Concerts

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EDDIE AND THE EAGLES: Enough is Enough

March 31 – 22:00 – 05:00
The Bimhuis
€16 Regular, €13 CJP/Stadspas/Student

Eddie and the Eagles is back for our biggest edition so far. You’ve been there at OT301 and De Ruimte. It’s time to hit the elite stage and turn it inside out. Backwards. Bottom up. The Bimhuis is ours till 5 o’clock in the morning.”

LIFT PROGRAM WITH EXPLICIT ELEVATOR MUSIC:

ENTRANCE THROUGH-> PARKING -1

PRACTICAL MUSIC! enter our ship through the engine room.
Oscar Jan Hoogland machines/ sirens/ recordplayers/ gokautomaat/ analogue synth/ electric clavichord/ real to real/ megaphones, Jasper Stadhouders guitar, Christian Lillinger drums

GO UP -> proceed, stay focused, tune in and get out.…

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Cactus (Truck/Duo) + Ava Mendoza Tour

Cactus Truck is teaming up once again with guitar wizard Ava Mendoza to tour Europe this March. Ava brings a unique dirty virtuosity to the band that helps flesh out different aspects of the Cactus canon. As Vice said: “It’s… Ava Mendoza’s deconstructing of blues and punk into brutal shredfests that’s causing a ruckus in NYC’s DIY hubs”.
Unfortunately, Jasper Stadhouders had some previous engagements that will not allow him to join the last few dates of the tour. However, the bass chair will be more than covered for their performance at Freejazzfestival Saarbrücken by one Barry Guy.…

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The AMS-USA Exchange

John Dikeman – saxophone
Jasper Stadhouders – guitar
Tony Piazza – bass
Adam Shead – drums

2/22 – Ziggy’s, Ypsilanti, MI
2/23 – The Spot, Lafayette, IN
2/24 – Art Lit Lab Madison, WI
2/25 – Hungry Brain Chicago, IL
2/26 – The Bramble, South Bend, IN
2/27 – Spread Art, Detroit, MI
2/28 – TBA, Cleveland, OH
3/1 – Rhizome, DC
3/2 – Sound Hole, Philadelphia, PA
3/3 – H010, NYC, NY

In 2017 American percussionist and composer Adam Shead came to Amsterdam to immerse himself in the rich Dutch improvised music scene.…

PolyBand on tour

January 17 – 20

Jeroen Kimman – guitar
Onno Govaert – drums
Miguel Petruccelli – bass
Philipp Moser – drums
Jasper Stadhouders – guitar and composition

17 PolyBand, Jazz a Poitiers, France
18 PolyBand, Le Vecteur, Charleroi, BE
19 PolyBand, Saarbrücken, DE
20 PolyBand, AMR, Geneve, SW

The PolyBand was created by Jasper Stadhouders in 2015 to explore long form compositions focusing on repetition and trance like compositional elements. The ensemble has performed throughout the Netherlands including the festivals Why Not, Transition and the International Film Festival Rotterdam.…

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Space is the Place/2nd Stop – Cactus Truck + Wilbert de Joode

October 13 – 21:00
De Ruimte
€8 Space is the Place, €6 Second Stop, €10 combined ticket

Cactus Truck
Wilbert de Joode Solo

The Second Stop is Jupiter starts again on October 13. The series has been a great success, combining late night dance party aesthetics with an improvisational flare. De Ruimte has become the place to be every second Friday after your main activity of the evening but before heading off into the Amsterdam night for some seriously late mischief.…

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Doek bands highlights of Zomer Jazz Fiets Tour

The Zomer Jazz Fiets Tour, this year in its 31st year, proved once again to be one of the most inspirational and down-right fun festivals in the Netherlands, attracting an audience of roughly 1,500 that biked from barn to church to museum in surprisingly good weather. Doek was well represented with Dikeman, Parker, Drake; Duo Wolter Wierbos/Kris Defoort; the Dutch Impro Academy; the PolyBand and Wilbert de Joode Core Trio. Doek groups were listed as being highlights of the festival, both by word of mouth as well as reported in a number of reviews.…