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Krannert Center’s 50th season opens at high speed with the return of ELLNORA | The Guitar Festival and the Opening Night Party!
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Once you’ve experienced some Opening Night Party goodness, head to the Studio Theatre for this late-night set featuring a powerhouse lineup of six-string practitioners in a totally improvised concert. Luther Dickinson, Steve Dawson, Rob Ickes, Trey Hensley, and Molly Tuttle will light up the night with this collaborative and excitingly extemporaneous experience.
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Slow life down for a moment with the tranquil sounds of slack key guitar—the distinctly Hawaiian finger-style genre known as kī hō’alu in the islands.
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Fabi Reyna—founder of "She Shreds" magazine—will lead this lively conversation about gender and genre in the music industry.
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ELLNORA alum Steve Dawson brings his insightful series of interviews with guitarists and other music makers live to the festival.
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Rhode Island-based French luthier Rachel Rosenkrantz will lead this panel in an engaging exploration of long-standing guitar-making traditions and the modern craft.
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Kaki King is a favorite among Krannert Center audiences. Her newest performance project, DATA NOT FOUND—for which Krannert Center is a commissioning partner and which will premiere at the Center—is an audiovisual expedition featuring new music, projection mapping, and a host of new performative tools.
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Discover the rich and colorful lyricism of this French-born gypsy jazz musician. Past ELLNORA attendees will recall Wrembel’s soaring 2013 fresh-air Amphitheatre sets, filled with flamenco rhythms, Django Reinhardt-inspired odes, and a healthy infusion of rock and blues.
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In 2005, Krannert Center’s very own guitar festival was taking shape for the first time, and jazz icon Pat Metheny made his third visit to the Center’s stages. Fourteen years later, this National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master returns with young jazz frontrunners for a musical incarnation called “Side Eye."
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Discover the rich and colorful lyricism of this French-born gypsy jazz musician. Past ELLNORA attendees will recall Wrembel’s soaring 2013 fresh-air Amphitheatre sets, filled with flamenco rhythms, Django Reinhardt-inspired odes, and a healthy infusion of rock and blues.
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Jazz and experimental guitarist Anthony Pirog leads this instrumental power trio that includes bassist Joe Lally and Brendan Canty on drums (the rhythm section of the legendary punk rock band Fugazi).
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Stretch into the final day of ELLNORA 2019 with a refreshing morning yoga session from Lola Pittenger of GLOW by Lola, including live musical accompaniment.
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Bassist Danny Weinkauf is a Grammy Award winner and longtime member of They Might Be Giants. Now with the Red Pants Band, Weinkauf packs his deliciously catchy tunes with pop beats and intelligent topics that reach kids with fun facts and life lessons.
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Hear Wrembel’s arrangements of Django Reinhardt’s rare solo guitar works in this 30-minute set.
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Emerging Korean guitarist Bokyung Byun enjoys a growing reputation sparked by her first-place finishes in international competitions and proven by her numerous performances across Asia and North America. NPR describes Grammy Award winner Jason Vieaux as “perhaps the most precise and soulful classical guitarist of his generation.”
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Go up close with the craft of guitar making! Rhode Island-based French luthier Rachel Rosenkrantz is a contemporary luthier with a strong sense of instrument-making traditions.
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Ickes and Hensley are a Grammy-nominated duo made in bluegrass heaven. Together, Ickes and Hensley create a supercharged collaboration that Marty Stuart says affirms “that the real deal still exists.”
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Sávila is a medicinal plant that grows wild in tropical climates all over the world, as well as the name of the cumbia/Latin/world/R&B-inspired ensemble of guitarist Fabi Reyna, vocalist Brisa Gonzalez, and percussionist Papi Fimbres. English and Spanish vocals mix in the hypnotizing music of this trio.
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As a young prodigy, Danilo Brito would play the bandolim, a Brazilian-style mandolin, alongside his elders at rodas de choro—informal gatherings of musicians that celebrated Brazil’s popular choro music style. He quickly earned comparisons to Brazil’s pioneering mandolin player Jacob do Bandolim, from whom the bandolim takes its name.
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As a young prodigy, Danilo Brito would play the bandolim, a Brazilian-style mandolin, alongside his elders at rodas de choro—informal gatherings of musicians that celebrated Brazil’s popular choro music style. He quickly earned comparisons to Brazil’s pioneering mandolin player Jacob do Bandolim, from whom the bandolim takes its name.
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Experience a little sonic rejuvenation with this new offering at 5pm and 8pm that combines the wisdom of a spiritual leader with acoustic musical sets.
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These Austin-based rock and rollers own the stage with “irresistible swagger,” unforgettable melodies, and inflections of punk, pop, funk, and soul (The Austin Chronicle). The lineup includes Dominique Davalos (bass, lead vocals), Eve Monsees (guitar, vocals), Kathy Valentine (guitar, vocals—of The Go-Go's), and Christina Comley (drums).
