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A 24-DECADE HISTORY OF POPULAR MUSIC: 1956-1976 Conceived, written, performed and co-directed by

TAYLOR MAC

Music Director / Arranger

MATT RAY

NIEGEL SMITH

Costume Designer

Dramaturg

MACHINE DAZZLE

Co-Director

JOCELYN CLARKE

Executive Producer

Linda Brumbach Associate Producer Alisa E. Regas Co-Produced by Pomegranate Arts and Nature’s Darlings A 24-DECADE HISTORY OF POPULAR MUSIC is commissioned in part by ASU Gammage at Arizona State University; Belfast International Arts Festival and 14 - 18 NOW WW1 Centenary Art Commissions; Carole Shorenstein Hays, The Curran SF; Carolina Performing Arts, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA; Hancher Auditorium at the University of Iowa; Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; Melbourne Festival; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; International Festival of Arts & Ideas (New Haven); New York Live Arts; OZ Arts Nashville; Stanford Live at Stanford University; University Musical Society of the University of Michigan. This work was developed with the support of the Park Avenue Armory residency program, MASS MoCa (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art), New York Stage and Film & Vassar’s Powerhouse Theater, and the 2015 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab at the Sundance Resort with continuing post-lab dramaturgical support through its initiative with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. A 24-DECADE HISTORY OF POPULAR MUSIC was made possible with funding by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Theater Project, with lead funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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FOR A 24-DECADE HISTORY OF POPULAR MUSIC: 1956 – 1976 Featuring TAYLOR MAC......................................................... Vocals with Matt Ray................................ Piano, Vocals, Music Director Danton Boller............................................................ Bass Bernice “Boom Boom” Brooks....................................Drums Viva DeConcini........................................................Guitar Stan Harrison.....................................................Sax, Flute Steffanie Christi’an.................................................Vocalist Thornetta Davis......................................................Vocalist Machine Dazzle......................Performer, Costume Designer Timothy White Eagle.................................... Dandy Minion Production Michelle Stern........................................ Company Manager

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About the Artists TAYLOR MAC (creator, performer, co-director). Taylor Mac (who uses “judy”, lowercase sic, not as a name but as a gender pronoun) is a playwright, actor, singer-songwriter, and performance artist. Mac’s work has been performed at Lincoln Center, Celebrate Brooklyn, London’s Hackney Empire (with the LIFT Festival), LA’s Royce Hall, San Francisco’s Curran Theater, Magic Theater and MOMA, the Sydney Opera House, Minneapolis’s Guthrie Theater, Chicago’s MCA and Steppenwolf Theater, Stockholm’s Sodra Theatern, the Spoleto Festival, and literally hundreds of other theatres, museums, music halls, opera houses, and festivals around the globe. Mac is the author of seventeen full-length plays and performance pieces. Most recently: Hir at Playwrights Horizons and upcoming with judy’s first all-ages play, The Fre, at the Children’s Theater Company in Minneapolis. Recent acting roles include Shen Teh/ Shui Ta in The Foundry Theater’s production of Good Person of Szechwan at La Mama and the Public Theater, Puck/Egeus in the Classic Stage Company’s A Midsummer’s Night Dream, and in a vaudeville entitled, The Last Two People On Earth, which judy created with Mandy Patinkin, director Susan Stroman, and Paul Ford. Mac is the recipient of a Guggenheim Award, The Doris Duke Award, The Herb Alpert Award in Theater, the Peter Zeisler Memorial Award, the Helen Merrill Playwriting Award, an Obie Award (for judy’s play The Lily’s Revenge), and an Ethyl Eichelberger Award. Judy is currently the resident playwright at the Here Arts Center and is a New Dramatists alum. MATT RAY (music director/arranger/pianist/vocals) can be seen in some of New York’s best venues where he performs regularly either fronting his own band, or accompanying some of the city’s most dynamic performers. Recent work includes performing at Carnegie Hall with Kat Edmonson, touring with Reggae legend Burning Spear, music directing The Billie Holiday Project at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, string and piano arrangements for the fifth season finale of Showtime’s Nurse Jackie, performing at Lincoln Center with Joey Arias, shows in Paris and the UK with Mx. Justin Vivian Bond, and monthly gigs at Joe’s Pub with Bridget Everett and the Tender Moments. Other recent work includes performing at TAYLOR MAC

