Please add a comment to this post so that your name (and what you will do) may be added to the list of performers in a concert showcasing SEM members working in European or North American music.
Performers
- Mark Levy (clarinet), Carol Silverman (voice), and Kalin Kirilov (accordion and voice). Songs from Bulgarian Thrace in the genre known as “wedding music.”
- Brenda Romero. I am interested in singing a captive ballad from New Mexico, “La Cautiva Marcelina;” if someone there can lend me a guitar, I can take a small drum. It lasts 4.5 minutes.
- John-Carlos Perea. Northern Plains style pow-wow singing (voice and hand drum).
- Kyra Gaunt. I’d be interested in jazz-based improv session with other musicians. I compose improvisations of song and poetry as well as have a repertoire of political R&B songs I’ve been composing. Have tracks I could sing to.
Are there any others interested in an Afro-American category or US popular music? - Maria Stankova and Corinne Sykes. Maria Stankova and Corinne Sykes. Songs from The Šop region of West Bulgaria.
- Raphaelle Brochet. I’d love to sing a jazz piece in duet with a doublebass or piano player. Anyone interested?
- Tom Ross. A short program of guitar songs rooted in jazz but influenced by traditions from India, Africa, and Indonesia.
- Revell Carr. I’d be happy to give a brief performance of sea chanteys, arguably the original transnational musical genre. My performance would combine elements of European-N.American, Irish, Caribbean, West African, and Polynesian musics.
What, an SEM at Wesleyan without a klezmer jam? I can’t imagine that. I’ll bring my accordion-anybody else interested?
How about Appalachian old-time music? I can play a couple of fiddle or banjo tunes, and I’m sure I can recruit some other musicians and/or dancers to join me.