Erin Rogers - Composer/saxophonist

THINGAMAJIGS PERFORMANCE GROUP

sunday, aug. 24 – friday, aug. 29
Knockdown Center @ 52-19 Flushing Ave, Queens
Chashama @ 1155 Ave of the Americas, New York

thingNY and our West Coast Counterparts in Noisemaking are having a steamy week together, taking over two spaces in two boroughs to try our hand at creating some durational performance art together. We’ll have some photos and video to share with you after this week. If you’re interested in attending our open rehearsal on Friday Aug. 29, send us a note:thingNY@gmail.com.

Delighted to be playing saxes with the delectable Sweet Soubrette at Spin New York, the Manhattan ping pong club owned by Susan Sarandon, where we’ll be opening for touring act The Furies, an all-female indie rock band whose lead singer is known for her time with Third Eye Blind. This show is not to be missed!

8pm doors
9pm Sweet Soubrette

$10, 21+

Also featuring: Mind Over Time, Trapped In Static, and The Furies

FB event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/686293478091569/

It’s been since The Bunker recording sessions on one of the worst, train-stopping, road-ramming, snow-piled winter days I’ve ever seen in New York City, that I last played in Scott Stein’s Well Groomed Orchestra. I’m excited to reunite with the crew, this time in the middle of summer, with special guest Amy Regan.

Wed, July 30th, 9:30pm
The Duplex
New York, NY
TICKETS

By the way, if you haven’t checked out the recordings from that memorable session last January, here are the digital releases:
Back to Babylon
New Amsterdam

We’re playing outdoors!

thingNY performs Paul Pinto’s minis and scenes from This Takes Place Close By as part of Second Saturday, at Staten Island’s Snug Harbour Cultural Center.

More details to come!

Sunday, June 22
thingNY and Face the Music… In Space!
@ The Queens Museum
12pm and 4pm. Flushing Meadow Corona Park. Queens, NY

Over the course of three weeks, thingNY and Face the Music (the world’s only teen new music ensemble) will team up to create a short music-theater work for the Queens Museum exploring the concept of “space”. Using some of the compositional techniques from two existing works, Private Time and Endurance Exercises (both from the theater piece Time: A Complete Explanation in Three Parts), the intergenerational ensemble will develop this work through instrumental, vocal and movement improvisation, layering independent tasks and gestures into a larger musical structure. We’re really looking forward to this crazy adventure. This project is made possible (in part) by the Queens Council on the Arts with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.