The TriBattery Pops Tom Goodkind Conductor

The TriBattery Pops - Tom Goodkind, Conductor

Members of the TriBattery Pops Tom Goodkind Conductor
Background information
Origin Battery Park City, New York, U.S.
Genres Community band
Marching bands
Alternative rock
Years active 2004-present
Labels TriBattery Pops available on iTunes
CMJ
Associated acts Any woodwind and horn band that enjoys using a gazebo for a free neighborhood performance.
Website

The TriBattery Pops - Tom Goodkind, Conductor is an all-volunteer community band,[1] and is Lower Manhattan's first such band for over a hundred years.[2] The band's founder and conductor is what songwriter Chris Butler of the Waitresses, once called "a master of shrewd thinking,"[3] an apt label for the punk-rocker turned community bandleader.

In a review of their performance with Trisha Brown, the N.Y. Times called the Pops "robustly rhythmic."[4]

The group records an album annually, and has an album of all of its best material (25 songs) titled "Community Band" available through Apple iTunes. Their music, often up for Grammy Nominations, is distributed to radio stations internationally by College Music Journal. They perform six shows a year, starting with the April Downtown Little League Parade and ending with 4th day of July fireworks near the Statue of Liberty in Wagner Park. The band's logo was designed by Marvel Comics' creator Stan Lee, the childhood next door neighbor of the conductor.[5]

In 2013, conductor/composer Tom Goodkind had the band performing post modern classical originals and Philip Glass provided minimal music for their 10th album, Pops Art. Their 2014 was dedicated to modern jazz, especially the music of John Coltrane. In 2015, they join the Downtown Adult Chorus to perform hits from the '60s pop drug culture. The group’s latest album has gone viral in the land of fine wines and fancy cheese (France). A Facebook post linking to the group’s latest album has garnered an unprecedented 108,000 clicks and rising, of which nearly 93,000 — 86 percent — hail from French IP addresses, mostly young people in their 20s. In 2016, the Pop venture into early '70s disco with for their workout album, LOSE 20 POUND IN 20 DAYS, and will perform for the 15th Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers run. For 2017, the group has been asked by the New York Philharmonic to record Symphony No. 9 (Dvořák), which the Philharmonic will promote and archive.

Recordings

Musicians

Alan Sturm (trumpet)
Don Lieber (funky bass)
Joseph C. Elliot (drums)
Kristin Graves (glockenspiel)
Michele B. Kaufman (baritone sax)
Dylan Sorensen (tenor sax)
Heidi Hunter (flute)
Sarah Oud (flugelhorn)
Jo Ellen Fusco (accordion)
Marie Jensen (tenor sax)
Jonathan O’Donnell (alto sax)
Ryan Tschida (alto sax)
Haruna Fukazawa (alto sax)
Meagan Currie (alto sax)
Julia Salem (clarinet)
Marsha Stone (baritone horn in C)
Nanette Pezzutti (French horn)

References

  1. ↑ Boerger Community Music Resource Directory
  2. ↑ HONK!Festival of Activist Street
  3. ↑ Lyrics from "The Devil Glitch" by Chris Butler
  4. ↑ New York Times March 18, 2011
  5. ↑ from Budfolk conversation with conductor Tom Goodkind 1/9/10
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