2025
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Sun19Jan2025
John Penny at Palmers Bar with West Bank Social Club
8pm-11pm55454
John Penny performs with The West Bank Social Club at Palmers Bar, a.k.a. "America's Favorite Dive". A glorious high quality dive it is, with great music and hip audiences that heartily express appreciation for music. It's a great place to be, and as Blues hall of fame inductee Cornbread Harris says, a great place to "be seen".
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Thu23Jan2025
John Penny is at The Midtown Global Market
Noon - 2:00PMMIdtown global Market 920 E Lake St, Minneapolis, MN 55407 • 612-872-4041
John Penny performs original World Jazz and introduces "Cinematic Jazz" as a soloist. With performing Jazz, Penny has renaissance backgrounds in film scoring, sound design, audio engineering, and computer technologies. This background facilitates the creation of backing tracks, or virtual music tracks, of accompaniments for his songs. Over the course of the show, the virtual bands, made up of 2 to more than 50 instrumentalists, surround Penny's guitar and lyrics with a mix of exotic atmospheres. Instruments from across the globe make up the ensembles. From the vibe of the singer songwriter, to that of the Jazz combo and chamber orchestra, a diverse palette of music textures for Penny's songs are experienced. The backing tracks are custom crafted by Penny to give his compositions the utmost in live energy and interactivity among the virtual players. With this format, Penny can share more than ever, the multi-threaded musical messages that the universe has presented him with. Penny will always perform with live musicians for the organic interactivity/comradery it brings, however this project allows one that composes, performs, produces, and mixes their own music, the opportunity to combine these art forms into a new immersive experience of emotion at molecular levels.
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Sun02Feb2025
John Penny at Palmers Bar with West Bank Social Club
8pm-11pm55454
John Penny performs with The West Bank Social Club at Palmers Bar, a.k.a. "America's Favorite Dive". A glorious high quality dive it is, with great music and hip audiences that heartily express appreciation for music. It's a great place to be, and as Blues hall of fame inductee Cornbread Harris says, a great place to "be seen".
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Sun09Feb2025
John Penny and The Virtual Band are at Palmers Bar
8:00pm-10:00pm55454
Guitarist, composer, and singer John Penny brings original World Jazz to Palmers stage with decades of experience composing and producing music for film and stage. Penny performs solo, but with personally crafted backing tracks that surround his guitars and voice. The arrangements that accompany Pennys’ guitar explorations bring to life the Latin, Afro-Cuban, and Classical flavors of his original songs. Along with select R&B and Blues favorites, Pennys’ recent creations fuse the vibe of the modern cinematic soundtrack with Jazz and Blues. -
Thu13Feb2025
John Penny is at Robert Trail Library
6PM - 7PM14395 S Robert Trail, Rosemount, MN 55068 (651) 480-1200
"A Living History of Black American Jazz" is the subject of this talk and performance. Unlike traditional Jazz studies, Penny takes the audience on a personal journey through time, using his own compositions. The selected songs demonstrate how key phases of Jazz history helped shape this Jazz musician's music. The presentation's primary focus is on the analysis of Jazz History rather than all of its architects. It looks at the how, why, and where Jazz comes from. After the movement from early to modern Jazz is complete, the last section of the presentation looks at Jazz as music for film. The film world has long embraced Jazz as one form of nourishment for it's emotional appetites. Penny's film music demonstrates how modern cinema music can utilize multiple genres simultaneously, with Jazz, World Folk, Classical, and electronic textures.
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Sun16Feb2025
John Penny and The Virtual Band are at Palmers Bar
7:30pm-10:00pm55454
Guitarist, composer, and singer John Penny brings original World Jazz to Palmers stage with decades of experience composing and producing music for film and stage. Penny performs solo, but with personally crafted backing tracks that surround his guitars and voice. The arrangements that accompany Pennys’ guitar explorations bring to life the Latin, Afro-Cuban, and Classical flavors of his original songs. Along with select R&B and Blues favorites, Pennys’ recent creations fuse the vibe of the modern cinematic soundtrack with Jazz and Blues. -
Sun23Feb2025
John Penny and The Virtual Band are at Palmers Bar
7:30pm-10:00pm55454
Guitarist, composer, and singer John Penny brings original World Jazz to Palmers stage with decades of experience composing and producing music for film and stage. Penny performs solo, but with personally crafted backing tracks that surround his guitars and voice. The arrangements that accompany Pennys’ guitar explorations bring to life the Latin, Afro-Cuban, and Classical flavors of his original songs. Along with select R&B and Blues favorites, Pennys’ recent creations fuse the vibe of the modern cinematic soundtrack with Jazz and Blues. -
Tue04Mar2025
Mardi Gras at Mr. Paul's Supper Club with West Bank Social Club
6pm - 9pmMr Paul's Supper Club • 3917 Market Street, Edina MN 55424 • 612-259-8614
John Penny Performs another Mardi Gras with the uproarious New Orleans influenced crowd-thrilling band, The West Bank Social Club! Mr. Paul’s Supper Club is a modern and vibrant supper club with the flavors and spirit of New Orleans located in the heart of Edina on the corner of 50th and France.
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Thu27Mar2025
John Penny is at The Midtown Global Market
Noon - 2:00PMMIdtown Global Market 920 E Lake St, Minneapolis, MN 55407 • 612-872-4041
John Penny performs original World Jazz and introduces Cinematic Jazz. As Penny performs solo, the arrangements behind him come from a range of virtual ensembles, or backing tracks. From the vibes of Blues and Ragtime, the audience also experiences Penny’s modern Jazz with persuasions of African, South American, and European music. From his background in creating soundtracks for advertising, films, and theater, Penny found his groove for making backing tracks. That is, he developed a method for tailor-making virtual accompaniments that that further illuminate the messages in his songs. Over the course of the show, virtual ensembles with colorful Instruments deliver an immersive mix of textures. From the intimacy of the singer songwriter, to the swagger of the Jazz combo, or the elegance of the chamber orchestra, Penny's eclectic music palette breathes with music of the World. With this format, Penny can share more than ever, the musical messages the universe continues to offer him. Penny loves performing with live musicians with the organic interactivity and comradery it brings. This project however , allows a composer, guitarist, music technologist, and producer, the opportunity to combine art forms into a new experience with expressions of emotion at molecular levels.