Fire Club Jazz with Eyster Mitchell and Seal
Fiery improv and classical covers with a twist-- silver C, bass and alto flutes, acoustic upright bass and Award-winning percussion with full drum kit setup and
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Maiden Voyage Maiden Voyage
Fire Club jazz features Flora Eyster, Steve Mitchell and Andy Seal along with central PA guests including Jay Umble (jazz guitar), Steve Rudolph (jazz piano), Steve Adams (jazz piano), Doug McMinn (sax), Joel Vincent (drums), Tim Breon (upright bass) and Ann Kerstetter (vocals). Fire Club jazz covers classical jazz standards with male and female vocals. Professional sound technician Keith Hummel ("PA Musician") is our guy.
Fire Club merges Andy Seal's psychedelic and smooth classical, acoustic upright and electric bass with Eyster's flutes revealing a NYC loft background and Steve Mitchell's west coast drum and percussion sensibilities. The result is awesome live, event and soundtrack music-- most of the soundtracks are too large for upload, being Sun Ra-style events.
Please DO have a FULL listen to "Maiden Voyage, " you'll be glad you did.
The band posts events at all news links and at Billtown Live in Williamsport, PA at the inimitable www.billtownlive.com
(See bios below)
OUR SUPPORTIVE VENUES/Address, Phone (570 Area Code)
Bullfrog Brewery- 231 W. Fourth Williamsport 326-4700
Emmas Food for Life- 11 S. Market St. Selinsgrove 374-0178
Cherry Alley CafÃ- 21 N. Third St. Lewisburg 524-1234
Old Forge Brewing Company- 282 Mill St. Danville 275-8151
Selins Grove Brewing- 121 N. Market St. Selinsgrove 374-7308
Puirseils Irish Pub- 15 S. Sixth St. Lewisburg 523-600
Front Street Station, 2 Front Street, Northumberland 473-3626
ABC Brewing 50 N. Cameron St., Hbg 717 221-1080
Owens Farm, 2611 Mile Post Rd. Sunbury 286-5309
Page After Page 336 Market St. Lewisburg 524-7243
Elk Creek Cafà and Brew Works Main St. Millheim 814 349-88
West End Library, 45 Ball Park Road Laurelton 922-4773
Manley-Bohlayer Heritage Farm, off Route 414 East Canton
NEWS:
PRESS BACKGROUND
Flora Eyster Bio
Flutist and Community Arts Activist
A Pa Partners on the Arts Grant Award winner for five consecutive years, Eyster graduated from Bard College (B.A.) and studied flute and musical composition with Patricia Spencer, Joan Tower, Ben Boretz (Founder, The Princeton Review) and Luis Garcia Renart while in the music program at Bard. She studied music improvisation for performance and dance with Roswell Rudd while at Bard College. In Boston for 11 years, Eyster studied with Matt Marvuglio at Berklee Performance Center. Living in Hamburg, Germany for three years, Eyster promoted LA and NYC bands and solo artists, Emily Hay, Anna Homler, Brad Dutz, as well as Elliot Sharp and Zena Parkins. Upon return to the US in 1992, Eyster started Flora Productions The Musical Entertainment Network which matched over 150 Pennsylvania acts and artists to 35 newly-created venues within PA. The Network business was sold in 2002. Eyster then started Flora Eysters Pro Musicians Entertainment which strictly promotes the original recording and engagement work for her compositions and entertainment with Celtica; The Little Paris Jazz Trio; The Classical Jazz Band; Steve Mitchell, Percussionist; Steve Mitchell/Andy Seal/Flora Eyster film compositions and placement, and Flora Eyster, soloist. Pro Musicians is celebrating 19 years in the entertainment business in 2012.
Eyster was the primary composer for the Lake Placid Film Festival spot produced by Flexible frame Productions in Lewisburg, PA. This spot for the Lake Placid Film Festival features live appearances by Martin Scorsese (director Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, The Departed), Mathew Modine (actor Full Metal Jacket), and Bill Plympton (animator Hair High). Her work, along with Award-winner, Steve Mitchell, (duo) is also featured in the multi award-winning short film Neck Deep (international film reviews) and is integral to the feature length film All is Normal staring Linda Blair and Tom Stechschulte. Visit Todd Biebers web for his interesting film history as producer and film maker of indie films.
