Kaatsbaan Spring Festival

Schedule:

4:30 p.m - 6:00 p.m: Meet the Artists: Musical Dialogue

Featuring: Adam O’Farrill, Nasheet Waits, Kaoru Watanabe, Du Yun
Venue: Black Box Theater (Indoors)
See jazz legends and avant-garde composers who challenge and redefine the boundaries of music. Their groundbreaking approaches to jazz and composition create a tapestry where each note tells a unique story.

7:00 p.m - 8:30 p.m: Interwoven Concert I

Featuring: All Artists
Venue: Mountain Stage (Outdoors)
The Interwoven Concerts will feature works ranging from intimate retrospection to bombastic rhythmic exultations, and are all inspired by six months of intensive conversations and stories of immigration, war, slavery, ritual, festivals, and celebration of life and the human spirit. In this performance, the fifteen acclaimed Bloodlines Interwoven featured artists will perform multiple world premieres by Alicia Hall Moran, Amir ElSaffar, Maeve Gilchrist, Martha Redbone, Matthew Garrison, Mino Cinélu, Susie Ibarra, and festival artistic director Kaoru Watanabe. Repertoire includes ShapeShifting Bloodlines Suite by Matthew Garrison, L’Appel by Mino Cinélu, and Bird Souls: Score for Flying by Susie Ibarra.

9:00 p.m - 10:00 p.m: Fireside Music

Featuring: Various Artists
Venue: Fireside Performance Space (Outdoors)
Please join the Bloodlines Interwoven artists for intimate post-concert fireside sessions of music, dance, and storytelling. Southeastern Woodland’s traditional stomp dance and call-and-response songs led by Martha Redbone, as well as folk tales, ghost stories, and lullabies from Ireland, Japan, Appalachia, Southwest and Southeast Asia, and more, all with improvised soundscapes by the artists.

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