Past Shows:
02/07/2006 10:00 PM - Bowery Poetry Club
Double bill with Robert Stillman's HORSES, featuring new compositions, people from Maine. My band is Jonathan Rossman- alto sax, Adam Chilenski-bass, and RJ Miller- drums.
02/18/2006 08:00 PM - the Penn Stater, President's Hall
w/ Akoya Afrobeat Ensemble (www.akoyamusic.com)
02/19/2006 10:00 PM - Alligator Lounge
w/ Joey Johnson Band
02/21/2006 09:30 PM - Bowery Poetry Club
w/ Pete Robbins & Centric: Sam Sadigursky, Mike Gamble, Eliot Cardinaux, Tyshawn Sorey and Eivind Opsvik. Double bill with the Inbetweens featuring Mike Gamble, Conor Elmes, and Noah Jarrett
03/05/2006 01:00 AM - Rockwood Music Hall
W/ Mads Mouritz, Kresten Osgood on drums, and Adam Chilenski on bass. Check out www.mouritz.dk.
03/05/2006 10:00 PM - Alligator Lounge
W/ Joey Johnson, Noah Wheeler, RJ Miller.
03/10/2006 08:00 PM - The Bag and Kettle @ Sugarloaf Ski Resort
w/ Will Jones, Eliot Cardinaux, Nathan Semler, Chris Higgins
03/19/2006 08:00 PM - Bar 4
Pete Robbins & Centric pr - alto saxophone, compositions; sam sadigursky - tenor & soprano saxophone; ryan blotnick - guitar; eliot cardinaux - nord electro; eivind opsvik - bass; tyshawn sorey - drums
03/19/2006 09:30 PM - Zeitgeist Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Pete Robbins & Centric: pr - alto saxophone, compositions; sam sadigursky - tenor & soprano saxophone; ryan blotnick - guitar; mike gamble - guitar; eliot cardinaux - nord electro; thomas morgan - bass; tyshawn sorey – drums
03/21/2006 10:00 PM – Tritone, Philadelphia, PA
Pete Robbins & Centric: pr - alto saxophone, compositions; ryan blotnick - guitar; mike gamble - guitar; eliot cardinaux - nord electro; thomas morgan - bass; tyshawn sorey - drums
03/22/2006 09:00 PM - Chris' Jazz Café, PHILADELPHIA, PA
Pete Robbins & Centric: pr - alto saxophone, compositions; ryan blotnick - guitar; mike gamble - guitar; eliot cardinaux - nord electro; thomas morgan - bass; tyshawn sorey – drums
03/23/2006 08:00 PM - Twins Jazz Club, Washington DC
Pete Robbins & Centric: pr - alto saxophone, compositions; ryan blotnick - guitar; mike gamble - guitar; eliot cardinaux - nord electro; thomas morgan - bass; tyshawn sorey - drums
03/28/2006 07:30 PM - Chicky's Fine Diner, Westbrook, ME
Pete Robbins & Centric: pr - alto saxophone, compositions; sam sadigursky - tenor & soprano saxophone; ryan blotnick - guitar; mike gamble - guitar; eliot cardinaux - nord electro; thomas morgan - bass; tyshawn sorey – drums
03/29/2006 12:00 PM - Amherst College
Pete Robbins & Centric: pr - alto saxophone, compositions; sam sadigursky - tenor & soprano saxophone; ryan blotnick - guitar; mike gamble - guitar; eliot cardinaux - nord electro; thomas morgan - bass; tyshawn sorey – drums
03/30/2006 08:00 PM - Radio Bean
Pete Robbins & Centric: pr - alto saxophone, compositions; ryan blotnick - guitar; mike gamble - guitar; eliot cardinaux - nord electro; thomas morgan - bass; tba – drums
03/31/2006 10:00 PM - Tazza Café, Providence, RI 02901
Pete Robbins & Centric: pr - alto saxophone, compositions; sam sadigursky - tenor & soprano saxophone; ryan blotnick - guitar; mike gamble - guitar; eliot cardinaux - nord electro; thomas morgan - bass; tyshawn sorey – drums
04/01/2006 08:00 PM - Timken Room, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
Pete Robbins & Centric: pr - alto saxophone, compositions; sam sadigursky - tenor & soprano saxophone; ryan blotnick - guitar; mike gamble - guitar; eliot cardinaux - nord electro; thomas morgan - bass; tyshawn sorey – drums
04/02/2006 10:00 PM - Alligator Lounge
w/ Joey Johnson, Noah Wheeler, drummer TBA
04/06/2006 08:00 PM – Rose Live Music, Brooklyn, NY $8
Ryan Blotnick's Inkblot and Tyshawn Sorey's Oblique: The premiere of my new piece for clarinet, two bass clarinets, keyboard, guitar, bass and drums. w/ Ryan - guitar, Pete Robbins- alto sax, clarinet; Seth Paris- bass clarinet, Sam Sadigursky- bass clarinet, Eliot Cardinaux- Nord, Piano, Thomas Morgan- bass, Tyshawn Sorey- drums.