She has produced eight albums (mastered by George Graham of WVIA) since 2006. Six albums feature Eyster and award-winning percussionist, Steve Mitchell. Steve Mitchell was the drummer for Peanuts TV specials with Charles Schulz for over 25 years. Eyster and Mitchell are in negotiations for the sale of the suite of international music cds. Eyster and Mitchell are active in film music production with Steve Jewett, Sitarist and Andy Seal, bassist, who records, performs and tours with blues artists, Ann Rabson and EG Kight. Celtica and Little Paris Jazz Trio have completed two newly mastered studio albums. A new solo album, Appalachian and Folk for Flutes will be released shortly. A special project of Ave Maria is in project stages.
Eyster performs on silver and wooden C, alto and bass flutes and plays and records with over 40 other international wind flutes of all kinds. Her passion is film music and making music of all genre come alive for audiences of all ages. She is especially interested in reaching young audiences since teaching privately and at Greenwood Friends School, Millville, PA. Eyster is performing professionally in public about six times per month.
Flora Eyster was a freelance columnist-writer with Susquehanna Life Magazine for Bass and Treble Music Notes column. She founded a new wedding division for the oldest entertainment agency in the US, after William Morris, which is located in Harrisburg, PA. Eyster Worked with this Harrisburg agency, BRP Entertainment, developing and marketing wedding business, and expanding venues in the southern PA tier for over two years.
Flora Eyster is the proud recipient of a PA Partners on the Arts Grant Award for 2008-2012 award years. She produced Nights of Ireland A Celtic Variety Show for five years. The program support edthe work of 25-30 performers and technicians.
She has appeared at Bucknell University Bucknell Hall Jazz and Art Gallery Series, Bloomsburg University Celebrity Artist Series, Harrisburg Cultural Arts festivals, Lewisburg Arts Festival, Lewisburg Live and Lewisburg and Selinsgrove Late Shoppers Night, Iron Heritage Festival, Lewisburg Celtic Festival, Bloomsburg Crafts Festival and Tree Fest, Eagles Mere Street festivals, Cristkindl Market in Mifflinburg, Mifflinburg Buggy Days, and Billtown Blues Festival (1992); she has played in over 75 PA and NY venues. She was a recent guest artist at Bard College JazzFest, performing with her former classmates and the inimitable Malcolm Cecil, on bass.
All Flora Eysters projects can be sampled on Soundclick. www.soundclick.com Performance calendars are online for all ensembles.
All national and international bookings/tours are handled at Pro Musicians Entertainment, florapro@ptd.net. (Direct contact via this site please.)Band/artist history
BIOS
Steve Mitchell/Multi-Award-Winning Percussionist
Steve Mitchell is a Grammy- award winner percussionist from the west coast studio scene. While in California, Steve lived a very active life as a professional musician, which led to his winning an award for best studio musician in 1976.
In the studio, working with composer Ed Bogas, he produced music for twenty-five years of Charlie Brown TV specials, as well as for Garfield the Cat, Sesame Street, Nova, the PBS documentary American Experience, and thousands of commercials. He also contributed music to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest with Jack Nicholson, Eddie Macon’s Run with Kirk Douglas, the NBC special End of the Rainbow, David Byrne’s True Stories, Walker with Joe Strummer of the Clash, appeared as a bandleader in Francis Ford Coppola’s Tucker, and composed two soundtracks for comedian Liz Scherr.
For eight years he was a featured soloist with the Joffrey Ballet, and he had a band with Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead called Too Loose to Truck. He toured with Mose Allison, Van Morrison, the Smothers Brothers, Joy of Cooking, and the Coasters, and he played or recorded with Joe Henderson, Blue Mitchell, Herb Ellis, Vince Guaraldi, Cal Tjader, Leon Russell, Albert King, Esther Phillips, Lou Rawls, Maria Muldaur, Roy Rogers, Norton Buffalo, David Grisman, Sally Kellerman, Freda Payne, Les Elgart, and Earl Van Dyke of Motown’s Funk Brothers.
