John Lane

John Lane is an artist whose creative work and collaborations extend through percussion to poetry, spoken word, and theater, often bridging music performance with socio-political advocacy. As a performer, he has appeared on stages throughout the Americas, Australia, and Japan. John along with percussionist Allen Otte created and an ongoing social justice advocacy project, The Innocents, which has toured throughout the US including performances and workshops at the Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, the Innocence Network Conference, numerous university and public school campuses, and is now the subject of a feature length documentary by Wojciech Lorenc. He has released two albums: The Landscape Scrolls (Starkland Records), and Trigger: Artists Respond to Gun Violence (Albany Records).

John Lane

Performances

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Speaking of... Music for a Speaking Percussionist - A Percussion Recital by John Lane

A Man In a Chair by Christopher Deane

An Iron Nail by Rachel C. Walker

Peter Garland: The Landscape Scrolls

John Lane: Six Haiku

Graeme Leak: Say Something (excerpt)

Videos

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Interview with Petter Berndalen

Pyxis by CJ Menge - SHSU Steel Band

El Cruzao - R. Sandoval, Arr. Jeremy Muller

Cascade by Emily Lemmerman

Atenteben by Bob Becker

Sam Houston Percussion Group

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Pyxis by CJ Menge - SHSU Steel Band

El Cruzao - R. Sandoval, Arr. Jeremy Muller

Xylophonia - Joe Green - Sam Houston Percussion Group

Atenteben by Bob Becker

Cascade by Emily Lemmerman

Back Talk by Harry Breuer - Sam Houston Percussion Group