{"id":815,"date":"2015-05-27T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandonwozniakmusic.com\/?p=815"},"modified":"2015-05-27T20:44:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T20:44:17","slug":"atlantis-quartet-vector-familiesformerly-known-as-pbr-street-gang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandonwozniakmusic.com\/?p=815","title":{"rendered":"Atlantis Quartet &#038; Vector Families(formerly known as PBR Street Gang)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>I play in a band called the Atlantis Quartet. We&#8217;ve been together for about 8 or 9 years. We are one of four proud recipients of the 2015-2016 McKnight Artist Fellowships for Performing Musicians award administered by MacPhail Center for Music. This money will help us make more music and buy great reviews in Downbeat. <em>Just kidding, we would never do that<\/em> and in all seriousness, <strong>MANY THANKS TO THE MCKNIGHT FOUNDATION!!<\/strong>\u00a0We also have a gig this Saturday, view the pic for details.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandonwozniakmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shot_1432747259232.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-816\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brandonwozniakmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shot_1432747259232.jpg\" alt=\"shot_1432747259232\" width=\"544\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.brandonwozniakmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shot_1432747259232.jpg 544w, http:\/\/www.brandonwozniakmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shot_1432747259232-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.brandonwozniakmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/shot_1432747259232-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I play in another band I&#8217;M VERY EXCITED ABOUT called VECTOR FAMILIES, formerly known as PBR Street Gang w\/Dave King, Dean Granros &amp; Anthony Cox. \u00a0We had to change our name because some DJs in the UK already have it and they appear to be way more famous than we are. We&#8217;re playing the Jazz at Studio Z Series curated by Zacc Harris on June 6th. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studiozstpaul.com\/jasz-060615.html\">PBR Street Gang is listed<\/a>\u00a0on the Studio Z website\u00a0but this will be our last show under that name and from hear on out it will be Vector Families for life.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wsite-content-title\">JAZZ AT STUDIO Z<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #3f3f3f;\">DAVE KING&#8217;S PBR STREET GANG<\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wsite-multicol\">\n<div class=\"wsite-multicol-table-wrap\">\n<table class=\"wsite-multicol-table\">\n<tbody class=\"wsite-multicol-tbody\">\n<tr class=\"wsite-multicol-tr\">\n<td class=\"wsite-multicol-col\">\n<div class=\"paragraph\">June 6, 2015<br \/>\nStudio Z: 275 East Fourth Street, Suite 200, St. Paul6 p.m. master class<br \/>\n6pm. Clinic<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\">7 p.m. Concert<br \/>\n$10<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>We made a record a couple months ago we think people will like which will be out at some point in the near future. We also had a great performance at Lawrence University a couple weeks ago so thanks again to the students for their enthusiasm and always awesome hospitality. \u00a0Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawrentian.com\/archives\/1006015\">review<\/a> from the show, apparently my playing is &#8220;disorienting&#8221; &#8220;played similarly to a bebop saxophonist, but harmonically, he was out there.&#8221; &#8220;often disorienting and spiraled in and out of control, but at some points it was much more lyrical and subdued, providing an unexpected but alluring contrast&#8221; There you have it.<\/p>\n<p>BW<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, I play in a band called the Atlantis Quartet. We&#8217;ve been together for about 8 or 9 years. We are one of four proud recipients of the 2015-2016 McKnight Artist Fellowships for Performing Musicians award administered by MacPhail Center &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandonwozniakmusic.com\/?p=815\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonwozniakmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonwozniakmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonwozniakmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonwozniakmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonwozniakmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonwozniakmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonwozniakmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions\/823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonwozniakmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonwozniakmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonwozniakmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonwozniakmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}