guest post by mikl-em
A last minute benefit show has been arranged tonight (Saturday, 4/25/09) for The DNA Lounge featuring pianist Eric Lewis.
The show starts at 5:30 (doors at 5) and goes until 7:30. Admission is free, but you can make a donation to support The DNA Lounge (and buy drinks, too) in their fight to stay open. More details are on Oren Michels’ blog. Oren’s company Mashery is sponsoring the show along with Zivity.
I had the pleasure and honor of attending a private performance by Eric as part of the launch party for startup Adventive.com at Harry Denton’s Starlight Room off Union Square this past week.
I put up a Flickr set with photos and videos that I shot at this intimate performance in an incredible venue.
photo by mikl-em
While Eric is trained and honored in classical and jazz music circles, he loves to perform solo piano interpretations of popular and alternative bands like The Killers, Evanescence and The Knife. He is an incredibly passionate performer who is awesome (in the grandest of senses) to see live. I cannot recommend this highly enough.
DNA Lounge has been battling to stay open due to aggressive practices by The California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control that seem to target all ages venues and that also focused on nights when DNA featured LGBT events (as Violet Blue has covered).
Eric’s performance at TED2009 is how many people around the world first heard of this singular performer.
It’s an early show, so if you are going out tonight (like to the How to Destroy the Universe show at NIMBY), you can easily catch this, too.
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I can’t wait to go to this. Although I would like to see DNA survive, I kinda hope this event isn’t too packed. Thanks for the heads up. BTW, I think I was on your site when you changed formats. I about flipped out when everything changed. Any particular reason you went with the simpler design? I don’t even see a place for ads.
I just installed the new theme today, I’m still working on it. I’ll probably do a post about it next week.
Went to this event and was absolutely blown away. DNA Lounge at 5:30 in the afternoon with amazing jazz music and only a hundred or so people. I never thought I would put all of those together in one sentence, but this may have been one of the most amazing concerts I’ve ever been to. He’s coming back to DNA for another benefit concert in June so hopefully we’ll have a little more warning next time, but I fully appreciated the opportunity to see this legendary musician in-the-making in such an intimate setting. Thanks a million for posting!
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