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Next weekend, cellist/vocalist/composer Jody Redhage will be bringing her group, Rose & the Nightingale to San Diego from her home in New Jersey to play a special concert, "The Spirit of the Garden," at the Water Conservation Garden in El Cajon, on August 11, at 7 p.m.
Rose & the Nightingale features four women playing a variety of instruments and engaging in luscious 3-part vocal harmony.
I listened to their 7 song EP and I can verify that Redhage is an excellent singer, with a range similar to Joni Mitchell in her youth. When the rest of the group joins in on vocals, the result is usually startlingly complex harmonies that one doesn't expect in music of this nature.
The group consists of Redhage on voice and cello, Sara Caswell on violin and mandolin, Leala Cyr on voice, trumpet and percussion, and Katelyn Benton on piano and vocals.
The music for this event will celebrate the sublime value of botanical gardens though poetry and song.
Caswell's violin is the strongest improvising voice in this group, although Redhage turns in a thrilling vocal feature on her tune "Butterfly," that gives the violinist a run for the money.
The stated purpose of the group is to create unique, genre-defying music that blurs the boundaries of world-music, folk and jazz improvisation. The songs offer gratitude to the role of botanical gardens as contemplative spaces.
Tickets are $18 general admission, $12 for members and youth.
The Water Conservation Garden is located at 12122 Cuyamaca College Dr. West (619 660-0614 x 10 )
Next weekend, cellist/vocalist/composer Jody Redhage will be bringing her group, Rose & the Nightingale to San Diego from her home in New Jersey to play a special concert, "The Spirit of the Garden," at the Water Conservation Garden in El Cajon, on August 11, at 7 p.m.
Rose & the Nightingale features four women playing a variety of instruments and engaging in luscious 3-part vocal harmony.
I listened to their 7 song EP and I can verify that Redhage is an excellent singer, with a range similar to Joni Mitchell in her youth. When the rest of the group joins in on vocals, the result is usually startlingly complex harmonies that one doesn't expect in music of this nature.
The group consists of Redhage on voice and cello, Sara Caswell on violin and mandolin, Leala Cyr on voice, trumpet and percussion, and Katelyn Benton on piano and vocals.
The music for this event will celebrate the sublime value of botanical gardens though poetry and song.
Caswell's violin is the strongest improvising voice in this group, although Redhage turns in a thrilling vocal feature on her tune "Butterfly," that gives the violinist a run for the money.
The stated purpose of the group is to create unique, genre-defying music that blurs the boundaries of world-music, folk and jazz improvisation. The songs offer gratitude to the role of botanical gardens as contemplative spaces.
Tickets are $18 general admission, $12 for members and youth.
The Water Conservation Garden is located at 12122 Cuyamaca College Dr. West (619 660-0614 x 10 )