Underwritten by the Kranzberg Arts Foundation, The Dark Room offers live music every day we are open! Continuing our mission of providing the infrastructure for the arts to thrive in St. Louis, we provide local jazz musicians the platform to bring their music to the masses! The weekly schedule is:

– Wednesdays: The Kasimu-tet (9-11pm), part of the Wednesday Night Jazz Crawl in Grand Center
– Thursdays: Thursday Night Revue featuring rotating groups (9:30pm-12:30am)
– Fridays (dinner): Ptah Williams Acoustic Trio (6-8pm)
– Fridays (late night): Jesse Gannon‘s Truth (10pm-1am)
– Saturdays (dinner): Dine & Discover featuring Tonina Saputo / Royce Martin (rotating) (6-8pm)
– Saturdays: “Late Night Grooves” Mo Egeston + special guests (10pm-1am)
– Sundays (brunch): The Dark Room Brunch Sessions (11am-1:30pm unless otherwise noted)

For more information, visit www.thedarkroomstl.com/live-music.

Kranzberg Arts Center
2017 Gallery Exhibitions

Bryce Robinson “Prime Beauty” – on display January 20 to February 25, 2017
UMSL Group Show “Taking It To The Streets” – on display April 7 to May 20, 2017
Artists First “Variation and Adaptations” – on display June 2 to July 29, 2017
Sarah Paulsen “White Ghosts” – on display September 1 to October 21, 2017
Kat Douglas & Sukanya Mani “Reflections” – on display November 3 to December 30, 2017

Opening receptions from 6-9pm on exhibit opening dates

Bryce Olen Robinson, Prime Beauty, on display 1/20/17 through 2/25/17, has a layered background of experiences and uses collisions of multiple forms of sculpture as his vehicle for expression and urges the audience to look with fresh eyes at the collision of multiple social events taking place around us.

Taking It To The Streets, on display 4/7/17 through 5/20/17, is a group exhibit organized through Gallery 210 at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. Individual artists, Basil Kincaid, through multi-media, Lois Ingrum, through photographs, Howard Berry through drawings, and De Andrea Nichols through performance will present their work together. The interaction of the work of these artists will create a unique and provocative gallery environment. These are the voices of young engaged artists who with their own questions, ask us how we will act to shape the future of our community.

Variation and Adaptations, on display 6/2/17 through 7/29/17, is an exhibit curated by Artists First, an organization that has long worked to promote the artwork of individuals challenged by physical or psychological obstacles. While typically judged by society as impaired, this organization advocates for these artists to be considered as equal, not other, within the visual art community by their unique perspectives and life experiences. Angela Gipson, Jeff Johnson, and Jimmy Holmes will each present a body of work specific to their use of media and focused examinations.

Sarah Paulsen, White Ghosts, on display 9/1/17 through 10/21/17, is the work of a Latina artist acknowledging the dominating hegemony of “white” culture in American society. Within the overwhelmingly “white” noise of media that can drown out all other voices, she brings to light, through her paintings of her cultural memories and influences, her personal awareness and individual self.

Reflections, on display 11/3/17 through 12/30/17, is a group show by Kat Douglas and Sukyana Mani, both of whom are intrigued by how we express ourselves leading ultimately to communicating with others. Visual art is a language, after all, and the beginning of written communication was in the form of pictographs and visual codes. Each of these artists explore this concept from opposite ends of human history. Kat Douglas examines communication in a contemporary context while Sukyana Mani starts at the beginning of human mark-making. Each end of the spectrum has within it the limitations and nuanced subtle intimacies of the human psyche.

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About the Fringe

At The Grandel, the Kranzberg Arts Center, Duet, and Strauss Park
Festival Box Office located at The Grandel

St Lou Fringe Festival 2017

August 17- 26, 2017
Various Times (see schedule)
$15-$150 (Individual Show & Festival Passes are available)

St Lou Fringe is a performing arts festival that bolsters cultural identity in St Louis by providing a support structure to connect independent performing arts with accessible, affordable showcase settings for audiences. Fringe showcases theatre and dance, storytelling and spoken word, burlesque and acrobatics, visual art and more in a unique pressure-cooker of artistic expression. St Lou Fringe has been named “Best Theatre Festival” and “Best Theatre Surprise” by the Riverfront Times, one of “Nine Intriguing US Fringe Festivals” by CNN, and one of “Fifty Essential Summer Festivals” by the New York Times.

2017 St Lou Fringe Producing Artists
Full Schedule

Producing Artists / Venues
The Schlafly MainStage @ The Grandel Theatre
SNOW WHITE, ERA – Local Headline Act
A Song For Vanya – National Headline Act
Ashleyliane Dance Company – Late Night Headline Act 

Kranzberg BlackBox Theatre
because why not? theatre company
John Michael
Good People Theatre Company
Elizabeth Townsend

Duet Gallery
Dan Viggers
O’Fallon Theatreworks
Matthew Marcum
Dead Gothics Society
Declaration Theatre Company

Kranzberg Cabaret Studio
Black Mirror Theatre
Danielle Mari
Midnight Company
STL Improv
Tesseract Theatre Company
Willi Carlisle 

Kranzberg Visual Arts Incubator
Andrew Frank
Jim Sea
Same Difference
Stryker Spurlock
Tony L. Marr Jr. 

