The Color of Sound – Music Inspires Art is an interactive concert featuring local visual artists and musicians.
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Four talented Sioux Falls artists, Scott L. Ehrisman, Hope Happeny, Eyob Mergia & Jamie Scarbrough, will create several paintings on canvas while listening to the region’s premier Jazz and Blues Bands — Dakota Jazz Collective & Urban Blues. The five-hour event includes three 45-minute sets of unique performance art. After the event, the paintings will be available for sale. A DVD of the event will be available in the following weeks.
“We have high expectations for this film as a public educational tool,†Sioux Falls artist Scott Ehrisman said. “The Color of Sound – Music Inspires Art is being independently produced by the artists and musicians involved. We are very proud of this aspect.â€Â “This event will exhibit the relationship between visual art and music,†Eyob Mergia said, “and hopefully evoke cultural awareness by presenting the artistic diversity in our community.â€
WHAT: The Color of Sound – Music Inspires Art
WHERE: The Riverwalk, Harvester Building, 196 E. Sixth St., Sioux Falls
WHEN: Saturday, October 7, 2006
 • 6 p.m., Doors open
 • 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Performance: DJC will play 1st set; UB will play 2nd set; jam session for final set.
 • 10 p.m. to 11 p.m.: Musician and artists interviews, painting auction.
COST: $10 at the door, ALL AGES. FREE appetizers will be served and a cash bar will be available for those 21 and over.
INFO: fb.art@sio.midco.net or www.25dp.com/blog/?cat=1
PRODUCER: Scott L. Ehrisman
DIRECTOR: Chris Carlblom
Dakota Jazz Collective is: Jim Speirs, Chris Janzen, Matt Hackett, Joel Shotwell and Bob Gripp
www.jazzsd.com
Urban Blues is: Jess Christen, Fred Epstein, Dave Wood, Dave Fermenich and Derek Snow
www.myspace.com/theurbanblues
Dedicated in memory of Razmik ‘RAZ’ Mkhitarian, Sioux Falls biggest Jazz Fan