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December 05, 2025
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July 10, 2025
7:30 pmSoup & Sound @ Greenwich House
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May 10, 2025
7:00 pmLive @ The Yard: Gwen Laster’s New Muse 4tet Album Release
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April 26, 2025
7:00 pmChicago Jazz String Summit
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January 04, 2025
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May 31, 2024
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April 21, 2022
8:00 pmNicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Ensemble
Hallwalls & The Historic Colored Musicians Club present: Xenogenesis Suite: A Tribute to Octavia Butler
Asbury Hall at Babeville, Buffalo NY
Thursday, April 21 at 8:00 p.m. $20 general admission, $18 students/seniors, $15 Hallwalls and CMC members
Fay Victor: vocals
Chris Williams: trumpet
Darius Jones: alto sax
Teddy Rankin-Parker: cello
Joshua White: piano
Ken Filiano: bass
Pheeroan Aklaff: drums
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July 22, 2017
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28 June – Portsmouth, NH . Prescott Park Arts Festival (solo) – FREE
29 June – Canandaigua, NY. CMAC (solo) – TIX
22 July – Austin, TX. Paramount – Annual Midwives Benefit # – TIX
26 Aug – Fayetteville, AR . Fayetteville Roots Festival – TIX
27 Aug – Columbia, MO. The Blue Note $ – TIX
28 Aug – Chattanooga, TN. Tivoli Theatre $ – TIX
29 Aug – Birmingham, AL. Saturn $ – TIX
30 Aug – Louisville, KY. WFPK Waterfront Wednesday – TIX
31 Aug – Nashville, TN. Live On the Green – TIX
31 Aug – Nashville, TN. Third Man Records – Blue Room
12 Oct – Chicago, IL . Thalia Hall * – TIX
13 Oct – Chicago, IL . Thalia Hall * – TIX
14 Oct – St. Paul, MN. Palace Theatre ^ – TIX
15 Oct – Lincoln, NE. Rococo Theatre ^ – TIX
17 Oct – Missoula, MT. The Wilma ^ – TIX
18 Oct – Seattle, WA. Moore Theatre – TIX
19 Oct – Eugene, OR. McDonald Theatre ^ – TIX
20 Oct – Portland, OR. Aladdin Theater – TIX
21 Oct – San Francisco, CA. The Warfield – TIX
26 Oct – Los Angeles, CA. The Cathedral Sanctuary * – TIX
27 Oct – Pioneertown, CA. Pappy & Harriet’s * – TIX
28 Oct – San Diego, CA. Balboa Theatre ^ – TIX
29 Oct – Phoenix, AZ. The Van Buren ^ – TIX
30 Oct – Albuquerque, NM. El Rey Theater ^ – TIX
1 Nov – Dallas, TX. Kessler Theater ^ – TIX
2 Nov – San Antonio, TX. Aztec Theatre ^ – TIX
3 Nov – Houston, TX. The Heights Theater ^ – TIX
4 Nov – New Orleans, LA. The Joy Theater ^ – TIX
6 Nov – Fort Lauderdale, FL. Culture Room ^ – TIX
7 Nov – Orlando, FL. The Beacham ^ – TIX
9 Nov – Washington, DC. Lincoln Theatre ^ – TIX
10 Nov – New Haven, CT. College Street Music Hall ^ – TIX
11 Nov – Boston, MA. Berklee Performance Center – TIX
12 Nov – Northmapton, MA. Calvin Theatre ^ – TIX
13 Nov – New York, NY. The Town Hall ^ – TIX
14 Nov – Brooklyn, NY. Brooklyn Steel * – TIX
# Joan Shelley as support | $ Lydia Loveless as support | ^ John Moreland as support | * OHMME as support
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September 30, 2017
7:30 pmThird World Press Foundation 50th Anniversary Celebration Ta-Nehisi Coates, Paul Coates, Haki Madhubuti, Nicole Mitchell and Black Earth Ensemble @ Logan Center, UChicago
