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Progressive Jazz-Rock Band "Marbin" to Perform, Provide Musical Workshop in Bridgeport

By Connect-Bridgeport Staff on April 05, 2018 via Connect-Bridgeport.com

Marbin, a progressive jazz-rock band based in Chicago will make a stop in Bridgeport on Sunday, April 22, performing in Mia Margherita Coal Fired Pizzeria from 7-10 p.m.
 
The performance is the third performance in the 2018 Mia Music Series to be staged in the upscale restaurant and bar’s “music room," and is sponsored in part by the Barbara Highland Fund for the Arts and coordinated by the West Virginia Jazz Society.
 
“Marbin is another band we met through direct referral by a friend of the Jazz Society,” explained Eric Spelsberg, WVJS President. 
 
“A young man you’d normally think of as a ‘metal head’ or ‘rocker’ approached me at a holiday event.  He said he wanted me to hear a CD of what he called ‘jazz we both can like’.  I played the music for our board and they agreed we should contact the band to check availability.”
 
The band had an open date on Sunday, April 22, so WVJS booked them.  The nationally touring band is scheduled to play in Pittsburgh the night before the Bridgeport show and in Baltimore the night after, according to Spelsberg.
 
Marbin (an apparent combination of the band’s leaders’ names) was founded in Israel in 2007 by saxophonist Danny Markovitch and guitarist Danny Rabin.  In Chicago since 2009, they are now joined by Jon Nadel playing bass and Blake Jiracek on drums.
 
Through extensive touring since 2011 the band has performed thousands of concerts in every part of the United States.  They have thousands of fans worldwide and have sold tens of thousands of copies of their six albums, according to their publicity package.
 
“About half the seats are sold already,” Spelsberg said.  “So if someone is at all interested, it might be a good idea to reserve seats now.”
 
While in Bridgeport, the band will also provide an educational workshop for professional artists and semi-professional student musicians in Bridgeport’s Benedum Civic Center from 2- 4:30 p.m. Interested persons are invited to observe the workshop if not participating. Both group issues and individual instruments will be focus areas for the workshop.
 
Why does a band that is so busy travelling hundreds of miles a day to perform also seek out opportunity to hold a clinic or workshop?
 
According to Markovitch, teaching increases awareness of the band which in turn leads to positive results for those involved.
 
“(Providing workshops) helps to promote the shows,” said Markovitch.  “I want everyone to have a good time and have the shows to be successful.”
 
Professional musicians who participate in the clinic are eligible for a stipend to offset their expenses in attending.  For more information, contact the West Virginia Jazz Society at 304-517-9813 or WVJazzSociety@aol.com.
 
The Marbin performance will be presented “nightclub style” with a $10 per person cover.  Legal beverages and full-service dinner will be available throughout the show. Seating begins at 6:30 p.m. and is limited to 40 guests each set.  Reservations are highly advised and can be made by calling 304-808-6400.



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