SAUCE: Sessions at National Sawdust
Caitlin Cawley, MediaQueer, and Satin Bower
5pm - 9pm
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SAUCE: Sessions at National Sawdust is a wide-ranging series of Happy Hour jam sessions featuring craft cocktails, drink specials, and live performances from rising folk, rock, rap, electronic, jazz, classical, Indian classical, and video game music artists. Hosted on Thursdays (5-9pm) and Saturdays (5-9pm) throughout August in the new National Sawdust Lounge, SAUCE is free and open to all.
This installment features a set of original improvisation-based pieces for speaking percussionist and electronics from Caitlin Cawley; MediaQueer, a violin and synth duo whose music nods to pop; and Satin Bower (Maeve Schallert & Luke Haaksma), who play an improvised set on dulcimer and lap-steel guitar.
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Caitlin Cawley is a percussionist, improviser, educator, and electronic musician based in Brooklyn, NY. She has performed with groups in New York and Boston, such as Talujon, Novus NY, Black Sheep Contemporary Ensemble, Amalgama Ensemble, Confluss, Opus 87, so&so, Cawley/Kim Duo, Gamelan Galak Tika, Gamelan Yowana Sari, Danse Theatre Surreality, and the Performance in Peace Initiative at the United Nations. She is a teaching artist with Bash the Trash Environmental Arts and a manager at Spectrum NYC, where she curates Symbiosis, a series of improvised music and dance performances. She completed her undergraduate studies at Boston University, where she was a student of Sam Solomon and Tim Genis, and received her master’s in contemporary performance at Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with Jeffrey Milarsky, John Ferrari, and David Cossin.
We are interdisciplinary. We are multi-instrumentalists. We are at the intersection of many experiences, and we want to explore them to the fullest. We create with violin, modular synths, and effects pedals. We are MEDIAQUEER.
