Wednesday, August 11, 2021 @ 7:30pm – 9:45pm (EDT)
Online event

Join the Banff Centre for a free livestream concert featuring Banff Centre's Evolution: Classical program participants, including the Indigo Trio, SHHH!! Ensemble, and Kalliope – all from the comfort of your own backyard lounge chair

(Approx. 2 hr 15 minutes total. No intermission)
Duration of each group below: Approximately 45 minutes

Indigo Trio
Alyssa Ramsay, cello
Jessie Ramsay, violin
John T. Sellick, viola

Welsh Fiddle Tune – Farmer Boy
Jean Cras – Mvt. I from String Trio
Paul Wiancko – A Sanguine Clockwork
Johann Sebastian Bach – "Aria" from Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
Neil Young, arr. John Sellick – Old Man

Our program seeks to explore the common ground of our human experience through the lens of our prairie identity. As prairie musicians, we are shaped by our memories growing up in this place, the natural landscape found here, and the communities that we live in. No two musicians play alike, yet they share a common language. Similarly, music across the world is diverse beyond explanation, but at the same time a shared piece of everyone’s puzzle, understood and valued by all.

SHHH!! Ensemble
Edana Higham, piano
Zac Pulak, percussion

EXTRAterrestrial:
Andy Akiho – Karakurenai
Kevin Hanlon & Johann Sebastian Bach – SHHHuffle/Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig ("O How Fleeting O How Hollow")
Mari Alice Conrad – The Moon and Other Celestial Bodies Shall Be Used Exclusively for Peaceful Purposes
Georges Aperghis – Retrouvailles
Monica Pearce – leather
Jocelyn Morlock – Spirit Gradient

Human experience and the beyond. Straight lines and strange loops. Cosmic connection. EXTRAterrestrial explores the universe and our place in it.

Kalliope
Ellen Torrie, vocals/singer-songwriter
Kerry Bursey, lute

Mesomedes – Hymn to Calliope

Traditional Scottish – Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair
Guillaume de Machaut – Douce Dame Jolie
John Dowland – Flow My Tears
Henry Purcell – O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z 406
Johann Sebastian Bach & Charles Gounod – Ave Maria
Ellen Torrie – From You
Hildegard von Bingen – O Virtus Sapientiae
David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Richard Wright, & Nick Mason – Careful with that Axe, Eugene
Traditional Irish – She Moved Through the Fair
Seikilos – Seikilos epitaph

Kalliope are a new collaboration intent on expanding beyond the traditional confines of early music and creating a seamless performance incorporating many aspects of their joint artistic interests. Their new program “Muse & Mode” is an exploration of song and storytelling from Ancient Greece to the 21st Century. The curation invokes ancient archetypes of human storytelling and plants them in music spanning centuries, self-accompanied on a diverse array of instruments.

The livestream will take place at 5:30pm Mountain / 4:30pm Pacific.

Watch the livestream here

Link to donate: https://www.banffcentre.ca/support-us/donate