Please join us in a celebration of Matthew Sperry’s life and music with the Bay Area’s creative music community:
June 3 and 5, 2010
Eighth Annual Matthew Sperry Memorial Festival: HomeGrown
Handwritten scores from Matthew’s notebook inspire this annual festival of music and remembrance. The Festival begins in San Francisco with a Tag Team Trio Shift featuring dozens of the Bay Area’s experimental musicians performing no more than three at a time. Closing in the East Bay, the renowned sfSoundGroup presents a composition of Matthew’s in a program of exquisite works in contemporary music making.
Thursday June 3 | 8pm | $6 – $100 sliding scale
Luggage Store Gallery
1007 Market Street
San Francisco
co-presented with Outsound Presents
Tag Team Trio Shift with dozens of musicians refereed by John Shiurba
Saturday, June 5 | 8pm | $6 – $100 sliding scale
21 Grand
416 25th Street
Oakland
sfSound
playing the music of
Matthew Sperry,
Anthony Braxton,
Cornelius Cardew,
James Tenney and
sfSoundGroup
Festival Tickets are available at the door.
Donations accepted. All proceeds from these benefit performances support the Matthew Sperry Memorial Fund.
See also: Facebook page for this event.
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Henry was honored to play Matthew’s beautiful bass in giving private lessons and a master class at Mills College in Oakland, and at CNMAT / U.C. Berkeley in duo with the great Roscoe Mitchell, both in October, 2O1O. Many thanks to David Wessel of CNMAT for arranging with Matthew’s friend Phillip Greenlief for Henry to play Matthew’s bass while Henry was on tour in the Bay area.