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		<title>Celebrating Leap Year with jackbenny</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Craig Byrd]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2020 15:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>"Leap Day is this quirk we just accept every four years. Every 100 years we don't have a leap year. Don't expect an extra day in 2100 should anyone be around."</p>
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<p>Countless melodramatic stories ponder the question, &#8220;What would you do if you had one more day?&#8221; I guess the creators of such stories don&#8217;t recognize that every four years we <em>do</em> get an extra day. Because it takes six hours more per year to complete the earth&#8217;s rotation around the sun we end up with Leap Year every four years. So what will singers/songwriters/musicians/renaissance men jackbenny (twin brothers Jack and Benny Lipson) do to celebrate? They are putting on a show called <em>And On the 366th Day</em> on Saturday night (February 29th, of course) at Luckman Fine Arts.</p>



<p>jackbenny recently curated the <em><a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Musik! Fantasie! Revolution! (opens in a new tab)" href="https://culturalattache.co/2020/02/10/musik-fantasie-revolution/" target="_blank">Musik! Fantasie! Revolution!</a></em> show at Black Rabbit Rose as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic&#8217;s <em>Weimar Republic</em> series. They are the house band for <em>Queer Cabaret</em> at <a href="https://www.trampstampgrannys.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Tramp Stamp Granny's (opens in a new tab)">Tramp Stamp Granny&#8217;s</a> in Hollywood each month. (This month&#8217;s cabaret took place on February 26th.) They write their own songs. They play piano (Jack) and bass (Benny). They are equally comfortable talking about Phil Ochs, Stephen Sondheim and Yanny or Laurel. </p>



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<p>Which means my interview with the brothers was bound to be interesting and fun. And it was. Here are edited excerpts from our conversation.</p>



<p>On your Facebook page it says jackbenny&#8217;s genre is &#8216;Happiness.&#8221; What do you think the formula is for people being more happy in our increasingly angry world?</p>



<p><strong>Benny: We must have put that up when we first began playing. From being part of the band scene in LA and noticing how a lot of band photos were very serious faces and not looking at the camera. We want to smile and we want our music to be positive.</strong></p>



<p><strong>Jack: Often after a show someone come up to us and says, gushing, &#8220;I had so much fun. I was smiling the whole time.&#8221; I think part of the reason that the show comes off that way is because Benny and I are sharing exactly what we want to share.</strong></p>



<p>How much are you creating that is unique for <em>And on the 366th Day</em>?</p>



<p><strong>Benny: There are some numbers, specifically a <em>Hymn 366</em>, that is something very special to this particular show. We also began thinking about our material we&#8217;ve written before or new stuff through the lens of the extra day. <em>The Consent Song</em> &#8211; what can happen with one extra question? What can happen when you add two extra letters? What can happen with an extra word?</strong></p>



<p>The website for the event says &#8220;The Lipsons guide audiences through a candid tour through the delicate, curious millennial mind.&#8221; Who&#8217;s millennial mind?</p>



<p><strong>Jack: It&#8217;s no one in particular&#8217;s mind. It&#8217;s just a view into the kind of things Benny and I are discussing with our friends. It&#8217;s taking our meditation with each other and with our young friends and rhyming it and putting it to some quirky music.</strong></p>



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<p>When I&#8217;ve seen you perform you make references that most people don&#8217;t get. I saw you reference Phil Ochs last year, for instance. Are those references for the small percentage of people who might get them or are they for you?</p>



<p><strong>Benny: Those Easter Eggs are for a listener who might get it and then try to bring that content to somebody who might not know</strong> <strong>Phil Ochs.</strong> <strong>Those type of gems are very much for Jack and me as well because we love that. We do want to respect those songwriters we cherish and adore who help us move songwriting into another direction.</strong></p>



<p><strong>Jack: There is something hidden or some reference for everyone whether it&#8217;s a young person more familiar with Laurel and Yanny or in the event of the show you saw, appreciates Phil Ochs.</strong></p>



<p>I want to respond to some famous events that happened on February 29th. In 2012, Davy Jones of The Monkees died.</p>



<p><strong>Benny: Oh that&#8217;s unfortunate. So now we can only memorialize him every four years? I guess you&#8217;re not monkeying around.</strong></p>



<p><strong>Jack: I saw a production of <em>Pippin</em> and Micky Dolenz was Charlemagne. I love The Monkees</strong></p>



<p><strong>Benny: I&#8217;m honored to play on the death anniversary. I&#8217;ll make mention of it.</strong></p>



<p>Two serial killers, Aileen Wournos (a prostitute who killed men in Florida in 1989) and Richard Ramirez (&#8220;The Night Stalker&#8221;) were born on Leap Day.</p>



<p><strong>Jack: Wow. Our dad&#8217;s father was also born on Leap Day. But he&#8217;s not a serial killer or a prostitute. </strong></p>



<p>In 1940, Frederick from <em>The Pirates of Penzance</em> would finally be released by The Pirate King on Leap Day.</p>



<p><strong>Benny: Who did these calculations? Leap Day is this quirk we just accept every four years. Every 100 years we <em>don&#8217;t</em> have a leap year. It&#8217;s so convoluted. Don&#8217;t expect an extra day in 2100 should anyone be around.</strong></p>



