(ahts): The Boston Arts Festival features the best of the Boston Arts Scene- both visual and performance. Started in 2003 as a single afternoon event, the festival has expanded into a 3-day celebration incorporating a diverse performing arts program and a specially built artists’ village. Based in the idyllic Christopher Columbus Park on Boston’s waterfront, [...]
BTO storms 1970s folk venue! With special guest Brian Dewan, obsolete media expert and master of lost political songs (such as Buckle Down with Nixon)and fantastical musical storytelling playing the auto-harp and accordion. If you’re lucky, he’ll screen one of his film strips (like this one). You don’t want to miss this. Advance tickets at [...]
TYPE IN: The Boston Typewriter Orchestra’s 5th Anniversary Show! June 12, 2010 7:30 Learn to Type with the BTO! Bring your own typewriter, or borrow one of ours 8:00 Very special guests Jess and Keith from Mellow Bravo. Acoustic bluesy rock performed by Boston’s best! 9:00 The Boston Typewriter Orchestra, kicking the qwerty jams! 10:00ish [...]
Saturday, June 12, BTO’s 5th Anniversary Show! With Jess and Keith from Mellow Bravo 80 Border St. Cultural Exchange Wednesday August 25, BTO takes over Club Passim in Harvard Square! With Brian Dewan, our spiritual brother in obsolescence recycling love. More information to follow…
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009
The Boston Typewriter Orchestra Does what it says on the tin: polyrhythmic percussion music with no other instruments, almost no singing, music tracks interspersed with intentionally banal office chatter (“How was your weekend?”) for “Office Space”-like satirical effect. They even redact the Surfari’s “Wipe Out” into “Whiteout.” Funny, but with compelling rhythms. Non-musical objects turned [...]
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
BOSTON TYPEWRITER ORCHESTRA ….LIVE …. I have a unique collection as well of some of the earliest experimental industrial music from the late 1970′s/early 1980′s …and when I first heard these guy’s a couple year’s ago …it reminded me of some of the great old school industrial in a way. So I figured to look [...]
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Soul of the city; Salem festival jazzes up summer with weekend of free concerts Salem festival jazzes up summer with weekend of free concerts By Amanda McGregor STAFF WRITER Whether it’s the percussive Boston Typewriter Orchestra or the colorfully costumed Revolutionary Snake Ensemble playing improvisational brass band music, the Salem Jazz and Soul Festival promises [...]
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Opening Nite Boston CyberArts just posted a nifty video featuring opening nite performances from Radio Wonderland, Die Schrauber, the Lothars, and the Boston Typewriter Orchestra (Peace, Loving aren’t on the vid, but check them out too–they’re sexy.) Plus, there’s a quick interview with MegaFest co-director Nick vdK, who is desperately clutching to his smokes in [...]
Acoustic ecstasy at Boston’s Megapolis by Michael Lithgow on April 25, 2009 The basement of the Elks Lodge was steamy hot. Two hundred or so jammed into the dark, low-ceilinged room (complete with elk heads on the wall) to celebrate opening night of the Megapolis Audio Festival in Boston. It was an all-star line-up: The [...]
Friday April 24th 2009 Candid snaps from a Big RED night on-the-town at MEGAPOLIS Audio Festival in the basement of the Cambridge Massasoit Elks Lodge. http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/retrieve.pl?issue=issue105§ion=on-the-town&article=BIG_RED_ON-THE-TOWN_2744640
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