Year: 2019

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See you at the Market: Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti

ByJohn Dikeman Concerts, Media, News, Video

See you at The Market: Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti
Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti is a captivating performer capable of electrifying audiences. Born in Bolivia, she grew up in Brazil, studied classical piano, modern and contemporary dance, was part of various music and dance ensembles in both countries, then moved to Amsterdam to follow the Mime School at the Amsterdam University of the Arts, where she now teaches.
Currently, Ibelisse works as a theater maker, visual artist, musician, performance artist and teacher in various collaborations.…

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See you at the market: Eric Boeren

ByJohn Dikeman Concerts, Media, Video

Fourth up in See you at The Market: Eric Boeren
Founding Doek member Eric Boeren is the artist who first suggested creating a large scale work featuring the core Doek members plus guests to create a two day piece involving theater and music. This concept was then honed down into The Market and will include dancers as well as guest singers, musicians and actors. Eric himself is composing two large scale pieces, one involving the Jones family purchasing a rug at the bazaar, and another showing a rural family’s attempts to sell their goods in an urban market environment.…

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see you at the market: Harald Austbø

ByJohn Dikeman Concerts, Image, Media, News, Video

Third up in See you at The Market: Harald Austbø.
Harald Austbø is known for his creative and original contributions to the theater and music worlds as actor, singer and cellist. He is freakishly talented, equally at home serving the bass role in a jazz group as playing thoroughly notated melodic lines. Quite often, he’ll do both at the same time whilst beatboxing or improvising nonsense rap over top. Something of a highly dependable wild-card, he manages to provide rock solid support to any ensemble he performs with yet remain spontaneous, drawing on a wealth of influences from jazz, classical, rock, pop, samba, hip hop, spoken word, poetry, theater, performance art and improvisation of all sorts.…

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See You at the Market: Dana Jessen

ByJohn Dikeman Concerts, Image, Media, News

In the lead-up to The Market, Doek Festival 2019, we’ll be regularly posting small profiles of those involved: See you at The Market.
Second in the series See You at The Market: Dana Jessen
Praised for her diverse talents, bassoonist Dana Jessen is in high demand as a soloist, chamber musician, improviser and new music specialist. Her strong ambitions to explore free jazz and creative improvisation have led to performances throughout Europe, Canada, and the United States with European and North American improvisers.…

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See You at the Market: Annelie Koning

ByJohn Dikeman Concerts, Image, Media, News

In the lead-up to The Market, Doek Festival 2019, we’ll be regularly posting small profiles of those involved: See you at The Market.
It’s in alphabetical order, so we kick off with Annelie Koning.
Annelie Koning’s passion for improvisation, lyrics and all the sounds the voice can make led her to become an experimental vocalist and composer. Her music combines the freshness of composing in the moment with the power of words and a rich pallet of vocal colours and sounds.…

John Dikeman solo USA tour

ByJohn Dikeman News

This April John Dikeman completed his first ever solo tour performing 23 concerts in one month across the USA. Aside from solos John also collaborated with Ava Mendoza, James Brandon Lewis, Rob Mazurek, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Stefan Gonzalez, Jonathan F. Horne, Death Posture, Adam Shead, Owen Davis, Chris Merz and more. Photographer Sara Anke also joined for part of the trip to document the hours one the road, travelling through the south. Photos coming soon!

May

28 John Dikeman solo, Schlippenbach Trio, Constellation, Chicago, IL, USA
29 John Dikeman solo/duo w Adam Shead, Spot Tavern, Lafayette, IN, USA
30 John Dikeman w Adam Shead, House FitzGerald, South Bend, IN, USA
30 John Dikeman w Adam Shead, McCormicks, South Bend, IN, USA
31 John Dikeman solo, Frick Fine Arts Auditorium at University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

april

01 John Dikeman solo, James Brandon Lewis solo, Kate Mohanty solo, Sax TrioH0L0, New York, NY, USA
03 John Dikeman solo, Ava Mendoza solo, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA, USA
04 John Dikeman solo, Ava Mendoza solo, Red Room, Baltimore, MD, USA
05 John Dikeman solo, Ava Mendoza solo, Rhizome, Washington DC, USA
06 John Dikeman solo, Ava Mendoza solo, Kings, Raleigh, NC, USA
07 John Dikeman solo, Ava Mendoza solo, Revolve, Asheville, SC, USA
08 John Dikeman solo, Ava Mendoza solo, Bastion, Nashville, TN, USA
09 John Dikeman solo, Ava Mendoza solo, and quartet w Evan Lipson and Bob Stagner, Sluggo’s Vegan Cafe, Chattanooga, TN, USA
10 John Dikeman solo, Ava Mendoza solo, Zeitgeist Theater, New Orleans, LO, USA
14 John Dikeman recording session for Astral Spirits w Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Stefan Gonzalez, Jonathan F.…