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The Kevin Frenette 5 @ 119 Gallery - Saturday May 31

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Saturday May 31, 2008

119 Gallery
119 Chelmsford Street
Lowell, MA

8pm - 11pm

The Kevin Frenette 5

Kevin Frenette (guitar)
James Rohr (fender rhodes)
Joe Moffet (trumpet)
Ryan McGuire (bass)
Croix Galipault (drums)

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Bird Organ

Marc Bisson (tabletop guitars)
Mike Fun (analog synthesizer)
deiX, (theremin + voice)
Walter Wright (laptop)

Guitarist Kevin Frenette began playing music at the age of eleven and began working professionally in the 1990s. He studied guitar, composition, and music theory at UMASS-Dartmouth where he received a BA in Theory/Composition and has performed throughout the Northeast USA making music that is inspired by both contemporary improvisation and avant-garde jazz. He has performed and/or recorded with such artists as Tatsuya Nakatani, Jack Wright, Joe Giardullo, Pandelis Karayorgis, Daniel Levin, Andy McWain, Forbes Graham, Luther Gray, Jane Wang, Dan DeChellis, Ryan McGuire, Jeff Kimmel, Adam Dotson and Joe Moffett. In 2007, Fuller Street Music released Kevin's first date as a leader: Connections. That album featured Frenette with Tatsuya Nakatani on percussion, Andy McWain on piano and Todd Keating on bass.



James Rohr has been wrestling with the piano since the age of 5. Sometimes he tries to play all 88 keys at once, sometimes just a few. He began playing professionally at 14 at a BBQ joint in New Mexico where he played a piano for ribs. In the mid 1990's, James formed a piano trio with Nate Mcbride on bass, and Curt Newton on drums. Together they released three recordings that a few people in Europe and Canada heard. James has had the honor and privelige of playing with many of the great improvisors in the Boston/NYC area. Currently, James is interested in writing and performing songs with his band, the blue ribbons, which he describes as Ray Charles and Johnny Cash meet Captain Beefheart and Sun Ra.

Joe Moffett is a Boston-based trumpet player and improviser. He has recently been involved in a number of projects which range from his own solo performances, to interdisciplinary work with poet Ruth Lepson, to performing as a section player and soloist in Joe Morris's Go Go Mambo, which traveled to Spain in 2006 and 2007. Boxcars, an improvising wind ensemble he co-founded, will be performing their first East Coast tour this spring. He has performed in a large variety of venues, from Brooklyn's Southpaw to the Jamaica Plain Library in Boston, Mass. Other venues of performance include the Stone and ABC No Rio in New York, the Heaven Gallery in Chicago, and the Lily Pad and Studio Soto in Boston.

Bassist and composer Ryan McGuire has performed with Jim Hobbs, Raqib Hassan, Forbes Graham and others, and has toured the U.S. and Canada on several occasions. Originally from Cape Cod, McGuire studied composition and performance at UMass-Lowell and Berklee, and has recordings on Tzadik, Hydrahead, Robotic Empire, and Holy Roar Records. He currently performs with Ehnahre, Dilettante, th Kevin Frenette 4, Calliope Quartet, The Epicureans, and Raqib Hassan and the Interdimensional Science Research Orchestra.

Croix Galipault is a drummer and an active performer in the Boston free jazz scene. He has performed with Joe Morris, Daniel Levin, Rob Brown, and Hand 88 to name a few. Croix has recorded with Joe Morris and Natural History, Dennis Gonzales, and Daniel Levin. A graduate of the New England Conservatory, Croix has studied with Joe Morris, Michael Gandolfi, Ken Schaphorst, Hankus Netsky, and Bob Moses. Croix can be heard with Natural History, Fur Skycap Records 2005, and The Dennis Gonzales Boston Project, Clean Feed 2006.

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