An evening of Iron Casting and Musical Performance - our rained out event is back!!!
Gardenship Iron III
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Watch the livestream here!
ALL PROCEEDS GO TO FUNDING OUR NEW FURNACE WE’LL BE USING FOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING IN 2022
Manhattan Iron Project & Empire Vista: River Crossing
Featuring Live In-Person Music by:
James G. Barry Band
Ferro Alloy Orchestra
& Live-Streamed Music by:
The Players Lounge - Seattle, Washington
Greg Franco - Los Angeles, CA
Assortment of Light - Philadelphia, PA
Music @ 5PM
Metal Pour @ 6PM
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Empire Vista is a fully improvised open jam that has seen musicians join from as far as the West Coast; originally started by Seattle's own Grunge Pioneer John Leighton Beezer (The Thrown Ups, Stomach Pump) and Jason S Dennie (Crier Brothers.)
The Manhattan Iron Project was born at the Coney Island Mermaid Parade in 2006. This ambitious group of sculptors took their iron furnace, welded it to the bed of a pick-up truck, and were planning on casting souvenir medallions to give away to the crowd as they progressed along the parade route. Mother Nature dealt them a torrential rainfall that day, so instead they set up shop outside Nathan’s Famous Hotdogs, the furnace was fired up and the molten iron flowed! When Michael Dominick designed the medallions for this event he added to the backside of the medallions “Manhattan Iron Project… Sculpture for the Ages”. This is historically the first mention and first performance by the Manhattan Iron Project. Despite the rain the iron pour was a huge success and the police eventually had to put an end to it because the crowd was so big they were starting to block traffic. They have used this model as a template for most of their subsequent iron pours and Michael has since developed a technique to paint with the molten iron. This has been a part of their performances ever since.
Mermaid Iron images: https://michaeldominicksculpture.com/section/38893-Mermaid-Iron.html
Molten Iron Paintings: https://michaeldominicksculpture.com/section/44295-Molten-Iron-Paintings.html
The Ferro Alloy Orchestra first appeared on the scene in 2013 at the D.U.M.B.O. arts festival in Brooklyn, NY. With James G. Barry leading the orchestra on guitar, their rock and roll musings expertly responded to and reflected the intensity of the Manhattan Iron Project’s fire breathing, molten iron spectacle happening a few feet away. The orchestra, much like the Manhattan Iron Project, rarely has the same lineup, but the core of both groups remains the same. Together, the two deliver an incredibly entertaining and intense hour of molten iron and electric guitar driven bravado. For this event, James is pumping things up in the form of Empire Vista: River Crossings. Empire Vista is an open jam that has seen musicians join from as far as the west coast. River Crossings refers to the satellite locations that will be on live stream… from across numerous rivers… performing simultaneously and projected onto a huge drive-in movie style screen behind the performance.
Video of D.U.M.B.O. performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAErGriNJak&t=204s
This unique blend of dedicated artists working in two different disciplines, coming together to create an experience that is unlike anything most have ever seen before, show us all what is possible if you open the doors to your inner youth and let the good times roll.