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E#@60: Elliott Sharp & Friends at the Can Factory

Elliott Sharp's 60th birthday celebration continues with a collection of his long-time friends and collaborators performing his music at ISSUE's current space at the Old American Can Factory. Among Sharp's works to be performed are Flexagons (Orchestra Carbon), Octal (Elliott Sharp solo), Oligosono (Jenny Lin, piano), Bootstrappers (JG Thirwell, Anthony Coleman, Melvin Gibbs, Don McKenzie, & Sharp), Amygdala (Marco Cappelli, guitar), and an all-guitar version of Sharp's SyndaKit. The celebration begins at 5:00 with an open Flexagons rehearsal and continues until late.

5-7 pm: Flexagons, a new composition by Elliott Sharp performed by his Orchestra Carbon and conducted by Butch Morris: Open rehearsal and discussion.

7:30-8:30 pm: screening of Bert Shapiro's documentary on Sharp's work "Doing The Don't."

8:30-8:50 pm: Elliott Sharp solo: excerpts from Octal for 8-string guitarbass (20)

9:00-9:50 pm: Flexagons performance (45)
with Curtis Fowlkes-trombone, Chris McIntire-trombone, Jenny Lin-piano, Danny Tunick-percussion, vibraphone, Kevin Ray-bass, Reuben Radding-bass, Judith Insell-viola, Rachel Golub violin, Ha-Yang Kim-cello, Briggan Krauss alto sax, Oscar Noriega reeds, E#-guitar, reeds

10:00-10:30 pm: Oligosono by Sharp: piano solo performed by Jenny Lin (20)

10:40-11:20 pm: Bootstrappers: JG Thirwell-electronics, Anthony Coleman-piano, Melvin Gibbs-bass, Don McKenzie-drums, E#-guitar (30)

11:30-11:45 pm: Amygdala by Sharp: guitar solo performed by Marco Cappelli (15)

12:00-12:30 am: All-Guitar SyndaKit (30) with Ben Tyree, Marco Cappelli, Angela Babin, Marc Sloan, Ron Anderson, Zach Layton, Dave Scanlon, Debra DeSalvo, James Ilgenfritz, Anders Nilsson