April 25 - [4:00 pm] - Mostly Mahavishnu
- Mostly Mahavishnu focuses on the early
70s with modern groove updates.

April 25 - [7:30pm] — Turn It Up! The Berk-
lee Country Music Ensemble - The Berklee
Country Music Ensemble under the direction
of faculty guitarist Mike Ihde, performs top
country hits as well as instrumentals in clas-
sic country, western swing, and rockabilly
styles. An exciting and entertaining evening
of Hot Country and Blazing Instrumentals
performed by Berklee’s best Pickers and
Singers with 2 fiddles, lap steel, dobro, three
guitars, bass, drums and seven vocalists.

April 26 — [1:00pm] — Mimi Rabson - Faculty
member Mimi Rabson presents a program
improvisational music for strings only.

April 26 — [2:30pm] — Music of Dave
Holland Ensemble - Faculty member Lello
Molinari presents Berklee’s Dave Holland
ensemble performing music from the bassists
recordings.

April 26 — [4:00pm| — Belat - A 7-piece
ensemble performs straight ahead jazz
compositions by Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie
Hubbard, Horace Silver and Woody Shaw
under the direction of faculty member Her-
man Hampton.

April 26 — [7:30 pm] Songwriter’s Circle
2006 - The Songwriting Department proudly
presents another in the annual Songwriter’s
Circle Series featuring four outstanding
singer-songwriters performing solo and duo
versions of their songs. This is an acoustic
writers showcase which features ‘the song’
rather than ‘the arrangement.” This year’s
showcase will feature Megan Burtt, Lucas
Carpenter, James Farrell and Gabrielle Sadler
performing three songs each in an acoustic
setting featuring voices and guitar or piano.

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of Music

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David Friend Recital Hall Concerts

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April 27 — [1:00pm] — Music of the Crusad-
ers - Faculty saxophonist Dan Moretti leads
this student ensemble through the best of

the soul/funk jazz pioneers, The Crusaders
with compositions and arrangements by Joe
Sample, Wayne Henderson, and Stix Hooper.

April 27 — [2:30pm] — Gospel: Traditional
and Spirituals - Faculty member Dennis
Montgomery presents small vocal ensembles
performing traditional and spiritual Gospel
Music.

April 27 — [4:00pm] — Jazz Composition
Ensemble - The Jazz Composition Ensemble-
-a ten piece band with alto, tenor, baritone
saxes, trumpets, trombone, guitar, piano,
bass and drums-- performs original student
compositions under the direction of Jazz
Composition department chair Ken Pullig.

April 27 — [7:30pm] — Terri Lyne Carrington
Ensemble - This concert will feature original
music by Terri Lyne Carrington, as well
chosen originals by the students in the en-
semble. Also, arrangements of popular pieces
from the Beatles to Herbie Hancock will be
included.

April 28 — [1:00pm] — Acoustic Strings
Ensemble - Ensemble department faculty
member John McGann presents this Acoustic
Strings ensemble in performance.

April 28 — [2:30pm] — Neo Soul - R&B
vocal ensemble performs music by Aretha
Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Chaka Kahn
under the direction of faculty member Skip
Smith.

April 28 — [4:00pm] — The ECM Ensemble

- Faculty member Bruno Raberg presents
Berklee’s ECM ensemble performing music
from the ECM recording company.