Burning Cicada Arts and Music Picnic Festival

Please realize as an outdoor event guidelines are more relaxed at this time, however, Vaccines are recommended and masks are highly encouraged. Also in your seating choices as the Band Shell is very accommodating please attempt a 6-foot distance between families.

Do you have a friend that reminds you how willfully and wonderfully defiant you are in holding on to your dreams? Around them, you can’t be anything other than yourself. Equal parts purpose and passion wildly singing to the heart in a voice that is present and uncompromising.

We would like to be that friend. Join us for a day of serving that voice together, sharing a moment simple but without doubt or compromise. Through the compassionate generosity of local talents, take back a moment to recognize a deeper part of yourself. Share it with yourself, and then share it with others. The Burning Cicada Art and Music Picnic Festival Welcomes you to a day of dreaming awake together.

I Play with Sound

Byron Wise invites participants to create an improvised sonic collage with modern expressive instruments. This is a workshop preview to be later announced and realized at the DeKalb Public Library.

Chih-i Hsiao (Daniel)

Instrumentalist

Daniel was trained by an Erhu Master focusing on the traditional as well as Xiqu (Chinese opera) style. An explorer of many musical styles such as Indian music (both tala and raga) he also plays Koto, Sentien, Xite, Klong Yao, Kompang, Banhu, and riqq.

He adds, “I discovered a big world. I love to learn from different music and culture to enrich my thoughts in music.”

Misspent Youth

Bluegrass

Dave D K Kolars, Dale Ludwig, Mike Warfel

If you know any of these folks you know this group is nothing less than a local legacy, and a personal journey in Bluegrass that is all parts friendship, unrelenting discipline to a craft, and presents as easy as a joke that will keep you smiling when you look back 20 years later and still laugh. Come and listen to this treasure. They are this good.

Alex Degroovia

Soundscape Guitar Instrumentalist

Delicate, Serene, and Affecting. An alternate tuning aficionado Alex invites you listen to the joys, sorrows, and journey of his musical craft.

The Real Jazz Quartet

Jazz and Pop

Gavin Wilson and company bolster and occupy that space of the great entertainers that carry on the legacy of bringing Jazz standards to the open air. The music is as fresh for the child or the well-traveled.

Chamni Sripraram

As a Thai Scholar, and Musician Chamni creates a musical experience that is meant to be inhabited by the audience. His music is both playful and thought provoking. Known for his encouragement of audience participation please feel free to dance to his wonderful cascading polyphonic textures as he plays the Khaen (Thai mouth organ).

Lisy Celine

Folk Pop Songwriter

Lisy Celine is the partnership whimsy and wisdom. Self-taught in ukulele and guitar. Lisy has a voice that transcends feeling. Lyrics are the wings on which she soars. In her words “Music is my passion, my heart, and my home”.

Host or Publisher Burning Cicada, Ltd.