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Some of the places we have been:
PERFORMANCES, workshops, worship services with the Chevan/Byrd duo and The Afro-Semitic Experience

2005
January 16, the AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE performance with the New Haven Symphony Martin Luther King concert.  Woolsey Hall, New Haven, Connecticut. 
January 21, the AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE at Temple Chai, Long Grove, llinois. 
January  22, the AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE in Concert at Lakeside Congregation,  Highland Park, Illinois
January 25, the AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE in Concert at Bucknell Hall, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
February 6, the AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE, Thornton Wilder Auditorium, Miller Cultural Complex, Hamden, Connecticut
April 3, the AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE, National Yiddish Book Center, Amherst, Massachusetts
April 5-April 8, David Chevan and Warren Byrd Duo, Avadim Hayinu, Artists in residence, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
April 9, David Chevan and Warren Byrd Duo, Avadim Hayinu, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa.
May 1, the AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE, benefit concert for Christian Community Action at Bethesda Lutheran Church, New Haven, Connecticut
May 22, the AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE, the Cantors Assembly Convention, Westin, Stamford, Connecticut.
July 31, the AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE, Jazz Vespers Concert at St. Peters Church, New York City. 
Sunday, August 7, the AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE, Presented by Jazz Forum Arts at Untermyer Park, Yonkers, New York
August 28, the AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE, Sigourney Street Festival, Hartford, Connecticut
September 15,  David Chevan, Alvin Carter, and Kalem Zarif, lecture/recital  in Muller Chapel at Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York.
September 16, David Chevan, Alvin Carter, and Kalem Zarif, Jazz Sabbath Service at Ithaca College Hillel, Muller Chapel at Ithaca, New York.  
September 17, the AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE, Days of Awe concert, Emerson Suites, Campus Center, Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York 
September 22, AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE with special guest Frank London, Days of Awe concert, The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan, New York City, New York
September 24, Selichot Services and Hurricane Katrina Benefit, The Afro-Semitic Experience and Frank London with Cantor Erik Contzius, Temple Israel of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York
September 24, Selichot Services, The Afro-Semitic Experience and Frank London accompanies Cantor Jack Mendelson at Temple Israel Center of White Plains, White Plains, New York
October 6, David Chevan and Warren Byrd Duo, Celebration of Daniel Pearl Music Day Concert, Adams House, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York,
October 12, the AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE presented by the Pace University Office of Diversity Programs, Pace University, Pleasantville, New York

2004
January 12, David Chevan and Warren Byrd Duo, Avadim Hayinu, Stony Point Center Conference on Globalization and the Church, Stony Point, NY
January 17, the AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE, Congregation Anshe Emet, Chicago, Illinois
January 23, David Chevan and Warren Byrd Duo, Avadim Hayinu, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. memorial concert, sponsored by the Kenyon College Black Student Union, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio
January 24, David Chevan and Warren Byrd Duo, Avadim Hayinu, Trinity Episcopal Church, Toledo, Ohio
February 1, David Chevan and Warren Byrd Duo, Avadim Hayinu, Hartford Pubic Library, Hartford, Connecticut
February 5, the AFRO-SEMITIC Experience at the Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut
April  9, the AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York
June 13 the AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE, Congregation Mishkan Israel with special guests Cantor Jack Mendelson and Cantor Shoshana Lash, Hamden, Connecticut
June 25, the AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE, Beth Israel - The West Temple, Cleveland, Ohio
June 26, the AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE, The Temple-Congregation Shomer Emunim, Sylvania, Ohio
June 27, the AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE, workshop and concert at the Detroit Festival of Jewish Music, at the Greater Detroit Jewish Community Center, West Bloomfield. Michigan
June 30, the AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE, 7:00 p.m. in the Sunken Garden at the Porter-Phelps Huntington Museum, Hadley, Massachusetts
July 10, David Chevan and Warren Byrd Duo, Avadim Hayinu, 7:30 p.m. at the Stone Church, New Preston Hill Road, New Preston, Connecticut
July 22, David Chevan and Warren Byrd Duo, Avadim Hayinu, at Monadnock Music Festival, Harlow Performance Hall, Peterborough, New Hampshire.
September 11 Selichot Services, The Afro-Semitic Experience at Temple Israel Center of White Plains. Midnight: Selichot service.  White Plains, New York
September 18, The Days of Awe: David Chevan with The Afro-Semitic Experience at Kanbar Hall, The Jewish Community Center of San Francisco’s Eugene and Elinor Friend Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California. 
September 19,  The Days of Awe: David Chevan with The Afro-Semitic Experience, Bissap Baobab, San Francisco, Sponsored by The Jewish Community Center of San Francisco’s Eugene and Elinor Friend Center for the Arts. 
September 22, The Days of Awe: David Chevan with The Afro-Semitic Experience 8:00 p.m. at The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan, New York City, New York.
November 13, the AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE, 7:00 p.m. at Congregation Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek, Chester, Connecticut.
 
