If you missed the perfromance the other night at the Riverwalk, here is SOME pictures from the event. These photos were taken by Theresa and Charles. (I still have some Black & Whites to come that Theresa took.) the film should be finished in 8-10 Weeks, so this is a teaser.

Jim Speirs, warming up

Chris & Jesse trading licks

Blow Matt, Blow!

John Kelly on Keys and organ

Me and Barb, doing what we do best, ripping on someone

Jim in Action

Jim knows Jazz, Jesse does his best Grant Green

Derek Snow in the Dark

Matt Hackett steals the show

Let the Jam begin

Charles Luden busts a move

Eyob spends the yellow

Jesse lays it down

The fantastic 4

Derek readies the Harp

Dave (audio man)

Another tune, another painting

Urban Blues, Kicking it.

Jamie touches it up

Slow and Sweet

Dualing Jazz

Fredly concentrates

Eyob makes a mess

I don’t know what I’m doing

$35 Framed (pink wood)
Mixed Media on Canvas and Paper
8″ x 8″

Rock on!

The Color of Sound – Music Inspires Art is an interactive concert featuring local visual artists and musicians.
 
Four talented Sioux Falls artists, Scott L. Ehrisman, Hope Happeny, Eyob Mergia & Jamie Scarbrough, will create several paintings on canvas while listening to the region’s premier Jazz and Blues Bands — Dakota Jazz Collective & Urban Blues. The five-hour event includes three 45-minute sets of unique performance art. After the event, the paintings will be available for sale. A DVD of the event will be available in the following weeks.

“We have high expectations for this film as a public educational tool,” Sioux Falls artist Scott Ehrisman said.  “The Color of Sound – Music Inspires Art is being independently produced by the artists and musicians involved. We are very proud of this aspect.”  “This event will exhibit the relationship between visual art and music,” Eyob Mergia said, “and hopefully evoke cultural awareness by presenting the artistic diversity in our community.”

WHAT: The Color of Sound – Music Inspires Art
WHERE: The Riverwalk, Harvester Building, 196 E. Sixth St., Sioux Falls
WHEN: Saturday, October 7, 2006
 • 6 p.m., Doors open
 • 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Performance: DJC will play 1st set; UB will play 2nd set; jam session for final set.
 • 10 p.m. to 11 p.m.: Musician and artists interviews, painting auction.
COST: $10 at the door, ALL AGES. FREE appetizers will be served and a cash bar will be available for those 21 and over.
INFO: fb.art@sio.midco.net or www.25dp.com/blog/?cat=1

PRODUCER: Scott L. Ehrisman
DIRECTOR: Chris Carlblom

Dakota Jazz Collective is: Jim Speirs, Chris Janzen, Matt Hackett, Joel Shotwell and Bob Gripp
www.jazzsd.com

Urban Blues is: Jess Christen, Fred Epstein, Dave Wood, Dave Fermenich and Derek Snow
www.myspace.com/theurbanblues

Dedicated in memory of Razmik ‘RAZ’ Mkhitarian, Sioux Falls biggest Jazz Fan

Check out some of my T-shirts, etc. Makes a perfect gift. (Not sold in stores)

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30″ x 40″ – Mixed Media on Canvas

Commission for J. Bonk

 

YES, YES, YES! the Touch of Europe still has LIVE music! Come enjoy these acts in September, it will be a SMOKING Month!

TOUCH OF EUROPE
September Entertainment

Friday 9/8 – 8 PM
Jim McKinney
(Jim is a music professor at SDSU and one heck of a vibes player!)

Saturday 9/9 – 8 PM
Dan Mahar
(Is a local acoustic blues artist)

Friday & Saturday 9/15-16 – 9 PM
North Main Blues Review
(Sioux Falls Jazz & Blues band)

Thursday 9/21
Dakota Jazz Collective – 7:30 PM
Festival of Books
(This will be  broadcast live on SD Public Radio JAZZ Nightly, there will also be a reading from a book about the history of American Beer Brewing)

Friday 9/22
Mike Miller Wonderband – 8 PM
(Mike, originally from SF, is a jazz guitarist legend. He has played with Chic Corea, Bette Midler and Zappa.)

Saturday 9/23 – 9 PM
Shotwell 6
(Sax Player, Joel Shotwell heads up this supergroup)

Friday & Saturday 9/29-30 – 9 PM
Kind of Blue
(Sioux Falls Jazz Band)