Verdant Vibes is pleased to present the first concert of our second season, featuring new electro/acoustic music and multimedia by composers from around the world!

VERDANT VIBES ENSEMBLE will perform pieces both dynamic and sublime selected from our free call for scores:

Joo Won Park — Armor+2
Caroline Mallonée — Throwing Mountains
Alex Weiser — Rumbling Waves
Bekah Simms — bud
Molly Jones — Conduction #4*
*world premiere

[NB: James Bohn’s “Pantone” was postponed to our April 23, 2017 concert due to injury. Get well soon, Jim!]

Awarded the 2016 Dorry Award for “Classical Performance of the Year,” Verdant Vibes is a new music ensemble and concert series based in Providence that brings together artists and musicians creating new work in a variety of genres and media, acoustic and electronic. By highlighting the diversity of music composition and performance of our time, we seek to eschew perceived boundaries, cross-pollinate ideas and influences, and build a greater community celebrating the work of living artists.

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with special guest performances

MARY PRESCOTT’s “ALICE” [NYC]
A real life Alice in Wonderland, pianist Mary Prescott delves into a world of experimental art music – a hyper-sensory dimension of fantasy, curiosity, and unpredictability. Examining Lewis Carrol’s surreal Victorian novel through improvisation, Prescott tries and tests the concepts of time, identity, reality and rules, noting that traditions behave strangely in Wonderland. A classically trained adventurer who thrives in an unlikely playground, Prescott unbuttons a naive yet profound identity, eliciting cavernous, expressive sounds of harmonious discord. Prescott invites listeners to explore their own whims and curiosities from behind the curtains of this bravely vulnerable and evocative music.

and

MICHAEL DEQUATTRO, joined by Jim Moses [RI]
Michael Dequattro is an eclectic artist known for fusing together acoustic, electronic, and improvisational elements. He is able to move freely between classical, jazz, popular, and world idioms often bringing these styles together in his compositions. The Providence Journal critic Channing Grey has described his work as “energetic” and “glittering”.

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and beverages available by donation thanks to
Foolproof Brewing Company
and Lagunitas Brewing Company
Spiced (spiked) cider, too

$10 at the door

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This activity is made possible in part by a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, through an appropriation by the Rhode Island General Assembly and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!