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PAST EVENT
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The Cape Cod Sax Quartet

Outstanding Cape musicians play classical, jazz and popular music for this unusual ensemble.
February 27th, 2016​
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Time: 7:30 pm

​Location:
Sandwich Town Hall
130 Main St.
Sandwich, MA

Tickets: $20 for adults/$10 for students 

 
Available online below or at Splash Stationers
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About the Cape Cod Sax Quartet
​The third concert of the Village Concert Series will feature the Cape Cod Sax Quartet, well-known throughout the Cape, making their first concert appearance in Sandwich. Founded in 2014, the quartet consists of four of Cape Cod's most well-known saxophonists: Berke McKelvey, Bruce Abbott, Ryder Corey, and Nicholas Suchecki, merging seasoned professionals with rising talents.
 
The saxophone is a relatively recent concert instrument, invented in 1840 by the Belgian musician Adolphe Sax. Although originally conceived as an orchestral instrument, the saxophone became popular first through the medium of military bands, and then jazz, and was only slowly and reluctantly accepted into the orchestra.  
 
With the instrument’s very vocal and expressive qualities and extensive range, it wasn’t long before composers began to write quartets for the soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxophones. Now saxophone quartets are one of the most popular ensembles of like instruments, perhaps second only to the string quartet. But if you haven’t yet heard this rich, colorful and unique sonority, you are in for a treat.
 
Members of The Cape Cod Sax Quartet incorporate their very diverse experiences into their music, playing pop, ragtime, classical, traditional, and jazz works.  This concert will offer a program of transcriptions of classical works, arrangements of jazz standards, and even a “Beatles Medley”. In addition, the members will share information about the history of their instruments and demonstrate each of the four “flavors” of saxophones.
 
The members of the Cape Cod Sax Quartet perform frequently throughout Cape Cod, Boston, and New England.  They have performed with Cape-based artists such as Steve Morgan and the Kingfish, Chandler Travis, the Paul Weller Big Band, Stage Door Canteen, Funktapuss, and the Cape Cod Jazz Quintet.  They have also played with internationally renowned artists such as the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Chris Botti, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, and the Artie Shaw Orchestra.
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Cape Cod Sax Quartet members Berke McKelvey, Bruce Abbott, Ryder Corey, and Nicholas Suchecki
Enjoy a few Cape Cod Sax Quartet audio clips:
See The Cape Cod Sax Quartet performing live:

​Meet the members of the ensemble 
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Nicholas Suchecki, the quartet’s founder, is a Nauset Regional High School graduate and  currently studies at Berklee College of Music. As a saxophonist, clarinetist, flutist, and bassist, Nicholas has played and recorded with many musicians and bands of varying styles, Nicholas is also Concert Director for Wellfleet Recreation’s Music at Mayo summer concert series.
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Bruce Abbott, as a teacher, saxophonist, and flutist, has taught at Nauset Regional High School, Salve Regina University and the University of Rhode Island.  He has played with jazz combos and classical ensembles and orchestras in concerts and clubs throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, including the Rhode Island Saxophone Quartet and the Cape Symphony.  He has been part of over fifty recording projects – his most recent recording is River Waves, an album of music for Native American flute. Bruce teaches private music lessons in his Brewster studio on Cape Cod.

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Berke McKelvey has earned degrees in music from Principia College, Berklee College of Music, and University of California, San Diego.  He has recordings on RCA, Warner/Reprise, Buena Vista, and numerous independent labels.  Berke has appeared with the Boston Pops Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, St. Louis Symphony and Boston Opera Orchestra. He is also an active theater musician, and teaches privately and at the  Berklee College of Music in Boston.
Ryder Corey, a Falmouth High School graduate, is currently a music performance and music education major at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He has been the lead alto saxophonist and guest soloist in big bands and other ensembles there.
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Sandwich Arts Alliance
PO Box 1332, Sandwich MA 02563
Sandwich Arts Alliance Center, 124 Route 6A , Sandwich, MA, 02563
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11-4
p  (774) 338-5201
​info@sandwichartsalliance.org

