BEEN A WHILE...welcome to 2024...!

Haven’t posted here in a while…schedule has been off-the-hook…! A few upcoming dates-events for 2024…

March 5 / Tuesday - CLINIC @ University of TN at Knoxville / Edward Freytag and William Ellis / “how drummers and percussionists work together in commercial music and jazz” / Natalie Haslam Music Center / 12:55-2:15pm ET / Keith Brown - HOST

March 16 / Saturday - CLINIC(s) @ Rutherford County PercussionFest hosted by Blackman MS in Murfreesboro, TN / ALL Day Event / “percussion accessories introduction and developing snare technique and vocabulary for use in commercial music and jazz” / David England - HOST / OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

March 22-23 / Friday-Saturday - CLINIC @ West Kentucky Percussion Festival conducting the KY All-Star Drumline / ALL Day Event w/ multiple guest percussion artists / Tyler Casey - HOST / Rick Gardner - CONSULTANT / OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

March 26 / Tuesday - CLINIC @ East TN State University / Edward Freytag and William Ellis / “how drummers and percussionists work together in commercial music and jazz” / 1:20-2:30pm ET / Matthew Geiger - HOST

March 27 / Wednesday - VINNIE and THE HITMEN recording/video session @ Middle TN State University in Murfreesboro, TN / 4pm-7pm / CLOSED SESSION

April 10-13 / Wednesday thru Saturday / TnMEA (TN Music Educators Association) Annual Conference / hosted @ Opryland Hotel in Nashville, TN

April 19 / Friday - VINNIE and THE HITMEN concert-clinic @ Lebanon HS, Lebanon, TN / 1:30pm / Ben Channell - HOST

April 27 / Saturday - TN PAS (Percussive Arts Society) Day of Percussion @ Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville, TN / ALL Day Event / Matt Geiger - HOST

June 17-22 / Monday thru Saturday / CLINICIAN and FACULTY INSTRUCTOR @ LEE University Summer Jazz Camp in Cleveland, TN / CLINIC by Edward Freytag and William Ellis w/ Jazz Faculty at 4pm in the Dixon Center / Jazz Faculty Concert (including EF and WE) at 7:30pm in the Dixon Center / OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

…and more coming…

COOL STUFF COMING IN 2023!

Hey guys…been a little while since a news flash went up…BEEN BUSY…! Let me hit some quick highlights. Been writing like a madman…! Some new percussion ensembles are about to be unleashed…BRAIN BLEED written for 7 percussionists, piano, and electric bass is hot off the presses and will be performed and videoed some time this year! THE MIDDLE MAN…a new work for 6 percussionists offers a contemporary work accessible to middle school students that sounds and appears more difficult than it actually is…a very hip work for your middle school ensemble! And last (at the moment) but definitely not least, a new advanced work for 6 percussionists featuring melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, and metric challenges that will be perfect for your advanced high school group or undergraduate college ensemble. This one is appropriately titled…ALL-STATE…! And along w/ the writing…

I’ve been performing much w/ VINNIE and THE HITMEN, a premier musical ensemble featuring 9 horns and 5 rhythm of the hippest session cats in Nashville! If you’re in the Nash area…find us…you’ll dig it…! More coming later about more writing projects and performances…! Hope to see you soon here on the site, on my FB page, or at a gig…! And check out…www.youtube.com/user/edwardfreytag/videos. See you later…

EDWARD

VINNIE AND THE HITMEN RIDE AGAIN

Edward Freytag will be laying down some percussion grooves again with VINNIE and THE HITMEN on October 4, 2022 at the hip Nashville venue, 3RD and LINDSLEY…! This will be a stellar musical night w/ Lalo Davila and Friends taking the stage at 7:15pm followed by the killer 14 piece rockin’ ensemble, VINNIE and THE HITMEN going on at 8:45! Come out and get your groove on listening to the finest players in Nashville…yep, these cats have played on over 25,000 records…WHAT! Get your tickets at www.3rdandlindsley.com or show up and pay at the door…and yes, doors open at 6pm! See you there…!

Edward Freytag Performing With Vinnie And The Hitmen

Don’t miss an opportunity to hear the stellar Nashville horn band, VINNIE and THE HITMEN on August 30th at 3rd And Lindsley, showtime @ 7pm!. Five killer rhythm players and nine rockin' horn cats layin' down some of the hippest arrangements of pop, rock, and R&B hits you've ever heard! Come and check us out...you will massively dig it...! Tickets available at the door…!

3rd And Lindsley / 818 3rd Avenue South / Nashville, TN 37210 / 615-259-9891