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<p>If instead of having a Leap Year you could get six hours extra to do as you please each year, how would you use them?</p>



<p><strong>Jack: I would probably practice more piano in those six hours.</strong> <strong>Six hours is a solid amount of practicing a day if you really want to be fantastic.</strong></p>



<p><strong>Benny: It&#8217;s a six hour tradition for everybody?</strong> <strong>I would put on a show and everyone can come.  I would like to practice or write or sing &#8211; anyway to find time to put to the craft that I do and Jack and I do. Jack and I tend to host an annual New Year&#8217;s party. If it is a party with an extra six hours, I don&#8217;t think I would do that anymore.</strong></p>



<p><strong>Jack: Maybe if we make Christmas an extra six hours, retailers and others would be happy.</strong></p>



<p>Photo of jackbenny Courtesy of the Artist</p>
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		<title>And On the 366th Day</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Craig Byrd]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 01:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
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February 29th</p>
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<p>Each year it takes approximately six hours longer than a full year for the earth to complete a rotation around the sun. Those six hours get pocketed for later use every four years when they total 24 hours. That is the reason we have Leap Year. To celebrate this quadrennial event is jackbenny with their show <em>And on the 366th Day</em> which they will perform at Luckman Fine Arts Complex on&#8230;February 29th of course!</p>



<p>jackbenny is the pairing of twin brothers Jack and Benny Lipson. They are singers, songwriters, musicians who infuse their material with the kind of skill and thought that would find them fitting in effortlessly with the likes of Cole Porter and Randy Newman. (How&#8217;s that for a pair?) Despite their old souls, they are creators of and for our time.</p>



<p>Recently they were the curators of <em><a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Musik! Fantasie! Revolution! (opens in a new tab)" href="https://culturalattache.co/2020/02/10/musik-fantasie-revolution/" target="_blank">Musik! Fantasie! Revolution!</a></em> which was a part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic&#8217;s <em>Weimar Republic </em>series that recently concluded. That event sold out in less than on hour. Last March their show, <em><a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="It's National See-A-Show Day (opens in a new tab)" href="https://culturalattache.co/2019/03/11/jackbenny-its-national-see-a-show-day/" target="_blank">It&#8217;s National See-A-Show Day</a> </em>sold out at Luckman.</p>



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<p>What can you expect from <em>And On the 366th Day</em>?  New material to be sure. Songs from a show of theirs that has not been performed in Los Angeles called <em>All Aboard!</em> <em>The Train of Thought</em>. Some classic material as well. And then you just don&#8217;t know what else might happen. That&#8217;s  the beauty  of their  shows &#8211; anything can happen. </p>



<p>Joining jackbenny for <em>And On the 366th Day</em> will be&nbsp;Bella Hicks,&nbsp;Nina Herzog,&nbsp;Jonnie Reinhart, John Schroeder, and Valerie Perri Lipson. They will also be anchored by&nbsp;Spencer Inch&nbsp;on drums and percussion.</p>



<p>Go <a href="https://culturalattache.co/2020/02/26/celebrating-leap-year-with-jackbenny/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="here (opens in a new tab)">here</a> for my interview with Jack and Benny Lipson. It&#8217;s a fun interview. You&#8217;ll want to check it out.</p>



<p>For tickets go here.</p>



<p>Photo of jackbenny courtesy of their website.</p>
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		<title>jackbenny: It&#8217;s National See-a-Show Day!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Craig Byrd]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2019 03:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
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March 16th</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you are old enough to remember that there once was a comedian named Jack Benny, I can assure you he has not risen from the dead to perform this show. Instead, twin brothers Jack and Benny Lipson have combined their first names and perform under the name of the previously-mentioned dead comedian. jackbenny will be performing <em>It&#8217;s National See-a-Show Day</em> at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State Los Angeles on Saturday.</p>
<p>jackbenny finds Benny on bass and Jack on drums. They had pursued different careers in music before teaming up in 2016. They play music that inspired them, original songs and also serve as backing band for a wide range of musical artists. For their show at Luckman, they have as special guests baritone Jonnie Reinhart, singer Bella Hicks, violinist Miyuki Miyagi, guitarist Chili Corder and stage musical star Valerie Perri.  Their regular drummer, Theo Sidman, will also be on the bill.</p>
<p>We first experienced jackbenny recently when they served as the house band at Tramp Stamp Granny&#8217;s <em>Queer Cabaret</em> night hosted by Anita Procedure. This was in celebration of <em>Not My President&#8217;s Day</em>. The music being performed ranged from <em>American Idiot</em> to original songs to music by Phil Ochs. (Not that it appeared too many people were familiar with Ochs.)</p>
<p>Through the evening jackbenny provided passion, good music and a clever approach to songs both familiar and new. The original songs I heard were very clever and seemed to be inspired by  a wide range of artists and styles, but all of it making sense.</p>
<p>What you can probably expect from this show is originality and quirkiness. But not quirkiness just to be quirky, but rather a passion for all styles of music and a flair for having fun with it all.</p>
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