ArtBreak: Connecting Chords / Engaging Drums

Name: ArtBreak: Connecting Chords / Engaging Drums
Start: 2025-03-19T12:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-03-19T13:00:00-04:00
Location: 314 S Park St, Kalamazoo, MI, United States, Michigan 49007

Schedule

Wed Mar 19 2025 at 12:00 pm to 01:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

314 S Park St, Kalamazoo, MI, United States, Michigan 49007 | Kalamazoo, MI

During this ArtBreak, Elizabeth Start will offer an overview of the history and mission of Kalamazoo’s Connecting Chords Music Festival, including a description of their 2025 collaboration with K-RESA Education for the Arts to bring San Jose Taiko to town for a public performance on March 25, coupled with concerts for youth. Carolyn Koebel will join Start to give a short demonstration of taiko drumming.
A Kalamazoo native, Start is Executive Director of the Michigan Festival of Sacred Music, which presents the Connecting Chords Music Festival. She is a cellist with the Kalamazoo and Elgin Symphony Orchestras, an award-winning composer, and Secretary-Treasurer of the Kalamazoo Federation of Musicians. She is a member of the Chicago Composers’ Consortium, the Chicago Musicians Club of Women, and the International Alliance of Women in Music, for whom she provides CD reviews.