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Julia Toaspern's lilting, clear vocals and remarkable guitar and fiddle talents combine with Tony McManus’ signature style to create an evening of “breathtaking duets” ("Folker").
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With his embrace of electronica, jazz, rock, and multiple Indian and American musical influences, Rafiq Bhatia—a first-generation son of Muslim immigrants and the guitarist of the band Son Lux—“blows up all expectations about what can be done with the instrument and how it should sound” (The New York Times).
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Experience a little sonic rejuvenation with this new offering that combines the wisdom of spiritual leaders with acoustic musical sets.
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You might know guitar legend Buddy Guy from his eight Grammy wins, his Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, 37 Blues Music Awards (yes, that’s the most ever!), a Kennedy Center Honor, a Presidential National Medal of Arts, Rolling Stone’s list of “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time,” or that occasion when he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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With his embrace of electronica, jazz, rock, and multiple Indian and American musical influences, Rafiq Bhatia—a first-generation son of Muslim immigrants and the guitarist of the band Son Lux—“blows up all expectations about what can be done with the instrument and how it should sound” (The New York Times).
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Come rock out to close out ELLNORA | The Guitar Festival 2019 with beloved local music educator and 40 North ACE Award winner Brandon T. Washington and friends.
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Roussève and his nine-member ensemble powerfully explore the legendary music and complicated emotional truths of Billy Strayhorn, the gay, African-American jazz composer and civil rights activist best known as Duke Ellington’s main arranger and writing partner.
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Since the release of his 2004 acclaimed CD "When I Fall In Love," trumpet phenom Chris Botti has become the largest-selling American instrumental artist.
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Sinfonia’s 36th season opens with a lush, virtuosic program featuring violinist Stefan Milenkovich performing the Bruch Violin Concerto in G Minor.
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"Smoke & Mirrors," Sasha Velour’s first one-queen show, is an effortless blend of drag, visual art, and magic.
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The Jupiter String Quartet has invited pianist Jon Nakamatsu—known internationally for the panache and elegance of his solo, concerto, and chamber performances—to join them for "Brahms’ Piano Quintet."
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At Krannert Uncorked, Stage 5 is the crossroads to gather, make connections, and try a new wine.
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The Gunns invite you to pull up a chair for a charming living-room style cabaret, complete with a small band and filled with their own family stories as well as friends old and new singing and playing songs old and new (including numbers by the witty and wise Susan Werner).
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The Gunns invite you to pull up a chair for a charming living-room style cabaret, complete with a small band and filled with their own family stories as well as friends old and new singing and playing songs old and new (including numbers by the witty and wise Susan Werner).
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Intricate storytelling, a blending of traditional and contemporary song and dance, and a deep connection to traditional ecological knowledge form the heart of Bizhiki Culture & Dance Company, which will present a powerful, intriguing, and informative powwow dance exhibition.
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Join us after the performances by Bizhiki Culture & Dance Company and Nathan and Julie Gunn for a free Global Transfer Afterglow concert by Cheick Hamala Diabate and his ensemble at Stage 5.
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The Gunns invite you to pull up a chair for a charming living-room style cabaret, complete with a small band and filled with their own family stories as well as friends old and new singing and playing songs old and new (including numbers by the witty and wise Susan Werner).
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As PYGMALION enters its 15th year, it remains one of the most culturally creative events in Champaign-Urbana and downstate Illinois. The ever-expanding offerings have grown to include music, technology, literature, food, and maker components.
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As PYGMALION enters its 15th year, it remains one of the most culturally creative events in Champaign-Urbana and downstate Illinois. The ever-expanding offerings have grown to include music, technology, literature, food, and maker components.
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As PYGMALION enters its 15th year, it remains one of the most culturally creative events in Champaign-Urbana and downstate Illinois. The ever-expanding offerings have grown to include music, technology, literature, food, and maker components.
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As PYGMALION enters its 15th year, it remains one of the most culturally creative events in Champaign-Urbana and downstate Illinois. The ever-expanding offerings have grown to include music, technology, literature, food, and maker components.
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HOME combines dance, illusion, live music, homespun engineering, and inventive audience interaction to compose a work that awakens its viewers to housing dilemmas both local and global while asking, “Where is home?”
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As PYGMALION enters its 15th year, it remains one of the most culturally creative events in Champaign-Urbana and downstate Illinois. The ever-expanding offerings have grown to include music, technology, literature, food, and maker components.
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As PYGMALION enters its 15th year, it remains one of the most culturally creative events in Champaign-Urbana and downstate Illinois. The ever-expanding offerings have grown to include music, technology, literature, food, and maker components.
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HOME combines dance, illusion, live music, homespun engineering, and inventive audience interaction to compose a work that awakens its viewers to housing dilemmas both local and global while asking, “Where is home?”
