Schedule:

Monday, June 10, 2024

6:00 p.m - 7:30 p.m: Meet the Artists: Musical Dialogue

Featuring: Martha Redbone, Rajna Swaminathan, Kaoru Watanabe
Venue: Black Box Theater (Indoors)
Immerse yourself in the profound musical realms of Japan, Afro-Indigenous America, and India. Discover how these artists use their deep-rooted cultural ties to craft soundscapes that serve as bridges between traditional echoes and contemporary expressions.

Tuesday, June 11, 2024

6:00 p.m - 7:30 p.m: Meet the Artists: Musical Dialogue

Featuring: Layale Chaker, Matthew Garrison, Jen Shyu, Kaoru Watanabe
Venue: Black Box Theater (Indoors)
Participate in a rich dialogue about the enduring impacts of legacy and heritage as seen through the prism of music. Explore personal stories woven into creative expressions that cross the boundaries of jazz, East Timorese, Taiwanese, and Lebanese influences.

Wednesday, June 12, 2024

6:00 p.m - 7:30 p.m: Meet the Artists: Musical Dialogue

Featuring: Maeve Gilchrist, Alicia Hall Moran, Kaoru Watanabe, Jeffrey Zeigler
Venue: Black Box Theater (Indoors)
Experience the sublime artistry of a Scottish harpist, a cellist of Japanese and African American descent, and an American Black classical mezzo-soprano. Their collaboration transcends musical genres, offering a panorama of cultural expressions through their performances.

Thursday, June 13, 2024

6:00 p.m - 7:30 p.m: Meet the Artists: Musical Dialogue

Featuring: Mino Cinélu, Amir ElSaffar, Susie Ibarra, Kaoru Watanabe
Venue: Black Box Theater (Indoors)
Meet a trio of visionary composer-musicians each grounded in distinct traditions - Philippine Indigenous music, Iraqi Maqam, and the rhythms of the African diaspora merged with Black American jazz. Discover the innovative ways they meld these rich heritages with modern musical forms.

8:00 p.m - 9:30 p.m: Members-Only Event, Barn Concert and Reception

Featuring: Layale Chaker, Maeve Gilchrist, Alicia Hall Moran,
Adam O’Farrill, Kaoru Watanabe, Jeffrey Zeigler
Venue: Barn
Conclude your evening with a chamber music concert set against the rustic backdrop of our barn venue. This acoustic journey blends opera, art songs, and chamber music, creating a profound site-specific auditory experience.

Friday, June 14, 2024

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.

Saturday, June 15, 2024

12:00 p.m - 6:00 p.m: Music in the Field

Featuring:
12:00 p.m - 1:00 p.m: Jen Shyu (Studio Complex, Studio 2)
1:00 p.m - 2:00 p.m: Mino Cinélu (Black Box Theater)
2:00 p.m - 3:00 p.m: Maeve Gilchrist (Barn)
3:00 p.m - 4:00 p.m: Adam Rudolph Trio - with Stephen Haynes, Alexis Marcelo, and Adam Rudolph (Black Box Theater)
4:00 p.m - 5:00 p.m: Hassan Hakmoun Trio - with Abdurrahim Hakmoun, Hassan Hakmoun, and Adam Rudolph (Black Box Theater)
5:00 p.m - 6:00 p.m: Susie Ibarra (Meadow Stage)

Music in the Field is a series of performances by world-renowned artists offering a day-long musical and physical journey through multiple spaces on the grounds of Kaatsbaan. Come and go as you like. For the outdoor presentations, spread out a picnic blanket or lay out in the sun while listening to the music.

6:00 p.m - 6:45 p.m: Members-Only Pre-Performance Reception

Venue: Studio Complex, Studio 2
Enjoy food and beverages between performances.

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

Featuring: All Artists (Mountain Stage)
Venue: Mountain Stage (Outdoors)
This concert will present the acclaimed Bloodlines Interwoven featured artists in a program of multiple world premieres by Adam O’Farrill, Du Yun, Jen Shyu, Jeffrey Zeigler, Layale Chaker, Nasheet Waits and Rajna Swaminathan and festival artistic director Kaoru Watanabe. Repertoire includes Never Not Broken by Rajna Swaminathan, Three Photos of the Ocean II by Adam O’Farrill, Converge, Reverb by Layale Chaker, and Weaving by Kaoru Watanabe.

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

Featuring: Various Artists
Venue: Fireside Performance Space (Outdoors)

Sunday, June 16, 2024

11:00 a.m - 2:00 p.m: Music in the Field

Featuring:
11:00 a.m - 12:00 p.m: Samora Pinderhughes, Amanda Krische (Black Box Theater)
12:00 p.m - 12:30 p.m: Arun Ramamurthy Trio—with Damon Banks, Sameer Gupta, and Arun Ramamurthy (Black Box Theater)
12:30 p.m - 1:30 p.m: Imani Uzuri (Farmhouse Performance Space, Outdoors)
1:30 p.m - 2:00 p.m: Arun Ramamurthy Duo—with Trina Basu and Arun Ramamurthy (Meadow Stage)

3:00 p.m - 4:30 p.m: Interwoven Concert III

Featuring: All Artists
Venue: Mountain Stage (Outdoors)
Repertoire includes How Sweet I Roam’d by Martha Redbone, Down Victoria Street (feat the Grassmarket Reel) by Maeve Gilchrist, Elaf’s Eyes (based on “Tahir’s Day”) / I Walk Into the Fire by Jen Shyu, No Boundary by Amir ElSaffar, and Heartstrings by Alicia Hall Moran.

Date: June 10 - 16, 2024

Location:

Kaatsbaan Cultural Park
120 Broadway
Tivoli, NY 12583

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