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Happy back to school! So much happening!

Upcoming Performance Dates:

8/24 “Imagine” at Kennedy Center

9/1 Amy K Bormet Trio at DC Jazz Festival

9/6 Amy K Bormet’s No Trick Pony at Kennedy Center

9/15 Amy K Bormet and Allyn Johnson Duo performance in Bethesda

Details below!

I have had the pleasure of collaborating with Marjuan Canady on her new children’s play “Imagine”. The show will be Saturday August 24th at the Kennedy Center’s Social Impact Local Theater Festival. I wrote a ton of fun music for this, and the whole team is incredible. Great for kids age 2-5.

 

 

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Coming up Sunday September 1st at 1pm I will be on the mainstage with my trio (Karine Chapdelaine and Angel Bethea) at the DC Jazz Festival on the Wharf. We’ve got some new songs and some favorites, and are pumped to be on such a great bill.

Then Friday September 6th I will be performing with my project No Trick Pony (Brian Settles and Keith Butler Jr.) at the Kennedy Center. Tons of new music from us, including a suite I’m calling “Unbuilt” about the changing face of the District. TICKETS

Sunday September 15 I’ll be playing a duo show with one of my favorite piano players, Allyn Johnson for a concert series at the Promenade Towers (5225 Pooks Hill Rd, Bethesda MD)

April 26 12pm-1pm at Union Station – Free lunchtime concert sponsored by the Mayor’s Office with Amy K Bormet Trio (Corcoran Holt, CV Dashiell III)

April 29 Birdland at Chevy Chase Lake 11am Leigh Pilzer Startet, 12pm Amy K Bormet Trio

April 30 5th Annual DC Jazz Leaders Gala with Capitol Hill Jazz Foundation

May 3  Biomorphic Forms (Amy K Bormet, Alex Hamburger, Nicole Davis, Keith Butler Jr.) for Fringe Festival at the Duck Pond SW

May 4 7pm Biomorphic Forms at the Arts Club of DC $20-30 ticket includes wine and hors d’oeuvres.

May 18 7 and 9pm with Jessica Boykin-Settles at Blues Alley

May 19 6-9pm Washington Women in Jazz at the Canal Center in Alexandria

June 8 Duo show for Jazz at the Kramer with Jessica Boykin-Settles

July 18 No Trick Pony (Bormet, Keith Butler Jr., Brian Settles) at Rhizome DC with our friends from Michigan – Balance Duo!

August 12 Washington Women in Jazz at the Parks at Walter Reed

Premeires Friday 7/16 at 8pm EST/5pm PST

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I asked Melinda to meet me halfway. We improvised in the sunshine in front of a lighthouse in havre de grace. Neither of us had been there before, and we hadn’t seen each other in the flesh since February 2020. Melinda brought cameras (and snacks because she is always prepared for a picnic), and I brought a little microphone. We played for awhile without any preconceived notions (just the motion of the ocean). Then we added more. More violins to harmonize with the dogs, more voices to harmonize with ourselves, more synths to harmonize with the boats, and videos of the dog/ourselves/boats.
If you are free tonight (or in the future since the internet is elusive and apparently timeless) tune in and get a piece of the peace we felt.

Pianist, vocalist, and composer Amy K Bormet presents a series of duo concerts that explore the dialogue between poetry and improvised music.

Sunday July 10 2pm


with Maggie Hasspacher (Detroit), bass and voice
Music set to poetry, highlighting women, Gwendolyn Brooks and beyond.

Sunday July 17 2pm


with Brian Settles (DC), tenor saxophone
Improvised art songs influenced by Sterling Brown and DC’s poetic history.

Sunday July 24 2pm (as part of Washington Women in Jazz)


with Cae Joseph-Massena (France-Haiti), voice
An exchange of languages, a Parisian salon inspired by James Baldwin.


colloquy flyerall concerts performed with Amy K Bormet on grand piano and hosted by
Robert Harper Books
6216 Rhode Island Ave
Riverdale Park, MD 20737

Buy Tickets – $12 adv/$15 door, $30 full series pass
www.amykbormet.com
www.maggiehasspacher.com/
www.briansettles.com
Cae Joseph Massena
www.RobertHarperBooks.com

Great to be back in Ann Arbor and hanging with wonderful people last night. Thanks to Rachel Mazer and the Canterbury House for having us! We went unlimited bowling after the show with Ann Arbor superhero Ingrid Racine. Looking forward to next week’s alumni show!
Hitting Kalamazoo tonight with more great friends, Ashley and Benje Daneman!