IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE SOUND - concert w Vida Vojić, Georgia Wartel Collins, Devin Brahja Waldman

Name: IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE SOUND - concert w Vida Vojić, Georgia Wartel Collins, Devin Brahja Waldman
Start: 2024-12-21T15:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-12-21T16:30:00+01:00
Location: St. Andrew's Anglican Church, Göteborg

Schedule

Sat Dec 21 2024 at 03:00 pm to 04:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

St. Andrew's Anglican Church, Göteborg | Gothenburg, VG

IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE SOUND

Winter solstice concert with;
Vida Vojić (GBG)
Georgia Wartel Collins (NYC)
Devin Brahja Waldman (NYC)
Patrick Holming (GBG)

Saturday Dec 21, 3pm

Welcome to St Andrew's church for a special sunset concert, celebrating the shortest day / longest night of the year with live music and poetry, inviting a moment of shared reflection, contemplation and wonder, amidst the chaos of Christmas and the bleak times.
A group of musicians will lead you on this midwinter journey through the realms of contemporary jazz, classical, folk music and spoken word.
Tea and cookies will be offered.
Open to & free for all - a warm welcome to you✨

ARTIST BIOS:
✨ VIDA VOJIĆ is a music and performance artist, 'alchemical drummer' and writer from Gothenburg, Sweden. Her current performance work focuses on music, song and drumming as a means of amplifying input, triggering physical vibration and awakening alternate states. She combines this with poetry, playwriting and set design which draw upon her vast research into theology, somatic practices, alternative conceptions of time and the nature of change. Since 2022, she has performed her “alchemical” drum and vocal solo Timing is Divine 33 times in 11 countries, and as "vida voyage" she has been touring her "ambient cowboy rock" internationally since 2016, releasing on labels such as First Terrace Records, Dial Records and Cultivated Sound.
For this occasion - Vida will present a combined set of singing, spoken poetry and glass harp
https://vidavojic.hotglue.me/

✨ GEORGIA WARTEL COLLINS is a New York City based bass player and composer who can be seen in various bands/project around the globe performing at The Luggage Store in San Francisco, Jazz Flash in Niigata Japan, Vulkan Arena in Oslo, Opus Jazz Club in Budapest, Cankarjev Dom in Ljubljana, The Cooler in Ireland, Nublu in NYC and Bimhuis in Amsterdam. She is the most active with her own trio Aila trio, Rapid Light, Brahja, Moby Dick with Plexus Polaire, Liv Andrea Hauge trio and with the music/performance group The Rosehips, but also freelances within many different projects and constellations.
https://georgia-wartel-collins.com/

✨ DEVIN BRAHJA WALDMAN is a saxophonist, composer and music producer. He leads the group Brahja and is a co-founder of the groups Kadef, Radical Reversal, Notable Deaths, and has been a member of the bands Malcolm Mooney & The Eleventh Planet, Heroes Are Gang Leaders, MoE, and Land Of Kush. Waldman has performed with artists such as Abiodun Oyewole, Patti Smith, William Parker, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thurston Moore, Nadah El Shazly, Charles Hayward, Hamid Drake, Yoshiko Chuma and others. Waldman began performing with his aunt, poet Anne Waldman, at the age of ten. As a youngster, he was taken under the wing of pianist Paul Bley. Along with his aunt Anne and cousin Ambrose Bye, Waldman is a co-producer for the poetry and music label Fast Speaking Music.
http://www.brahjawaldman.com/

✨ PATRICK HOLMING is a Gothenburg based pianist and the music director of St Andrew's church. For this occasion, he will be playing 'Jeux d’eau' by Maurice Ravel.
https://patrickholming.info/

Supported by Göteborg Stad

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I BEGYNNELSEN VAR LJUDET
Vintersolståndskonsert med:
Vida Vojić (GBG)
Georgia Wartel Collins (NYC)
Devin Brahja Waldman (NYC)
Patrick Holming (GBG)
Välkommen till engelska kyrkan för en unik konsert i solnedgången, där vi firar årets kortaste dag / längsta natt med levande musik och poesi, och bjuder in till en stund av delad reflektion, kontemplation och förundran, mitt i julkaos, i en dunkel årstid och i osäker värld.
Vid den här tiden på året är nätterna långa > och natten är drömmens tid. Fyra musiker bjuder på en blandning av samtida jazz, klassisk, folkmusik och poesi för att leda oss genom denna midvinterresa.
Det kommer att bjudas på varm dryck och kakor.
Öppet & gratis för alla - varmt välkomna!✨

Stöds av Göteborg Stad