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June 25, 2017
8:00 pmThe ERA Dance Crew, Diamond Terrifier, Miho Hatori, Michael Beharie, Teddy Rankin-Parker, Don Devore, DJ Jody Digital @ Elastic Arts, Chicago
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June 16, 2017
7:00 pmSummer Solstice Celebrations w/ GongLab
Friday June 16, 7-9PM ET
Dancing Feet Yoga, New Buffalow, MI
REGISTER: dancingfeetyoga.com
Saturday June 17, 7-9PM ET
The Collective, Benton Harbor, MI
REGISTER: rebelco-op.com
Sunday June 18, 6-8PM CT
One Yoga Studio, Valparaiso, IN
REGISTER: onevalpo.com
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June 10, 2017
3:45 pm2017 Switchboard Music Festival, San Francisco
On June 10 at Z Space, Switchboard Music celebrates its tenth anniversary with a six-hour festival featuring the Kronos Quartet. The festival, which runs from 3-9pm, will also feature cellist Teddy Rankin-Parker performing music by Michael Beharie; Ryan Brown’s Mortal Lessons, Ramon and Jessica’s Roses are Blue, the SF Conservatory Percussion Quartet, Billygoat, Splinter Reeds, and a return performance by the Kronos Quartet.
The Switchboard Music Festival is the flagship event of San Francisco’s Switchboard Music, which supports the creation and performance of new music in the Bay Area by engaging artists and audiences from a wide variety of musical communities. On June 10, the Switchboard Music Festival will present seven sets of eclectic music as well as a mid-Festival birthday party celebrating ten years of Switchboard.
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May 05, 2017
8:00 pmw/ Suwan Choi & Shu Shubat @ Elastic Arts Chicago
2017 Rhythm Connections Concert Series
Featuring Suwan Choi – Expanding Korean Musical Tradition through Collaboration and Improvisation.
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April 29, 2017
4:00 pmSolo Cello
Opening reception: Saturday April 29, 2017 from 4-9 PM
3446 N Albany Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
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April 28, 2017
7:00 pm시카고 한인문화회관 금요 국악 음악회
Global Pungmul Institute (GPI) lunches Korean Music FRIDAYS which is held on the last Friday of every month. The very first concert will be on Friday, April 28, 7:00 pm at Korean Cultural Center of Chicago. It's a free admission concert.
Suwan Choi, GPI's Artist in Residence will be featured and presents collaborative music pieces with Jeff Chan- saxophone, Teddy Rankin-Parker-cello, Yuri Park-haegeum, Shu Shubat-percussion, Chansoo Lee-percussion, Yun Sil Jang-percussion.
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March 17, 2017
7:00 pmSpring Equinox Celebrations with GongLab – March 17 & 19
Info/Register @ Dancing Feet Yoga, New Buffalo, MI.
Info/Register @ The Collective, Benton Harbor, MI.
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January 29, 2017
4:00 pmEarthGong Meditation – In the Palace of the Heart by Chicago Parks Foundation
Join the Chicago Parks Foundation and GongLab to celebrate mindfulness in the new year. “In the Palace of the Heart” will feature guided meditation to the soothing sound of music and gong.
Bring your own yoga mat, pillow, blankets and anything you need to be comfortable for this hour and half long deep meditation experience. Light refreshments will be provided. Parking located onsite.
