The Bridge At The.BlkRoom

For 12 years, The Bridge has been an exchange program for creative and improvised music, bringing French and Chicagoan musicians together on both sides of the Atlantic. As part of The Bridge #2.8 ensembles Midwest tour, The Bridge is partnering with The Blk Room to offer a musical event and exchange focused on improvisation and intercultural encounters between two musicians immersed in the Chicago music scene and two visiting French musicians: olula negre on cello, Lenard Simpson on alto saxophone, Kheira Guevara on vocals, and Erwan Feubissie-Tientcheu on percussion.

The.BlkRoom - 4015 W Carroll, Chicago IL 60623

6 pm - 8 pm
Olula Negre, Lenard Simpson, Kheira Guevara & Erwan Feubissie-Tientcheu

About The Bridge

The Bridge has been building itself since 2013, inspired by a simple observation: if it is now well known that jazz and improvised music, in France and in Europe, have found their flight, their specificity and their independence, some North American stages, particularly in Chicago and the Midwest, continue to develop at their own rhythm(s). The autonomy acquired and the originality developed by both sides should not prevent new forms of cooperation. On the contrary, we believe that they should even encourage them.

To durably bring together French and North American musicians (our network gathers more than 140 musicians from both countries, the list of whom is given in the chronology, and who have been divided into quartets and quintets, themselves divided into two cycles); to give them space, time and the opportunity to get to know each other, in their similarities and differences, to develop their exchanges and creative projects, in reciprocity and complementarity: such is the objective of The Bridge.