QC Visiting Artist: WÖR

Name: QC Visiting Artist: WÖR
Start: 2024-10-30T18:00:00-05:00
Location: 1000 Lincoln Blvd, Clinton, IA, United States, Iowa 52732

Schedule

Wed Oct 30 2024 at 06:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

1000 Lincoln Blvd, Clinton, IA, United States, Iowa 52732 | Clinton, IA

Quad City Arts continues its 51st season of professional performing arts residencies for the 2023-24 school year with the Visiting Artist Series at Clinton Community College (CCC). The Belgian folk band WÖR is scheduled for Wednesday, October 30 at 6 p.m.
WÖR (pronounced ‘were’) is a band of five musicians whose curiosity, passion and talent has led to a niche goldmine of melodies in stunning contemporary arrangements. Back to the 1780's! If it sounded good back then, why not today? With their finely textured arrangements WÖR injects new energy into 18th-century melodies from the Flanders region of Belgium. Their music shines an inventive spotlight, with a modern twist, on the melodies in these manuscripts. Their music is a mix of folk, early music, and jazz, and they use instruments such as the bagpipes, accordion, guitar, violin, and saxophone.
They released 3 albums ('Back to the 1780's' (2015), 'Sssht' (2017) and 'About Towers' (2021) and toured in Europe, Australia, Canada & the US (including the National Folk Festival, Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci, Concertgebouw Brugge, Sunfest, Shetland folk festival). In August 2018 they won the German award 'Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik' with their album 'Sssht'. In 2021 they were nominated for 'Best live band' at the Flemish Folk Awards' and their album ‘About Towers’ made it into the ‘World Music Charts Europe’.
For more information on upcoming events, visit the Quad City Arts Calendar at https://www.quadcityarts.com/events.html. The series serves students and community members in Clinton, Scott, and Muscatine Counties in Iowa, and Henry, Rock Island, and Mercer Counties in Illinois. Since 1974, the Visiting Artists Series has engaged Quad City residents of all ages in quality arts experiences with professional performing artists. See more information about the Visiting Artists Series residency program t https://www.quadcityarts.com/vas.