Jan 3 - Jan 24 • 9:00 EST • David Amram reads from OFFBEAT: Collaborating with Kerouac - Chapter 16
Come collaborate with us!
Participate in the free Weekly Zoom series documenting the LIVE audio book recording. Sundays starting Sept 20th 2020 ~ for all ages.
N.Y. East Coast Time 9pm-11pm ~ West Coast time 6pm - 8pm
éclat creative presents:
“AMRAM reads AMRAM”
David Amram, LIVE, reads from his book
OFFBEAT: Collaborating with Kerouac
Offbeat chronicles Kerouac & Amram performing for their historic first-ever public Jazz & Poetry readings in 1957 in New York City…. and then transports us into their adventures with other celebrated trailblazing artists of the 1950s and `60s.
See the below links to view AMRAM reads AMRAM on ZOOM, YouTube, and Facebook.
ZOOM link: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/7581906515...
ZOOM Password: 4PSikb
YOUTUBE: youtube.com/channel/UCiGGtek1PCtpNJq8c8Xq7Mg/live *
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Éclat-Creatives-107497087767154/?modal=admin_todo_tour

NOTE: the ZOOM and Facebook links only open on the evening of the event.

Jan 10 - Jan 24 • 9:00 EST • David Amram reads from OFFBEAT: Collaborating with Kerouac - Chapter 17
Come collaborate with us!
Participate in the free Weekly Zoom series documenting the LIVE audio book recording. Sundays starting Sept 20th 2020 ~ for all ages.
N.Y. East Coast Time 9pm-11pm ~ West Coast time 6pm - 8pm
éclat creative presents:
“AMRAM reads AMRAM”
David Amram, LIVE, reads from his book
OFFBEAT: Collaborating with Kerouac
Offbeat chronicles Kerouac & Amram performing for their historic first-ever public Jazz & Poetry readings in 1957 in New York City…. and then transports us into their adventures with other celebrated trailblazing artists of the 1950s and `60s.
See the below links to view AMRAM reads AMRAM on ZOOM, YouTube, and Facebook.
ZOOM link: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/7581906515...
ZOOM Password: 4PSikb
YOUTUBE: youtube.com/channel/UCiGGtek1PCtpNJq8c8Xq7Mg/live *
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Éclat-Creatives-107497087767154/?modal=admin_todo_tour

NOTE: the ZOOM and Facebook links only open on the evening of the event.

Jan 17 - Jan 24 • 9:00 EST • David Amram reads from OFFBEAT: Collaborating with Kerouac - Chapter 18
Come collaborate with us!
Participate in the free Weekly Zoom series documenting the LIVE audio book recording. Sundays starting Sept 20th 2020 ~ for all ages.
N.Y. East Coast Time 9pm-11pm ~ West Coast time 6pm - 8pm
éclat creative presents:
“AMRAM reads AMRAM”
David Amram, LIVE, reads from his book
OFFBEAT: Collaborating with Kerouac
Offbeat chronicles Kerouac & Amram performing for their historic first-ever public Jazz & Poetry readings in 1957 in New York City…. and then transports us into their adventures with other celebrated trailblazing artists of the 1950s and `60s.
See the below links to view AMRAM reads AMRAM on ZOOM, YouTube, and Facebook.
ZOOM link: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/7581906515...
ZOOM Password: 4PSikb
YOUTUBE: youtube.com/channel/UCiGGtek1PCtpNJq8c8Xq7Mg/live *
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Éclat-Creatives-107497087767154/?modal=admin_todo_tour

NOTE: the ZOOM and Facebook links only open on the evening of the event.