January 29th
4:00pm to 7:00pm
South Shore Cultural Center
7059 S South Shore DriveBIO: GongLab is a nomadic laboratory dedicated to community ritual and healing. Mentored in the Medicine Buddha Sound Healing Mandala by Lama Lobsang Palden, Shu Shubat and Oliver Seay combine practices and teachings of spiritual Wisdom Traditions, Jungian therapeutic modalities, and Mindfulness techniques to create powerfully harmonic community experiences. For the past 4 years GongLab has been the featured guest at the Medicine Buddha Retreat co-lead by Lama Lobsang Palden and Indo-Tibetan Buddhist scholar Dr. Robert Thurman at Tibet House’s Menla Mountain Conference Center in upstate New York. Oliver is a critically acclaimed percussionist and composer, a Reiki Master and a Vortex Healing practitioner. Shu is a graduate of the Clinical Training Program in Analytic Psychology at the C. G. Jung Institute in Chicago. She is a vocalist, musician and the former Artistic Director of the renown Jellyeye Drum Theatre, which she co-founded with Seay in 1992. The instrument most central to GongLab‘s work is a 38″ gong tuned to the frequency of the Earth as it transits around the Sun. This same vibrational signature is attributed to the seed sound OM, thought to be the Primordial Sound, and the very ground of our Being. In their ongoing exploration of holistic, earth based teachings, the Earth Gong serves as an actively resonant metaphor for the encircling reparative energy of the “Great Mother,” – the eternal life force that fuels all life.
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June 03, 2016
7:30 pmSome Other Fields: Music for Unaccompanied Cello *WEST COAST PREMIER
Other Minds is proud to present the West Coast premiere of four new works for Unaccompanied Cello, commissioned by cellist Teddy Rankin-Parker.
Rumble Strip – Glenn Kotche
Book of Rounds – Jim O'Rourke
The Geometry of Thinking – Gene Coleman
Some Other Fields – Michael Beharie
Swedenborgian Church
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May 17, 2016
8:00 pmSam Beam & Jesca Hoop /// Love Letter For Fire Tour
May 17 – Ann Arbor, MI . The Ark
May 18 – Toronto, ON . Danforth Music Hall
May 20 – New York, NY . Town Hall
May 21 – Washington, DC . Lincoln Theatre
May 22 – Boston, MA . The Wilbur
May 24 – Philadelphia, PA . Union Transfer
May 26 – Atlanta, GA . Buckhead Theatre
May 27 – New Orleans, LA . Civic Theatre
May 28 – Dallas, TX . Kessler Theater
May 30 – Tucson, AZ . Rialto Theatre
May 31 – Los Angeles, CA . Fonda Theatre
June 2 – San Francisco, CA . Great American Music Hall
June 3 – Portland, OR . Aladdin Theater
June 4 – Seattle, WA . Neptune Theatre
June 5 – Boise, ID . Egyptian Theatre
June 7 – Boulder, CO . Boulder Theater
June 8 – Omaha, NE . Slowdown
June 9 – Minneapolis, MN . Varsity Theater
June 10 – Milwaukee, WI . Turner Hall Ballroom
June 11 – Chicago, IL . Thalia Hall
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May 01, 2016
8:00 pmPlay or Die 2016 #3: Larry Ochs & Dohee Lee & Zeena Parkins & Teddy Rankin-Parker
Center for New Music San Francisco
Tickets: $15 General, $10 Members
Tickets available at the door only
Curated by Larry Ochs: “Play or Die”: a call to action by Anthony Braxton in the seventies. We are definitely still in agreement. Improvised music has to be heard live to be best appreciated! AND musicians practicing this rugged discipline must perform to a live audience as often as possible in order to evolve, in order to feed the mind.
Tonite Larry Ochs and long-time collaborator – vocalist Dohee Lee – are joined by the master harpist Zeena Parkins and the dynamic Teddy Rankin Parker on cello. This will be TRP’s first musical hook-up with Ochs. Parkins performed with both Lee and Ochs as a guest for one night in 2008 with their band “Kihnoua”. She has also performed in Rova’s “Electric Ascension” in both 2009 (Austrian jazz festival) and 2016 (in New York). She also has performed and recorded with Ochs and his trio “Maybe Monday” (2007). Lee and Ochs (and Scott Amendola) have played in the band “Kihnoua” since 2007, although since the last tours in 2010 and 2011 performances have been few and far between. So this should be an exciting night.
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April 25, 2016
8:00 pmLucky Cloud 06
Solo Set
doors 730 // music 8
$5-15 donationlucky cloud is a monthly concert series for creative music in the mills college chapel.
