The East Side Freedom Library invites you to An Evening of Improvised Music and Related Surprises with Muddy Bane

George Cartwright (saxophone, guitar, and who knows what else) and Steve Hirsh (percussion)

Saturday, November 28, 2020, 7PM

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George Cartwright is a Minnesota-based composer, performer, band leader, producer and musical collaborator, with a prolific career spanning over 30 years. His career began in his home state of Mississippi, shaped by a childhood woven through with early memories of singing in church and learning songs at his grandfather’s knee. He grew up on rock-n-roll and fell in love with jazz after hearing Charles Lloyd’s iconic “Forest Flower,” and like the British bands that he listened to in high school, he was also heavily influenced by the blues being played literally in his own backyard of the Mississippi Delta.

Steve Hirsh is a drumset player who performs with some of the area’s finest improvisers. His recent ensembles have included Le Voyage (with Donald Washington, Matt Trice and Dick Studer), Fero (with Douglas Ewart, Donald Washington and Babatunde Lea), GH2 (with Brad Holden and Josh Granowski), and Original Mind (with Brad Holden and Dick Studer). Born and raised in New York City, over the last 30 years he has lived and performed in Bemidji, St, Paul, and the woods of greater Pine County. He is just tickled to be back playing at the East Side Freedom Library, a social, political and artistic harbinger of the world we strive to create.

Free and open to all

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