January 24 • 9:00 EST • David Amram reads from OFFBEAT: Collaborating with Kerouac -
Chapter 19
Come collaborate with us!
Participate in the free Weekly Zoom series documenting the LIVE audio book recording. Sundays starting Sept 20th 2020 ~ for all ages.
N.Y. East Coast Time 9pm-11pm ~ West Coast time 6pm - 8pm
éclat creative presents:
“AMRAM reads AMRAM”
David Amram, LIVE, reads from his book
OFFBEAT: Collaborating with Kerouac
Offbeat chronicles Kerouac & Amram performing for their historic first-ever public Jazz & Poetry readings in 1957 in New York City…. and then transports us into their adventures with other celebrated trailblazing artists of the 1950s and `60s.
See the below links to view AMRAM reads AMRAM on ZOOM, YouTube, and Facebook.
ZOOM link: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/7581906515...
ZOOM Password: 4PSikb
YOUTUBE: youtube.com/channel/UCiGGtek1PCtpNJq8c8Xq7Mg/live *
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Éclat-Creatives-107497087767154/?modal=admin_todo_tour

NOTE: the ZOOM and Facebook links only open on the evening of the event.

March 22nd • 9:00 EST • David Amram will be the featured guest on FolkPod, with host Cheryl Prashker. Tune in at https://thefolkpod.podbean.com/

March 23rd, 2021 • David Amram is featured guest on a Television Special Documentary about Thelonius Monk to be broadcast in Europe and Worldwide on Europe's largest Arts channel "Arte - The European Culture Channel"
https://www.arte.tv

April 9 & 10, 2021 • 7:30 pm • David Amram's PARTNERS: A Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra will have its Texas Premiere with the Dallas Symphony in a program with Aaron Copeland's Appalachian Spring.

The three movements of David Amram’s Double Concerto PARTNERS, premiered in December 2018 by Maria Schneider and Jolyon Pegis, honor the different genres of music that these three groups of unique musical partnerships celebrated.

Partners: A Double Concerto for violin, cello and orchestra by David Amram
l. Woody and Pete: (Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger)
2. Prez and Lady Day: (Lester Young and Billie Holiday)
3. Machito y Celia : (Machito Grillo and Celia Cruz)

For more information or tickets:
https://www.dallassymphony.org/productions/an-american-view-copland-amram/

April 12th - 16th • After returning home from Dallas, David Amram will starting to record audio versions of his three books, Vibrations: A Memoir, Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac & Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

April 13th • 12, 6 & 12 EST • Folk Pod - a podcast
Amram will be featured on an episode of Folk Pod hosted by Cheryl Prashker. The show will be premiered April 13th at Noon, 6:00pm & Midnight (all EST times) at
https://folkmusicnotebook.com/
Afterward it will be available in the archives of Folk Pod
https://thefolkpod.podbean.com/

April, 2021 • Working on his new composition Voyages for Unaccompanied Violin for Elmira Darvarova

Thursday, April 28 • SUPPORT FOR UKRAINIANS
Towne Crier 379 Main Street, Beacon NY
The Towne Crier Cafe and friends are making a community statement to show support for Ukrainians.. Several notable performers from the Mid-Hudson Valley have been confirmed, including David Amram, Tom Chapin, John Sebastian, Joe Louis Walker, and Vanaver Caravan. Proceeds will go to support military hospitals and civilians in Ukraine, as well as displaced children. Tables will only be reserved for dinner guests. Please call 845 855-1300

May, 2021 • Working on new film Amram@90: Still a Promising Young Composer Lawrence Kramar's 2nd documentary film about Amram

May 1st, 2021 • 8:00 pm est • MILTON with special guests
David Amram, Carsie Blanton, Jon Cowherd, Kat Edmonson
Live Performance with Socially-Distanced, Ticketed Seating
More details forthcoming
Check out http://www.miltonmusic.com/

Sat. June 6 • 7:00 EST • The Falcon 1348 ROUTE 9W MARLBORO NY
The David Amram Quintet featuring David Amram, Rene Hart, Kevin Twigg, Adam Amram and special guests

July 14 - 18, 2021 • Woodyfest 2021
A festival honoring Woody Guthrie in his hometown of Okemah, Oklahoma
David Amram will be performing at the Crystal Theater June 14th at 7:00. He will also be hanging out and jamming all weekend!

