SHMP Presents New Music Mondays: HedgeWitch
Free (by donation)
- Leanna Keith, flute, voice, & dance
- Haruko Crow Nishimura, voice, percussion, & dance
- Heather Bentley, cello & piano
Every Monday, with occasional exceptions for holidays or special events, The South Hudson Music Project presents New Music Mondays from 7:30pm-9pm at The Royal Room. Typically they are followed by the Monday Night Jazz Jam, at 9pm, hosted by Thomas Marriott.
New Music Mondays focuses on improvised music, experimental music, and the outer boundaries of jazz.
Tonight's show: Leanna Keith premieres her latest improvisational project – HedgeWitch, alongside collaborators Haruko Crow Nishimura and Heather Bentley. This trio of artists push the boundaries on the role of the artist within the ensemble, shapeshifting from instrumental playing to singing to movement all within moments. Their work unabashedly embraces the radical sacred feminine and uses improvisation to ritualize the navigation of this concept in real time. Audiences can expect to hear flutes, cello, piano, percussion, found objects, and voices.
About Leanna Keith, flute, voice, & dance
A freelance flutist, artist, improviser, and composer in the Seattle area, Leanna Keith (she/they) delights in creating sound experiences that make audiences laugh, cry, and say: "I didn't know the flute could do that!" Her performance artworks have focused on cultural connection and the breaking of audience/performer boundaries. Leanna is co-founder of the 501(c)(3) arts organization Kin of the Moon and is co-artistic director and flutist of the ensemble. They explore sonic rituals, promote cross-pollination of genres, and celebrate the creativity that multiplies itself through the collaboration of performers and composers. She is dedicated to playing music by composers who are still living, and advocates for the usage of music as social activism. Leanna is the professor of flute at Cornish College of the Arts.
http://leannakeithflute.comAbout Haruko Crow Nishimura, voice, percussion, & dance
About Heather Bentley, cello & piano
Seattle-based violist and composer Heather Bentley has trailblazed a career as one of the West Coast's most visible improvisatory musicians, specializing in creating evocative atmospheres and textures. Relentless in her pursuit of creativity, she continues this work as co-founder of Kin of the Moon, a 501(c)3 organization which fosters collaboration between artists in service of creating unique art.
https://www.hbentleymusic.com/