American Patchwork Quartet

Name: American Patchwork Quartet
Start: 2025-04-13T20:00:00-04:00
Location: 7995 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Maryland 20910

Schedule

Sun, 13 Apr, 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

7995 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Maryland 20910 | Silver Spring, MD

AMERICAN PATCHWORK QUARTET (APQ), led by multi-Grammy award-winning guitarist/vocalist Clay Ross, binds timeless American folk songs with jazz sophistication, country twang, West African hypnotics, and East Asian ornamentation. APQ’s sound is a masterful confluence of tradition and innovation, transcending culture, politics, and ideology.
A southern-born roots music aficionado, Ross is also the founder of the world-renowned Gullah group Ranky Tanky. In APQ, Ross intertwines with other Grammy-winning artists: Falguni Shah, an eleventh-generation Hindustani classical vocalist, Yasushi Nakamura, an internationally acclaimed Issei jazz bassist, and Clarence Penn, a drumming protégée of Ellis Marsalis whose fibers were honed by African American church traditions.
APQ resonates as a potent symbol of unity in diversity. It stands testament to the notion that, from a collage of varied backgrounds, a coherent and beautiful whole can be fashioned.