Awesöme Orchestra is honored to be collaborating for the third time with both Dia Luna (arranged by Holly Mead) and Raze The Maze for new songs arranged for full orchestra. Guest vocalist Yvette Pylant will be back performing The BeeGees “How Deep is Your Love” in a beautiful new arrangement by PJ Morton and Brian Adam McCune.

Alongside our Artistic director Dave Möschler and Brian Adam McCune, we’re honored to to welcome back two local conductors who are part of the of Awesöme Orchestra Collective community — Sue Crum and Dr. Sixto F. Montesinos Jr. who will lead the orchestra through new pieces by Alexis Alrich, Joshua idio, and Dale Trumbore.

And of course the Awesöme Big Band is back showcasing thrilling new arrangements by Jereld Wing of Elgar’s Enigma Variations and excerpts from Kristofer Maddigan’s smash-hit video game soundtrack to Cuphead. We’ll close out the evening with the earth-shaking final movement of Respighi’s The Pines of Rome. You don’t want to miss this amazing line up!Destiny for a New - Joshua A. Idio

Show Schedule:

Infinitely and Without Apology - Dale Trumbore

"Breaking Broken" and "Under the Spell" from 7am Daydream - Raze the Maze

Bell and Drum Tower - Alexis Alrich

Enigma Variations - Edward Elgar
(arr. for big band by Jereld Wing)

"Clip Joint Calamity" from the video game Cuphead - Kristofer Maddigan

"June" from Camellia - Dia Luna
(arr. by Holly Mead)

"How Deep Is Your Love?" - The BeeGees
(arr. by Brian Adam McCune and PJ Morton)

"The Appian Way" from The Pines of Rome - Ottorino Respighi

DIA LUNA joins the Awesome Orchestra at Freight and Salvage concert hall for an unforgettable evening of celebration, genre-bending live music with full orchestra and fundraising! Get your tickets today for Awesöme Orchestra’s seventh annual End-of-Year Concert on Sunday, December 12 and come support your community as we gather together to make music again!

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Concert Program Includes:

Aeaea by Holly Mead *

Mariachitlán - Juan Pablo Contreras

"Love Bold" and "Brave One" by ONIKHO
arranged for full orchestra, featuring Carina Ho, vocals

“Sanctus” from Requiem Sinfónica - Arturo Rodriguez *

“Walk in Beauty” - Dia Luna *
arranged by Brian Adam McCune, featuring Andrea Diaz, vocals

“Uranus: The Magician” from The Planets - Gustav Holst
arranged for big band by Jeremy Levy

“Sweet Thing” - Chaka Khan and “That’s the Way of the World” - Earth, Wind & Fire
arranged by Brian Adam McCune, featuring Andrea Diaz, Moorea Dickason, Bakari Holmes, vocals

*denotes a world premiere performance

WHEN: Sunday, December 12, 2021, Doors @ 6pm, Show @ 7pm

WHERE: Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse 2020 Addison St, Berkeley, CA

COST: Free for participating musicians. Audience members can buy tickets here ($30). A limited number of seats will be saved for walk-ups on the day of the concert for donation. No one turned away for lack of funds (until we hit venue capacity!)

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: Would you like a free ticket to the concert? Sign up to volunteer as an usher or Front of House staff member for the evening. We need about 10 volunteers, so first come first served! For more information, email development@awesomeorchestra.org

TRANSPORTATION SUGGESTIONS: Just over one block from Downtown Berkeley BART. Parking in downtown Berkeley can be very crowded, so as always, we strongly suggest public transit, biking, or ride-sharing. Here's a list of parking garages in the area.

All musicians and audience members will be REQUIRED to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination to enter the venue.

The fourth Occult Humanities Conference is a weekend conference to be held in New York City on October 4-6, 2019. The conference will present a wide array of voices active in the cultural landscape who are specifically addressing the occult tradition through research, scholarship and artistic practice.

The arts and humanities at present are acutely interested in subjects related to the occult tradition. The tradition represents a rich and varied visual culture that displays a complex set of relations at once culturally specific and global in their transmission. Roughly defined, the occult tradition represents a series of culturally syncretic belief systems with related and overlapping visual histories. Though there are as many ways into this material as there are cultural - and personal - perspectives, universal occult concerns often include a belief in some sort of magic; a longing to connect with an immaterial or trans-personal realm; and a striving for inner-knowledge, refinement of the self, and transformation of one's consciousness - if not one's physical circumstances.

Intensely marginalized throughout most historical periods, these traditions persist and represent an 'underground' perspective that periodically exerts a strong influence on structures of dissent, utopianism and social change. Though history is marked with several so-called "Occult Revivals," the contemporary digital age is a perfect confluence of several factors which make this moment prime for a reexamination of all of the esoteric traditions. While the information age has allowed for easier access to previously obscure writings, imagery, and social contexts, it alternately elicits a deep desire for sensorial experiences and meaning-making once one steps away from the screen.

The presenters at the OHC represent a rich and expanding community of international artists and academics from multiple disciplines across the humanities who share an exuberance and excitement for how the occult traditions interface with their fields of study as well as the culture at large. The small scale of this conference (approximately 100 attendees) will give ticket holders an intimate look at the presenters and their views.

The OHC is co-organized by Jesse Bransford and Pam Grossman

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DIA LUNA will perform during the opening reception. October 4th, 2019 from 8pm-10pm

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More information here:

https://occulthumanitiesconference.org/