Welcome to the Sequester Series, a weekly concert featuring solo music performers from across the Western New York region. Every Tuesday night in February and March at 8:00 pm, Hallwalls will host a live performance from our theater streamed live to you and viewable on this page. Each stream will cost $7.00, but Hallwalls Members will have free access! Consider this an incentive for becoming a member - buy a membership at any level and get access to the entire Sequester Series ($63 value).
John Bacon, percussionist and composer, teaches percussion and Jazz at SUNY Fredonia, percussion at UB and is head of Jazz at Villa Maria College in Buffalo, NY. He holds a PhD in Music Composition from SUNY at Buffalo and a MM in Percussion Performance from Fredonia. His music has been performed by an eclectic array of musicians, including The Amherst Saxophone Quartet, Leroy Jenkins, the New Jazz Orchestra of Buffalo, the New York New Music Ensemble and the UB Percussion Ensemble. Performance credits include Lester Bowie, Roswell Rudd, Bobby Previte, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Bobby Militello, Star People, the Buffalo Jazz Collective and the Buffalo Jazz Composers Workshop. His most recent CD is a piano trio recording, “Refractions”, featuring the music of Thelonious Monk with Michael McNeill and Danny Ziemann. John is a 2013 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Award recipient in Music/Sound and a New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Composer Commission with Christopher Jentsch 2015. More information at johnbaconjr.com.
Hallwalls Music Program is made possible through public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency and a grant from the Cullen Foundation.
Photo by Jack Zuff