THE META-BEAT (Music of the Beatles) COMES TO SOUHEGAN FOR JAZZ NIGHT

THE JAZZ AND ROCK SOUNDS OF THE
META-BEAT (Music of the Beatles)  COME
TO SOUHEGAN FOR JAZZ NIGHT

The Souhegan High School
Music Department will host the second Jazz Night of the year on Thursday April
17th at 7:00pm. This year marks the 12th anniversary of the Jazz Night series of concerts
hosted at SHS. To continue with our 12th anniversary
season, we are proud to welcome the band META-BEAT to SHS.

Meta Beat is a project
created by life-long Beatles fans Les Harris, Jr (Drums) and Mark Shilansky
(Keyboards), to explore the music of the Beatles and their contemporaries in an
improvisational and historically interesting context.  The repertoire
includes songs recorded and written by the Beatles, as well as Beatles solo
material and collaborations, and music which was inspiring to the Beatles.
 The "Meta" aspect of the band comes in the arrangements, as an
early Beatles tune will be rendered in a late-period style, or vice-versa, and
in medleys and "mashups" in the style of the Giles and George Martin
remix project "Love."  This band should appeal to die hard
Beatles fans, who will revel in the musical references and attention to detail,
as well as fans of jazzy, improvised music and groove.

Band Leader Mark Shilansky
says, “I call the Beatles band "The Meta-Beat," because we play
"meta" versions of Beatles tunes... jazzified, or combined into
interesting medleys and mash-ups, or tunes that the Beatles wrote with other
people.”

Joining THE META-BEAT will be jazz ensembles from Souhegan, Amherst
Middle School, Alvirne High School and Manchester West High School. The concert
will be held in the Souhegan theater. Admission is $10.00. For further
information contact Carl Benevides at cbenevides@sprise.com.