Pro Musica Musical Evenings Presents The Bridge #2.12 !!

Doors Open at 7pm Concert at 8pm Artist Donations Appreciated BYBO The Bridge #2.12 Magic Malik - flute, vocals Jeb Bishop - trombone Richard Comte - guitar, vocals Sharon Udoh - piano, vocals Nick Macri - double bass Toma Gouband - percussions Something is happening—*it’s cold (or too hot) in the world / word is starting to get out,* as Brigitte Fontaine was already singing or warning—and we’re not going to keep running a network of exchange and broad sharing, like The Bridge, while pretending that nothing is happening. The fact is that entire swaths of the “cultural sector” (and that’s not even the worst of it) are collapsing one after another into “the icy waters of selfish calculation,” as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels once sang. It’s no longer worth the effort to work under the increasingly dismal conditions imposed on us by the economic situation (they talk of weak growth, persistent inflation, considerable budgetary pressures, debt, debt, debt…). First, we must put an end to this world’s pathological economism. Until then, we’ll do two more tours—big or small—and then we’re off: one in the Chicago area in November, another in France in January and February.