One survived the towers. One went to war because of them. One gave them a sound.
Twelve men sat down to breakfast at FDNY Rescue 5 on 9/11. Only Bill Spade came home. Jaymes Poling carried that morning through three combat tours in Afghanistan with the 82nd Airborne. Jazz trumpeter Dominick Farinacci listened to both of them for hours, then wrote the music their stories needed.
Together they built Behind the Lines: A 9/11 Story, a live performance of story, music, and light now touring the country. The piano holds a chord when Bill needs an extra breath. The drums bring the North Tower down. And audiences, from New York firehouses to college kids born after 9/11, are walking out ready to talk.
We get into how the show came together, the counselor who failed Bill and the one who didn’t, Jaymes’s long road home, and why the band feels like an engine company: everybody’s got your back.
🎟 Tour dates and tickets: https://modernwarriorlive.org
Florida: Nov 8, Arts Garage, Delray Beach | Nov 10, Phillips Center, Gainesville | Nov 11, The Sharon, The Villages
GUESTS
• Bill Spade: Retired FDNY firefighter (1985 to 2003), former NYPD officer, sole survivor of Rescue Company 5 on 9/11, longtime docent at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, featured in National Geographic’s 9/11: Reunited.
• Jaymes Poling: U.S. Army veteran, three tours in Afghanistan with the 82nd Airborne, co-founder of Modern Warrior LIVE.
• Dominick Farinacci: Jazz trumpeter, former Global Ambassador to Jazz at Lincoln Center (Doha, Qatar), director of the Tri-C JazzFest Academy, co-founder of Modern Warrior LIVE.
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