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And on Friday night at 5:30, the trio plays on the lawn behind the North Universalist Chapel in Woodstock, overlooking the Ottauquechee River, in the kickoff to Pentangle Arts series of weekly outdoor concerts admission by donation. Tristan Henderson performs two outdoor concerts of folk and Americana music with his Pete’s Posse bandmates in greater Woodstock this week, starting Thursday night at 5:30 at the Feast & Farm Market at Fable Farm in Henderson’s native Barnard. Visit, or call 60, to learn more about SHIFT events. “This is a way to reach a different audience, a younger audience, a progressive vibe.”Ĭory Henry leads his Funk Apostles into Dartmouth College’s Spaulding Auditorium on Friday night at 8 admission $11 to $42. “We don’t play colleges very often, other than master classes and workshops, not too many shows,” he said. The SHIFT’s focus made it an easy call for Cory Henry to bring the Funk Apostles north from Brooklyn. ■Grammy-winning Americana singer-songwriter Iris DeMent at Spaulding Auditorium, sharing her complicated vision of the lives of ordinary people in the nation’s heartland.
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■An ensemble of 99 professional and community percussionists using instruments ranging from conch shells and gongs to drums and glockenspiels to fill Dartmouth’s BEMA Outdoor Amphitheater with environmental composer John Luther Adams’ Inuksuit, during the afternoon of June 29. Program includes performance of composer Tyondai Braxton’s chamber work Common Fate. ■The Dance Heginbotham troupe performing at the Moore Theater on Wednesday night at 8 (tickets $11 to $32), with musical accompaniment from Alarm Will Sound. ■An all-comers gathering on the theme of “Sing for the Earth” on Tuesday night at 8 at Spaulding Auditorium.
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■A free screening of short films, on Monday night at 8 at Loew Auditorium, on the theme of “A Portal to the Sky: Cinema and Space.” Lazare Players’ musical-theater adaptation of Moby-Dick at the Moore Theater on Saturday and Sunday nights at 8 (admission $11 to $42). The Australian acrobatic troupe Circa will close the party on June 30, with the last of three performances of Humans, which Aleskie describes as a metaphor for Homo Sapiens‘ continuing “struggle to find balance in our relationship with nature.”īetween the Funk Apostles show at Spaulding Auditorium and Circa’s finale in Moore Theater, SHIFT events include: “We needed a celebratory opening for what we’re looking at as kind of a sustainability party, and Cory fits that perfectly.” “A lot of it is about living on the land, celebrating the land,” Aleskie said last week. Between the performances, Dartmouth faculty members will give talks providing context to the artists’ approaches to issues timely and timeless, through dance and theater as well as music. Talking about love, talk about having a good time is fine, but I also want to talk about other things.”Īll of which is music to the ears of Hopkins Center director Mary Lou Aleskie, who established the festival last June as a way to keep the performing arts jumping, and relevant, during the relatively leisurely summer term at Dartmouth College.
“It’s wildly important to present a voice for my culture.
“A lot of the music out there in today’s mainstream isn’t talking about these things, making you aware of your surroundings,” Henry said. Gives me a boost of confidence to create a sound that speaks to people in a very factual way.”Īnd whether it’s Marvin Gaye - “especially the What’s Goin’ On? record” - or Al Green or Sly and the Family Stone, Henry said it’s as “urgent and important” as ever, inspiring him, through the Funk Apostles, to address yet another time of racial and political strife and division and ecological peril. “The topics they were talking about still ring true. “Most of my favorite music steps from the 1960s and 1970s - soul music R&B, gospel, obviously,” Henry, the former Hammond-organ player for the Grammy-winning band Snarky Puppy, said during a telephone interview last week. En route to opening the Hopkins Center’s SHIFT festival on Friday night with his Funk Apostles, Cory Henry is listening to songs recorded long before his birth in 1987.