events

2008

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Merge Opens for Robert Pinsky @ Hill-Stead Museum

Sunken Garden Poetry & Music Festival - Opening Night

"Joining Pinsky will be Merge, a collaboration between the 'intimate and innovative' poetry of Cassandra Cleghorn and the 'brilliant supportive music' of Erik Lawrence and his band Hipmotism."

For more information see www.hillstead.org

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Merge Plays Cornelia Street cafÉ

Time TBA. Stay tuned.

29 Cornelia Street
New York, NY
(212) 989-9319
www.corneliastreetcafe.com
Cover: $15

2007

Thursday, December 13th 2007

See Merge @ KITTTING FACTORY – ORIGINAL LINEUP!

Listen to the Merge Portsmouth Community Radio broadcast [53MB]

MERGE: Mystery LoveS Company

Since the release of their self-titled CD in October of 2006, poetry music collaboration MERGE has been singled out by critics, poets, musicians as a sublime collaboration between gifted listeners and improvisors. Poet CASSANDRA CLEGHORN listens and responds rhythmically to the music as intently as Saxophonist/Flutist Composer ERIK LAWRENCE, drummer ALLISON MILLER and bassist RENE HART are tuned in to her words and how she delivers them.

This series of performances, entitled MYSTERY LOVES COMPANY, welcomes the remarkable talents of DAVID AMRAM, ERIC MINGUS, DONALD LEV, SATOSHI TAKEISHI and ALLEN WON to the palette of Merge.
David AmramSimultaneously celebrating the spontaneous nature of interaction and marking the historic celebration of the 50th anniversary of Kerouac/Amram performing in NYC, Kerouac's first publishing of On The Road, the West Coast poetry/jazz of Kenneth Patchen, Ferlinghetti, Rexroth, the  publishing of Ginsberg's Howl and the evolution of modern jazz by Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus (at times with Patchen)bringing us to the world as we know it.  Merge forges ahead to the world as we wish it to be. MYSTERY LOVES COMPANY will be the second CD by Merge, to be recorded in mid-June 2007.

Sunday, May 13^th 2007 - SOJP Broadcast

Merge, Cassandra Cleghorn and Erik Lawrence's Hipmotism will be featured on "Spotlight on Jazz & Poetry" (SOJP), a webcast radio show that can be found at:
www.nalradio.com/sojp. Bios of artists will be posted at spotlightonjazzpoetry.blogspot.com.

Monday, May 14^th 2007 – 8-10 pm

Bowery Poetry Club

Bowery Poetry Club (www.bowerypoetry.com)
Monday May 14th and Monday June 11th
8pm-10pm
$8 cover charge
308 Bowery @ Bleecker, right across from CBGB's
Directions: F train to Second Ave | 6 train to Bleecker
Phone: 212-614-0505
Drinks at the Bar; the cafe is a separate business.

Preceding this show, poet John Sinclair will read from his Guitar Army @ 7:30pm.

Thursday May 17^th 2007 – 6-8 PM

Cornelia Street CafÉ

Merge Quartet

29 Cornelia Street
New York, NY
(212) 989-9319
www.corneliastreetcafe.com
Cover: $15

Join us after our set for the music of friend Anat Fort, pianist/composer: 17 May @ 8:30 pm, ANAT FORT TRIO with Gary Wang, bass and Roland Schneider, drums. More information at: www.anatfort.com.

Monday June 11^th 2007 – 8-10 pm

Bowery Poetry Club

Merge and very special guests (in conjunction with recording for second CD, Mystery Loves Company)
308 Bowery @ Bleeker
(212) 614-0505
www.bowerypoetry.com
$8

Sunday July 1^st 2007 – 8 pm

The Kerouac Festival, Naropa University

Merge joins David Amram, Anne Waldman, Steven Taylor, other poets and Denver area musicians for the Gala concert of The Kerouac Festival, organized by Naropa University.
Boulder Theatre
2032 14th Street
Boulder CO
(303) 786-7030
www.naropa.edu/swp/courses.cfm
www.naropa.edu/blogs/
www.bouldertheater.com