Wild Women Soul-O at Marin Civic Center

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• What: Solo performance
• Date: Apr 15, 2017
• Time: 8:00 PM
• Venue: Marin Civic Center, Showcase Theater
• City: San Rafael , CA
• Address: 10 Avenue of the Flags
• Country: United States
• Admission: $33.50 & $42.50
• Age restrictions: All Ages
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• Notes: “Wild Women Soul-O” — An evening of solo performances (and likely some collaborations) by Amy, voice/electronics artist Pamela Z, and Motion Theater artist Nina Wise.
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Amy X Neuburg & friends in Berkeley on Feb 25, 2017

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• What: Amy X Neuburg & friends
• Date: Feb 25, 2017
• Time: 7:30 PM
• Venue: Jewish Community Center of the East Bay
• City: Berkeley , CA
• Address: 1414 Walnut St.
• Country: United States
• Notes: Amy curates an evening of diverse experimental-meets-traditional music. Amanda Chaudhary, electronics — Alex Kelly, cello — Solstice female vocal ensemble. A final set bring us all together for some surprise arrangements of songs you know.
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Next up: Starline Social Club, Oakland, February 1

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• What: Solo performance
• Date: Feb 1, 2017
• Time: 8:00 PM
• Venue: Starline Social Club
• City: Oakland , CA
• Address: 2236 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
• Country: United States
• Admission: $10 to $15
• Notes: A night of “experimental chamber intensity” with Valerie Kuehne & the Wasps Nests (wild song-dramas with cello/violin/drums) and local avant-ladies IMA (percussion and electronics).
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Solo performance in San Rafael on Apr 15, 2017

November: Italy mini-tour!

Solo performance in Berkeley on Sep 24, 2016

Details

• What: Solo performance
• Date: Sep 24, 2016
• Time: 8:00 PM
• Venue: California Jazz Conservatory
• City: Berkeley , CA
• Address: 2087 Addison St.
• Country: United States
• Admission: $15
• Age restrictions: All Ages
• Notes: Solo voice and electronics, with a few jazzy variations and improvs.
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OMG next week!

Tuesday June 21: Garden of Memory at Chapel of the Chimes
The annual walk-through new-music event with over 50 performers stationed throughout a stunning labyrinthine Julia Morgan building. Always a magical experience.
4499 Piedmont Ave., Oakland. 5 to 9 PM. Tickets HERE.

Friday & Saturday June 24 & 25: “They will have been so beautiful” with the Paul Dresher Ensemble
For this concert ten diverse composers (Lisa Bielawa, Jay Cloidt, Conrad Cummings, Paul Dresher, Fred Frith, Guillermo Galindo, Carla Kihlstedt, Amy X Neuburg, Ken Ueno and Pamela Z) created songs inspired by photographs, on the theme of the everyday here and now—in all its glory, grit and banality. Each song is performed by Amy on vocals and electronics, accompanied by the 6-piece ensemble, against a backdrop of projected photographs.
Z Space in San Francisco, 8 PM. Tickets HERE.

Sunday June 26 at 4 PM: Solstice vocal ensemble 20th anniversary concert & party
The wonderful Solstice ladies perform works from their diverse repertoire as well as some new commissions, including a piece by Amy: “Gehim Vaa” for 6 voices and 6 cell phones, in her made-up language Vleesk.
St. Alban’s Church in Albany, CA. Tickets HERE.

May 25 opening for The Security Project in SF

Details

• What: Solo performance
• Date: May 25, 2016
• Time: 8:00 PM
• Venue: Social Hall
• City: San Francisco
• Address: 1270 Sutter Street
• Country: United States
• Admission: $22.50 – $45.00
• Age restrictions: All Ages
• Notes: A solo set opening for The Security Project — a Peter Gabriel tribute band with members of King Crimson and Peter Gabriel. Barry Cleveland also opening. Special surprise Pete cover!
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April 29 to May 1: Amy’s first orchestra piece!

Hunger Strike is a new commissioned 35-minute song cycle for the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra with the Squid Inc string quartet, and Amy on vocals and electronics. It’s a dense, avant-musical-theatery romp through many musings on solitude and solitary confinement. This is Amy’s most ambitious work to date — and the concerts are FREE!

Performed alongside Stravinsky’s Suite No. 1 and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7, on a program entitled Revolutionaries.

FRIDAY APRIL 29  7:30pm
Herbst Theatre
401 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco

SATURDAY APRIL 30  7:30pm
First United Methodist Church
625 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto

SUNDAY MAY 1  3:00pm
Valley Center for the Performing Arts
Holy Names University
3500 Mountain Blvd, Oakland

All performances are FREE OF CHARGE, first-come first-serve seating.

Amy is in a book

Amy is pleased to be included among the many interesting women profiled in this recently released book from German press Buddy’s Knife — Giving Birth to Sound: Women in Creative Music.

A nice review in All About Jazz.
To order the book, click the image above.