About the Artists the Edinburgh Fringe with Lady Rizo, and touring the world with Taylor Mac’s show A 24-Decade History of Popular Music. In addition, Matt music directed and played piano in Taylor Mac’s Obie award winning play The Lily’s Revenge at the HERE Arts Center in New York. Matt has released two jazz albums as a leader: We Got It! (2001) and Lost In New York (2006); and one album of original pop/folk material called Songs For the Anonymous (2013). www.mattraymusic.com MACHINE DAZZLE (costume design, performer). Machine Dazzle (né Matthew Flower) moved to New York City in 1994 after attending The University of Colorado Boulder. Mixing odd jobs by day with art and dance clubs by night erupted in a unique lifestyle grounded in costume and performance art. Machine’s DIY and transgressive nature comes face to face with his conceptualist-as-artist identity; the results can be seen on stages all over the world. Machine has worked with Taylor Mac, Justin Vivian Bond, Joey Arias, Julie Atlas Muz, Big Art Group, The Crystal Ark, The Dazzle Dancers, Pig Iron Theater, Stanley Love Performance Group, and The Pixie Harlots, to name a few. NIEGEL SMITH (co-director) is a theater director and performance artist. He is the Artistic Director of NYC’s Obie-Award winning theater, The Flea; Associate Artistic Director of Elastic City; and ringleader of Willing Participant an artistic activist organization that whips up urgent poetic responses to crazy shit that happens. His theater work has been produced by Classical Theatre of Harlem, The Flea Theater, HERE Arts Center, Hip Hop Theatre Festival, The Invisible Dog, Luna Stage, Magic Theatre, Mixed Blood, New York Fringe Festival, New York Live Arts, Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, Playwrights Horizons, Pomegranate Arts, The Public Theater, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Summer Play Festival, Todd Theatre and Under the Radar, and his participatory walks and performances have been produced by Abrons Arts Center, American Realness, Dartmouth College, Elastic City, The Invisible Dog, Jack, The New Museum, Prelude Festival, PS 122, the Van Alen Institute and Visual AIDS. Before surviving high school in Detroit, Niegel grew up in the North Carolina piedmont, fishing with his dad, shopping with his mom and inventing tall-tale fantasies with his two younger brothers. www.niegelsmith.com

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About the Artists JOCELYN CLARKE (dramaturg) is currently Theatre Adviser to the Arts Council of Ireland and dramaturg at American Voices New Play Institute at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. He has taught dramaturgy at the John Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts, Columbia University and Trinity College Dublin. He was the Commissioning and Literary Manager of the Abbey Theatre for four years, and lead theatre critic with The Sunday Tribune for nine years. He is an associate artist with The Civilians and Theatre Mitu in New York. He has written six plays for Anne Bogart and the SITI Company - BOB, ALICE’S ADVENTURES UNDERGROUND, ROOM, SCORE, ANTIGONE, and TROJAN WOMEN (AFTER EURIPIDES) - and he is currently working on a new collaboration about composer and philosopher John Cage. HERESY, his libretto for new electronic opera by Roger Doyle about the philosopher Giordano Bruno, premiered in Dublin in late 2016. DANTON BOLLER (bass) has been on the New York music scene for 17 years. His passion for all styles of music has landed him on stage with the likes of Roy Hargrove, Jon Fishman, Elysian Fields, Joey Arias, Fela! on Broadway, Nomoto, Justin Vivian Bond, Norah Jones, Matt Ray, Q Tip, and Taylor Mac. Danton leads the NYC band “The Sides” -- a progressive instrumental soundscape illuminating electro, avant-jazz, dub, afrobeat and rock. In addition to his active performance schedule, Danton records and produces in his NYC studio. He co-produced the highly successful Kat Edmonson release Way Down Low on Sony Records. BERNICE BOOM BOOM BROOKS (drums) is a drummer, producer, teaching artist who has performed and shared the stage with such greats as Tito Puente, Gregory Hines, Patti Labelle, and many Jazz and R&B greats. She was a part of JALC “The History of Blues” with Marion Cowings and has a national commercial airing, “Five Fine Fillies,” for Bank of America. VIVA DECONCINI (electric guitar) plays guitar like a flaming sword, a screaming train, a ringing bell, and a scratching chicken. She sings like if Freddy Mercury had been a woman. She’s played everywhere from Bonnaroo to Monterey Jazz Fest, and been featured in Guitar Player Magazine. Her last 2 records “Rock & Roll Lover” and “Rhinestones & Rust” charted on CMJ.

