Performances beyond category—from around the corner and around the world

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"The Interference Series has brought the kind of eclectic live performance to Flagstaff you'd only expect to find in places like New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles."

Andrew Paffrath, Flagstaff Multimedia Producer & Artist

Tonight (12/6) at Heritage Square! Meet at 4:30pm and walk at 5pm. Just bring a Bluetooth speaker and a phone. Such a magical annual experience!

@nau_percussion warming us up with one of @elliotcole ‘s amazing “postludes” @kickstand_kafe last night

Tonight 12/2 in the series @kickstand_kafe

Join us for an evening percussion soloist performed by the students of Abby Fisher. Get cozy with a warm drink at Kickstand and get lost in the warm tones of marimba, vibraphone, and more! A beautiful way to support the NAU Percussion studio.

The Beaver Street Theater!

After 10 years of presenting cutting-edge performances in coffee shops, bars, homes, music studios, theaters, and city parks, we will now have a permanent space.

As some of you may have heard, we are proudly partnering with the @flagshakes to co-lease a new venue! While we will continue presenting events in a variety of locations depending on the project, this space will be our official home starting in 2025! Special thanks to Dawn Tucker and the entire Flag Shakes crew as well as our amazing benefactor, John & Lynn Schiek, for helping to make this all possible. Both of our 501(c)3 organizations are celebrating our 10th Anniversary Seasons and have been desperately looking for space to call home for that time. It is so fitting that it took the right moment and opportunity to support each other in this endeavor.

Located at 11 South Beaver Street (in between Burley Fish Tattoo and Beaver Street Brewery), the new space will be called The Beaver Street Theater. It will seat approximately 75 people and will also be available for rental to other local organizations.

With excitement and gratitude, we invite you on this new adventure: as with any real estate investment, there are always hidden costs and fixer-upper projects. You can help us deal with the known and unknown and improvise our way into a beautiful future by donating to the current Flag Shakes fundraiser linked in our bio.

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December Events abound! ❄️

Join us in venues all around Flagstaff: Heritage Square for our 7th annual presentation of @unsilentphil Unsilent Night, warm resonances of marimba @kickstand_kafe, western ambience animated by Pedal Steel @coconinoarts, and questions and conversations around a jazz legend @nau.honorscollege

Join us for four memorable happenings!

✨ November 14th · Flagstaff, AZ ✨

Media pioneer, 99 Hooker founded rev.99 in 2000. As house media band, rev.99 woodshed at Freddy’s (Brooklyn) for years welcoming and integrating audio and visual artists from around the world. In 2005, rev.99 opened “Visual Music” at the Hirshhorn. “Psychedelic channel surfing” and “riveting satire,” 99’s media performances have happened across the United States, Europe and Japan often in small, intimate settings such as Other Cinema (SF), Anthology Film Archives (NYC), Red Room (Baltimore), Namba Bears (Osaka), Forte (Rome), Henry Miller Library (CA). As a musician, 99 has appeared on Megaphone, Label Bleu, PAX, Tzadik among others. His writing was most recently published by J Journal, John Jay University. “If this is what keeps someone from killing someone, more power to art,” Minneapolis Star Tribune.

This Wednesday, 11/6 @kickstand_kafe

Don’t miss an amazing duo of improvised music featuring Ojai -based saxophonist Rob Magill @weirdcryrecords with Flagstaff’s own Shaine Scarminach on guitar!

Born in 1988, Composer/Improviser/Multi-Instrumentalist/Singer-Song Writer/Concert Promoter/Photographer/Painter/Poet from Ojai, CA. Label owner of Weird Cry Records, founded in 2013. Rob Magill started recording solo material in 2010. Playing in the band Dreamcolour from 2007 - 2015. Collaborating with many local and world renowned musicians. Inspirations of music drawing from, 17th-21st century Classical Music, Jazz, Rhythm and Blues, Delta Blues, Psychedelic Rock, Soul, Post-Hardcore, Punk, American Folk, Indigenous Folk, Noise, Improvised Logics, and so forth. Using these ideas freely within specific contexts, along with unknown aspects of sound. Performing with musicians such as Dave Rempis, Don Preston, Marshall Trammell, Shaine Scarminach, Walker Delbo, Tatsuya Nakatani, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Eugene Chadbourne, Chris Corsano and many more. Rob, organizes the Weird Cry Records Music Concert Series in Ojai/Ventura, California.

11am on 11/3 at @nauschoolofmusic in collaboration with @nau_percussion we are helping present the amazing percussionist @jonathan.silva.perc on tour and supported by @marimbaone and the Porto City Hall Program -

This will be a free concert with a masterclass featuring NAU Student performances. Donations kindly accepted!

