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Jazz @ The Dance Hall: Weird Turn Pro at The Dance Hall

Courtesy of Brown Paper Tickets | Posted on January 18, 2019

Where

The Dance Hall
7 Walker Sreet
Kittery, ME
Map
207.703.2083

When

Fri, March 8, 2019
7:30 pm

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About

Weird Turn Pro is a music group. Their name is a nod to Hunter S. Thompson who, among many things, saw the value in both chaos and process. Those two forces are alternately employed or yielded to by WTP as they create music that is both like water eroding granite over the millennia or the momentary flicker of an open flame. Leaning heavily on improvisation, compositions not only afford opportunities for each member of the ensemble to improvise freely, but require the ensemble to constantly shift and re-interpret the when, how, and why of melody and form. Band leader / composer Mike Effenberger organizes sound in a uniquely personal way; informed by classical and jazz traditions yet staking a claim in the world of modern minimalism....

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