A Call to Love.. The Place and the Music
The Place
Recorded at Hunter Gallery, in the historic neighborhood of Bronzeville, within Chicago IL, the album, A Call To Love, masterminded by Gira
The Music
The style of the music is very much improvisational similar to the styling of the Association for the Advancement of Colored Musicians
The title track A Call to Love, is a song that reflects my favorite blend of writing, a bit of standard jazz, with an improvisational break, laced with
An examination of the varying facts of music known as jazz. Featuring Gira Dahnee- Vocals Keys Angel Bat Dawid -Clarinets Adam Zanolini-Bass, Sax Scott McNeice- drums Age 21 + Cover-$5 2 sets
Free event featuring Gira Dahnee's music from A Call to Love. Excited to see folks there.
With Gira: Angel Bat Dawid, Adam Zanolini and Scottie Mc Niece
Green Line Performing Arts Center, 301 E. Garfield Blvd , Chicago
Join me for the Grand Opening + Community Celebration for Green Line Performing Arts Center, the most recent addition to the Arts Block along then historic Garfield Boulevard in Washington Park, situated between King Drive and Prairie Avenue. I have been granted the wonderful opportunity to perform a solo set for this event@. It's free and open to the public!
Siren Song Sessions is a musical event dedicated to Women composers in Jazz. The event is a collaboration between Stacy Erinberg, Gira Dahnee, and Angel Bat Dawid.
More details to come!!
SONG OF SOLOMON: A cosmic love opera by Angel Bat Dawid based on the sensual biblical book Song of Solomon. An intoxicating, passionate tale of two lovers from another galaxy torn apart by war, and brought together again through epic magical love.
DANCE OF THE COMETS: A Sonic Blessing To Saturate The New Walls Of Sleeping Village And A Swim Around The Cosmos https://www.facebook.com/events/1048727661935156/ Dance of the Comets is a short-story written by Paul Scheerbart. It was originally conceived as a scenario for a ballet, a “dance” toward higher aspirations and a staging of the author's lifelong yearning for a home in the universe.
Scheerbart published a long succession of fantasy novels, articles, and poems between 1889 and his death in 1915, in which he insisted that the universe is far too rich and complex to be comprehended by reason alone. Only naive wonder — the basis of the sublime — could promote the development of higher forms of understanding. Sura and the Side-Pocket Experience opening,,. Gira Dahnee
Join us at the Currency Exchange Café for a special First Monday Jazz event featuring Gira Dahnee.
Gira Dahnee believes that music is a passageway to the metaphysical realm. The conceptual interests of Gira’s work is Afrofuturism: using the past and present to create better futures for people of African descent. Harnessing the concept of feminine goddess power, she discusses sexism, abuse, and uses music as a tool to face and heal from these issues. She also focuses on community development by using music as a force to bring people together regardless of their musical experience.
-- This event is FREE.
This event is wheelchair accessible. Persons with disabilities who need an accommodation in order to participate in these events should contact Arts + Public Life for assistance at 773.702.9724 or artsandpubliclife@uchicago.edu.
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Stony Arts Island Bank, 6760 S Stony Island Ave., Chicago, IL
Weekly Event -- that features different artist within the Chicago artist scene. Featuring Gira Dahnee|keys\vocals Adam Zanolini|Bass Angel Bat Dawid| Clarinet Justin Boyd|Percussion
FREE to the Public
http://que4.org/index.php/show/dark-matter-radio/
Dark Matter Radio Hosted by: Sam "samiam" Lewis Dark Matter Radio is a trip through the mind of Sam “samiam” Lewis. The show features music, conversation and performance related to Sam’s extensive music collection as well as conversations and performances with local artists affiliated to Elastic Arts in general and their monthly Dark Matter performance series in particular.
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Stony Arts Island Bank, 6760 S Stony Island Ave., Chicago, IL
4.30pm at the Stony Island Arts Bank, the musicians of the ensemble will meet with Rebuild resident artists Yaw Agyeman and Gira Dahnee, and perform in small duos and trios in the space.
Mike Ladd – improvised poetry/lyrics, EMS Synthi Mankwe Ndosi – voice, poetry, story, texture Sylvain Kassap – clarinets, electronics Dana Hall – drums, cymbals + Gira Dahnee – vocals, electronics Yaw Agyeman – vocals, percussion
free admission
The Participatory Music Coalition is a music, performance, visual art, and community collective that integrates diverse expressive traditions. On Saturday, October 21 they invites MCA audiences to embrace experimentation, improvisational composition, and explore new music together in the museum’s atrium
Total event is from 4:00 - 10:00pm : About Black Eutopia: The mission of the Black Eutopia project is to reimagine ideal situations and, engage marginalized communities in atypical space, through interrogating the connections between migration, labor + art with the hope of developing robust ideas for visioning + activating self sustaining Black Eutopia. Event Details to Follow:
Set begins at 8:00 pm
A callback to Chicago’s deeply rooted jazz history, Vol. 39 will offers specially curated live jazz performances the first and third Saturday of every month, beginning March 4th. Playing off the bar’s cool, intimate supper-club scene, Director of Music and Social Programming, Janice Bond has cultivated a lineup of live music aptly named, Holiday. From traditional jazz standards to electroacoustic sounds, join us!
A callback to Chicago’s deeply rooted jazz history, Vol. 39 will offers specially curated live jazz performances the first and third Saturday of every month, beginning March 4th. Playing off the bar’s cool, intimate supper-club scene, Director of Music and Social Programming, Janice Bond has cultivated a lineup of live music aptly named, Holiday. From traditional jazz standards to electroacoustic sounds, join us!
Mark de Clive-Lowe CHURCH: CHICAGO SESSION
w/ DJs King Hippo John Simmons Duane Powell
and live music by:
Gira Dahnee Angel Elmore Adam Zanolini Scottie McNiece
CHURCH LIVE CHICAGO Mark de Clive-Lowe Isaiah Spencer Lane Beckstron
Doors open at 8:30, 21+, $10 all night.
www.mdcl.tv www.intlanthem.com www.mixcloud.com/KingHippo www.mixcloud.com/djjohnsimmons www.mixcloud.com/duaneepowell www.elasticarts.org
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Chicago Art Department , 1932 S. Halstead ste 100, Chicago, IL 60608
Currency Exchange Cafe , 305 E. Garfield Blvd. , Chicago, IL
FarFetched and the Pulitzer present Laren Loveless and David Boykin with two ensembles selected from some of the finest musicians in St. Louis and Chicago–two cities wrestling with the realities of displacement and blight. Their music addresses such topics as Jim Crow, the criminalization of impoverished people, and systemic racism. Watch them perform soul music within the heart of the raumlaborberlin: 4562 Enright Avenue exhibition. These impromptu performances are free and open to the public