2003
January 12, The AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE, Charter Oak Cultural Center,  Hartford, Connecticut.
January 23, David Chevan and Warren Byrd Duo, Avadim Hayinu, at Jubilee Hall, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee
Friday, January 24, David Chevan and Warren Byrd, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
February 8, David Chevan and Warren Byrd Duo, Avadim Hayinu, concert, Student Center, Canisius College, Buffalo, New York
February 9, David Chevan and Warren Byrd Duo, Avadim Hayinu, Westminster Presbyterian Church, Buffalo, New York
February 20, the AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE, Student Union Ballroom, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts.
February 27, David Chevan and Warren Byrd Duo, Avadim Hayinu, Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta, Georgia.
February 28, March 1 and 2, Artists in Residence, Columbia Jewish Community Center, Columbia, South Carolina.
April 6, Concert for Martin Luther King at Congregation Or Shalom, Orange, Connecticut
May 10, David Chevan and Warren Byrd Duo, Avadim Hayinu, Trinity Episcopal Church, Toledo, Ohio.
May 15, David Chevan and Warren Byrd Duo, Avadim Hayinu, Wallingford Public Library, Wallingford, Connecticut
June 7, the AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE featuring David Chevan and Warren Byrd  9:00 p.m. at Tifereth Israel Congregation of Washington, D.C.
July 3, David Chevan and Warren Byrd Duo, 4:00 - 5:30 pm, a Workshop on merging Jazz into Jewish worship services. At the American Conference of Cantors 2003 Annual Convention,  New York, New York
September 13, David Chevan and Warren Byrd Duo, Avadim Hayinu, the Festival of African-American Literature, Hartford Public Library, Hartford, Connecticut
October 12, David Chevan and Warren Byrd Duo, Avadim Hayinu, Stony Point Center Conference on Jazz and the Church, Stony Point, NY
November 13, the AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE, Collis Common Ground, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire

2002
January 18 and Saturday, January 19, David Chevan and Warren Byrd Duo, Avadim Hayinu at Temple Adath Israel, Friday night services and a concert on Saturday night.  124 North Ashland Ave., Lexington, Kentucky, (859) 269-2979.
January 21, David Chevan and Warren Byrd Duo, Avadim Hayinu, Martin Luther King Day concert, in the Sarratt Cinema at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, and  a workshop at Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University.
February 10, David Chevan and Warren Byrd Duo, Avadim Hayinu, Buckman Theater, Quinnipiac University, 275 Mount Carmel Avenue, Hamden, Connecticut.
March 10, David Chevan and Warren Byrd Duo, Avadim Hayinu, Model Seder at West Point Military Academy, New York.
March 17 and Monday, 18 David Chevan and Warren Byrd Duo, Avadim Hayinu, Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies at Wayne State University--a series of workshops and concerts in Detroit, Michigan.
April 7, David Chevan and Warren Byrd Duo, Avadim Hayinu , the National Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, on the Campus of Hampshire College              . 
June 30, David Chevan and Warren Byrd Duo, Avadim Hayinu, Schenectady Jewish Community Center, 2565 Balltown Road, Niskayuna, New York
July 7, The AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE , Redding Town Green, Redding, CT, Lonetown Rd. (Rt. 107)
July 21, The AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE, Greater Hartford Festival of Jazz, Main Stage, Bushnell Park, Hartford, Connecticut.
December 8, the AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE, African American Arts and Culture Complex, Hall of Culture, 762 Fulton Street San Francisco, CA
December 12, David Chevan and Warren Byrd Duo, Avadim Hayinu, concert and artist-in-residency at Greens Farms Academy. Greens Farms, CT

