Elena Ciampa & Friends | Jazz | Singer-songwriter
Surry Arts and Events at the Barn 8 Cross Road, Surry, ME, United StatesElena Ciampa she/her/hers Award-winning multi-genre musician, vocalist, composer, songwriter, arranger, bandleader, Elena Ciampa is a lifelong musician and vocalist who began performing on piano and voice at an early age in church, schools and public events. The second of seven children of musical parents, she was exposed to numerous and diverse genres by her mother and father, her …
Annemieke McLane
Surry Arts and Events at the Barn 8 Cross Road, Surry, ME, United States"Bach and my Bicycle" Pianist Annemieke McLane tells a story about the power of music, and what her old Dutch bike has to do with this. Music by J.S. Bach, Couperin, Grieg, Liszt, Bortkiewicz.
Juanito Pascual | Flamenco Guitar
Surry Arts and Events at the Barn 8 Cross Road, Surry, ME, United StatesJonathan “Juanito” Pascual is an internationally recognized guitarist and“flamenco phenom” (The Boston Globe). Juanito Pascual's sound is a truly organic blend of masterful traditional and contemporary flamenco with influences ranging from Jimi Hendrix and the Grateful Dead to Miles Davis and J.S. Bach. Juanito brings together global audiences through his mesmerizing virtuosity, original composition style, …
Paintings of Maine by Varvara Agabekova
Surry Arts and Events at the Barn 8 Cross Road, Surry, ME, United StatesVarvara Agabekova is a graduate of the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts. She works in landscape, still-life, and portrait genres. Varvara has been visiting Maine in different seasons. The exhibition displays landscapes from Corea, Winter Harbor, Camden, Boothbay and other notable sites.
Deborah Fortier | Classical Piano
Surry Arts and Events at the Barn 8 Cross Road, Surry, ME, United StatesPianist and Composer, Deborah Fortier is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Villa Schifanoia Graduate School of Applied Arts in Florence, Italy, (M.Mus.). Her teachers include Edwin Hymovitz, Maria Clodes, Orazio Frugoni, and Zelma Bodzin. She has a private piano studio and also teaches piano at Saint David’s School in New York …
The Barn Cats | Jazz
Surry Arts and Events at the Barn 8 Cross Road, Surry, ME, United StatesThe Acadia Barn Cats were born in a barn in Brooksville, Maine. The Cats are Violinist Chris Nemeth, Vocalist and Dobroist Bob Hipkens, Guitar maestro Phil Kell, Bassist Tom Karnofsky with guest vocalist and guitarist Sarah Hipkens, guest vocalist and ukester Brittany Parker and guest violinist and mandolinist Jim Coffman. We play a book-full of …
Amos Lawrence | Violin
Surry Arts and Events at the Barn 8 Cross Road, Surry, ME, United StatesAmos Lawrence and friends: “Dvorak’s scintillating Piano Quintet in A, featuring Jeffrey Schoyen and Sachi Murasugi distinguished Faculty Members of Salisbury University in Maryland, Laura Artesani, Faculty Member of the University of Maine Orono, Dani Rimoni, viola and Amos Lawrence, violin.” Amos Lawrence, violin Amos has served as an adjunct professor at …
Tough End String Band – Folk Fusion
Surry Arts and Events at the Barn 8 Cross Road, Surry, ME, United StatesTough End String Band serves up a spicy-hot acoustic brew concocted in Orono’s historically notorious Tough End neighborhood. This group has fun entertaining audiences with the diversity of its selections: a tango evolves into surf rock; some 1930’s jazz song might follow a traditional fiddle medley; or Paganini is juxtaposed with Tom Petty; and …
Laszlo Gardony | Jazz at the Barn
Surry Arts and Events at the Barn 8 Cross Road, Surry, ME, United StatesInternationally acclaimed Boston-based jazz pianist and composer Laszlo Gardony is one of the most impressive and technically skilled pianists working in jazz today. “A formidable improviser who lives in the moment” (JazzTimes). Laszlo Gardony has performed in 27 countries and released 14 albums on the Sunnyside, Antilles, and Avenue Jazz labels during his distinguished decades-long career. …
Christina Swanson, mezzo-soprano | Sasha Beresovsky, piano
Surry Arts and Events at the Barn 8 Cross Road, Surry, ME, United StatesMezzo-soprano Christina Swanson and pianist Sasha Beresovsky present a program of art song, including the Gypsy Songs of Antonín Dvořák, vocalises by Prokofiev and Rachmaninov, the Banalités of Francis Poulenc, cabaret pieces by William Bolcom, and a new set by composer Harriet Steinke. Mezzo-Soprano Christina Swanson is an emerging artist based in New York City. …