UNCHARTED: Marika Hughes: The New String Quartet – a Music interest event taking place on 2018-05-03 20:00:00 in United States
At a time when so much of our existence is digital, stripping ourselves of our 21st century trappings begins to feel like something new again. Marika Hughes turns her sonic attentions to her roots and live acoustic sound. Marika Hughes has returned to her chamber music background with her new project, The New String Quartet. Alongside Charlie Burnham (violin and voice) Marvin Sewell (guitar) and Rashaan Carter (bass), the band sets out to celebrate the sounds, vibrations and resonances of acoustic, unamplified, raw strings. Rooted in the standards of the western string quartet tradition, The New String Quartet's setlist will also weave throughout Marika’s varied musical heritage; from classical and jazz songs to pop music and impromptu sketches. With a selection of songs both old and new, Marika and The New String Quartet tip their hats to love, to loss, to family and to gratitude. Marika Hughes is a native New Yorker, a cellist, singer, and a storyteller on The Moth. Hughes has worked with Whitney Houston, Lou Reed, Anthony Braxton, Stevie Wonder, David Byrne, Adele, Taylor Mac, Henry Threadgill, D'Angelo and Idina Menzel among many others. She has performed on Late Show with David Letterman and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, as well as Saturday Night Live. For the last decade, Hughes has worked with the NGO Triad Trust, taking her on repeated trips to South Africa and Haiti as a music and self-care educator. She is a master teacher for Young Arts. Hughes has self released three albums, The Simplest Thing, Afterlife Music Radio, and New York Nostalgia. She happily leads her bands Bottom Heavy and The New String Quartet. Hughes lives in the countryside of Kings County. Uncharted is a concert series featuring New York-based artists premiering new projects or meeting with new collaborators for the first time on stage that has consistently drawn the attention of tastemakers and curators from across the city over the past three years. The Uncharted season delivers eclectic excellence in a broad selection of musical genres representing New York City’s diverse artistic community, including Mexican folkloric, ragtime, classical, electronic, jazz, ancient Moroccan devotional and contemporary R&B.
at Greenwich House Music School 46 Barrow Street , Note: Not ADA Accessible New York United States – Add your South African Event here.
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