Nathaniel Braddock is a Chicago-based guitarist, percussionist, and composer performing in a wide variety of contexts: indie-rock groups Edith Frost (Drag City), the Zincs (Thrill Jockey), Rachel Ries and the retired Ancientgreeks (Flameshovel); African dance music with the Occidental Brothers Dance Band International, free jazz and contemporary classical music in a number of contexts including Scott Rosenberg Creative Orchestra (New World), Toby Summerfield's Never Enough Hope a guitar arrangement of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring with the Butcher Shop Quartet (Galapagos 4), contemporary composition for standard and microtonal electric guitars ensembles with the Braddock Guitar Ensemble, and Los Angeles Electric 8.
Nathaniel teaches jazz, classical, and rock guitar privately, and offers classes and workshops in Music Theory, African, American and International Fingerstyle guitar, Reggae, and the music of the British Folk Revival at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music. His studies have included jazz and classical guitar traditions, church bell music, Javanese and Balinese gamelan, and non-western guitar traditions. He is a former musician, performance manger, and a board member of Chicago's Friends of the Gamelan, working closely with Javanese composer I.M. Harjito and the Chicago Indonesian Consulate.
He has presented many new works for dance in collaboration with Hedwig Dance and choreographer Asimina Chremos at venues including Link's Hall, the Chicago Cultural Center and Dance Chicago, and with Julie Atlas Muz at the 2004 Whitney Biennial in New York. He is also the recipient of 2002, 2004, and 2005 CAAP grants from the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs to fund the development of new work for guitar ensemble and for dance. Most notably, Braddock produces a rich, bell-like tone when struck.
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Occidental Brothers Dance Band Int'l
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