photo©scottwynn.comSaturday, February 6 riverrun
Comfort Lounge and Restaurant The Comfort Lounge in Hastings will be hosting a great night of music, food and spirits featuring acoustic riverrun at 8:30 (featuring Ken Tuccillo and Adam Hart) and riverrun, the five piece band at 9:30 (featuring Ken Tuccillo, Adam Hart, David Howe, Jeffery Dyke, and Mark Kaufman). Come down and have some fun the night before the Superbowl! No cover. Reservations are not required, but for a great organic meal reserve a table: 478-0666 for more info about live music in the rivertowns, go to: http://www.rivertownsguide.com/ |
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Have you ever spent time looking at the current of the river and wondering how far it could take you? Our music reflects that flow in a truly eclectic sound, mixing blues, folk rock, rock 'n' roll, and original material. |
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book riverrun for your next party or event! hartadam@aol.com |
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Check out the 9-1-2002 Westchester section of The New York Times for an article on Baby Boomer Bands--featuring Riverrun. Entitled "Is That Your Dad On Drums?" the piece is written by Nelly Edmondson Gupta and includes photos and quotes from the band. http://query.nytimes.com/search/abstract?res=F00A17FF3F5B0C728CDDA00894DA404482 or
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Click to play or Right-click (Macs: Control-click) to Download these MP3 samples to your computer audio player (Quicktime, Media Player, RealPlayer). For more help with audio players, see Amazon's Audio Help page. |
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Ken Tuccillo • Adam Hart • Joan Indig
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Jeff DykeAdam HartDavid HoweJoan IndigMark KaufmanK. Angelo TuccilloContact: hartadam@aol.com |
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Jeff has been drumming since he received his first toy drum from Santa Claus at age 4. A native Vermonter, Jeff began playing in the school band in 4th grade, eventually joining a jazz quartet in high school, where he first played out professionally at local venues. Jeff's older brother and sister (teenagers in the late '60s) were influential in turning him on to music, filling the house with everything from Beatles, Zappa, Stones, and Santana to Chick Corea/ Return to Forever and Gary Burton. Jeff also studied classical piano from ages 7 to 16. At college, Jeff was a music minor and gigged with a rock band for a few years before co-founding the progressive jazz quartet "Full Circle," which was inspired by such musicians as Pat Metheny and Jan Garbarek (the "ECM" sound of the early '80s), as well as the DC-based band "Happy the Man". Full Circle gigged extensively around New England, and in another incarnation eventually became Columbia recording artists in the mid '80s. During these years, Jeff had occasion to perform under the composer/director John Cage as well as with the New Music Percussion Ensemble from the Manhattan School of Music. After graduating, Jeff went on to study at Berklee College of Music in Boston for a few years, gigging around town with various jazz ensembles. Later he went on to earn a doctorate in clinical psychology, and currently works as director of counseling services at a major university and in private practice. His amazing wife was instrumental in rekindling his active involvement in playing after a long hiatus in the '90s, and he has three fantastic children. Jeff's musical tastes are eclectic, having played everything from orchestral to rock to jazz to showtunes in the pit. With Riverrun he has found a group of kindred spirits, keeping young and vital with the groove thang.
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Born in New York City, Adam grew up in Washington Heights. His family moved to Long Island where Adam attended high school at Valley Stream South. During high school, Adam spent a lot of time in Greenwich Village, where his Father Allen M. Hart (a successful visual artist) directed an art center on Sullivan Street. Between colleges, Adam took two years to get his yayas out and played in a cover band called Heads Up. Heads Up played many Long Island clubs and played warm-up sets for Twisted Sister and other bands at Hammerheads, The Half Crown, in Rockville Center, the Rock Heap, Aspens, The Back Barn, and other assorted rock and roll clubs in Long Island. After college at Fredonia and then New Paltz, where Adam studied theater, he worked for seven years Off Broadway in New York City in the '80s where he was master carpenter, lighting crew and board operator at The Ensemble Studio Theatre where he got to do a show with a young Sarah Jessica Parker, and at Playwrite's Horizons' he built the original production of Driving Miss Daisy. Adam worked as a Mac specialist and a production designer for special exhibits at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for 15 years where he had several lenthy discussions with mummies and artifacts from around the world. He is currently teaching guitar privately, and recently earned a Masters Degree in Theatre Education at NYU. He is currently a Theatre and Music teacher at The Mount Pleasant Cottage School in Pleasantville, NY. And songleader at Woodlands Community Temple in White Plains where he plays guitar in Rabbi Billy Dreskin's A Joyful Noise. You can see some of the scenic designs of educational theatre projects on Adam's website. Favorite saying: " If it ain't fun, it's done!" Check out more about Adam on his website, and listen to more original music he has produced, as well as getting info on how you can take guitar lessons with Adam. (back to top) (back to Band Members)
