The MN Collective have a very exciting weekend lined up for us with Detroit’s Mike Huckaby running tings on both Friday and Saturday night this weekend. Friday night will be a celebration of the music of Sun Ra in the Grand Social, one of the most forward thinking musicians of the 20th Century, he was also one of the most prolific, releasing over 100 full length albums and dozens of singles, composing over 1,000 tracks during his long career. Sun Ra brought some of the earliest electronic music to our planet and not just through the keyboard solos and synths he incorporated into his music, but also the themes of space, mythology & the future which became staples for modern electronic music.
As part of the celebrations Amen Brother will be screening a selection of Sun Ra documentaries, and will also be screening the film Space Is The Place as a backdrop to Mike Huckaby’s set. Later on myself and Barry Walsh (Sunday Times, Cork) will be carrying on the celebrations upstairs before Mike steps up with his own personal edits of Sun Ra on reel-to-reel!
Mike Huckaby Live at Sun Ra Reel to Reel Sessions, Venice by Amen Brother
Then on the Saturday night we head over to the Ormonde Wine Bar, where Mike will be taking us on a journey through house music as only he can, with warm up duties provided by MN residents Niall Kirk and Damien Waters. It should be a very special weekend!
Mike Huckaby – Paris One Reverse – October 2010 by R_co
For full info check:
http://mntothat.com/mike-huckaby-weekender/
3 Comments
Hope I can get to this, shit is gonna be off the chain!
that’s going to be unbelievable.
Cant wait, fair play to the mn lads for organising this. Keep it up lads.