PERFORMANCE
Hoorah for Dead Horse Bay
Sailor Beware performs “Hoorah for Dead Horse Bay” written for Duke Riley’s opening at the Brooklyn Museum in June 2022. The tune is based on “Hoorah for Baffin’s Bay” from 1903 by Theodore F. Morse.
The Hairy Eyeball
Excerpt of reading from Too Many Tammys – a work derived from personal experience of being locked up and technically “brainwashed” as an adolescent within the “troubled teen industry,” and subsequent attempts to understand that experience through research done as an adult. Audience members are invited to draw from a tableau vivant featuring Baker Overstreet and Gordy.
Grizzly Bear Rag: Rag-Time Germs of Love
With Charlie Judkins on piano and J Boxer on snare, Grizzly Bear Rag was composed in 1910 by George Botsford, lyrics by Irving Berlin and recorded at Dixon place, January 31st, 2018 during a lunar eclipse
Moon Fever War Song excerpt: Eastern State Penitentiary
Inspired by E.T. Paull’s Woman Forever March written in 1916, lyrics co-written with Cynthia Mitchell
I’m Going to Kill Myself
17th & Capps: SFMOMA 75th Anniversary
Band curated by artist Chris Johanson as a tribute to San Francisco bands of the 1990’s, including Lara Allen (vocals) , Joe Goldring (guitar), Wendy Farina (drums), Alex Oropeza (guitar), and Danny Pearson (stand up bass)
The New National Anthem: Queens Museum
Sailor Beware performs an adaptation of’Adam’s and Liberty’, the first American Campaign Song
.Everything at Riley’s Must Be Done in Irish Style: Havana Biennial
Sailor Beware performs for Duke Riley’s El Primer Desfile de San Patricio
Sailor Beware performs Shame on You from 1904 at Deitch Projects
Кристин by La Konga Russe: Brooklyn Conservatory of Music
Lara Allen on vocals and Mia Theodoratus on harp performing an interpretation of a Russian folksong transcribed and published by Rimsky-Korsakov’s uncle
Whistling Riley: MagnanMetz
Sailor Beware performs an adaptation of Whistling Riley from Edward M. Favor’s 1904 recording for Duke Riley’s Trading with the Enemy
Listen to the Big Brass Band