Some of the Seacoast’s finest players return to The Dance Hall in Kittery 

Kittery, Maine- On Friday, September 13th, Mike Effenberger’s Weird Turn Pro returns to The Dance Hall in Kittery. Weird Turn Pro is a music group of some of the finest players on the Seacoast. Their name is a nod to Hunter S. Thompson who, among many things, saw the value in both chaos and process. Those two forces are alternately employed or yielded to by WTP as they create music that is both like water eroding granite over the millennia or the momentary flicker of an open flame. Leaning heavily on improvisation, compositions not only afford opportunities for each member of the ensemble to improvise freely, but require the ensemble to constantly shift and re-interpret the when, how, and why of melody and form. Band leader / composer Mike Effenberger organizes sound in a uniquely personal way; informed by classical and jazz traditions yet staking a claim in the world of modern minimalism.

Weird Turn Pro is:
Mike Effenberger - keys / compositions
Rob Gerry - bass
Mike Walsh - drums
Matt Langley - reeds
Chris Gagne - trombone
Chris Klaxton - trumpet

Doors open at 7:30 p.m., music at 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $14 in advance and $18 at the door and can be purchased at www.thedancehallkittery.org.