8:00 pm Either Or: Middle Eastern Rhythms and Melodies

Interpreting classic, plaintive Arabic and Turkish songs with modern compositions, combining Jazz with traditional Middle Eastern rhythms. What brings the quartet together? A shared love of World music, a belief in the power of music—especially percussion—to change lives, and a desire to bring beauty and light to the world.

8:50 pm Jeanne Velonis: Accordion, classical, folk, Western “early music”

Accordionist, Jeanne Velonis specializes in contemporary-classical music, folk music, Western “early music”, and the intersections of all these.  She is a member is the Bachtopus Accordion Ensemble, a quartet whose foci are music by living composers and by J.S. Bach.

Jeanne made her performance debut on the accordion as part of a large ensemble created by the Kronos Quartet to perform Terry Riley’s “In C” at Carnegie Hall.