SAVE THE DATE MARCH 12th @ 7PM!

Improv Spaces is incredibly thrilled to announce a truly special evening of improvisational music at Mt. Ida Preservation Hall with CHRIS JONAS: MUSIC FROM THE DESERTS with Santa Fe-based composer Chris Jonas (compositions, projected video, soprano and tenor saxophones), Thomas Heberer (cornet), Cyrus Campbell (acoustic bass), and Andrew Drury (drums). Troy-based BENI ADAM, the team of multi-talented improvisational musicians Adam Tinkle and Adam Elabd, will debut their acoustic and electric clarinet duo to open the evening!

MUSIC FROM THE DESERTS explores music written in complete solitude during winter camping over three years during the Pandemic, created in Arizona’s Barry Goldwater Missile Range adjacent to the Trump Border Wall that cuts across Arizona’s granite Tinajas Altas. This collection of music is in the midst of touring worldwide in 2023-25. Jonas’s music contains some elements of jazz while mixing elements that are quirky, delicate, weirdly groovy, polyphonic, and a mixture of the disjointed and melodic.

BENI ADAM (“human beings” in Arabic) is the new duo of neighbors and friends Adam Elabd and Adam Tinkle, centered on intimate conversational improvisational interplay between two clarinets and timbral exploration of the woodwind families and their electronic prostheses.

Be sure to RSVP ($20 suggested donation)
via QR code or link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chris-jonas-music-from-the-deserts-and-beni-adam-tickets-1255088255759

Location: Mt. Ida Preservation Hall
548 Congress St., Troy, NY

This will be an ✨AMAZING✨ evening of improvised music — we hope you’ll be there to experience these performances with us!

Alex and Adam
Co-Directors, Improv Spaces