George Duke Plays For Bob Moog Foundation

by The Editors on October 18, 2009

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Legendary keyboardist George Duke will be playing a benefit performance for The Bob Moog Foundation at the Museum of Making Music in Carlsbadistan on Friday, November 6, 2009.

George’s prolific career as a pianist, synth pioneer, composer and Grammy award-winning producer has earned him a place of honor in the world of jazz, funk, pop and R&B. He has worked with a who’s who of artists, including: Jean-Luc Ponty, Cannonball Adderly, Nancy Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Zappa, Stanley Clarke, Billy Cobham, Sonny Rollins, Diane Reeves, and many others. His production credits span decades of top artists and performers. Today, the unstoppable Duke continues to produce, write and perform. His 2008 album, Dukey Treats, was released on the Heads Up label.

The Bob Moog Foundation is a non-profit organization whose mission is to educate and inspire children and adults through the power and possibilities of electronic music and through the intersection of science, music and innovation.

Ticket for the show are $75 for the general public and $65 for Museum members. For tickets and information, please contact the Museum at 760-438-5996 or visit http://www.museumofmakingmusic.org. The Museum of Making Music is
located at 5790 Armada Drive in Carlsbad.George Duke Concert Benefits The Bob Moog Foundation & Museum of Making
Music

CARLSBAD, CA—On Friday, November 6, 2009 at 7 PM, George Duke—whose very
name is synonymous with funk, R&B, pop, soul and jazz and who is heralded as
a world class keyboardist, synthesizer pioneer, composer and Grammy
award-winning producer—will perform an intimate concert with his quartet at
the Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad, California.

Proceeds from the concert directly benefit The Bob Moog Foundation and the
Museum of Making Music, two organizations whose sympathetic missions and
like-mindedness have kindled the exhibition, Waves of Inspiration: The
Legacy of Moog, a first-ever look at the life and work of synthesizer
innovator, Dr. Robert Moog. In addition to the proceeds from the concert,
several businesses, including Moog Music Inc., have donated instruments and
items that will be auctioned off to raise additional funds for the two
organizations.

Tickets to the concert are $75 for the general public and $65 for museum
members. Optionally, for $100 guests can enjoy both the concert event AND a
special VIP after-party reception with George Duke that will take place
following his performance. In addition, ticket holders will automatically
be entered into an opportunity drawing to win an autographed Moog Little
Phatty synthesizer. Attendance is limited.

For tickets and information, please contact the Museum at 760-438-5996 or
visit http://www.museumofmakingmusic.org. The Museum of Making Music is
located at 5790 Armada Drive in Carlsbad.

GEORGE DUKE

George Duke was born in San Rafael, California, and reared in Marin City, a
working class section of Marin County. When he was just four years old, his
mother took him to see Duke Ellington in concert. “I don’t remember it too
well,” says George, “but my mother told me I went crazy. I ran around saying
‘Get me a piano, get me a piano!'”

From then on, George’s prolific career as a pianist, synth pioneer, composer
and Grammy award-winning producer has earned him a place of honor in the
world of jazz, funk, pop and R&B. He has worked with a who’s who of artists,
including: Jean-Luc Ponty, Cannonball Adderly, Nancy Williams, Dizzy
Gillespie, Frank Zappa, Stanley Clarke, Billy Cobham, Sonny Rollins, Diane
Reeves, and many others. His production credits span decades of top artists
and performers. Today, the unstoppable Duke continues to produce, write and
perform. His 2008 album, Dukey Treats, was released on the Heads Up label.

For a complete biography, please visit:
http://www.georgeduke.com/biography.html

Publicity Photos:
http://www.georgeduke.com/publicity_photos/

Waves of Inspiration: The Legacy of Bob Moog

From August 29, 2009 through April 30, 2010, Waves of Inspiration: The
Legacy of Bob Moog highlights the career of Bob Moog and the impact that he
had on the world of music, features rare vintage synthesizers and other
related Moog instruments and memorabilia from the Bob Moog Archives and from
various private collections. A custom video presentation created by Moog
historian and exhibit consultant Brian Kehew forms a central part of the
exhibit. The exhibit explores the numerous musicians, engineers and
colleagues who played a vital role in the evolution of the Moog sound and
the relationship between and the inventor/toolmaker and the musician, as
well as the genesis of a variety of musical interfaces.

The Bob Moog Foundation

The Bob Moog Foundation is a non-profit organization founded upon Moog’s
passing in August 2005. The mission of the foundation is to educate and
inspire children and adults through the power and possibilities of
electronic music and through the intersection of science, music and
innovation. The foundation has three main projects: preserving and
protecting Bob Moog’s archives, creating a Student Outreach Program that
brings electronic music into the schools, and its hallmark project, the
creation of a Moogseum in Asheville, NC, for which it was recently awarded a
$600,000 lead grant by the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority.
The Moogseum is planned to open late 2012. For more information, see
www.moogfoundation.org. <http://www.moogfoundation.org/>

The Museum of Making Music

The Museum of Making Music, a division of the NAMM Foundation, explores the
multifaceted history of the American music products industry from its
beginnings in the 1890s to today. Located in Carlsbad, California (north San
Diego county), the Museum tells stories of hard work, challenge, inspiration
and pioneering innovation, and reveals the profound relationship between the
industry, popular music, and global culture. For information, please visit
www.museumofmakingmusic.org <http://www.museumofmakingmusic.org> .

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