Other Minds Festival 22 – Lou Harrison

The late Lou Silver Harrison (1917-2003) was one of America's most original and revered composers, born May 14th, 1917, in Portland, Oregon. The world is celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth with concerts everywhere. On May 20, Bay Area music non-profit Other Minds will produce a concert devoted exclusively to some major highlights of Harrison’s infectious output. The Noonan Building’s Mark Abramson is currently working as Production Director for Other Minds.

The concert will be held at the Mission Dolores basilica, at the corner of Dolores Street and 16th Street in San Francisco’s Mission District. Among the work to be presented is La Koro Sutro (The Heart Sutra, in Esperanto), for 65 choristers, organ, harp and gamelan, and the Suite for Violin and American Gamelan, co-composed with Richard Dee, and simply put, a solid gold musical masterpiece. Nicole Paiement of San Francisco’s Opera Parallèle will conduct.

Concert Details:

OTHER MINDS FESTIVAL 22
LOU HARRISON GAMELAN MASTERPIECES
Saturday, May 20, 2017, 7:30 pm
Mission Dolores Basilica
3321 16th St., San Francisco CA

Buy tickets for OM 22 Concert 2: Lou Harrison Gamelan Masterpieces

Factrix To Play SF

Factrix, the Bay Area-based industrial rock band which includes the Noonan Building's Mark Abramson on guitar, will be back in action next week, opening for Lumerians, Friday, November 22, at the Chapel in San Francisco. The Chapel is located at 777 Valencia Street, between 18th and 19th Streets, in the Mission. Admission is $12 per person in advance, and $15 per person at the door. Here's the link.

Lumerians are new to us, but they've done some good music and nice videos too, which you can see on their web site. Playing first is a band called Li Xi.

Factrix's Facebook page.

Lumerians' Facebook page.

Factrix playing tomorrow in LA

Bay area-based industrial rock band Factrix will be playing a show this Sunday in Los Angeles, at the Echo nightclub in Echo Park. Noonan building artist Mark Abramson plays guitar with the band. Factrix will also be playing a show in San Francisco soon, as part of a mini music-festival in the Mission called the San Francisco Punk Homecoming. The date for that show will be September 22; look for more information in a future post on this blog. Here are some links related to the show this weekend in LA:

The Echo's web page for this event.

Factrix's page on Superior Viaduct's web site.

Factrix's Facebook page.

Mark Abramson Performing With Factrix

San Francsico-based post-punk industrial rock band Factrix, an integral part of the Bay Area music scene from the late 1970s to the early 1980s, has re-formed to play a show in Oakland next week. Noonan Building artist Mark Abramson will be playing the show with them on guitar. The show will take place on Friday, July 26 at a venue called Night Light in Oakland, at around 9pm. This is a special event to honor the release of artist Ruby Ray’s book of photographs of the 1970s San Francisco punk scene “From The Edge of the World.” For  friends and members of the NBA who are interested in attending the show, here is some information about the band, the venue and purchasing tickets:

To go to the Facebook page for this event, follow this link.

Factrix has a Facebook page of their own, click here for that.

To see the web page for this event on the promoter’s web site, and to buy tickets, follow this link.

The same company publishes Ruby’s book, and here’s a link to that page.

The venue for this show, Night Light, has a web site with a calendar, directions, etc.