04/07/2006 09:30 PM - Elixir Juice Bar Sound Infusion
w/ James Ilgenfritz, Ryan Blotnick, Harris Eisenstadt, Michael Attias
04/08/2006 10:00 PM - Zebulon
w/ Akoya Afrobeat Ensemble
04/12/2006 10:00 PM - 55 Bar
w/ Pete Robbins & Centric: Mike Gamble, Sam Sadigursky, Eliot Cardinaux, Thomas Morgan, Dan Weiss
04/14/2006 08:00 PM - the living room
with Mads Mouritz
04/15/2006 11:00 PM - Rockwood Music Hall
w/ Mads Mouritz, Kresten Osgood, Eliot Cardinaux, Adam Chilenski, Camille Jones www.mouritz.dk
04/18/2006 11:00 PM - Rockwood Music Hall
w/ Mads Mouritz
04/20/2006 09:00 PM - Tea Lounge
w/ Pete Robbins & Centric- Mike Gamble's Birthday Party too!
04/23/2006 10:00 PM - Alligator Lounge
w/ Joey Johnson, Noah Wheeler, Alex Wyatt
04/29/2006 08:00 PM - stain bar
w/ Aaron Irwin's band: Chris Higgins, Danny Fischer www.myspace.com/aaronirwin
04/30/2006 10:00 PM - Alligator Lounge
w/ Joey Johnson & band
05/06/2006 03:00 PM - Wesleyan College
w/Akoya Afrobeat
05/07/2006 02:00 PM - NYU
Seth Paris' Senior Recital
05/07/2006 10:00 PM - Alligator Lounge
600 Metropolitan Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11211
US
05/13/2006 09:00 PM - Detour
w/ Pete Robbins & Centric
05/14/2006 10:00 PM - Alligator Lounge
w/ Joey Johnson
05/15/2006 09:00 PM - Bar 4
w/ Pete Robbins & Centric
05/19/2006 08:00 PM - Temple Bar, Los Angeles, CA
w/ Akoya Afrobeat
05/20/2006 08:00 PM - Joshua Tree Festival, Joshua Tree, CA
w/ Akoya Afrobeat
05/24/2006 10:00 AM - A 118, Rhythmic Conservatory Copenhagen, DK Ryan Blotnick’s Inkblot w/ Anders Banke, Jesper Lovdal, Jeppe Tuxen, Graig Earle, Erik Laustsen
06/01/2006 08:00 PM - Akvariet
Senior recital w/ Jonas Westergaard, Kresten Osgood, Ned Ferm
06/05/2006 Jamboree, Barcelona, Spain
What the F*ck Jam Session w/ Albert Sanz, Ryan Blotnick, RJ Miller
06/21/2006 Robador, Barcelona, Spain
Robador Jam w/ Alberts Sanz, Ryan Blotnick, et al
06/23/2006 11:00 PM - Museu Maritimem Barcelona, Spain
w/ Luna Cohen
07/07/2006 08:00 PM – Kvarterhuset, Copenhagen
Pete Robins Centric: w/ PR- alto sax, Ned Ferm- tenor sax, Soren Kjaergaard- keys, Ryan Blotnick- guitar, Eivind Opsvik- bass, Kresten Osgood- drums.