5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland CA
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April 07, 2016
8:00 pmSharp & Fine presents ALL ROADS ARE LINED WITH TEETH /// April 07 – 10
Sharp & Fine presents
ALL ROADS ARE LINED WITH TEETHThursday, April 7, 8pm
Friday, April 8, 8pm
Saturday, April 9, 8pm
Sunday, April 10, 2pm$20 in advance | $25 at the door
$15 early bird (purchase online before March 21)Sharp & Fine presents All Roads Are Lined With Teeth, a new evening-length show choreographed and directed by sisters Megan and Shannon Kurashige and created in collaboration with London-based playwright Amber Hsu and Oakland-based composer Aram Shelton. Featuring a cast of five dancers and a band of four musicians playing live, All Roads Are Lined With Teeth is part dance and part play, a surreal story about a woman who flees a crumbling world for a journey on which she encounters memories transformed into teeth, slow motion long distance runners, and houses built from benches.
Direction and choreography: Megan & Shannon Kurashige
Playwright: Amber Hsu
Composer: Aram Shelton
Dancers: Sonja Dale, Megan Kurashige, Shannon Kurashige, Chelsea Reichert, Jane Selna
Musicians: Jordan Glenn (percussion), Teddy Rankin-Parker (cello), Aram Shelton (soprano saxophone, Bb clarinet, bass clarinet), Cory Wright (tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, flute)
Lighting Design: Allen Willner
Costume Design: Emily KurashigeSharp & Fine was founded in 2011 in San Francisco by sisters Megan and Shannon Kurashige to facilitate the creation of dance work inspired by the rigor of classical ballet technique, the human intensity of contemporary forms, and the power of theatrical narrative. S&F collaborates with artists from a variety of disciplines to create pieces that are physically exacting and emotionally surprising, with the unexpected juxtapositions that come from a collision of artistic points of view.
www.sharpandfine.comThese performances of All Roads Are Lined With Teeth are made possible in part by the Rainin Opportunity Fund and ODC Theater, and the generous support of the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance.
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April 01, 2016
9:00 pmIDEATE: Celebrating The Role of The Trickster
Seeing as this party will take place on the evening of April Fools’, we seek to dance between truth and fiction, reality and that which we wish to be. Tricksters are archetypal characters who appear in the myths of many different cultures. Often described as boundary-crossers, Tricksters violate principles of social and natural order, playfully disrupting normal life and then re-establishing it on a new basis. They bring levity, poking fun at our dissonance, our status quo, and generally bringing more silliness to this wild world in these wild times.
WHEN:
WHERE: 400 Treat Avenue – 400 Treat Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94110
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December 05, 2015
8:00 pmBerkeley Salon CELLO SOLO /w/ developmental psychologist Steven Hinshaw
Newly founded in 2015, the Salons are hosted by Matthew Walker (UC Berkeley Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience) and Majel Connery (UC Berkeley Visiting Assistant Professor of Music and Executive Director of Opera Cabal). The salons are dedicated to the presentation of cutting-edge artistic practice, transformative science, and human inquiry. Grounded in Berkeley’s iconoclastic tradition, the Salons offer a small, intimate venue for scholars, free thinkers and performers to share ideas and spark conversation with a like-minded audience. This event is by invitation only — Please email: m@operacabal.com to request a seat.
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November 14, 2015
8:00 pmPamela Z Productions / Z Programs presents The ROOM Series
combinatoryDUETS /// Two evenings of duets by four Bay Area contemporary/creative musicians ending with an improvised tutti finale. /// Lisa Mezzacappa — Amy X Neuburg — Jorge Bachmann — Teddy Rankin-Parker — (Pamela Z joins for a quintet finale) /// @ THE ROYCE GALLERY: 2901 Mariposa Street (between Harrison & Alabama), San Francisco
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October 25, 2015
8:00 pmDUO w/ Michael Beharie at TRANS PECOS, Queens NY
Patrick Higgins / Teddy Rankin-Parker & Michael Beharie / Matt Nelson / Northern Spy DJ . doors at 8 — $8 TRANS PECOS: 915 Wyckoff Ave, Ridgewood, NY 11385
