Sō Percussion and Shodekeh
Percussion quartet and groundbreaking beatboxer
Wednesday, March 29 at 8pm
2023 Stave Sessions
Stave Sessions returns in the 2022/23 season, in person for the first time since 2019. The festival was created to spotlight innovative and path-breaking contemporary music. Stave Sessions is a festival of discovery and experimentation.
In 2023, Stave Sessions moves to Somerville's Crystal Ballroom in Davis Square, and we're excited to join the roster of performers making this lovely brand-new space one of the city's best destinations for live music of all kinds.
Wild Up
Los Angeles-based contemporary music collective
Thursday, March 30 at 8pm
Yasmin Williams [SOLD OUT]
Fingerstyle guitarist and composer
Friday, March 31 at 8pm
Craig Taborn & Tomeka Reid
Versatile pianist and cellist
Saturday, April 1 at 8pm
Crystal Ballroom - Somerville Theatre
55 Davis Square, Somerville
“Stave Sessions, presented by the Celebrity Series of Boston, is dedicated to sharing a diverse array of top-level musicians in a relaxed concert format.”
ANNE GOLDBERG-BALDWIN I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Highlights from Previous Stave Sessions
Previous Stave Sessions artists on the 2022/23 Season
Musicians from A Far Cry (Stave 2019)
A Far Cry appears on February 5, 2023, with Rob Kapilow in What Makes it Great? Copland's "Appalachian Spring"
Melissa Aldana(Stave 2017)
Performing with her Quartet March 8, 2023 at Artists For Humanity EpiCenter at the Jazz Festival
Sō Percussion returns to Stave Sessions this season with Shodekeh on March 29, 2023
Stave Sessions Artists
2021 (Digital)
Cristina Pato
Kinan Azmeh
Mark Lettieri Group
Meklit
Sid Sriram
Spektral Quartet
Sybarite5 with special guest Ehsan Matoori
2020
Canceled
2019
Anna & Elizabeth
Edmar Castañeda
LADAMA
Oracle Hysterical and musicians from A Far Cry
Tigue and Arooj Aftab
2018
Jazzmeia Horn
House of Waters
Ensemble Mik Nawooj
Claire Chase and My Brightest Diamond
Bent Knee with Boston Conservatory at Berklee
Percussion Ensemble
2017
yMusic
Melissa Aldana
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society
TIGUE and Innov Gnawa
2016
3 Sudacas / Mixcla
Sybarite5
Kneebody + Daedelus = Kneedelus
My Brightest Diamond
Sam Amidon and Glenn Kotche
Sō Percussion with Buke and Gase
2015
Banda Magda (Opening: Chorobop)
Gabriel Kahane (Opening: Kate Davis)
Roomful of Teeth
Ben Sollee and Becca Stevens Band
Brooklyn Rider
Third Coast Percussion
Stave Sessions is sponsored by:
Susan & Michael Thonis and the Barr Foundation through its ArtsAmplified initiative.
Additional support provided by Kathleen & Chris Gaffney, Michael & Debra Raizman, Yukiko Ueno & Eran Egozy, Randolph Hawthorne & Carliss Baldwin, and Marylen Sternweiler.
Stave Sessions is made possible in part by support from Celebrity Series' LIVE PERFORMANCE! Arts for All Innovation Funds.
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