Mia Rocks Out!

Ever wonder exactly how the magic inside a pedal harp works? Find out on July 10 at I am giving a talk/performance at Nerd Nite NYC
Galapagos Art Space DUMBO
16 Main Street in DUMBO Brooklyn (F train to York St. or A/C train to High St.)
Friday July 10, 2009
http://nerdnite.com/2009/06/15/nerd-nite-nyc-july/

The Outerspace Empolyment Agency
DJ Emanuel Ferritis
Web show

WREK  91.1 FM
Atlanta, GA

DJ Riz
KEXP 90.3 FM
Seattle, WA

Zookeeper
KZSU 90.1 FM
Stamford, CT

“Free improve from the Downtown NYC scene. Several things here are different from any freeprov material I’ve heard before. Haas plays the shofar (ram’s horn) and the raita (Moroccan oboe). Fiorino plays the lotar (Moroccan lute). All of this adds new and intriguing horn colors to any improve music I’ve heard before. But it’s Theodoratus’ electric harp more than anything that stamps the sound of this band on the memory. It sometimes sounds like a strange variation on that stereotypical harp music used on tv shows to cue a flashback. That, and a half-dozen other things you wouldn’t expect out of a harp, electric or not. It fits hand-in-glove with the band’s swirling, almost chaotic semi-noise. Post-tribal, very hypnotic but pre-mental breakdown, this is music that renders listener psychoactive plant use redundant. Recommended for the tense and adventurous.”

Richard Grooms, The Improvisor

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Back I go to my metronome to work on my Adam & Mia set for Palihouse in LA, CA.

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Night of a Thousand Stevies 2009

Adam and I were honored to be part of Night of a Thousand Stevies at the Highland Ballroom. We did our version of Landslide and had everyone in tears (Thank you Stevie Nicks for such a beautiful song!). It was a little rough doing the arrangment because it brought all my break ups, emotional crisis to the forfront of my mind. But then the point of art is to make you feel.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/theclubcreatures/3494364717/in/set-72157617603578760/

One of the hardest things to do is to write a simple honest love song. This one is about longing to be with the person who is dear to your heart. The group playing is Adam & Mia with Adam Dugas on vocal and Mia Theodoratus playing harp. The performance is from the Sweet Thunder reunion at Starr Space in Deepest Darkest Bushwick. The whole show was amazing and is what the art scene should be like in NYC

NIGHT OF 1000 STEVIES, New York City’s legendary STEVIE NICKS homage, returns for its nineteenth annual edition on May 1 at THE HIGHLINE BALLROOM. NOTS 19: SONGS OF RHIANNON will be a May Day marathon of twirling and enchantment, produced by the JACKIE FACTORY NYC. This year’s theme - and the centerpiece of the show - are the ten “SONGS OF RHIANNON” penned by STEVIE NICKS in her BUCKINGHAM NICKS days. Some are well loved and well known, like RHIANNON, PLANETS OF THE UNIVERSE, ANGEL and SORCERER, others only demos. In stage decor, visuals and costuming, NOTS 19 pays homage to the Celtic white witch RHIANNON - fitting for a date that is both MAY DAY and BELTANE.

Adam & Mia hit Baroque Pop at Rococo Art party

Where: Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NYC (just one subway stop out of Manhattan) (www.galapagosartspace.com)
Saturday, March 28, 9pm

The extravagance of 1770 rococo Paris meets the eclecticism of 2009 underground New York nightlife.

Think Amadeus, Marie Antoinette, the Marquis de Sade, etc… but with a thoroughly modern twist.

This 4th installment of the Party will feature burlesque, aerialism, spectacles, hula hoop acrobatics, magic, juggling, baroque “makeovers”, fortune telling, live art, and live techno baroque and rococo rock music.

For More Information:
www.returnofrococo.com
aardvark2000@gmail.com
www.myspace.com/snazzmammoth