Sonic Frontiers Concert Series

11/13/2019

Just a (sad?) reminder that the Sonic Frontiers Concert Series ended its activities in May 2019 with the 9th and final season, after 54 amazing events - thanks for all the support, and of course, for all the incredible music we experienced together!

Sonic Frontiers 2018-19 was our 9th and Final Season. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT! The Sonic Frontiers concert series at The University of Alabama was dedicated to presenting adventurous music to...

04/29/2019

Did you miss our 54th and final event?

It was an epic solo concert by Minneapolis-based improvised music legend Milo Fine, and thankfully we have a video document of the show - check it out:

Milo Fine: drum set (percussion), piano, b-flat clarinet, voice University of Alabama/Moody Concert Hall April 9, 2019 Final concert in the long-running (9 y...

04/17/2019

Remember when MacArthur fellow and NEA Jazz Master Anthony Braxton played a solo saxophone concert in the Bama Theatre as part of his National Endowment for the Arts + Sonic Frontiers Concert Series weeklong residency at UA in 2015? That was really something.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!
Tonight is the night for you to have the amazing opportunity to see Anthony Braxton solo at the Bama Theatre for free!! The concert begins at 7:30!

04/09/2019

Remember when the Sonic Frontiers Concert Series brought Lonnie Holley in 2014 to perform a beautiful concert at the Paul R. Jones Museum in Tuscaloosa and work with art students just a few weeks before he appeared on the cover of the New York Times magazine? We do!

Join us tonight at 7:30pm for our 54th (!!!) and final event - Sonic Frontiers Farewell: Multi-instrumentalist Milo Fine!

04/08/2019

After more than 50 (!!!) events over the past 9 years, the Sonic Frontiers Concert Series, organized by faculty and students in New College at The University of Alabama, calls it a wrap on Tues. 4/9 with Sonic Frontiers Farewell: Multi-instrumentalist Milo Fine - hope you'll join us as we ride off into the sunset with a bang!

04/05/2019

As The University of Alabama's Sonic Frontiers Concert Series prepares for its final concert (Sonic Frontiers Farewell: Multi-instrumentalist Milo Fine on Tues. 4/9), we'll be looking back at some of the wonderful events from the past decade of our activities, over the next week or two...we hope you'll indulge us!

Although there were more than a dozen germinal SF events dating back to 2008, in both Tuscaloosa and Birmingham, UA's SF series officially kicked off in August 2010 with a beautiful 2-hour long mobile outdoor concert in the Moundville Archaeological Park and Museum with SF founder Dr. Andrew Raffo Dewar (soprano sax), LaDonna Smith(viola), Jill Burton (voice), Claire Elizabeth Barratt (movement), and Evan Lipson (bass).

The event was beautifully documented in photographs by New College alum Lydia Atkins.

Featuring movement by Claire Elizabeth Barratt (Asheville, NC) and music by violist/violinist LaDonna Smith (Birmingham, AL), bassist Evan Lipson (Brooklyn, NY & Chattanooga, TN) and soprano saxophonist Andrew Raffo Dewar (Tuscaloosa, AL). Featuring movement by Claire Elizabeth Barratt (Ashevill...

04/02/2019

After nearly a decade of supporting adventurous music in Tuscaloosa, the Sonic Frontiers Farewell: Multi-instrumentalist Milo Fine is one week away!

SF's final guest, Minneapolis-based virtuoso multi-instrumentalist Milo Fine, has a 25 year history with series founder Dr. Andrew Raffo Dewar, as a mentor and colleague, so there are a number of reasons why he was a fitting choice to close out the series' activities - read about some of those reasons in this post by Mr. Fine himself:

On the rare occasions I’ve been afforded the opportunity to present my work outside the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, the logistics have consistently been less than ideal. (The reasons for this state of affairs are clear. As I’ve reiterated too many times, I am not a “viable commodity” in the n...

03/26/2019

We missed this nice The Tuscaloosa News preview of last Friday's wonderful Icepick To The Moon (Fred Lane doc) Tuscaloosa screening because we were working hard on getting the lights to turn off in the room...good thing the circuit breakers worked, because the light switches sure didn't...! 😂🤨

03/22/2019

730pm TONIGHT! Icepick To The Moon (Fred Lane doc) Tuscaloosa screening !!