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Winterreise Festival: Founders
Dec 9, 2015 • 9:30pm
In the same way that Schubert’s Winterreise song cycle was written for tenor voice as the disheartened lover, Founders will be featuring tenor Ben Russell in this evenings song cycle about the cold bitter loss of sanity and love. In addition to pieces from Founders debut album, which range from Appalachian Folk originals to classically modernized Radiohead covers, the program will also include a premiere from the ensemble, which utilizes text from a poem by Wilhelm Müller also found in Winterreise.
Other Winterreise Festival events
Jazz For Kids: Songs for Unusual Creatures
March 18, 2017 - 11:00am Michael Hearst takes the audience on a fun, interactive investigation through the kingdom of weird animals with the help of his 5-piece band and a variety of quirky instruments.
NationalSawdust+ and London Review of Books present Regarding Whitney
June 13th, 2018 - 6:30pm doors • 7:30pm show In this special evening created by NationalSawdust+ and the London Review of Books, writers and musicians will reflect on Whitney Houston as artist, actress and icon, and help us consider her anew. Poet, critic, and melomaniac August Kleinzahler and musicians such as Du Yun and Shayna Dunkelman, Carl Hancock Rux, and Esperanza Spalding will share performances and readings inspired by Houston’s sweeping body of work.
Alicia Hall Moran: The Ice Project, the Battle of the Carmens
May 19, 2016 - 7:00pm Inspired by Debi Thomas, the first black American to win elite National and World titles, Alicia Hall Moran joined "The Shadows," a precision figure skating team in Fairfield County, Connecticut. As Debi Thomas refined her Carmen-themed long program for the 1988 Olympics, it came to light that her East German competitor, Katerina Witt, would also skate to music from Bizet's famous opera.
Theo Bleckmann Presents: Ambrose Akinmusire, Shai Maestro, and Theo Bleckmann
May 21, 2017 - 7:00pm Theo Bleckmann, Ambrose Akinmusire and Shai Maestro are performing in trio for the first time ever in an evening of original material. All three, boundary-crossing musicians will fuse jazz with modern art song, improvisation with extended techniques and ambient choral spaces in a set of hitherto unheard music.
In Situ: Carrie Rodriguez
May 01, 2016 - 8:00pm With her new release Lola (out February 19 on her Luz Records label), Austin-based Chicana singer/songwriter Carrie Rodriguez realizes her dream of presenting her deeply personal take on Tex-Mex music. The fan-funded album, which features an all-star band that includes Bill Frisell, Viktor Krauss, and Raul Malo among others, pairs her ranchera-inspired original tunes sung in English and “Spanglish” alongside contemporary interpretations of songs by her favorite Mexican composers delivered in Spanish.
Sasha Velour’s Nightgowns
Oct. 11, 2017 - 10:30pm Drag queen Sasha Velour (Winner of Rupaul’s Drag Race Season 9) presents NIGHTGOWNS, an evening of short performances dedicated to celebrating the diversity, depth, and wild power of drag. Each month features a new lineup of performers, using gender, dance, music, fashion, and visual art in combination to explore both the political and the personal…surprisingly funny, moving, and glamorously queer!
Kara Wilkes
John Zorn’s Stone Commissioning Series presents: Simon Hanes & Tredici Bacci
AdHoc Presents: Xylouris White
November 18, 2016 - 10:00pm When Xylouris White recorded their second album, this most intuitive and inquisitive of duos did what comes naturally to them: expanded their horizons. For George Xylouris, the Cretan lute player who partners here with the Dirty Three’s preternaturally fluent Australian drummer Jim White, one aim was to extend a core metaphor of their ruggedly visionary debut album, 2014’s Goats. “Like goats walking in the mountain” is Xylouris’ poetic analogy for their approach: “They may not know the place, but they can walk easily and take risks and feel comfortable. Really, the goats inspired us.”
Cristina Spinei
February 29th
Billy Jones Presents: Martin Courtney
Album Release Performance of "Many Moons" By Martin Courtney
After the 2014 release of Atlas, the third LP from Ridgewood, New Jersey’s Real Estate, Courtney started quietly chipping away at some new songs while he was waiting to head back on the road with his band.
After the 2014 release of Atlas, the third LP from Ridgewood, New Jersey’s Real Estate, Courtney started quietly chipping away at some new songs while he was waiting to head back on the road with his band.
In Situ: BombaYo
Apr 09, 2016 - 7:00pm Bomba was developed in Puerto Rico over 300 years ago by enslaved Africans from parts of West Africa and the Kongo region and also includes influences from the Spanish colonizers and native Taino people. Bomba is more of an experiencethan a show. It's where singing, dancing and drumming come together in a community celebration of life. Boricuas on the island and stateside are reviving this tradition and in turn uncovering part of their cultural heritage.
