Ethan Setiawan & Grant Flick play Encyclopedia Mandolinnica: Merriman's Playhouse

Name: Ethan Setiawan & Grant Flick play Encyclopedia Mandolinnica: Merriman's Playhouse
Start: 2025-10-02T19:30:00-04:00
Location: Merrimans Playhouse

Schedule

Thu, 02 Oct, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Merrimans Playhouse | South Bend, IN

Join Ethan Setiawan & Grant Flick for a night of mandolin madness! They'll be touring in support of Ethan's new album of mandolin duets, Encyclopedia Mandolinnica.
Presented by The Music Village and Merriman's Playhouse.
On his new record, “Encyclopedia Mandolinnica”, award-winning instrumentalist Ethan Setiawan explores the many possibilities of mandolin music through duets and trios with his friends, mentors, and heroes. Taking inspiration from albums like Darol Anger’s “Diary of a Fiddler”, and Mike Barnett’s “+1”, which are both made up of fiddle duets with a variety of collaborators, the breadth of Setiawan’s ambitious project is brought into focus through a stripped-down mandolin ensemble format, allowing the instrument itself to take center stage. Originally from Goshen, Indiana, Ethan Setiawan tried out numerous instruments before finding his way to the mandolin, making a name for himself when he won both the National Mandolin Championship in Winfield, KS and the Rockygrass Mandolin Championship. He attended Berklee College of Music on a full scholarship. Years later, Setiawan has become a leading voice of the mandolin, his path wending its way through traditional bluegrass, to Bach partitas, and free jazz. He performs regularly with his progressive bluegrass band Fine Ground, and Scottish fusion duo Hildaland.
Grant Flick is a performer, recording artist, composer, educator, and collaborator currently based in Ann Arbor, MI. He plays many instruments including violin, mandolin, tenor guitar, nyckelharpa, tenor banjo, and viola. Primarily, his interests are new acoustic music, jazz manouche, jazz/swing, bluegrass, and American old-time. His current original music projects, Westbound Situation, Warren & Flick, and Hannah O’Brien and Grant Flick, explore the fusion of chamber music with the influences listed above. In these groups, he writes pieces influenced from many styles that feature the collective spontaneity and imagination of the fellow improvisatory musicians with whom he collaborates. Examples of his writing can be heard on “Accord” (Westbound Situation), “Tomorrow Worries About Itself” (Grant Flick), “Windward” (Hannah O’Brien and Grant Flick), and “Waxwing” (Warren & Flick). Grant has received numerous music awards including the 2013 Daniel Pearl Memorial Violin. He was a finalist in the 2015 Walnut Valley Festival Fiddle Competition in Winfield, Kansas, as well as the 2017 Freshgrass Fiddle Competition in North Adams, Massachusetts. Additionally, several competitive collegiate awards and grants for improvisation, acoustic chamber music inventiveness, and music education have been presented to his original groups in the past few years. Grant has been selected as a two-time participant (2015 and 2016) of the Acoustic Music Seminar held at the Savannah Music Festival in Savannah, Georgia.