Meet Spencer
Barefield
Guitarist/composer A. Spencer Barefield has received numerous
grants for compositions from ArtServe Michigan-MCACA,
Meet-the-Composer/NEA Commission USA, Lila Wallace/Reader’s Digest,
National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Council for Arts, Arts
Midwest and others.
He has toured and recorded in the U.S., Canada,
and Europe, extensively as a leader, soloist, and with Lester Bowie,
Roscoe Mitchell, Oliver Lake, Andrew Cyrille, Richard Davis and
others. Barefield’s recordings “Live Detroit” and “Xenogenesis 2000”
(CAC label), and his Sound Aspects (Germany) releases “After the
End” and “Live at Leverkusen” have received rave international
reviews and honors, including best new release in Cadence Critics’
Poll, Jazz Times (guitar issue), Metro Times Music Awards and
others.
He is the Artistic and Executive Director of the Creative
Arts Collective (CAC), whose concerts at the Detroit Institute of
Arts and elsewhere earned CAC the Michigan’s Governor’s Arts Award
for excellence and international recognition for its innovative
presentations. Over a hundred of CAC’s concerts have been broadcast
on National Public Radio. Barefield has taught guitar and
improvisation at the University of Michigan School of Music and
elsewhere.
For 28 years, the Creative Arts Collective, a 501 (C)(3) nonprofit
organization, has been committed to presenting the best of
cutting-edge jazz and creative music in Detroit and throughout the
world. This event promise to continue this tradition.
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