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About the Artists STAN HARRISON (tenor sax, baritone sax, flute) is a composer and multi reed player who has recorded/toured/performed with, among others, David Bowie, Radiohead, Talking Heads, Serge Gainsbourg, Laurie Anderson, The Borneo Horns, They Might Be Giants, Bruce Springsteen and Duran Duran. In addition to arranging for many of the above, he has also composed original music for television, film and, most recently, for his group, The Mud Music Ensemble. www. mudmusicensemble.com STEPHANIE CHRISTI’AN (vocalist). Steffanie Christi’an’s Detroit roots have cultivated her music, with performances and collaborations with local and international artists such as Big Proof, Amp Fiddler, jessica Care moore and Don Was; along with Brooklyn based hip-hop legend Talib Kweli. In 2014, Steffanie released her first solo EP, Way Too Much. In 2015, Steffanie toured alongside Kweli and also toured France as a headliner with the Black Rock Coalition. She recently released an acoustic EP entitled The Acoustic Sessions, which will be followed by the full length album It’s Complicated early 2017. THORNETTA DAVIS (vocalist). Crowned “Detroit’s Queen of the Blues” in 2015, Thornetta Davis – a multi-talented International Singer and Songwriter from Detroit MI, USA – is the winner of over 30 Detroit Music Awards. After gaining attention in 1987 for her back up singing for “Lamont Zodiac and The Love Sings”, Thornetta went off to record her first solo album “Sunday Morning Music” in 1996, under the Seattle based label “Sub Pop”. From the album, her song “Cry” became a feature on the HBO hit series “The Sopranos”. Thornetta has opened for legendary blues and R&B greats such as Ray Charles, Gladys Knight, Smokey Robinson, Etta James, Buddy Guy, Koko Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Junior Wells, Lonnie Brooks, Johnnie Jonson and many more. She continues to electrify audiences in the U.S.A and worldwide. TIMOTHY WHITE EAGLE (dandy minion) was born in Tucson AZ, his mother was Apache from White Mountain. He was given up for adoption at birth and raised by a working class white family in Washington state. Due to the circumstances of the adoption, he is not a registered member of the White Mountain Apache tribe. A graduate from Univ. of Utah with a BFA in Theater, Timothy spent his 20’s exploring performance based art, exploring Native American, Pagan and other earth based Spiritual

