Laura Cortese & Evie Ladin

$25 General Admission Doors at 7:30pm. Show from 8:15-10:30pm with one intermission Evie Ladin The polyrhythmic heat of Evie Ladin’s clawhammer banjo, resonant voice, real stories and rhythmic dance have been heard from A Prairie Home Companion to Lincoln Center, Celtic Connections to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Brazil to Bali. A prolific creator and gracious facilitator, Evie grew up steeped in traditional folk music/dance up and down the East Coast, bringing a syncretic vision to new work while holding fast to the roots. Evie writes clever lyrics with mature arrangements, calls rowdy square dances for urban crowds, choreographs new body music/percussive dance for contemporary dance and film, leads seminars in movement anthropology, rocks straight up old time clawhammer banjo, and gardens, from the vibrant homebase of Oakland, California. She’s won ribbons and arts fellowships, performed in sold out concert halls and cozy living rooms, and toured around the world, to every state in the US except Florida. She’s never been to Florida. "A natural entertainer with a gift for infusing folk practices with contemporary verve." – San Francisco Chronicle https://evieladin.com/ https://www.facebook.com/EvieLadin/ https://www.instagram.com/evieladin/ http://www.youtube.com/user/evieladin Laura Cortese To call Laura Cortese a globetrotter would be to drastically understate her adventurous spirit. Her nature, as a musician, has always been to go where the wind takes her, settling into new ecosystems in which to adapt and grow roots until the breeze blows once more. In these travels, she has found a global network of collaborators–friends and mentors who have helped her forge bonds and grow mastery in many musical traditions, all of which she approaches with the same reverence and devotion that she felt when picking up a fiddle for the very first time as a young child. Now, more than twenty years into her already impressive career, she makes her home in Ghent, Belgium, where she continues to do what she is best at: building musical community. Despite a global pandemic and rolling lockdowns, Laura Cortese created opportunities for local creatives to come together, sharing space and inspiration with each other in every gathering. In so doing, she was inspired to create a new solo show based on original American folk songs. When Laura is alone on the stage, the audience becomes her band, stamping and clapping like a kick and snare drum, sometimes singing along sweetly and occasionally reminiscent of an enthusiastic gang vocal. She can be found performing internationally, exploring, and exalting in her passion for American roots music. https://thisislauracortese.com/ https://www.facebook.com/lauracortesemusic http://instagram.com/lauracortese http://www.youtube.com/user/laurcoreandyou Recommended If You Like: Evie Ladin: Rhiannon Giddens, Abigail Washburn Laura Cortese: Rhiannon Giddens, Abigail Washburn, Rachel Baiman, Watchhouse, Andrew Bird Vaccines, boosters, and masks are strongly encouraged, but are not required as per local Public Health Policy.

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