07/07/2006 11:00 PM - Club Leif in Huset, Copenhagen
w/ Band of the Universe
07/08/2006 10:30 PM - Studenterhuset
Pete Robbins & Centric: w/ PR- alto sax, Ned Ferm- tenor sax, Nikolaj Hess- keys, Ryan Blotnick- guitar, Eivind Opsvik- bass, Kresten Osgood- drums.
07/09/2006 08:00 PM - Club Leif @ Huset
Ryan’s Pop Top Whistle Stop featuring Soren Kjaergaard, Eivind Opsvik, Pete Robbins, Jeppe Gram
07/10/2006 10:30 PM - Jazz Club Loco @ M/S Stubnitz
Pete Robbins & Centric: w/ PR- alto sax, Ned Ferm- tenor sax, Nikolaj Hess- keys, Ryan Blotnick- guitar, Eivind Opsvik- bass, Kresten Osgood- drums.
07/15/2006 11:00 PM - Christania Jazz Club
w/ Pete Robbins, Eske Nørrelykke, Kevin Brow
Floyd Fest with Akoya Afrobeat Ensemble:
07/29/2006 01:00 AM - Global Village Stage
07/29/2006 03:00 PM - Main Stage
07/30/2006 01:00 AM - Global Village Stage
08/31/2006 09:00 PM - Tea Lounge
w/ Pete Robbins & Centric
09/02/2006 09:30 PM - Detour
w/ Pete Robbins & Centric
09/18/2006 10:00 PM - Rockwood Music Hall
Ryan Blotnick Quintet w/ Bill Mchenry, Albert Sanz, Chris Higgins, RJ Miller
09/30/2006 01:30 PM - Brooklyn Botanical Gardens
w/ Akoya Afrobeat
10/02/2006 09:00 PM - Bar 4
w/ Pete Robbins & Centric, featuring the music of Carlo Gesualdo through a New Works grant from Doris Duke Foundation/Chamber Music of America
10/08/2006 08:00 PM - Bar 4
w/ Pete Robbins & Centric (see above)
11/20/2006 12:00 AM - Rockwood Music Hall
W/ Chris Higgins, RJ Miller and special guests
11/30/2006 09:00 PM - BAM Cafe
w/ Akoya Afrobeat
12/02/2006 Union Hall w Akoya Afrobeat
12/15/2006 06:00 PM - Manhattan School of Music
122nd st. and Broadway
New York, New York
Michelle Farah's Oboe Recital; I am playing on Astor Piazolla's "Oblivion"
12/16/2006 02:00 PM - Brooklyn Public Library
Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, New York
Akoya Afrobeat
12/16/2006 11:30 PM - Rose Live Music
345 Grand st btw. Marcy & Havemeyer
Brooklyn, New York 11211
Akoya Afrobeat @ New Languages Festival: 8:30 Taylor Ho Byrnum Sextet 10pm John Hebert's Byzantine Monkey (Tony Malaby, Michael Attias, John Hebert, Nasheet Waits) 11pm