photo: scottwynn.com |
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K. Angelo Tuccillo (his friends call him Tooch) was born in New York City, moved to the Joisey suburbs when he was five and has lived in or near the Big Apple all his life. He discovered at an early age that music and love songs and love were his great passions and has spent most of his life frustrated at not being able to indulge in these pursuits to his satisfaction. His memories all seem to pivot around music and song, starting at an early age with overheard symphony and opera, moving into doo wop music and early Rockabilly, exploding with the British Invasion of the Beatles, Stones, Kinks, and Animals just around adolescence (when his hormones were, of course, raging) and catapulting him into the rock explosion of the late sixties. College at Ohio Wesleyan was a trip and, being all charged up with no place to explode, he sought and found sublimation in the unbelievable rich and complex musical tapestry that the late sixties offered. Influences, to name a few and not necessarily in order, are: Lennon, Harrison, Morrison, Joplin, Allman, Hendrix (we really miss you guys) Dylan, Havens, Clapton, Jagger, Burdon, Davies, Townsend, Page, Robertson, Garcia, Slick, Kaukonen, Anderson, Raitt, Stevens, Buckley, Cohen, Mitchell, Prine, Walker, Renbourne and of course Williamson and Heron of the Incredible String Band (his faves). The music of these giants drove him to become a minor folk singer in the coffeehouses and demonstrations of the late sixties but failed love affairs and life in the fast lane forced him to face reality in the Seventies. Eventually Angelo went back to work (yuck) and finished college (BA in Music) and then law school while simultaneously getting married, having three gorgeous children, buying a house in a really cool town, setting up his own law practice, community organizing, and basically becoming a part of the system. He's been trying to break out of it again ever since. ("Any day now, any day now, I shall be released"). A late bloomer, he has found rebirth in Riverrun, songwriting, writing poetry, meditation, simplicity, joy, sex, love, and, of course, rock and roll!!! Long live RIVERRUN! He loves his bandmates dearly and thanks them from the bottom of his heart for making all this possible. His favorite expressions are, "it's all good" and "nothing matters and what if it did."
(back to top) (back to Band Members) David Howe (electric bass and vocals) has been playing bass for 35 years. His formative musical influences were the Big Bands of the 40's, the Carter Family, the Beatles, Johnny Cash, and J.S. Bach. (That's quite a lineage for a bassist.) David started playing out at the age of 14 and has played in bands ranging from funk to hard rock to jazz trios to alt-country. He is always "in the pocket", and he adds solid vocal talent as a bonus. David lives in Hastings and works as a big-firm lawyer in the City.
(back to top) (back to Band Members) Mark Kaufman Tenor and soprano saxophonist Mark Kaufman plays jazz with his own quartet, MK4, and duos; R&B with the 10-piece AndJam wedding band; Jewish grooves at Woodlands Community Temple and Congregation Tehillah; and rock / folk / funk with the fabulous Riverrun. Kaufman cut his teeth (ouch!) playing R&B and jazz in clubs and at club dates in New Orleans. Kaufman studied saxophones with John Purcell, Joe Lovano and Rick Margitza, and clarinet with Ben Armato (of the Metropolitan Opera) and David Krackauer.
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A Long Island girl born and bred, Joan attended Locust Valley High School. During her high-school years she remembers lying with her head between the stereo speakers listening to everything from Jimi Hendrix to Gordon Lightfoot to Rimsky-Korsakov. There weren't that many opportunities for female guitar players back then so she just strummed at home, but she sang with one choir or another every year. Joan got rid of her Long Island accent at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts and went on to work in publishing in New York. She met her husband in an a cappella singing group and picked up the bass in midlife "because we already had a keyboardist, lead personality and drummer in the family." Joan LOVES playing bass and can't believe she wasted all those years not doing it. Favorite saying: "Music is love."
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Riverrun got started about eight years ago, at the Riverrun Bookstore on Washington Avenue in Hastings-on-Hudson, when local musicians revitalized the 20-year tradition of jamming there on Monday nights. The music became louder and more amplified, as the open jam regulars solidified into a folk/rock/blues band. Demand for the band now known as riverrun grew and now they play regularly at clubs and functions in the Westchester area. |
at the Bayou, 2002 |
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Riverrun has performed at places such as:
See above for future performance information. |
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