Outpost: Words and Music
Virtual performance, Parkway Theater
Monday, Feb 1 at 7:30pm
World premieres by Dameun Strange, Daijana Wallace, and Aida Shirazi, new music by Du Yun, and Marcus Norris, words by Safy Hallan Farah, Maggie Koerth, and Brandi Brown
In partnership with Street Factory Media
With support from The Givens Foundation for African American Literature
“Shredding boundaries between art forms, mashing up various genres into single satisfying evenings.” —Star Tribune on Outpost
Outpost, a performance series created in 2018 by Twin Cities musicians Sam Bergman and Carrie Henneman Shaw, comes out of hibernation with a brand new winter show commissioned by The Great Northern. Outpost is a curated mix of live chamber music by living composers and spoken word performances by some of Minnesota’s finest writers, comics, poets and theater artists.
The dizzying array of talent on display February 1 will include:
Safy Hallan Farah, journalist and essayist, founder of Somali culture magazine 1991
Maggie Koerth, senior science writer for FiveThirtyEight
Brandi Brown, stand-up comic
Musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra: violinists Sarah Grimes, Hanna Landrum and Emily Switzer; violist Sam Bergman; and cellist Silver Ainomäe
Pianist Susan Billmeyer
Soprano Carrie Henneman Shaw
Music for this edition of Outpost will include three world premiere performances: two new works for soprano and electronics by Dameun Strange (Silver from the Sky) and Aida Shirazi (Carrying the Song of Life, Lying on Love’s Ruin), and a duet for soprano and viola by exciting young composer Daijana Wallace (the meadowsweet that grows by the road). The concert will also feature Pulitzer Prize winner Du Yun’s Tattooed in Snow, and Chicago-based composer Marcus Norris’s I Tried So Hard For You (Dance Suite).
Tickets: $15 at thegreatnorthernfestival.veeps.com
Special thanks to Schubert Club for donating the piano used in this performance.