12/18/2006- Private Event at CBS
w/ Pat Wolfe Quartet
12/19/2006 09:00 PM - Freddy's Bar & Backroom
485 Dean Street @ 6th Avenue).
Brooklyn, New York
Christiana Drapkin www.christianadrapkin.com
12/20/2006 10:00 PM - Galapagos
70 N 6th st.
Brooklyn, New York 11211
Aaron Irwin Quartet
12/23/2006 10:00 PM - The Big Easy
55 Market st.
Portland, Maine
Nigel Hall Band- Adam Chilenski, Eddie Dickhaut, Ryan Zoidus, etc
12/28/2006 08:00 PM - Rockwood Music Hall
196 Allen St.
New York, New York
Kresten Osgood's Mothers of Contraception w/ Marcus Rojas
01/04/2007 10:00 PM - 55 Bar
w/ Michael Blake Quintet: Michael Blake- saxophone Steve Bernstein- trumpet Ryan Blotnick- guitar Ben Allison- bass Kresten Osgood- drums
55 Christopher st.
NY, New York
01/06/2007 10:00 PM - The Big Easy
Portland, Maine
with the Nigel Hall band. Get your groove on, man
01/20/2007 07:00 AM - The Bag & Kettle @ Sugarloaf USA
Kingfield, Maine
w/ Will Jones- sax, Aaron Ali Shaik- sax, Ryan Blotnick- guitar, Sam Barsh- keys, Chris Higgins- bass, Nathan Semler- drums
Tuesday, February 6 6:30-9:30pm
Society of Illustrators 128 East 63rd st. NY, NY with Christiana Drapkin & Stephanie Grieg
Tuesday, March 6 7-8pm Manahatta Lounge NYC 16 Bowery @ the corner of Bleecker St. with Christiana Drapkin & Stephanie Grieg
Friday, March 9th 6-7pm Rockwood Music Hall
196 Allen st. btw Houston and Stanton
w/ Anders Sivrop, Michael Blake, Sam Barsh
Friday, March 23 Bergadana, Spain
Saturday, March 24
JAZZ CAVA DE VIC (Barcelona, Spain) - with Pete Robbins, Albert Sanz, TBA
Sunday, March 25 Jazz Clot, Barcelona
Spain tour with Pete Robbins & Centric:
Thursday, March 29, BILBAINA JAZZ CLUB (Bilbao, Spain) - 9 pm , www.bilbainajazzclub.org.
Friday, March 30, BILBAINA JAZZ CLUB (Bilbao, Spain) - 9 pm , www.bilbainajazzclub.org.
Sunday, April 1, CARCAIXENT (near Valencia, Spain)
Tuesday, April 3, JIMMY GLASS JAZZ (Valencia, Spain)
Wednesday, April 4, JAMBOREE (Alicante, Spain)
Ryan Blotnick's Northerners feat. Michael Bates
May 26th 8pm
Tillie's in Ft. Greene
248 Dekalb Ave. @ Vanderbilt
This Maine/Canadian trio is ready to pop the top off Tillie, and her little dog too. Come hear this dynamic trio explore Mingusian rhythmicities and Blotnickian synchronicities. $5-20 suggested donation goes straight to the musicians.
The Spain Tour:
11/22 Bilbaina Jazz Club, Bilbao 22:00 h.
11/24 Sunset Jazz Club, Girona 22:45 h.
11/25 Sala Matisse Campoamor, 60 – 46022 Valencia 20:00 h.
11/26 SEDAjazz, Valencia
---------------- Master class de 18:00 h. a 21:00 h.
---------------- Cena de sobaquillo, 21:00 a 22:30 h.
---------------- Jam Session de 22:30 a 01:00 h.
11/27 Jimmy Glass Jazz, Valencia 22:00 h.
11/28 Robador 23 Jam Session, Barcelona w/Joe Smith Bruce Arkin's B-day!
11/29 Bilbaina Jazz Club, Bilbao w/ Bruce Arkin Group 22:00 h.
11/30 Bebop Jazz, San Sebastian w/ Bruce Arkin Group
12/1 Jazz Clot Underground, Barcelona w/ Ryan Blotnick Group feat. Bruce Arkin
Saturday, January 26
Rose Live Music
345 Grand St.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY USA
Directions: http://newlanguages.org/directions.html
$8 Cover for whole evening
8:30 Aaron Ali Shaikh Trio
Aaron Ali Shaikh-saxophones
Eivind Opsvik-bass
Joe Tomino- drums
10 PM Ryan Blotnick Pre-CD Release Party
Ryan Blotnick- guitar and composition
Pete Robins- alto saxophone
Jacob Sacks- piano
R.J. Miller- drums
Perry Wortman-bass
11:30PM Akoya Afrobeat
Thursday, February 21st
Cornelia St. Cafe
29 Cornelia st., NYC
8:30pm Ryan Blotnick "Music Needs You" CD-Release Party with Pete Robbins, Jacob Sacks, Eivind Opsvik, RJ Miller
10:00pm Jacob Sacks : Eivind Opsvik : Mat Maneri : Gerald Cleaver
This group is co-led by Sacks and Opsvik, featuring music from their 2007 release "Two Miles A Day" with Paul Motian.
