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WHAT IS JUNK MUSIC ??
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Donald Knaack (aka The Junkman) travels to the beat of a different drummer. As a conservatory-trained percussionist, he now exclusively composes-for and performs-on junk and recycled materials. It's called Junk Music and it's a unique collection of infectious grooves and musical styles that's gaining audiences from every spectrum of the music business. Impossible to categorize, worldwide audiences are recognizing Junk Music is eye-opening, provocative and entirely new.
A Junk jam consists of audience members being participants, either by playing a provided piece of junk or by chanting to environmental phrases devised to fit into the general rhythmic flow. The Junkman takes the audience on a musical/community journey. He also has exercises the participants execute, including different rhythms, mirroring and dynamics. He then divides the audience into teams and develops four part rhythmic counterpoints. The great fun happens when The Junkman instructs everyone to be free and improvise to the beat -- the Junk jam has begun. Everyone is a musician at the junk jam! See all Junk Jam sessions at First Night!
Junkman Workshop: MUSIC, ART and SCIENCE!
Join Donald Knaack, the Junkman to
Make Instruments out of Recycled Materials for the Junk Jam at First Night
First Night Monterey Art Studio at Archer Park Community Park Building
542 Archer Street (Between Hoffman & McClellan) Monterey, CA 93926 831-373-4778
Wednesday, December 28th, 3pm-4:30pm
Thursday, December 29th, 6pm-7:30pm
Read more about our workshop series
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FIRST NIGHT FUN FOR UNDER 5 AND OVER 50
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First Night Monterey
celebrates a fun-filled New Year's Eve for all ages. Families and kids of all ages will delight in the afternoon activities that kick off First Night Monterey. Join your friends at 3pm for Kid's Night Out where a bubble wrap stomp, Hands on Art!, Henna tattoos, Taiko drummers, Carmel River School Dance Crew and Junk Jam with the Junkman are the perfect way to begin your First Night Monterey celebration. At 5:30, The Twilight Procession - a huge participatory parade where the spectators join dancers, stilt walkers, artists, and giant puppets, will make their way from Portola Plaza to Pearl Street; not to be missed. The more mature set will find events geared to their interests and schedule this year. Heartstrings Monterey, a talented ensemble of local musicians, plays three performances starting at 3:15. Thom and his Cats play wonderfully nostalgic big band and swing music starting at 3:30. Monterey Symphony Brass Quintet will tune up with classical music standards and new favorites beginning at 3:30pm. As the afternoon morphs into evening I Cantori di Carmel, a long-standing audience favorite from First Nights gone by, will be on the stage beginning at 6:30, performing choral music spanning from the baroque period to modern classics. See afternoon event details here.
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VOLUNTEER NOW - GET FREE ADMISSION
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Get your art on and free admission! Volunteer at First Night! There are lots of projects coming up as we gear up for First Night 2012, and many different talents are needed to produce the nine hours of programming for First Night Monterey. We depend on volunteers to bring this wonderful event to the community year after year. Students: earn community service hours and have fun, too! Read more.
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SEE THE FNM 2012 PERFORMERS
|  Get a look at our artist line-up for First Night 2012! From Classical to Jazz, Blues to Rock, Hip-Hop to Folk, we've got it! Buy your button and "button-up" for 9 hours of entertainment! Plan your day and night to include whatever you love best. FNM 2012 has a complete line-up to delight the entire family. Click here to see program details.
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Merry Christmas! Happy Chanukah! Joyous Kwanzaa!
However you celebrate the holidays, start your New Year with us at First Night Monterey 2012!
Happy Holidays,
First Night Monterey Team
Mission Statement: To reveal and celebrate diversity through the First Night Monterey celebration and the First Night ArtWorks! program, using art as a catalyst to unify the community through creativity, imagination and participation.
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Family affordable, the First Night Monterey 2012 button is, in addition to being a work of art, your ticket to 9 hours of entertainment, 200 artists in 20+ venues featuring the best in music, dance, theatre, visual arts, and more on December 31st. Adults: $20, or $22 on 12/31
Youth: $12, or $15 on 12/31
Visit www.firstnightmonterey.org
for special family packs (before 12/28) and online purchase.
On December 31st, buy buttons at information kiosks on Alvarado, Portola Plaza and in afternoon at Colton Lawn.
BUTTON DESIGN
Bobbi Long, Associate Professor of Communication Design at California State University of Monterey Bay (CSUMB), teaches the Publication Design and Service Learning. Her students provide the graphics for the First Night Monterey poster design and the Greenfield Harvest Fest.
Raissa Figueroa is the designer of the First Night Monterey 2012 poster and buttons and she also designed the Greenfield Harvest Festival poster image for First Night Monterey. A senior at CSU Monterey Bay and a first-generation hispanoamerican, Raissa is majoring in graphic design. She plans to pursue work as a designer or an illustrator after graduation and she is considering applying to a masters program at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Raissa loves drawing, hiking, biking, and pursuing life with spontaneity.
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First Night Monterey
Office Locationn:
542 Archer Street
Monterey, CA 93940 Mailing Address: P.O. Box 185
Monterey, CA 93942 Phone: 831.373.4778
Fax: 831.642.9860
Ellen Martin, Executive Director
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