Sunday July 18th • 7:00 • The Woody Guthrie Center Presents
David Amram & the Red Dirt Rangers
A concert celebrating Oklahoma's Jazz & Folk roots,
honoring Oklahoma giants Woody Guthrie & Oscar Pettiford,
The Mercury Lounge
1747 South Boston Avenue, Tulsa, OK

August 3rd • CKCU radio show Stranger Songs, with Mike Regenstreif, finds connections and develops themes in various genres. The August 3rd show features David Amram and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott: Celebrating two iconic musical legends at 90. David Amram, classical composer and conductor, jazz musician and composer, folksinger and songwriter, turned 90 on November 17, 2020. Legendary folksinger and storyteller Ramblin' Jack Elliott, travelling companion to Woody Guthrie and significant influence on the young Bob Dylan, turned 90 this week on August 1. Both Jack and David are still going strong and performing at age 90.
This show is available for listening at
https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/595/52944.html

Sept 18th-26th • The third annual Village Trip Festival in Greenwich Village, NYC
Sept 18th 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Free Kick-Off Concert on Eighth Street Intersection of Eighth and MacDougal streets David Amram will headline a free outdoor concert, playing with this quartet featuring Kevin Twigg, Rene Hart, and Adam Amram. They will be joined by special guests, including Rene Manning, Earl McIntyre, Jerome Harris and guitar quartet Bodies Electric. From 5-6, they will be celebrating Amram and Jack Kerouac's collaborations in 1957, with Hungarian poet Gabor Gyukics and others joining in for this Jazz/Poetry reading.

Sept. 21st from 730-10pm: Amram's Prelude ,Prayer and Dance for unaccompanied Viola has its World Premiere with Consuelo Sherba, solosist
Judson Memorial Church 5 Washington Square South
Also on the program: Earth Requiem: A Choral Tapestry Honoring Our Earth
https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/earth-requiem-a-choral-tapestry-honoring-our-earth/

Throughout the festival, David will also be performing with his jazz quintet and other folk musicians and generally hanging out enjoying the rich culture of Greenwich Village.

Sept 25, 2021 • Farm Aid 2021
Hartford CT, presented by Willie Nelson. David has been a part of this annual celebration of the American Farmer since 1987. In 2018 Amram was awarded the first Spirit of Farm Aid Lifetime Achievement Award.

September 26th • The third annual Village Trip Festival in Greenwich Village, NYC

Sept. 26th 2-4 pm A Walking Tour with Village Trip Artist Emeritus David Amram
Meeting under the Arch in Washington Square Park at 2pm sharp, Amram will host a walking tour Sixty-five Joyous Years in the Village. Amram will recount adventures beginning 1955 when he was a member of the Charles Mingus Quintet in the Village and met and collaborated in the Village with Oscar Pettiford, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, Pepper Adams, Candido and host of other great Jazz and Latin Artists.
https://www.thevillagetrip.com/event/sixty-five-joyous-years-in-the-village-from-kerouac-monk-and-jackson-pollack-to-the-new-voices-of-today/

Sep.t 26 7:30-11pm The Bitter End on Bleeker Street
David Amram hosts the closing show of the festival and performs with Christine Lavin who will also be the irrepressible
MC and co-host, as well performing herself as a singer-song writer and raconteur. The other outstanding performers for this closing of the /festival are Hannah Reimann, David Massengill, David Buskin, Robin Batteauand Michele Temple

Throughout the festival, David will also be performing with his jazz quintet and other folk musicians and generally hanging out enjoying the rich culture of Greenwich Village.

October 7 - 11 • Lowell Celebrates Kerouac - Lowell, Massachusetts
David will be hanging out and celebrating Jack Kerouac. David will talk about his friendship from accompanying the poetry of Jack Kerouac from 1957 at NYC's first-ever public jazz/poetry readings until Kerouac' death in 1969.
This festival, in Jack's hometown, features music, poetry and tours of the city.

