Tag: Fall 2018

Save Those Dates

Where does the time go?

Just yesterday it was August, hot as blazes. Suddenly it’s harvest moons, Halloween, and long underdrawers.

The Mob has been quiet but busy, gestating new music and more, and preparing for our December concert series: In Gut We Trust!

SAVE THE DATES!

In Gut We Trust! December 14, 15, 16! )

(Honestly, when we came up with the theme last May, this writer thought it would celebrate instinct and feelings, but as it’s turned out, we’re mostly singing about food and eating. And agita.)

By the time we’re ready for the concerts

SAVE THE DATES!

In Gut We Trust! December 14, 15, 16! )

I say, by the time we’re ready, we’ll know our post-election fates and whether eating—make that “stress eating”—will still be worthwhile. Or whether, as one of our songs says, we’ll get pie in the sky, by and by.

The Art Mob archivist has been busy, too. Now you can steep your senses in past recordings of glorious Art Mob tunes, in the bath or whenever convenient for you, on SoundCloud.

In addition to highlights from our latest, “Keep a Lid on It!,” featured albums are: the immortal “The Best Laid Planets”; the timeless “Pigments of Our Imagination”; the ethereal “How Can We Keep from Singing?”; and the unexpected “FlashMob.”  Click those titles, or gosh, just go to our entire trove of albums HERE.  We’ll keep adding to this collection until they demand more money.

Keep an eye out for sneak peeks of our forthcoming program and more treasures from the archives.

And don’t forget to

SAVE THE DATES!

In Gut We Trust! December 14, 15, 16! )


JOIN THE MOB THIS FALL!

JUST WHAT YOU’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR!
The Art Mob (16-voice SATB, a cappella) is recruiting for all voice parts, especially male voices.

Since 1979 the Art Mob has entertained audiences and ourselves with a quirky mix of outdated and
unfashionable songs from a variety of ever-to-be-forgotten sources from the 18th through the mid-20th
centuries. Bravely singing without instrumental backup (or sheet-music coverup), the Art Mob pounces
on obscure pieces found in attics and tag sales, musty old hymnals and tattered choral books, offering
listeners a taste of what life may have been like way back before smartphones and cat videos, when
group singing was a popular form of entertainment. Plus, we’re good. Our music director, Brent
Frederick, brings out the best in the singers and the songs.

IF YOU LIKE gospel, Victoriana, children’s ditties, jazz, shape-note and Appalachian folk tunes,
temperance songs as well as drinking songs, Tin Pan Alley as well as country songs, along with who
knows what other styles;
IF YOU WANT TO write arrangements; collaboratively create programs; perform to a high standard with
a tight group of dedicated musicians; tell jokes and enjoy yourself; forge a new link in a musical chain
stretching back to the dim reaches of the 1980s;
CALL BRENT and arrange an audition. He and a thousand telephone operators are standing by.

*Rehearsal Night: Monday
*Neighborhood: Greenwich Village
*Next concerts:“In Gut We Trust” 12/14,15,16
*Contact: brent@brentfrederickmusic.com
*Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/artmobsingers/
*Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theartmob79/
*Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/theartmob