An Evening with PAUL METZGER & KRISSY BERGMARK

The Cedar Presents 

An Evening with PAUL METZGER & KRISSY BERGMARK 

Thursday, November 21, 2024/ Doors: 7:00 PM / Show: 7:30 PM

All Ages

Seated

$15 Advance, $20 Day of Show 

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The Cedar is honored to host an extraordinary musical convergence as experimental folk virtuoso Paul Metzger joins forces with acclaimed tabla player Krissy Bergmark for a night of musical improvisation. 

Metzger will interweave his hypnotic, genre-defying compositions with Bergmark's masterful tabla rhythms, creating a unification of sound that bridges modified stringed instruments and North Indian classical percussion. 

This rare collaboration promises to offer listeners an aural escape, dissolving Metzger's liminal drones and intricate fingerpicking into Bergmark's dynamic tabla expertise.

Paul Metzger, a two-time recipient of the prestigious McKnight Fellowship for Performing Musicians (awarded in 2010 and 2018), is renowned for his modified banjo and guitar innovations.
“Metzger’s banjo and guitar contain multitudes. Suspended between past and future, honouring the tradition while hijacking it, listening for its voice while revelling in its inarticulacies; this is how the thing sings. And the song, in the obsessive extensions of Metzger’s instruments, truly has no ending.” –The Wire, David Keenan.

To learn more about Paul Metzger:

• Visit his website here

Krissy Bergmark is a tabla player, percussionist, composer, and educator. Bergmark centers her creative work on bringing tabla to new genres and cross-genres through composition and performance with a grounded understanding of the traditions of the instrument. She has received commissions and grants through the Cedar Commissions, the Jerome Foundation, the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and the Minnesota State Arts Board for her tabla studies and compositions for tabla, percussion, and strings. She composes and performs as a solo artist, with trio Sprig of That, and with artists across the US and internationally. Bergmark a professor at Oakton College, and studies tabla with Pandit Yogesh Samsi in the Punjab Gharana. 

To learn more about Krissy Bergmark:

• Visit her website here

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