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        • Witnessing Ukraine’s Freedom
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        • 2022 Art and Soul Gala
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        • Online Pop-Up Sale 2022
        • SAA Online Auction 2022
        • Sandwich Showcase Cavalcade Countdown
        • Shop Small Saturday 2021 >
          • Lighting of the Giant 2021
        • Sandwich Showcase Playbill 2021
        • Ukulele Fest 2021
        • The Practical Hands-On Details of Successful Selling
        • Mary A. Smith Watercolor Demonstration
        • Sandwich Porchfest September 2021
        • Adirondack Chair Trail 2021
        • SAA at the Cape Cod Hydrangea Festival 2021
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          • Monthly Play Reading Group - ONLINE EVENT
          • Music Around the World
        • Songwriters Workshop ONLINE EVENT
        • Spring Has Sprung Raffle
        • Pebbles in the Stream Book Launch
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        • Writing for Success ONLINE EVENT
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        • The Business of Writing
        • Let's Picnic! Online Auction
        • Poem-athon
        • Fitness for Writers and Artists via Zoom 2020
        • Author Talk: Terri Arthur 2020
        • Holly Days Fine Arts Boutique 2019
        • Village Concert Series 2020 >
          • PAST EVENT Upper Structure
          • PAST EVENT 11/8 The Movimento Project
          • PAST EVENT New England Brass Band
        • Staged Readings: Six by Ten jan 2020
        • Holly Days Fine Arts Boutique 2019
        • Holiday Sing 2019
        • Giants Trolley Tour 2019
        • Third Thursdays 2019
        • Staged Reading: oldfriends.com 2019
        • Adirondack Chair Trail 2019
        • Woodstock revisited/ Sandstock 2019
        • Art and Soul Gala 2019
        • Plein Air 2019
        • Village Concert Series 18-19
        • SAA Building Grand Opening Weekend Celebration
        • Author Talk: A History of Howard Johnson’s
        • Author Talk: The Cookie Loved ‘Round the World
        • Visual Arts Members Art Show & Sale 2019
        • Successful Writing: ​Insights from Four Authors and a Top Publisher
        • Ukulele Fest 2109
        • Village Book Festival
        • Presentation: Eating for Good Health
        • Staged Readings: Six by Ten
        • Writers on Writing: Author Panel 2018
        • Sandwich Holly Days SAA Event - Fine Arts Boutique 2018
        • Third Thursdays 2018
        • Staged Readings: A Leg Up
        • Sandwich Porchfest 2018
        • All-Alliance Meet and Greet 9.18
        • Art and Soul 2018
        • Plein Air Sandwich 2018
        • Songbird
        • Literary Arts Publishing Event
        • Open Mic Classical 2018
        • National Poetry Month Events
        • Visual Arts Members Art Show & Sale 2018
        • Village Concert Series 17-18
        • Ukulele Fest 2018
        • Lifting Spirits: An Evening of Wine & Poetry 2018
        • Staged Readings: Six by Ten
        • Ten-Minute Tales 2018
        • Sandwich Holly Days SAA Events 2017
        • Staged Readings DNA
        • Porchfest 2017
        • The Starfish Trail 2017
        • Plein Air Sandwich 2017
        • Art and Soul Gala 2017
        • Poetry Month 2017
        • Visual Arts Members Show & Sale 2017
        • Village Concert Series 2016 >
          • September 24 - The Fourth Wall PAST EVENT
          • March 11 - The Bruce Abbott/Fred Fried Quintet PAST EVENT
          • April 8 - The Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra
        • Ukulele Fest 2017
        • Author Talk - Dr. Robert M. Reece
        • An Afternoon with Dylan Thomas
        • Come Feast and Be Merrie 2016
        • Fall for the Arts 2016 >
          • Arts in Action 2016
          • Porchfest 2016
        • Alliance Meet and Greet - 8/16
        • Village Concert Series 2015-2016 >
          • The Percussion Plus Project, September 12, 2015
          • Solstice Singers and Ensemble Passacaglia, Dec. 5, 2015
          • The Cape Cod Sax Quartet, February 27, 2016
          • Boston Arts Academy Spirituals Ensemble, March 12, 2016
          • Music at Eden's Edge, April 23, 2016
        • Arts on Main 2016
        • JAZZ! from Blues to Bebop
        • Poetry Tea
        • Jeanne and Friends
        • March into the Arts 2016
        • Alliance Meet and Greet 2016
        • Eleemosynary
        • Conservatory Jazz Band
        • Fall for the Arts 2016
        • SandwichFest 2016
        • Hydrangea Tour 2016
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