Button Masher + Iverson Midwest Tour!

829 East Washington Avenue,Madison WI 53703

16 April, 2022

Description

Grammy Award-nominated Button Masher is coming to Robinia! Fresh off his trip to the Grammy's, Jake Silverman AKA Button Masher will be launching his Midwest Tour with Iverson. Part jazz prodigy, part video game lover; Button Masher will delight fans - from jazz aficionados to anyone who couldn't get that boss theme song out of their head after clearing a difficult level. From Button Masher's website bio: "Jake Silverman is a GRAMMY-nominated arranger, jazz pianist, jazz organist, electronic musician, composer, and educator. After an early history in classical and jazz piano and organ, Jake received a Bachelor of Music (BM) in Jazz Performance from Oberlin Conservatory of Music, a Master of Music (MM) in Jazz Performance from the Manhattan School of Music, and his Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) in Jazz Studies Performance from the University of Southern California. He has had the distinct pleasure of studying and working with jazz legends such as Dan Wall, Billy Hart, Gary Bartz, Jay Ashby, Phil Markowitz, Jim McNealy, Dave Liebman, Alan Pasqua, Russell Ferrante, Bob Mintzer, Peter Erskine, and others. Jake performs a multi-media project called Button Masher that brings together video game music, jazz, and other genres. For Button Masher, Jake uses Ableton Live to recreate and utilize the sound design of retro video games. Button Masher has received widespread recognition on social media from general audiences, as well as from notable musicians. Jake’s Button Masher project led to his GRAMMY® nomination with Charlie Rosen and the 8-Bit Big Band for their arrangement of Meta Knight’s Revenge from the video game Kirby Superstar." Link to Jake Silverman's Grammy-nominated arrangement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIP3HdFl-JM More information on Jake Silverman: https://www.jakesilvermanjazz.com **TICKETS WILL BE $15 AT THE DOOR** Also touring with Button Masher on this tour is Iverson. From Iverson's Bandcamp page: "Iverson is an alt-pop band from Chicago surveying both the beauty and absurdity of the modern human condition via addictively catchy yet often deceptively intricate new-wave influenced pop songs and explosively dynamic and unpredictable live performances" Link to Silverman's Bandcamp page: https://iverson.bandcamp.com/