New Music Series: Paul Hastil and Louka Patenaude

The last Sunday of every month features some of Madison’s finest jazz musicians and composers exploring and navigating their own original music as part of the Arts+Literature Lab New Music Series, curated by Anders Svanoe.

Friends and longtime collaborators, Paul Hastil and Louka Patenaude will offer a dramatic mix of composition and improvisation, ranging far in imagination, using Fender Rhodes, guitar, and voice in one of their favorite formats: the duet. Catch their performance on June 30th, at 3:00pm. Free ($5 suggested donation).

Paul Hastil

Over the past twenty years, keyboardist/composer Paul Hastil has performed with many talented jazz musicians on the scene in the Madison area. These have included Doc DeHaven, Gerri DiMaggio, Ray Rideout as well as those players newer to the scene, including Paul Dietrich, Alison Margaret, Ben Ferris, and Tony Barber. He is a member of the New Breed Trio with bassist Nick Moran and drummer Michael Brenneiss, which has hosted a weekly jam session for the past eight years. He has led a group performing his original compositions as part of the Indigenous Series, is a regular participant in the Isthmus Jazz Festival and has performed at the Telluride Jazz Festival and the Montava Music Festival in Montava, Italy. He has performed with Archie Shepp, Frank Morgan, Sheila Jordan, and David Binney.

Louka Patenaude

Louka Patenaude, a veteran of the Madison music scene, is a performing guitarist, teacher, recording studio artist, songwriter and composer. As a professional teacher, his career goes back almost 20 years. He has appeared on many recordings and has toured throughout the Midwest, Europe and Pacific Asia. He is currently a faculty member of Madison Music Makers, which provides music instruction to low-income students. He is also a current professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has performed on stage with many notable jazz artists including Tony Monaco, Richard Davis, Bob Rockwell, Billy Peterson, Richie Cole, Gege Telesforo, Bob Malach, and Many Ellis. As a bandleader, songwriter, and producer he released The Optimistic (2006 on Layered) and The Very Best of The Fingers (2012 on Layered). Patenaude played with the widely known reggae group, Natty Nation, with whom he toured throughout the Midwest, Japan, Guam and the Marshall Islands. His sound is also featured their... Read More

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New Music Series: Paul Hastil and Louka Patenaude

Paul Hastil

Louka Patenaude

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