in numbers from his acclaimed homage to the music of David Bowie Starman and songs from Brecht and the great divas of the ‘60s.
Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Sven Ratzke & Band, Private Party in Martha's Vineyard
2016-09-28 20:00 | Private Party
The transgressive Dutch/German cabaret star is a diva in the perfect sense: brilliantly entertaining, wicked, full of humor, and musicality and highly original. Berlin runs in his blood and that means Sven Ratzke is a first-class entertainer who tours the world from sold-out shows at New York’s Lincoln Center or Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, to long runs in Berlin, Sydney, Edinburgh, and Vienna. He has worked with the some of the great entertainers on this planet, from punk goddess Nina Hagen to New York legend Joey Arias, Fassbinder muse Hanna Schugylla to The Tiger Lillies.

Taylor Mac, A 24-Decade History of Popular Music at St. Ann's, Brooklyn
2016-09-27 19:30 - 22:30 | St. Ann’s Warehouse, 45 Water St., Brooklyn, NY, 11201, United States
“a staggering magnum opus” – The New York Times
“Mac’s musical survey … is offered in the spirit Whitman had in mind when he said that he heard America singing.” –The New Yorker
Taylor Mac’s glittering performance art concerts chart a (highly) subjective history of popular music and activism in America from the nation’s founding in 1776 to the present day. Created with a bevy of collaborators, including music director / arranger Matt Ray, co-director Niegel Smith, 2015 MacArthur Fellow Mimi Lien, lighting designer John Torres, and longtime fellow traveler and costume provocateur Machine Dazzle.
ACT VI: 1926-1956
The Depression, Prison Fantasies, and the Atomic Bomb
Oh the Depression, ain’t it great… Zoot Suit Riots, Japanese Internment Camps, and white people flee the cities.
“Taylor Mac seduces you, breaks your heart, patches it back up again and sews sequins along the scars.” – The Irish Times

“Fabulousness can come in many forms, and Taylor Mac seems intent on assuming each and every one of them.” – The New York Times
“The love child of David Bowie and Liza Minnelli” (LA Times), Taylor Mac is an Obie Award winning performance artist, playwright and actor who is a 2016 winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship and Doris Duke Artist Award.

Keller Williams, Grateful Grass at Catskill Chill, PA
2016-09-24 - 2016-09-25 | Catskill Chill, 2656 Upper Woods Road, Lakewood, PA, 18439, United States
Keller’s Grateful Grass delivers anything-but-traditional bluegrass versions of Grateful Dead favorites. Grateful Grass often times has a rotating lineup and so far, has included collaborations with The Keels, Keith Moseley (SCI), Jeff Austin (Yonder Mountain String Band), Michael Kang (SCI), Reed Mathis (Tea Leaf Green, Mark Benevento Trio) Bill Nershi (SCI), Allie Kral, Vince Herman (Leftover Salmon), Sam Grisman and The Infamous Stringdusters.

Taylor Mac, A 24-Decade History of Popular Music at St. Ann's, Brooklyn
2016-09-22 19:30 - 22:30 | St. Ann’s Warehouse, 45 Water St., Brooklyn, NY, 11201, United States
“a staggering magnum opus” – The New York Times
“Mac’s musical survey … is offered in the spirit Whitman had in mind when he said that he heard America singing.” –The New Yorker
Taylor Mac’s glittering performance art concerts chart a (highly) subjective history of popular music and activism in America from the nation’s founding in 1776 to the present day. Created with a bevy of collaborators, including music director / arranger Matt Ray, co-director Niegel Smith, 2015 MacArthur Fellow Mimi Lien, lighting designer John Torres, and longtime fellow traveler and costume provocateur Machine Dazzle.
ACT IV: 1866-1896
Circus, Mikado, and the Oklahoma Land Rush
A dinner[SF1] theater production of The Mikado set on Mars, plus the queerest land grab in history.
“Taylor Mac seduces you, breaks your heart, patches it back up again and sews sequins along the scars.” – The Irish Times

“Fabulousness can come in many forms, and Taylor Mac seems intent on assuming each and every one of them.” – The New York Times
“The love child of David Bowie and Liza Minnelli” (LA Times), Taylor Mac is an Obie Award winning performance artist, playwright and actor who is a 2016 winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship and Doris Duke Artist Award.

Bassey & The Heathens at The McKittrick Hotel, NY
2016-09-17 23:00, 2016-09-16 23:00 | The McKittrick Hotel, 530 West 27th Street, NY, NY, 10001, United States
Heathens live at The Heath, 11pm.
Come to The Heath for an unforgettable night filled with delicious cocktails and the electrifying soulful rock of Heathens.
Your RSVP guarantees admission. Libations will be available for purchase throughout the night.
Guests who purchase a reserved seat for Heathens will be treated to a complimentary cocktail upon arrival. Watch a video here

Chop and Quench: "The Fela Band" at Subrosa, NY
2016-09-14 08:00 - 17:00 | Subrosa, 63 Gansevoort St. , New York, NY, 10014, United States
CHOP AND QUENCH, “The Fela! Band,” is comprised of members of the cast and band of FELA! the musical. Individually, the musicians are some of the finest in New York, having performed with The Roots, India Arie, Elvis Costello, and many others. Lead singer Sahr Ngaujah was nominated for a TONY Award for his performance in the Broadway show and has been featured on film and television. As a unit, the band has gotten to accompany performers such as Beyonce, Femi Kuti, and Angelique Kidjo. Known for their straightforward performances of classic Fela Kuti compositions, they have branched out, bringing their own original music to the stage.