Fri, Oct. 8, 8:00 pm:  A Night of Great Jazz at Zorba’s Music Hall
David Amram and his band: Kevin Twigg on drums, Rene Hart on bass, and Adam Amram on percussion. Also playing: The Wendee Glick Trio
Zorba’s Music Hall. 437 Market Street
Also: Key to the City Ceremony
the Mayor of Lowell, John Leahy, will present David Amram with a Key to the City in recognition and appreciation for the outstanding role he has has played over the past 25+ years in helping to keep the Kerouac flame, spirit, legacy, etc. alive and well in Lowell

Sun, Oct. 10, 1:30—4:00 pm: Annual Amram Jam
Bring your Kerouac inspired poem or prose to read while accompanied
by David Amram and his trio of Adam Amram, Kevin Twigg, and Rene Hart.
Hosted by Mike Flynn
The Worthen 141 Worthen Street

October 17 - 19 • Amram in Germany - Karlesruhe and Frankfort

ZKM Center in Karlesruhe Germany
Amram returns for the 5th time to the ZKM Center hosting a screening of the film "Splendor in the Grass" for which he composed the classical/jazz score in 1960.
https://zkm.de/en

Jazz Kellar in Frankfort
Amram gives a concert at the Jazz Kellar where he last played in 1954, and celebrates the previously unreleased recording he made there 67 years ago with Albert Mangelsdorff , accompanied by some of today's major young German jazz virtuosos.
https://www.jazzkeller.com/

Saturday Oct. 23 • 5-6 pm EST • PULL MY DAISY
Revelation Gallery, 224 Waverly Place, Greenwich Village NYC
A short film screening of Jack Kerouac's classic 1959 film followed by a Q&A with the film's composer David Amram
Pull My Daisy was produced and directed by Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie, and Kerouac narrated the silent film spontaneously.
Composer David Amram wrote the score, as well as being a character in it at the request of Kerouac, and will be present at this rare in-person screening for a Q&A afterwards. Join us for a glimpse of the young Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Amram. Larry Rivers, Gregory Corso, and Alice Neel in this award winning classic film.


With thanks to filmmaker and co-producer, Michael Jacobson for his technical support and the photos which were provided courtesy of the Lincoln Center Branch of the NY Public Library's David Amram Archive

November 12th • NERFA Awards Amram their Lifetime Achievement Award
At their annual conference, the North East Regional Folk Alliance (NERFA) honors with their Lifetime Achievement Award for his seventy years of inspiring young artists to continue their artistic endeavors.

Nov 17 • @ 6:00 pm • Celebration of Amram's 91st birthday The City of Newport, Rhode Island
Concerts of Amram's chamber music, jazz and folk compositions and community events.
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/5294246

Nov 19 - 20 • @ 7:00 pm and 9:30 pm each night
Jazz Forum's annual Amram Jam Birthday Bash Tarrytown NY
Life Begins at 91
Amram's quartet with Kevin Twigg, Rene Hart and Adam Amram will be joined by Jerome Harris, Erik Lawrence and other special guests. This will be the 41st annual concert Amram has done for Mark Morganelli -- on every birthday since his 50th
https://jazzforumarts.org/

Dec. 3rd • An evening with Amram and Dick Hyman Sarasota, Florida
Amram joins master pianist and composer Dick Hyman in an evening of joyous classics of jazz.

Dec 5th • @ 8 pm • Annual Amram Jam Theater for the New City, Manhattan, New York
Amram's Jazz Quartet and a throng of old and new friends perform. His classical chamber compositions with Ken Radnofsky, Consuelo Sherba and Yoshiko Kline are followed by his quartet, who are joined by other instrumentalists, vocalists, song writers, actors, poets, dancers in an all night-early morning marathon celebrating the spirit of the THEN and the NOW!!!
https://theaterforthenewcity.net/

December 30, 2021 • 8 am - 1 pm GST • Where it All Began:Amram@91
On 30th December 2021 Worldwide FM presents a five-hour celebration of musician, composer and arranger David Amram. Gilles Peterson presents a mix of rare vinyl selections followed by an in-depth conversation between the two covering David's extensive career, his education and his enduring love of music and belief in its power to make the world a more beautiful place. To finish we are very happy to present a two hour excerpt of a concert for David's 91st Birthday, recorded at Theater for the New City in Manhattan on December 5th 2021.
https://wrldwd.fm/davidamram
The program will air live 8 am - 1 pm GST (3 - 8 am EST). It will also be available to listen to at any time after the initial broadcast.