This week’s featured gig poster was created by illustrator and musician Rei Alvarez, who lives in Richmond, Virginia.
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Olivia Junell, codirector of Experimental Sound Studio
“Right before the shelter-in-place got announced, we started thinking: OK, how can we help?”
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Seattle violist Eyvind Kang and transatlantic trio Hear in Now are highlights of this year’s Jazz String Summit
There are few musicians at work with the curiosity, rigor, and range of Seattle-area violist Eyvind Kang, who has gradually expanded his arsenal to include string instruments like the Persian setar and the Indonesian plucked zither called the kecapi. Those additions weren’t without study—Kang is fluent in Arabic, Persian, and Indonesian traditions as well as […]
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Reader’s Agenda Fri 5/31: Chicago Jazz String Summit, the Chicago Turkish Festival, and One Million Degrees
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Friday, May 31