Photo by Doug Gifford from Rinde Eckert's "Becoming Unusual", 2014

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6:30pm: Concert

Join renowned theatre-maker Rinde Eckert for a pop-up evening of music and characters from his decades-ranging performances.

Throughout the month of September Eckert is traveling over 9000 miles by car around the U.S., stopping to perform at both friends' living rooms and theaters, museums and universities from state to state. At each stop he is evolving his performance of My Fools: A Life in Song, delving backward into his archive while traveling forward to the western edge of the country and back. Eckert has been creating performances in theater, experimental opera, and his own unique idiom for over thirty years. As a composer, director, librettist, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, his work spans genres and ranges from solo outings to large multidisciplinary events. In My Fools, he presents a survey of the smart, clownish, driven and doomed characters who form a major part of his work. Follow his travels on twitter #rindesodyssey #rindeontheroad.

Rinde Eckert's productions have toured throughout the U.S. and been presented at major European and Asian festivals. Sometimes tragic and austere, sometimes broadly comedic, entirely grounded by presence, his work is alchemical: moving from rumination and distillation to hard-won illumination or failure. He began his career in the 1980’s, writing librettos for Paul Dresher (Pioneer, Power Failure, Slow Fire, Ravenshead), and composing dance scores for choreographers Sarah Shelton Mann and Margaret Jenkins. Eckert began composing and performing his own music/theater works in 1992 with The Gardening of Thomas D, an homage to Dante which subsequently toured the United States and France.

His works And God Created Great Whales, Horizon and Orpheus X garnered Drama Desk Nominations and the Lucille Lortel Award off-Broadway. Current theater and music projects in which he performs include My Lai with the Kronos Quartet; The Aging Magician with Paola Prestini and Beth Morrison Productions; and Five Beasts with composer/performer Ned Rothenberg and beat box artist Adam Matta. Among his many awards, Eckert was a 2007 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for his work Orpheus X and won a 2011 Grammy Award with 8th Blackbird for Lonely Motel. rindeeckert.com