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About the Artists practices. In early 2018 Timothy will be premiering an evening length performance art ritual “Rituals for the End of the World” developed in collaboration with On the Boards (OTB) in Seattle, and touring nationally. Timothy first met Taylor Mac when Taylor attended Timothy’s Columbus Day ritual, in NYC. That connection led to conversations on the considerations of Native Americans in Taylor’s 24 Decades show, which led to Timothy’s performance in the 24-Decade History of Popular Music premiere in NYC. Timothy continues to foster relationships with artists seeking to create objects and performances, which contain the convenience of Spirit. He dances at a unique cross roads between art and ritual. MICHELLE STERN is a producer of immersive theater and sitespecific art events. She was the co-founder and producer of the groundbreaking performance and visual art company GAle GAtes et al. With GAle GAtes, Michelle created and presented large-scale installation/performance works in empty financial district office buildings, and in Thailand and Japan. GAle GAtes pioneered the DUMBO arts district in the mid-1990s, producing over 40 works and presenting more than 600 artists. More recently, she has worked as an independent producer with downtown artists including Julie Atlas Muz and Mat Fraser. She was the Line Producer for the inaugural “Curran Under Construction” season at the Curran in San Francisco. Michelle is the producer of the world’s first mind-controlled flying experience, The Ascent, and was the COO of its parent company, Mindride LLC. She produced the technology aspect and live staging of the Emmy-winning PSA, “Love Has No Labels.” POMEGRANATE ARTS is an independent production company dedicated to the development of international contemporary performing arts projects. Since its inception, Pomegranate Arts has conceived, produced, or represented projects by Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Lucinda Childs, Batsheva Dance Company, London’s Improbable Theatre, Sankai Juku, Taylor Mac, Dan Zanes, Bassem Youssef and Goran Bregovic. Special projects include the revival of Robert Wilson, Philip Glass, and Lucinda Childs’ Olivier awardwinning production of Einstein on the Beach; Dracula: The Music And Film with Philip Glass and the Kronos Quartet; the music theater work Shockheaded Peter; Brazilian vocalist Virginia Rodrigues; Drama

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About the Artists Desk Award winning Charlie Victor Romeo; Healing The Divide, A Concert for Peace and Reconciliation, presented by Philip Glass and Richard Gere; and Hal Willner’s Came So Far For Beauty, An Evening Of Leonard Cohen Songs. Current and upcoming projects include the international tour of Available Light by John Adams, Lucinda Childs and Frank Gehry, Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, Bassem Youssef’s The Joke Is Mightier than the Sword, and the North American tours of Batsheva Dance Company’s Last Work and Sankai Juku’s Meguri.

POMEGRANATE ARTS www.pomegranatearts.com info@pomarts.com Founder and President...................................... Linda Brumbach Managing Director, Creative............................... Alisa E. Regas Business Manager.............................................Adam Thorburn Associate .........................................................Rachel Katwan Production Manager.............................................. Jeremy Lydic Assistant Production Manager................................ Willa Folmar Office Manager........................................................Jadd Tank

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SO PERCUSSION • FEBRUARY 3 VIRTUOSO CONCERT SERIES IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE SCHOOL OF MUSIC

Libby Gardner Concert Hall Sō Percussion is a dynamic quartet of percussionists who are redefining the scope of the modern percussion ensemble. Joined by our very own School of Music faculty and students, the evening will include Sō’s acclaimed version of Steve Reich’s masterpiece “Drumming.”

THE NILE PROJECT• FEBRUARY 11

Kingsbury Hall Come and engage in this global conversation about the unifying power of the arts, and especially music, in advocating for environmental stewardship and sustainability. You’ll be both inspired and entertained by the festive, high-energy music performed by talented young artists from across the globe, using a myriad of traditional East African instruments.

THE CROSSROADS PROJECT • JANUARY 17

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE LEONARDO MUSEUM Auditorium at The Leonardo The Crossroads Project brings the power of performance art to bear on one of the great conversations of our time: humanity’s growing lack of sustainability and the quest for truly meaningful response. Blending compelling and poetic science, evocative imagery and powerful music, the Fry Street Quartet and physicist Dr. Robert Davies explore the impacts of society’s unsustainable systems, Earth’s rapidly changing climate, and humanity’s opportunity for a new direction. TAYLOR MAC, BILL T JONES & NIEGEL SMITH, GARDNER LECTURE IN THE HUMANITIES AND FINE ARTS . . January 17 TA-NEHISI COATES - DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. KEYNOTE ADDRESS (sold out) . . . . . January 18 KIMIKO: THE TREASURE HUNTER - 24 FRAMES MOVIE NIGHT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 1 BANFF FILM FESTIVAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 21-23 THE CROSSROADS PROJECT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 24-25 EDEN - 24 FRAMES MOVIE NIGHT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . March 1 RADICAL REELS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . March 2 THE STINKY CHEESE MAN AND OTHER FAIRLY STUPID TALES . . . . . . . . . . March 17-18 Tickets and information at utahpresents.org