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Concerts Series:

Tuesday, October 15th: 6:30: RAFFI GARABEDIAN - Tenor Sax / KENNY WARREN // 7:30: DAVE GROLLMAN // 8:30: JOHN HAGEN - Tenor Sax / TODD CAPP - Drums // 9:30: LUKE POLIPNICK - Guitar / KAELEN GHANDI - Sax / SHOGO YAMAGISHI - Bass / JAMES PAUL NADIEN - Drums

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THE DMG 33rd ANNIVERSARY IN-STORE FREE MUSIC SERIES Continues with:

Tuesday, October 15th:
6:30: RAFFI GARABEDIAN - Tenor Sax / KENNY WARREN - Trumpet
7:30: DAVE GROLLMAN - Solo
8:30: JOHN HAGEN - Tenor Sax / TODD CAPP - Drums
9:30: LUKE POLIPNICK - Guitar / KAELEN GHANDI - Sax / SHOGO YAMAGISHI - Bass / JAMES PAUL NADIEN - Drums

Tuesday, October 22nd:
6:30: CLAIRE de BRUNNER - bassoon / HARUNA FUKAZAWA - flutes / TREVOR BAJU - guitar / SHU ODAMURA - guitar / JARRED CHASE - Drums
7:30: NATHAN NAKADEGAWA-LEE - Sax / HANS YOUNG BINTER - Keyboard / MICHAEL GILBERT - Bass / GARY JONES III - Drums
8:30: PATRICK GOLDEN - Drums / MATT HOLLENBERG - Guitar / STEPHEN GAUCI - Tenor Sax / LIM YANG - Bass
9:30: LUCIANA RIZZO - Solo Drums & Feedback

Tuesday, October 29th:
6:30: BEYOND FLUTE GROUP: CHERYL PYLE - C & alto flutes / SYLVAIN LEROUX - fula & C flutes / MICHAEL EATON - Soprano sax
7:30: JONATHAN REISIN - Tenor Sax / CERIDWEN McCOOEY - Cello / JARRED CHASE - Drums
8:30: SUNJAY JAYARAM - Violin-Viola / TIM WATSON - Guitar / RYAN GHASSEMI - Bassoon
9:30: SYLVESTER GERMAINE - Guitar / JOHN HEBERT - Contrabass / JEFF DAVIS - Drums

Tuesday, November 5th:
6:30: MATT HOLLENBERG - Guitar / DANIEL GALOW - Alto Sax / JON ROSEN - Bass / PATRICK GOLDEN - Drums
7:30: CLAUS BOESSER-FERRARI - Guitar
8:30: K B - Daxophone
9:30: STEVE HIRSH - Drums / STEVE SWELL - Trombone / DANIEL CARTER - Reeds / Trumpet

A RARE Saturday, November 9th event:
3-5pm: BENNETT KELLY Book Release Celebration for his book ‘Sensation Blues’!

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THE BIG HAT EZZ-THETICS REISSUE CD SALE LIST: Sizzling Summer Sale!

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Ezz-thetics label

Over the past decade, the Swiss-based Hat Art/Hat Hut/Hatology label have been releasing a large number of essential 1950’s and 1960’s Avant/Free/Progressive Jazz reissues and rare recordings. Consider this: the remastering on each of these releases is top notch plus and often better than the initial recordings plus Hat fills each disc with 2-3 albums (more b

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The 40th Annual FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL MUSIQUE ACTUELLE VICTORIAVILLE Edition - DMG Review

When the last edition of FIMAV (a/k/a Victo Fest) ended in May of 2023, founding father Michel Levasseur stepped down after nearly four decades and said he was looking for an appropriate replacement. Last year's Victo Fest ended triumphantly with several transcendent  sets by John Zorn's New Masada Quartet and Fred Frith Trio Plus, two popular Victo attractions who've played at this fest many times in the past.

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DMG History

Bruce Lee Gallanter discusses his legacy at home and asks for some advice.

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A recent history of DMG. Excerpts from in-store gigs. Short interviews with Creative Musicians at DMG.

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Happy 30th Anniversary to Downtown Music Gallery!

Saturday, May 1st was the actual anniversary of Downtown Music Gallery, 30 years to the day! I am immensely proud of all we’ve accomplished since we opened out doors on 211 East 5th St. in the East Village. Special thanks to all of the well-wishers who’ve written to us or come down in the past month, we do appreciate your kind words of support! We, here at DMG, are going to celebrate for the entire month with some live outdoor events, some in-store on-line event

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