Name: Songs of Healing & Connection
Start: 2023-07-12T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2023-07-12T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Wolfe's Neck Farm, Mallet Barn

Songs of Healing & Connection

Hogfish is a regenerative arts production company and artist residency at the historic Beckett Castle, surrounded by an internationally recognized rose garden on the coast of Maine. We are building an artistic sanctuary and body of work dedicated to restoring creative and physical health to individuals, our communities, and our earth.

Hogfish

Hogfish presents our artists-in-residence in an evening of songs dedicated to healing and connection to ancestors and the natural world.

Wolfe's Neck Farm, Mallet Barn

MELISA BONETTI WITH FELIX JARRARRELEASERelease is a space we come into as musicians and audience goers, where we utilize standard repertoire as a tunnel for inner discovery and fearless emotional expression. In my experience as an opera singer, many of us love what we do because opera embodies ultimate feeling, but this is executed after rigorous practice, which often comes with an unattainable pressure of perfection. During “Release” we will present repertoire as written, and then we will break past the confines of perfection, using structures and themes from these pieces to feed and morph improvisational ideas that coincide with our most profound truths. “Release” is an invitation to trust in our creative ideas, which ties into validating our own thoughts, with the goal of releasing into a deeper state of feeling that is free from perfection, and more reflective of what is going on in the mind of an artist and/or someone in the audience.MARIA BREAA SONG TO MY ANCESTORS | UNA CANCIÓN A MIS ANCESTRESA Song to My Ancestors | Una Canción a mis Ancestres is a musical exploration of songs and nature from Venezuelan traditional music of indigenous, african and iberian influece. The concert will feature the Cuatro (Venezuelan traditional instrument), voice, and other traditional instruments.TYSON DEATON WITH BRYAN MURRAY, RACHEL DUNBAR HURTADO, &amp; GABRIEL HERNANDEZTHE FORGOTTEN SONGS OF JOSEPH BOLOGNE DE SAINT-GEORGESIn 2021, I began an unexpected musicological journey with a practical origin. Joseph Bologne de Saint-Georges, a French military official of African descent, master fencer, violinist and composer, was reported to have over 100 solo vocal works which only existed in manuscript form. Eager to include a few on a future program, I was able to locate, obtain, and begin editing a few of the songs. These &#x27;few&#x27; quickly increased to encompass Bologne&#x27;s entire body of vocal works, revealing much about his circle of influence, the company he kept, and his own personal political and artistic interests. This collection has been an opportunity for me to rediscover the essential elements of my own philosophy of musicmaking, albeit through the lens of an underrepresented composer. It has also been envigorating as a performer for listeners to appreciate the beauty and charm of his music, as well as to reaffirm a connection of Bologne&#x27;s music to a contemporary audience.FELIX JARRAR WITH CYNTHIA LÓPEZ-PÉREZ &amp; MARIA BREACONFLICT, PASSION, &amp; REFLECTIONConflict, Passion, and Reflection is a program that explores my own process of healing. The singers featured on this program, Cynthia López-Pérez and Maria Brea, as well as librettist Bea Goodwin, have been a huge part of my growth as a musician and person. In response to both the trauma of the pandemic and the prejudices I have faced as a queer POC, I have created my own safe space to share my art and emotions. Works featured include “I, the dead sea”, “The Dreamer” from the cycle Eclipse (text by Goodwin) and “Amethyst’ from my Symphony no. 1, “Banishing Grief.” I wrote these at crucial points in my career, when I was facing highly emotional obstacles. “Maria la O” by Ernesto Lecuona will also be featured as a meaningful and cathartic contrast to my work.

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