BBE Carols at Seman Violins

Name: BBE Carols at Seman Violins
Start: 2024-12-06T19:30:00-06:00
Location: 4447 Oakton St, Skokie, IL, United States, Illinois 60076

Schedule

Fri, 06 Dec, 2024 at 07:30 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

4447 Oakton St, Skokie, IL, United States, Illinois 60076 | Skokie, IL

Think Carols are just for Christmas? Think again! Join the BBE for a festive night of carols from around the world including villancicos, holiday fiddle tunes, spirituals, and our twists on some traditional favorites. We also have a few of our own to celebrate other holidays like Festivus for the rest of us, Krampusnacht, and National Violin Day. So, bring your merry-making for it will be a-wassailing good time!
Hailed as “thrilling…charming...performed with such grace...joy and sincerity that a watcher and listener had to be won over" (Bloomington Herald Times), the BBE offers a fresh approach to classical music through its cross-genre music-making and imaginative collaborations at traditional and alternative venues alike. With its "come as you are" approach, the BBE enjoys an interactive experience with its fans from its music, its program mascots, and everything in between that emphasizes community. Based in Chicago, the BBE is equally at home performing across the U.S. at festivals like Baroque on Beaver Island Festival, Early Music Academy in Ann Arbor, the Boston, Bloomington, and Indianapolis Early Music Festivals, as well as clubs and theaters like the Goodman Theater, the Den, the Green Mill, Martyrs’, the Beat Hotel in Boston, and more. Led by co-directors Brandi Berry Benson, and Leighann Daihl Ragusa, the BBE performs a variety of programs each season along with its annual mainstays: folk but Baroque programs, new music collaborations, and Carols. The BBE has released four albums to date: A Gaelic Summer (2019), an Appalachian Summer (2019), Chicago Stories (2021), and Carols (2023). The BBE also recently premiered a new work, The Story of Pa I Sha, about Brandi Berry Benson's Chickasaw ancestors.