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Dayna Stephens / Billy Childs Duo at Paul Mahder Gallery
Courtesy of Brown Paper Tickets | Posted on August 9, 2017
Where
Paul Mahder Gallery
222 Healdsburg Ave.
Healdsburg, CA
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When
Sat, October 7, 2017
7:30 pm
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Musicians
Dayna Stephens
saxophone, tenorAbout
Dayna Stephens and Billy Childs both have new releases ("Gratitude" and "Rebirth" respectively). They will be featuring original compositions from both releases as well as playing songs from Horace Silver, Hogie Carmichael, and others. This is a rare opportunity to hear these two amazing musicians in a duo concert. Stephens is not a stranger to Healdsburg, but Childs will be performing here for the first time.
Three time Grammy winner, pianist Billy Childs has emerged as one of the foremost American composers of his era, perhaps the most distinctly American composer since Aaron Copland for like Copland, he has successfully married the musical products of his heritage with the Western neoclassical traditions of the twentieth century in a powerful symbiosis of style, range, and dynamism....