the details
The 3rd annual In The Flow Jazz/Improvisational Festival has been announced for 2010. The lauded young improvisational music festival, titled “In The Flow 3 Festival”, featuring jazz, rock, poetry/spoken word, electronic and blues, this year brings an emphasis on world renowned Los Angeles-based players, including Nels Cline, guitarist from super group Wilco. Two years ago Rolling Stone included him in a roundup of 20 so-called New Guitar Gods, bestowing a fairly accurate epithet: The Avant Romantic.
In The Flow 3 Festival, produced by area guitarist Ross Hammond along with a group of volunteers, will post up over twenty music groups at two major locations–Beatnik Studios at 17th & Broadway, and new this year, the venerable Luna’s Cafe just up the road at 16th & N Sts. Tickets are $10 per day or $30 for a 4-day pass. Tickets go on sale April 20th. All of the artists presented are representatives of Sacramento, Los Angeles, SF/Bay Area and Portland. “In The Flow 3 is a great chance to experience what artists from out West have to offer”, says Hammond.
The returning title sponsor of the weekend events at Beatnik is the Greater Broadway Partnership Business Association, in conjunction with The Jazz House and SMF Music.
Pre-fest events at Russ Solomon’s R5 Records (corner of 16th & Broadway) and also Records at 1618 Broadway will be announced shortly.
Friday night, May 14 will feature a special night of poetry and music collaborations at Luna’s Cafe. The event, hosted by local poet phenom NSAA (a.k.a. Lawrence Dinkins) will be a night of surprises as regional poets trade verses with area jazz and creative musicians.
On Saturday, May 15 and Sunday, May 16 In The Flow 3 returns to Broadway for two full days of music and art at Beatnik Studios. This year there will be terrific jazz and improvisational musicians from Los Angeles (Nels Cline, Vinny Golia, GE Stinson, Steuart Liebig, Yuka Honda), Portland, Oregon (Rich Haley), The Bay Area (Phillip Greenlief, Scott Amendola, Darren Johnston, Lisa Mezzacappa), Grass Valley (Randy McKean, Murray Campbell), plus Sacramento and Davis (Ross Hammond, Tony Passarell, Alex Jenkins, Gerry Pineda). Over twenty different groups will be playing throughout the weekend.
In addition, there will be a special showing of regional visual artists Mark Fox, Nicole Fox, Milton Bowens, Greg LaTraille and Kathy Blackburn at Beatnik Studios all weekend during the Festival.
Monday, May 17 will be dedicated to late Sacramento bassist and In The Flow co-founder Byron Blackburn, as his final recording session will be released at Luna’s Cafe. The Labor Day Session CD features Blackburn along with Ross Hammond, Tom Monson, Phillip Greenlief, Jaroba and Tony Passarell. The remaining band members will be playing music from the new CD. Since November 2009, a weekly jazz/improvisational series at Luna’s, Nebraska Mondays named in honor of the Nebraska-born Blackburn, has grown in popularity.
A detailed 8 page program guide (available in late April at many Broadway and Midtown restaurant/cafe/shop locations , as well as greater Sacramento locations) will give fest-goers both artist bio info and a handy walking map to the neighborhood cafes restaurants and businesses.
