https://www.jeremydanneman.com/home daily 1.0 2022-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6275c960541828029d4b98e0/1f20cccd-8a1c-4ad8-880a-544f57cb9a21/041122_JeremyDanneman2.jpg Home Photo by Ben Goldstein https://www.jeremydanneman.com/the-down-on-me daily 0.75 2022-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6275c960541828029d4b98e0/1d61d55a-50ca-460d-86a1-29f8b8533745/041122_JeremyDanneman0443.jpg The Down On Me - Jeremy Danneman and The Down On Me The Down On Me is Jeremy Danneman’s latest project and his first foray into singing and songwriting, with his previous bands featuring only instrumental music. Having been a literature major at New York University, Danneman had, in an earlier stage of life, aspired to become both a writer and musician. As reality set in, his ambition for bardhood was dropped to make more room for dreams of maestrodom, and it would be years before Danneman’s desire to reach audiences with words would be rekindled. The Down On Me is named after a traditional American folk song, from the 1920s, though the most famous version was recorded in 1967 by Janis Joplin. As the name suggests, Danneman’s songs explore the gulf between one’s self-perception and outside perceptions of one’s identity and the instability of one’s self-image in the face of challenges from lovers, friends, and life in general. Some songs from the “Big Fruit Salad” represent the early stages of Danneman’s work on a musical theater production about personified fruits and life on the fruit farm. In addition to lyrics, The Down On Me features the improvised instrumental component for which Danneman is already more known. https://www.jeremydanneman.com/shpilkes daily 0.75 2022-12-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6275c960541828029d4b98e0/f766c32e-6e31-41c1-9293-4b3b9d496908/Shpilkes+All+Male+Quartet.jpeg Shpilkes Shpilkes is a klezmer band that is available for community events, family gatherings, and simchas of all sorts. We have a rotating cast of a dozen members, including some of the most sought-after klezmer musicians in New York. We love to get a crowd dancing, but we can also fade right into the background when necessary. Shpilkes means anxiety in Yiddish, and you can find us on Instagram. Check out some of our videos! https://www.jeremydanneman.com/jeremy-danneman-and-sophie-nzayisenga daily 0.75 2022-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6275c960541828029d4b98e0/cae7f5a0-cb2d-4a5d-b78e-33fe437b3d66/Sophie%2C+William%2C+Tim%2C+Jeremy%2C+At+Bunker.jpg Jeremy Danneman and Sophie Nzayisenga Honey Wine is an album, years in the making, featuring special guest Sophie Nzayisenga. Sophie is a vocalist and the only professional female inanga player in the world. The inanga is a ten string zither-like instrument so rare there isn’t even a wikipedia page for it. We are also joined by legendary jazz bassist and multi-instrumentalist William Parker and percussionist Tim Keiper who is currently percussionist for David Byrne’s American Utopia. Jeremy and Sophie have since toured South Africa, and at the time of the pandemic were set to tour Europe on a grant from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. To be continued! Jeremy’s story about the project: “I first met Sophie when I went to Rwanda in 2009 to give street performances in commemoration of the 15th anniversary of the Genocide against the Tutsi. I had for years been fascinated by this rare instrument after hearing it on a CD from the Nonesuch Explorer Series called Burundi: Music from the Heart of Africa (where inanga is also widespread.) As I was planning my trip, I became aware that inanga is the national instrument of Rwanda and voiced my interest in finding an inanga player to collaborate with there, so some friends introduced me to Sophie who at the time didn’t speak a word of English. During that trip we performed together at the Goethe Institute of Kigali. Soon began a four year quest to bring Sophie to New York City to perform and record with my band here. The first obstacle was funding, which was done through Indiegogo and eventually a grant from the Puffin Foundation. A more troubling and unusual hindrance was the USA immigration bureaucracy. My first attempt to bring Sophie to New York City failed when the State Department denied her a visa in 2013, after I’d already invested considerable personal resources in the project. In 2015, with intervention from the Rwandan government, the State Department finally authorized Sophie to travel to and from the USA. Some of the songs on Honey Wine are fully improvised such as the title track. Ibeseke is a song of Sophie’s, and the rest are compositions I assembled by studying the rhythmic patterns of classic inanga masters such as Joseph Sebatunzi and assimilating Western and other scales to the pentatonic inanga patterns.” https://www.jeremydanneman.com/discography daily 0.75 2022-05-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6275c960541828029d4b98e0/65fe54b2-800e-4d61-80e9-876d4e63bb01/CambodiaDancingMan.smallfile.jpg Selected Discography As A Leader: The Big Fruit Salad - 2022 Ropeadope Records - Featuring Anders Nilsson and Joe Exley Honey Wine - 2017 - Featuring Sophie Nzayisenga, William Parker, and Tim Keiper Lady Boom Boom – 2015 Ropeadope Records – Featuring William Parker, Tim Keiper, Anders Nilsson Help – 2015 Ropeadope Records – Featuring William Parker, Tim Keiper, Anders Nilsson Lost Signals – 2015 Ropeadope Records – Featuring William Parker, Tim Keiper, Anders Nilsson As A Sideman: Middle Blue - Love Chords (2018 Ropeadope Records) - W/ Brad Farberman, Mike Clark, Danny Tamberelli, Jessica Lurie, Dave Sewelson, and Jared Pauley Mysterium – An Electric Soundpainting Septet – 2009 – Eavesdrop records El Pueblo – Isla – 2010 New York Soundpainting Orchestra – Concrete Flowers – 2008 Ulysses – Higeonna – 2003 – Japanoise Records https://www.jeremydanneman.com/upcoming-performances daily 0.75 2023-07-26 https://www.jeremydanneman.com/bio daily 0.75 2022-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6275c960541828029d4b98e0/32c3c4a1-815d-4994-b2b3-a4d150a8376a/041122_Jeremy1.jpg About Jeremy Jeremy Danneman is a saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer based in New York City. He is known for his albums, most recently Honey Wine, released on Ropeadope Records and his work as Founder of the Parade of One Project, which is an organization that engages the international community with a unique blend of performance in public spaces, recording, and educational programming. Danneman’s work has been funded by the Puffin Foundation, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, and the Goethe Institute of Kigali. He has performed internationally in Tokyo, Berlin, Rwanda, Zanzibar, Cambodia, Vietnam, South Africa, and the Dominican Republic, and has contributed to recordings with bands including the Mysterium Electric Soundpainting Septet, the New York Soundpainting Orchestra, El Pueblo, and Ulysses. Other notable musical collaborators include William Parker, Tim Keiper, Mike Clark, Brad Farberman, Danny Tamberelli, Anders Nilsson, Sophie Nzayisenga, and Arn Chorn-Pond. Danneman has also performed and composed music for multiple films, including Rwanda 15 directed by Kivu Ruhorahoza, which documents Danneman’s street performances in Rwanda in 2009 and has screened on three continents, including its world premier at the 2010 Zanzibar International Film Festival and the 2011 Vision Festival in New York City. Danneman’s work had been covered in international media, such as Haaretz, The Daily Beast, and the South African Broadcasting Channel. As an educator, Danneman has given guest lectures for the Ramaz High School (Manhattan,) The Royal University of Fine Arts (Cambodia,) the faculty of Baltimore County Community College, and more. He is currently a teaching artist for Midori and Friends. Danneman holds a BA in British and American Literature from New York University. https://www.jeremydanneman.com/contact daily 0.75 2022-05-11