DAVID BINDMAN ENSEMBLE

Sunday May 18th at 7:30 p.m. -- David Bindman Ensemble: Tales of a Time Traveler Spoke the Hub, 295 Douglass St. (between 3 rd and 4 th aves.), Park Slope, Brooklyn $15 general admission/$5 students/seniors

The title is based on a fantasy that Lucy, the hominid who lived 3.2 million years ago, travels through time to the present, giving us the opportunity to ask her, "Where did we go wrong? What should we have done differently? What do you see across the millions of years that can set us straight?" The work explores many aspects of time: the process of merging "old and new" musical forms, rhythmic cycles and permutations influenced by the musics of West Africa and India, and autobiographical experiences of waking into an often unrecognizable world (the self-described "Rip Van Winkle effect").

Featuring: Bill Lowe (trombone and tuba), royal hartigan (drums), Wes Brown (bass), Richard Harper (piano), Nate Wooley (trumpet), and David Bindman (tenor saxophone)

Directions: Spoke the Hub, located at 295 Douglass Street (in the Gowanus Arts Building), is accessible by the R train to Union Street at 4th Avenue, and the D, Q, 2, 3, 4 or 5 trains and the LIRR to Atlantic Avenue/ Pacific Street. The B37 stops at 3rd Avenue and Douglass Street, and the B63 at 5th Avenue and Douglass Street. Street parking is available and plentiful.

BLOOD DRUM SPIRIT

Sunday May 11 3 p.m. -- Ancestors Concert at St. Stephen's Church, on Park Square (corner of Allen st. and Bank Row, aka East Street) in Pittsfield, Mass. royal hartigan and BloodDrumSpirit with Wes Brown, Art Hirahara and David Bindman

June 3-25 -- tour of China, details TBA