Musicians J.D. Parran and Andrew Drury have announced new roles as event curators along with a collaborative opening project at Assisted Living, a new art space in Newburgh.
Both renowned musicians and collaborators in their own rights, J.D. Parran and Andrew Drury share expansive musical careers.
Among many things, Drury is a soloist, lead for the Content Provider quartet and other large ensembles, producer of audio and video works, a musical collaborator across all swaths of sounds, and a musical educator.
He’s presented over 130 concerts as a part of his Soup & Sound series in his home in Brooklyn and in adjacent neighborhoods, and is the co-founder of the non-profit Continuum Culture & Arts. In addition to work in his own neck of the woods, Drury has given masterclasses in 20 universities across three continents and has led over 1,500 workshops in schools, prisons, museums, homeless shelters, and more.
J.D. Parran shares a similar love for music in all forms- composing, collaborating, and educating. Having mastered a wide variety of woodwind instruments, Parran has appeared on over 50 recordings over the past three decades including collaborations with John Lennon, Stevie Wonder, Yoko Ono, and more.
In addition to his purely musical endeavors, Parran is also a veteran educator who gives lectures at City University of New York and teaches the clarinet and saxophone at Harlem School for the Arts.
He has also been commissioned as a composer by the likes of the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet the Composer, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Helen W. Buckner Foundation.
Hosted in the Assisted Living art space situated just behind the brand new Untouchable Bar, Drury and Parran will be collaborating in an event dubbed an “UNinauguration.”
“Part riot, part manifestation, part protest, part prayer: two celebrated stalwarts of creative music share good musical medicine on the grim occasion of the 2025 presidential inauguration. Indeed this is an UNinauguration. J. D. Parran and Andrew Drury will play a panoply of instruments from around the world in addition to bass saxophone, alto clarinet, flutes, and drums. Parran led an unInauguration mini-tour with a quartet in 2017. For 2025 he joins forces with his frequent collaborator Drury.”
Featuring the powerful combination of two skilled individuals, the UNinauguration of Assisted Living will not be one to miss. The pair will perform this exciting event on Friday, January 17 at 9:00 PM with a requested donation of $10.
For more information on the event and the space’s adjacent bar, visit Untouchable’s official Instagram page here.
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