An evening of Blues and R&B featuring Blues After Dark and Friends.

Wednesday July 11, 2001
8:15 p.m.
Berklee Performance Center,
136 Massachusetts Avenue

	Dennis Montgomery III will sing lead for Blues After Dark.
	Photo by J.Knight

The performers are Berklee "Five-Week" Faculty, including Dennis Montgomery III, Grayson Hugh, and Tiger Okoshi.

The leader is Robert Doezema, Berklee professor of Contemporary Writing and Production and Director of the Five-Week Summer Performance Program. Doezema also performs with Al Kooper & The Funky Faculty.

The performance will feature the music of B.B. King, Albert King, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, John Lee Hooker, Grayson Hugh and others.

Guitarist Robert Doezema presents a concert with his group "Blues After Dark," which features group members: (* indicates Berklee faculty)

*Dennis Montgomery III (vocals/keys),
*Daryl Lowery (tenor sax),
Dr. Bruce Paley (guitar),
*Tom Stein (Bass) and
*Dave Weigert (Drums).

Special guests will include
*Grayson Hugh (vocals and keys),
Berklee student Alisa Miles (vocals),
Berklee student Carla Patullo (vocals),
*Steve Heck (vocals and keys),
*Mike Turk (harmonica), and
*Kenwood Dennard (drums).

Several arrangements written by Robert Doezema will feature a superb horn section of *Tiger Okoshi (trumpet), *Lin Biviano (trumpet), *John Pierce (trombone), *Bruce Nifong (alto sax), and *Berke McKelvey (bari sax).

About some of the musicians:

Dennis Montgomery III (featured vocalist), Assistant Professor of Ensemble at Berklee is the leader of Berklee's Reverence Gospel Ensemble. He also is Minister of Music at Concord Baptist Church, in Boston's South End.

Robert Doezema, Daryl Lowery, and Tom Stein are members of The Funky Faculty, performing regularly with Al Kooper.

Kenwood Dennard (drums) returned recently touring in Europe with the Gil Evans Orchestra. He has performed with Miles Davis, Sting, and Whitney Houston.

Music critics have described Grayson Hugh's music as "soulful, gospel-inflected" and "sublime." Billboard Magazine described it as "Passionate. Poetic. Soul-stirring. Inspired . . . (music that) will open your mind."

Acclaimed trumpeter Tiger Okoshi recently toured Asia in March -- Hong Kong, Macau and Japan, giving master classes and performing.

The Five-Week Summer Performance Program runs at Berklee from July 8 through August 10, and allows students to become immersed in all aspects of performance.

Students play in ensembles, develop improvisational and reading skills, improve their own technique in weekly private lessons, enjoy lecture/demonstrations by well-known faculty and visiting artists, and are exposed to the latest innovations in music technology.

Most students who attend this program are of high school and college age, though the minimum age for participants is 15 years old. The Summer Performance Program emphasizes the mastery of playing or singing skills in the student's chosen style of contemporary music: funk/fusion, pop/rock, blues, or jazz.

This high-energy concert welcomes these students to this five-week educational experience. The evening promises to be inspirational, funky, and soulful for students and general public audiences alike!

For more information on the Five-Week Summer Performance Program, please read over the Five-Week page on the Berklee website.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS SHOW, PLEASE CALL Robert Doezema at (617) 747-2630

Media, for more information:

Emily Singer
Office of Public Information
Berklee College of Music
Phone: 617-747-2567
Fax: 617-247-8788
Email: esinger@berklee.edu