Performance: MINK Duo (ft. Syd Lane) and Laura Caridad Avila

Doors: 7:30pm
Music: 8pm

Contemporary music by MINK Duo combining trumpet, trombone, electronics, and improvisation featuring guest artist Syd Lane on electric guitar.

Contemporary viola and tenor viol by Laura Caridad Avila.

This is a benefit concert to raise funds for MINK Duo's upcoming participation in the Bang on a Can summer festival.

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MINK Duo is an emerging new music collaboration between trumpeter Nick Hill and trombonist Mikayla Frank-Martin. They are strongly invested in the creation of an increased repertoire for trumpet/trombone through commissioning new works from composers all around the globe. MINK Duo values collaboration in many forms, having shared programs and worked jointly on larger works with other artists. MINK showcases Nick and Mikayla's shared fearlessness and sense of humor in delivering a body of work that brings a refreshing sincerity into today’s irony-washed world.

Laura Caridad Avila (they/she) is a Multi-Instrumentalist, Poet, Composer, and Multi-Media Artist from Albany, New York currently based in Boston, Massachusetts. They have a bachelor’s degree in Viola Performance with a minor in Art History and Creative Writing Concentration from Ithaca College, where she was known for curating recitals incorporating visual art, transforming traditional concert venues into engaging visual gallery spaces, one concert of which was entirely dedicated to Bob Ross’ show, "The Joy of Painting". In getting their master's degree from the Longy School of Music of Bard College, Laura has had the privilege of creating concert experiences that highlight underrepresented experiences within society like the femme, immigrant, queer, gender expansive, and experiences of people of color, respectively.