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Carlsbad Music Festival Preview Sept. 23 - 25

The 8th annual Carlsbad Music Festival will take place from Friday through Sunday, September 23-25. This year’s event will feature the Calder Quartet, My Brightest Diamond, Build, several composers-in-residence, and more.

"All festival events will take place within short walking distance of each other, the train, beach, restaurants, and hotels," says founder and director Matt McBane. "The festival will kick off with the fun, free Village Music Walk on Friday evening, continuing with indoor and outdoor concerts at a variety of venues on Saturday and Sunday."

Local ensemble Red Fish Blue Fish will be kicking off the Village Music Walk on Friday night at 5:30, and then performing throughout the evening at the Carlsbad Village Train Station. The event starts at the train station with a short RFBF set, and then people can go to any of a number of locations around the Village to see other artists perform a half hour set, and/or back to the Train Station for more Red Fish Blue Fish, which is the UCSD percussion ensemble. According to the UCSD website, “The group serves as a laboratory for the exploration of new work for percussion and tours this work regularly.”

Main Stage Concerts will be held at the Carlsbad Village Theatre. Individual event tickets are $15 for general admission or $5 for student; festival passes are $60, or all five concerts for the price of four. http://www.carlsbadmusicfestival.org/tix

FRIDAY, September 23rd

5:30 - 9:30pm: Free Village Music Walk with Red Fish Blue Fish and various performers at various Carlsbad locales

SATURDAY, September 24th

Free Picnic Concert at the Village Faire

12:00pm: Festival artists perform Terry Riley's 'In C'

Carlsbad Village Theatre concerts:

1:30pm: Vicky Chow - Pianist Vicky Chow (a member of New York’s Bang on a Can All-stars) brings her virtuosity and impeccable taste to a program of works by some of the country’s hottest young composers and established masters

5:30pm: Penelope - Penelope is a song cycle by composer Sarah Kirkland Snider, featuring vocalist Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond. Inspired by Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, Penelope is a meditation on memory, identity, and what it means to come home.

9:00pm: My Brightest Diamond - Imagine vintage Yes or Genesis, fronted by Kate Bush. Shara Worden’s voice and arresting live performances have left audiences thunderstruck. She’s performed under the experimental-pop moniker My Brightest Diamond for the past seven years and counts Bryce Dessner (the National), Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), David Byrne (Talking Heads), Laurie Anderson, and the Decemberists among friends and fans. The band will be performing songs from their forthcoming third album All Things Will Unwind, to be released on Asthmatic Kitty in October.

SUNDAY, September 25th

Free Outdoor Picnic Concert at the Village Faire:

12:00pm: Burkina Electric - This African electronica band features some of Burkina Faso's premier musicians, with composer Lukas Ligeti.

Carlsbad Village Theatre concerts:

1:30pm: Build with Florent Ghys - Described as a "rocking post-classical quintet which takes inspiration from minimalist chamber music, instrumental rock, modal jazz, and more" by New York Magazine, Build is the Brooklyn-based band led by the Festival’s Director, Matt McBane. Its two albums on New Amsterdam Records have received critical acclaim, with tracks regularly played on NPR stations across the country.

5:30pm: Calder Quartet - The Festival’s founding ensemble-in-residence has been called “one of America’s most satisfying and most enterprising quartets” by Mark Swed of the LA Times. Their program will feature the premiere a new piece by Festival Composers Competition winner Jacob Cooper, as well as a new string quartet by Thomas Adès.

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The 8th annual Carlsbad Music Festival will take place from Friday through Sunday, September 23-25. This year’s event will feature the Calder Quartet, My Brightest Diamond, Build, several composers-in-residence, and more.

"All festival events will take place within short walking distance of each other, the train, beach, restaurants, and hotels," says founder and director Matt McBane. "The festival will kick off with the fun, free Village Music Walk on Friday evening, continuing with indoor and outdoor concerts at a variety of venues on Saturday and Sunday."

Local ensemble Red Fish Blue Fish will be kicking off the Village Music Walk on Friday night at 5:30, and then performing throughout the evening at the Carlsbad Village Train Station. The event starts at the train station with a short RFBF set, and then people can go to any of a number of locations around the Village to see other artists perform a half hour set, and/or back to the Train Station for more Red Fish Blue Fish, which is the UCSD percussion ensemble. According to the UCSD website, “The group serves as a laboratory for the exploration of new work for percussion and tours this work regularly.”

Main Stage Concerts will be held at the Carlsbad Village Theatre. Individual event tickets are $15 for general admission or $5 for student; festival passes are $60, or all five concerts for the price of four. http://www.carlsbadmusicfestival.org/tix

FRIDAY, September 23rd

5:30 - 9:30pm: Free Village Music Walk with Red Fish Blue Fish and various performers at various Carlsbad locales

SATURDAY, September 24th

Free Picnic Concert at the Village Faire

12:00pm: Festival artists perform Terry Riley's 'In C'

Carlsbad Village Theatre concerts:

1:30pm: Vicky Chow - Pianist Vicky Chow (a member of New York’s Bang on a Can All-stars) brings her virtuosity and impeccable taste to a program of works by some of the country’s hottest young composers and established masters

5:30pm: Penelope - Penelope is a song cycle by composer Sarah Kirkland Snider, featuring vocalist Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond. Inspired by Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, Penelope is a meditation on memory, identity, and what it means to come home.

9:00pm: My Brightest Diamond - Imagine vintage Yes or Genesis, fronted by Kate Bush. Shara Worden’s voice and arresting live performances have left audiences thunderstruck. She’s performed under the experimental-pop moniker My Brightest Diamond for the past seven years and counts Bryce Dessner (the National), Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), David Byrne (Talking Heads), Laurie Anderson, and the Decemberists among friends and fans. The band will be performing songs from their forthcoming third album All Things Will Unwind, to be released on Asthmatic Kitty in October.

SUNDAY, September 25th

Free Outdoor Picnic Concert at the Village Faire:

12:00pm: Burkina Electric - This African electronica band features some of Burkina Faso's premier musicians, with composer Lukas Ligeti.

Carlsbad Village Theatre concerts:

1:30pm: Build with Florent Ghys - Described as a "rocking post-classical quintet which takes inspiration from minimalist chamber music, instrumental rock, modal jazz, and more" by New York Magazine, Build is the Brooklyn-based band led by the Festival’s Director, Matt McBane. Its two albums on New Amsterdam Records have received critical acclaim, with tracks regularly played on NPR stations across the country.

5:30pm: Calder Quartet - The Festival’s founding ensemble-in-residence has been called “one of America’s most satisfying and most enterprising quartets” by Mark Swed of the LA Times. Their program will feature the premiere a new piece by Festival Composers Competition winner Jacob Cooper, as well as a new string quartet by Thomas Adès.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q12udrWJ-8Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB-FLxglSOA

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