Strauss Park (Opening Night)
St Louis Story Stitchers
Meiissa Allen, Arielist

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In the .ZACK Theatre

R-S Theatrics
presents
In the Heights

August 18 – September 3, 2017
Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm
Sundays at 7pm

$25 General Admission
$20 Students & Seniors

In the Heights is set in New York City’s vibrant Washington Heights, where the coffee from the corner shop is light and sweet, the windows are always open and the breeze carries the rhythm of three generations of music. It’s a community on the brink of change, and full of hopes and dreams, where the biggest struggles can be deciding which traditions you take with you, and which ones you leave behind. The groundbreaking music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda and book by Quiara Alegría Hudes tell the universal story of chasing your dreams and finding your true home.

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At The Marcelle

JPEK CreativeWorks Theatre
presents
Respect My Shoes

August 24 – 27, 2017
Thursday & Friday at 8pm
Saturday at 3pm & 8pm
Sunday at 3pm

$25 General Admission

A story of a group of women who tell a compelling story of tragedy to triumph. Respect My Shoes puts a demand on society that no matter what her journey is, no matter how great, sad, beautiful, or ugly, respect her journey.

At The Dark Room at The Grandel

The Bridge Trio

August 24, 2017
9pm – 11pm
No Cover

The Bridge Trio
a special feature of
The Thursday Night Revue at The Dark Room

Join this unique trio of young musicians who stand strong as members of the next line of jazz virtuosos to come out of the thriving music traditions of New Orleans.

Featuring:
Joe Dyson – drummer (Dr. Lonnie Smith & Nicholas Payton)
Conun Pappas – pianist
Max Moran – bassist (Christian Scott)
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About:
With roots deep in the New Orleans tradition, The Bridge Trio is made up of drummer Joe Dyson (Dr. Lonnie Smith & Nicholas Payton), pianist Conun Pappas, and bassist Max Moran (Christian Scott), all alumni of New Orleans saxophone master Donald Harrison’s band. Having enjoyed steadily increasing professional recognition and success in the jazz world as band members of such jazz greats, the members of Bridge Trio bring forth their own innovative, original compositions in a small-combo format. Dyson, Moran, and Pappas carry on Harrison’s “Nouveau Swing” style, which merges modern dance musics such as r&b, hip-hop, soul, rock, and jazz with Afro-New Orleans traditional music.

The Bridge Trio has performed on international stages in prestigious festivals, performance halls and nightclubs in places such as Paris, Morocco, St. Croix, French Guiana, Brazil, Spain, Greece, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and many others and have been featured in David Simon’s hit HBO Series “Treme”. All three members attended New Orleans’ arts conservatory, NOCCA, where they studied under the legendary Alvin Batiste; they are also graduates of two of the country’s most distinguished music schools; Dyson and Moran received degrees from Berklee College of Music in Boston, and Pappas is a graduate of The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York City.

At The Dark Room at The Grandel

Mo E All-Stars: Groove Suites
Album Release Party
w/ Owen Ragland’s Late Night

August 27, 2017
4pm
No Cover
(pay what you like)

Taking inspiration from a variety of sources Mo E All-Stars have created a unique sound around the originals,
reworks and arrangements of pianist Mo Egeston. Since his days with the pioneering live house/electronic
project Urban Jazz Naturals, Egeston’s original music has featured influences of jazz, soul, Latin, funk and all
things electronic including deep house, nujazz and drum and bass. Essentially taking familiar dance and lounge
elements and using them as a starting place for organic groove based compositions.

On August 27 at the Dark Room at the Grandel, Mo E All-Stars will celebrate the release of their debut EP
Groove Suites Vol. 1. Groove Suites features 8 original instrumental works composed by Egeston and inspired
by the abilities and playing styles of original members Duane “Jingo” Williams and Grover Stewart Jr. Egeston
typically writes from the piano first but often creates groove templates in the studio. He then relies on Stewart
(drums) and Williams (percussion) to breathe life into these machine generated grooves. The addition of
bassist Eric “Snoopy” Tyler in 2015 allowed the band to fully recreate Mo’s ideas in a live setting.

The All-Stars developed primarily through residencies at Lola and the Delmar Lounge. To capture the essence
of the band’s sound the bulk of the EP was recorded live at Sawhorse Studios in one 4-hour session. Subsequent
production work was done by Mo in his home studio, followed by mixing, mastering and additional production
work by Jason McEntire.

For the release event an opening set (5P) will be performed by Owen Ragland and his band Late Night.
Ragland studies piano with Mo and is a member of the Far Fetched collective.

After the opening set by Late Night, the band will play the EP followed by a “party set” of live house, modern
soul and drum and bass. Special guests for the second set will include Paige Alyssa, Jessica Butler and Mario
Pascal and very likely longtime friend and collaborator CocoSoul.

The Band:
Eric “Snoopy” Tyler- bass guitar
Duane Williams- percussion
Grover Stewart Jr.- drums
Maurice “Mo” Egeston- piano, Rhodes, synthesizers