Upon returning to his native state of Pennsylvania, Steve has continued to be a musician much in demand, contributing music, with Flora Eyster, to the Bieber and Brafa films "All Is Normal and Neck Deep, (award winning)" and playing, touring and recording with EG Kight, Ann Rabson, and Kenny “Blue Boss†Wayne, as well as with Greg Burgess, Steve Adams, Arthur Goldstein, Flora Eyster, Ann Kerstetter, Jack Fries, Artist of the Year Sascha Feinstein (editor of Brilliant Corners), John Johnson, the Gypsy Lizards, Infinite Bliss, the Mid-Life Cowboys, Kimbo Reichley, Tom Patton of TP Noble Guitars, E.D. Ward, Steve Adams, Paul Farnham, Tim Breon and the Reverend Ann Keeler Evans.
Early in his life, Steve recorded with songwriter Pat Ballard and was a touring member of the do-wop group the Skyliners. With a degree in music education, Steve has taught at the University of California and the Wilmington Friends School and was a founder of the Children’s Media and the Academy of Rhythm.â€
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Flora Eyster, Award-Winning Flutist
Eyster is a Bard graduate and lived the NY village downtown loft improv scene with Roswell Rudd, Sheila Jordan, Karl Berger et al. She studied with (at) Ben Boretz, Joan Tower, Patricia Spencer, Karl Berger/Creative Music Studio (CMS) and was a part of the Brandeis University improv scene at “The Joint†supporting the archival concert series by Marc Leibowitz of the Marc Leibowitz and Laurence Cook project.
She is a contemporary and friend of Emily Hay, flutist. Both Hay and Eyster attended Bard with Elliott Sharp and Zena Parkins. Later, Eyster produced concerts across northern Europe in the "new" Germany in outside art/art-house American improv music genre stream during the 1990’s. Through Hay's west-coast network, Eyster promoted unique LA and NYC-based artists and projects, such as Anna Homler and Nels Cline.
She is currently the recipient of four PA Partners on the Arts grant.
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Andy Seal, World-Class Bassist
Bassist, Andy Seal, has been playing with Flora Eyster and Steve Mitchell since the 1990's.
Andy has performed with national artists Perry Robinson (clarinetist with Dave Brubeck), David Darling (Grammy-nominated cellist, formerly of the Paul Winter Consort), and Kenny “Blue Boss†Wayne, and continues to perform, tour the world and record with EG Kight and Ann Rabson.
He was a founding member of the acid jazz quartet ’72 Flood, the jazz/rock/world ensemble The Threads, the Lip Smackin’ Blues Band (semifinalist for the 2003 International Blues Challenge in Memphis), and the Electric Volcano Experiment.
Andy is a member of the Bloomsburg University Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, and is currently pursuing a degree in music education. Andy has contributed bass music and compositions on the Moog synthesizer to the WVIA-TV documentary "Voices from Vietnam" and to the Flexible frame film "All Is Normal" and "Neck Deep." (produced by Todd Bieber, currently at "The Onion" and Juliana Brafa)
Andy has played with many other central PA musicians, including Jonathan Edwards, Mary Knysh, Averie Clark, Ann Kerstetter, Sascha Feinsein, Infinite Bliss, Flora Eyster, Jack Fries, John Johnson, Greg Burgess, Joel Vincent, Tim Breon, Steve Rudolph, Arthur Goldstein, Terry Rogers, Terry Wild, Steve Adams, and the Reverend Ann Keeler Evans.Your musical influences
Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders, McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock, Miles. Scary movie music for soundtracks, that Werner Herzog and Henry Kaiser would love. All alert jazz.What equipment do you use?
Sennheiser, peavey, yamaha, good Turkish cymbals.Anything else?
Professional artist photography by: Award-winner, Gordon Wenzel, of
Impressions Photographic Studios and Gallery, Danville, PA.
http://www.impressionsphoto.net/
All national and international bookings/tours are handled at Pro Musicians Entertainment, florapro@ptd.net (Direct contact via this site please.)
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