SCORE! with The New Standards - … fileThe New Standards, ... started on drums in the Texas punk...
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The New Standardsjune 29
42 MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA SHOWCASE
SCORE! with The New Standards
Chan Poling, piano | Steve Roehm, vibes | John Munson, bassThe New Standards Stage Band
Live at Orchestra Hall
Friday, June 29, 2018, 8 pm Orchestra Hall
The program for tonight’s concert will be announced from the stage. There will be one intermission.
The New Standards, which started in 2005 as an off-shoot project between three Minneapolis-based musicians and friends, has grown into a globe-spanning adventure—filling theaters and clubs around theworld and spawning several CDs, videos, cartoons, and dance and theater projects that have charmed and delighted an ever-multiplying legion of faithful fans. The three core members of The New Standards all comefrom illustrious Twin Cities bands. Chan Poling founded the seminal Punk/New Wave band The Suburbs. John Munson was an original member of Trip Shakespeare and the chart-topping Semisonic. Steve Roehmstarted on drums in the Texas punk outfit Billygoat and the avant-jazz Electropolis. Sensing a lack of interesting jazz trio repertoire beyond the usual “old standards,” they got together originally to play and singtheir favorite songs—from every era, particularly post 1960’s pop music—in a stripped-down acoustic setting,making room for solos and arrangements with the freedom of jazz, and yet never fully abandoning the modest soul of pop and rock. More: thenewstandards.com.
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