Meany Center: Gabriel Kahane

• Gabriel Kahane
• Frequency Ensemble

Considered by The New Yorker to be "one of the finest, most searching songwriters of the day," Gabriel Kahane reveals his most personal work in a decade. With his new album, Magnificent Bird, Gabriel Kahane chronicles the final month of a year spent off the internet. Shuttling between the quotidian mundane and overlapping global crises, he sings of grief, nostalgia, shame, and salvation: a portrait of daily life in the roiling chaos of the 21st Century. Kahane brings this fully realized set of songs back to Meany after a work-in-process performance in fall 2021. Co-commissioned by Meany Center.

For this concert, Kahane will be joined by FREQUENCY, featuring Michael Jinsoo Lim and Jennifer Caine Provine (violin), Melia Watras (viola), and Sarah Rommel (cello).

"Kahane [finds] beauty and meaning by stirring together the flotsam and daily particulars of life with existential concerns."
— NPR

About Meany Center for the Performing Arts

http://www.meanycenter.org

About Gabriel Kahane

A singer-songwriter, pianist, and composer, Gabriel Kahane works at the blurred edges of journalism, ethnography, storytelling, and music. Kahane's style is often compared to Sufjan Stevens and Rufus Wainwright and has collaborated with both of these artists.

About Frequency Ensemble

Michael Jinsoo Lim, violin |
Jennifer Caine Provine, violin |
Melia Watras, viola |
Sarah Rommel, cello