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Schedule:
11am: Jonathan’s performance with the following pieces for vibraphone:
“Trace Back, Look Onwards, Stay in Place” by Francisco Ribeiro
“Íris-abandono...” by Paulo Bastos
“Variações sobre a marcha de São Gonçalinho” by Bernardo Lima
“A libertação de Sísifo: I. Lamento” by Daniel Bernardes
“Three Scotch-Taped Études” by Paulo Perfeito
“Drive_!” by Igor C. Silva

12pm: masterclass with NAU Percussion students’ performances

Thanks for having us @cornishpastyco_flagstaff and @flagstaffjazzjam

@michaeleckroth with Chris Finet and Rob Wallace laid it down tonight!

Tomorrow night 10/30 @cornishpastyco_flagstaff don’t miss the amazing Michael Eckroth with two phenomenal Flagstaff musicians - head of NAU Jazz Studies, bassist Chris Finet along with Honors College Professor and series co-curator Rob Wallace on drums! Come for the trio, stay for the JAM! This concert is co-presented with NAU Jazz Studies as well @flagstaffjazzjam that will kickoff after the trio. This is NO COVER show with a pass the hat funding for the band so bring 💸

Hope to see you out for a great evening of jazz! 🎹

Tonight - 10/21 - @kickstand_kafe

Join for two local acts presenting some experimental and improvised music! 🤘

The phenomenal @mutootator bringing his magical chaos to the Interference Series this week!

✨WEDNESDAY, 10/16 LIVE IN FLAGSTAFF, AZ ✨

Bay-Area electronic music legend collaborates with Southwest Improvising Trio in an epic evening of creative music!

“It turns out that there is a ‘poetics of chaos.’ A chaotic system, far from the popular conception of the inside of a tornado — violent, uncontrollable, never-ending disaster — is constantly seeking stability.”

Tom Djll studied electronic music with Stephen Scott at the Colorado College, working with the EMS Synthi 100. In 1978–79 Djll studied at the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, NY, with Roscoe Mitchell, Anthony Braxton, Wadada Leo Smith, George Lewis, Karl Berger and others.

Slender Loris (Keith Kelly, woodwinds, Tony Obr, modular synth/electronics, Brett Reed, percussion) is a Phoenix-based improvising trio working to blend acoustic and electronic resources while creating a shared language of improvisation in that space.

This is a concert to check out this week! Curators Rob & Owen join our esteemed colleague and Interference Series Board Member, @abbyplaysperc with their trio, Parallel Play, for her Fall Faculty Recital in the beautiful Kitt Recital Hall!

Looking for a cool Saturday night show?! Our friends at the @coconinoarts have a special concert this evening!

🍂 4 October Events! 10/10, 10/16, 10/21, 10/30

To close out October events we’re teaming up with @kaaahhh_01 and the @flagstaffjazzjam to present special guest Michael Eckroth with Chris Finet (bass) and Rob Wallace (drums). Come on out for this amazing trio and then stay for the jazz jam.

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On Monday, 10/21 we featuring two local acts - guitarist @jejohnsonguitar and a FLG-based experimental duo called Goodrich.

Coming up next in the series! Thursday, 10/10 in Ardrey Auditorium - our mega collab with the NAU Symphonic Band presenting Terry Riley’s 60th Anniversary performance of “In C” featuring students and local musicians.

TONIGHT 10/4 @kickstand_kafe !!!!

The RAD PHX Trio, Bogie Bogie. Show is free with a student ID ❤️🎟️

Ahead of this evening’s performance we wanted to take a moment to thank and acknowledge all of the organizations and individuals who made this project happen!

The Forest and Coyote Makes a World are made possible with support from: Continuum Culture & Arts, Inc a non-profit 501(c)3 organization, John & Lynn Schiek, R.C. & Pamela Nakai, NAU Honors Program, Creative Flagstaff, and the NAU Percussion Studio.

Thank you all for supporting! Hope to see you tonight to share this special project.

@continuumcultureandarts
@creativeflagstaff
@coconinoarts
@nau.honorscollege

This Sunday (9/22) LIVE at the @coconinoarts

Join us for an unforgettable evening of storytelling and live music featuring čnaq’ymi/Lone Eagle and The Forest Percussion Ensemble from NYC!

An original composition by our own Flagstaff musician and educator, Johnny Marcus, to open the large ensemble portion of the evening. 🎷🍂 Such a great band!

Hindustani Music for a packed house to open up our annual celebration of the Fall Equinox and the life and work of Alice and John Coltrane. Thanks for all the support, Flagstaff!

Tonight @murdochcommunitycenter 9/20 at 7:30!

@okapi_duo presenting a mesmerizing acoustic duo set this evening @kickstand_kafe

Tonight! 9/17 @kickstand_kafe

Don’t miss @okapi_duo from NC on tour with a special stop in Flagstaff!

👉 3 September Events next week! 9/17, 9/20, 9/22

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