2001
January 13, Avadim Hayinu, with Warren Byrd, at the Meetinghouse of the  Falmouth Jewish Congregation, Falmouth, Massachusetts
February 21, Avadim Hayinu, with Warren Byrd, Notre Dame College, Manchester, New Hampshire.
March 17, Avadim Hayinu, with Warren Byrd, at Poughkeepsie Friends Meeting House, Poughkeepsie, NY
April 12 Avadim Hayinu, with Warren Byrd,  Museum of Jewish Heritage--A Living Memorial to the Holocaust.  Battery Park City, New York.
June 24, Avadim Hayinu, with Warren Byrd, Washington D.C. Jewish Music Festival, JCC of Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C.
July 8, Avadim Hayinu, with Warren Byrd, World Fellowship Center in Conway, New Hampshire
September 7 and 8, David Chevan and Warren Byrd Duo: Avadim Hayinu, at Temple Israel of Greater Miami Temple, Miami, Florida 
September 9, David Chevan and Warren Byrd Duo: Avadim Hayinu service at Greater Bethel AME Church, Miami, Florida
September 16, the AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE at the New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut
September 29, the AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE, interfaith service at the Trinity College Chapel, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.
October 5, the AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE at the New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut
October 27, David Chevan and Warren Byrd Duo, an interfaith service at the Trinity College Chapel, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
November 10, the AFRO-SEMITIC EXPERIENCE, interfaith service at the Trinity College Chapel, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
December 15, David Chevan and Warren Byrd Duo, interfaith service at the Trinity College Chapel, Trinity College, Hartford, CT

2000
Thursday, April 27 Avadim Hayinu, with Warrren Byrd,  SUNY Oswego, Oswego NY

1999
January 16: with pianist Warren Byrd, "AVADIM HAYINU" concert of Jewish and African‑American sacred music, Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple, New Brunswick, New Jersey
January 18: with pianist Warren Byrd, "AVADIM HAYINU" concert of Jewish and African‑American sacred music, Mellon Arts Center, Wallingford, Connecticut
March 24: with pianist Warren Byrd, "AVADIM HAYINU" concert of Jewish and African‑American sacred music, as part of Freedom Seder at Jewish Community Center of Greater New Haven
March 28: with pianist Warren Byrd, "AVADIM HAYINU" concert of Jewish and African‑American sacred music, Congregation B’nai Israel, Northampton, Mass.
March 29: with pianist Warren Byrd, "AVADIM HAYINU" concert of Jewish and African‑American sacred music, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire
May 6: with pianist Warren Byrd, "AVADIM HAYINU" concert of Jewish and African‑American sacred music, dinner for Colin Powell, Wintergreen Building, SCSU

1998
January 2: with poet K. Ann Cavanaugh, "Wild Love, Loss and the Lunar Eclipse", Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
January 16: with pianist Warren Byrd; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Service at Congregation Mishkan Israel, Hamden, CT
April 30: with pianist Warren Byrd, "AVADIM HAYINU" concert of Jewish and African‑American sacred music, Garner Recital Hall, SCSU, New Haven
September 13: with pianist Warren Byrd, "AVADIM HAYINU" concert of Jewish and African‑American sacred music, Choate‑Rosemary Hall, Wallingford