"Sacks and Opsvik chose skeletal pieces of an elastic nature to work
with, rather than intricate, chart-driven compositions. Masterful
tunesmiths with a penchant for plangent melodies, their writing
enriches the session with a harmonically assured palette. The tunes
ripple with emotional resonance, conveyed with both empathetic finesse
and vivacious zeal." - Troy Collins
http://www.loyallabel.com/sacksopsvikmanerimotian/index.html
music at: http://www.eivindopsvik.com/listen.html
$10 for the whole evening
February 22, 2008
Infrequent Seams at EAT RECORDS
8 PM Ryan Blotnick Trio w/ James Ilgenfritz, John O'Brian
9 PM Dave Ballou (trumpet), Jason Robinson (saxophone), James
Ilgenfritz (bass), Harris Eisenstadt (drums)
Eat Records
124 Meserole Ave (Between Leonard & Eckford)
In Greenpoint, Brooklyn. (718) 389-8083
G To Nassau Ave
BQE - McGuiness Blvd. Exit
February 28, 2008
Akoya Afrobeat "President Dey Pass" CD Release Party w/ DJ Rich Medina and Special Guests Including Cedric IM Brooks of the Skatalites, Amayo and members of Antibalas and the Budos Band
Doors 7 pm, Shows at 9 PM, 11 PM
SOB's
204 Varick St. @ W Houston st.
212.243.4940 www.sobs.com
www.akoyamusic.com
2/28 Akoya CD Release party at SOB's
aturday, March 15th
I am doing a sort of surprise, last minute concert with some great European musicians- Belgian Bass Clarinettist Joachim Badenhorst, Irish bassist Simon Jermyn, and TBA
03/15/2008 08:00 PM - Tillie’s of Brooklyn
248 Dekalb Ave.
Brooklyn, New York 11205
Cost:$5
Friday, March 14th
AKOYA AFROBEAT (13-piece Afrobeat Band)
Meta and the Cornerstones (Global Roots Reggae)
DJ Concerned
$10
8 pm doors/9 pm show
Southpaw
125 Fifth Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11217
718.230.0236
Akoya released their album P.D.P. President Dey Pass Feb. 28th at SOB's with special guests from Antibalas, the Budos band, and the Skatalites. This upcoming Southpaw show will place them with the Senegalese fronted Roots Reggae group Meta and the Cornerstones and DJ Concerned.
March Europe gigs:
w/ Simon Jermyn, Peter Van Huffel, Sean Carpio:
3/23 21:30 @ JJ's, Dublin, Ireland
w/ Simon Jermyn, Peter Van Huffel, Jeff Williams, Robin Pinkner
3/24 @ The Oxford. London, United Kingdom
3/25 20:30 "Out of the Frying Pan" @ The Others
London, United Kingdom
Spain tour with Pete Robbins Centric (Kevin Brow, Masa Kamaguchi):
4/2 Jamboree, Barcelona
4/3 Bilbaina Jazz Cub, Bilbao
4/4 Bilbao
4/5 Sunset Jazz, Girona
Back to the USA
4/18 Waynflete Master Class, Portland, ME
"Ryan Blotnick's playing has the rare blend of a modern conception with the depth of having explored and absorbed vocabulary of many of the jazz greats. His ideas are clear and straightforward, as well as his compositions." -Steve Cardenas
"Displaying a gracious tone and deep musical sensibility, Ryan's patience sets him apart from his peers." - Michael Blake