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SUMMARY:Rakish + Rasa Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Rasa String Quartet explores the musical space where classical and folk traditions intersect and influence one another. \nFormed in 2019\, the Boston-based ensemble brings together violinists Emma Powell and Maura Shawn Scanlin\, violist Kiyoshi Hayashi\, and cellist Mina Kim\, who are graduates of the New England Conservatory\, the Shepherd School of Music\, and Yale University. \nThe quartet has earned top prizes at competitions including Chamber Music in Yellow Springs\, the Plowman Chamber Music Competition\, the MTNA Chamber Music Competition\, and the Associazione Europea di Musica e Comunicazione (Italy). They have served as ensemble-in-residence at Phillips Exeter Academy and are currently engaged in a two-year performance and recording partnership with Boston’s GBH Music. \nRasa has collaborated with renowned folk artists such as Celtic harpist Maeve Gilchrist\, Irish fiddler Liz Carroll\, vocalist-composer Moira Smiley\, and singer-songwriter Judy Collins\, and has performed across the U.S. and abroad at events including the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition\, Celebrity Series of Boston\, Newport Classical\, Rockport Music\, Jordan Hall\, and the Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival. \nTheir love of teaching has led to educational residencies at Bowdoin College\, Walnut Hill School for the Arts\, UMass Dartmouth\, and Boston Music Project\, among others.  \nBy exploring the connection between music and storytelling at the heart of folk traditions\, Rasa delivers fresh\, engaging performances that blend classical elegance with folk charm\, celebrate global musical roots\, and highlight underrepresented composers. \nIn Sanskrit\, the term rasa refers to the indescribable power of art to move\, inspire\, and connect us—a quality Rasa String Quartet strives to embody in every performance. \n  \nFind out more at rasastringquartet.com  \n“Rasa String Quartet showcases music where folk\, rock\, and classical veins intersect\, delivered with confidence\, strikingly tight ensemble\, and consummate cohesiveness.”\n— The Boston Musical Intelligencer \n“The Rasa String Quartet played with both a poise and playfulness that perfectly reflected the nature of the music.”\n— Harvard Crimson \nRakish  \nBIOGRAPHY  \nRooted in tradition with an ear to the future\, Rakish brings an infectious playfulness to their earnest musical explorations. The two friends share an unbridled love for both traditional Celtic and American music and their near telepathic ensemble playing springs from years of touring and collaboration.  \nStrings Magazine says: “Explorative and versatile\, the duo draws evident inspiration from not just the deep and wide history of Scottish and Irish Celtic composition\, but also the precision-focused structures of classical chamber music and a whole array of improvisational styles.”  \nKnown for her toneful and award-winning fiddle playing in the Celtic music world\, Maura Shawn Scanlin grew up in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. Scanlin is a two-time U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Champion and winner of the Glenfiddich Fiddle Competition in Scotland. Her clawhammer banjo playing and songwriting hold the regional music of her homeland close.  \nRaised in the Washington\, D.C. Irish music community\, acclaimed guitarist Conor Hearn developed a keen interest in literature and poetry\, an inexhaustible wellspring of ideas he continues to tap. His settings of modernist poems — like James Joyce’s “Chamber Music” — epitomize the duo’s approach: alchemizing old and new into something wholly Rakish. A keenly sought-after collaborative guitarist\, Conor has performed with Celtic luminaries like Seamus Egan and Maeve Gilchrist.  \nRakish\, embracing the unconventional connotation of their namesake\, make music with freewheeling verve. Performance highlights include the Library of Congress\, Celtic Colours International Music Festival\, Prince Edward Island’s Festival of Small Halls\, the Corvallis Celtic Festival\, and an Official Folk Alliance Showcase. They have taught at esteemed fiddle camps across the country including Alasdair Fraser’s Sierra Fiddle Camp\, Folk College\, Katie McNally’s Boston States Fiddle Camp\, and Hanneke Cassel’s Pure Dead Brilliant Fiddle Weekend. \nOn Now\, O Now\, the duo’s sophomore release\, it is clear Rakish cannot be pigeonholed into one genre and is most comfortable occupying the inbetween. Together they journey through Celtic and Americana styles\, deftly showcasing how to bring forth something new from the deep well of tradition. \n 
URL:https://underthebeams.org/event/rakish-rasa_quartet/
LOCATION:New Harmony Inn Conference Center\, 628 North Street\, New Harmony\, IN\, 47631\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:Amanda Pascali
DESCRIPTION:Amanda Pascali embodies the complexity of modern identity. Born to a mother from Cairo who grew up in France and an Italian father raised in Romania\, she’s a mixed-race\, bilingual Gen Z troubadour perpetually caught between worlds. Quoting poet Ijeoma Umebinyuo\, she says\, “I’m often ‘too foreign for here\, too foreign for home\, and never enough for both.’” Rather than lamenting this displacement\, Pascali has transformed it into her artistic superpower. In her bright red teenage bedroom\, she started writing songs about her life and family\, later singing them at coffeehouses and motorcycle bars. Her curiosity eventually led her to Palermo on a Fulbright fellowship\, where she spent two years developing To Sing and Recount (Canta e Cunta) — a digital storytelling project that translates and revitalizes Southern Italian folk songs\, revealing their startling relevance to contemporary social issues worldwide.  \n \nAt fourteen\, surfing the internet\, Pascali happened upon Sicilian folk legend Rosa Balistreri’s music and was immediately struck by her rebelliousness. “She was more punk than any of the bands whose posters hung on my wall\,” Pascali recounts. “Rosa defied all the norms of her time. She endured famine and poverty: learning to read at thirty-two\, picking up a guitar at forty\, then turning both into tools of resistance.” Pascali began translating these canzoni d’autore and traditional songs into English\, marveling at the vivid characters populating her songs. They reminded her of Bob Dylan’s protagonists\, but wilder\, rawer — a thousand times more revolutionary. Her new album\, Roses and Basil\, reimagines these and other folk song translations alongside her own immigrant-American folk songs. \n“Wake Up\, Baby\,” the lead single from Roses and Basil\, exemplifies this timetraveling approach. Starting with one of Sicily’s oldest serenatas — the story of a man singing his marriage proposal to a lover’s balcony while she sleeps through it — Pascali flips the narrative entirely. In her version\, the woman isn’t sleeping; she’s ignoring him. “It connects the experience of waiting beneath a window to the modern frustration of being\, as my generation would say\, ‘left on read\,’” she explains. The song moves like a brisk tango shifting from minor verse melancholy to major chorus hope\, with more than a few nods to Roy Orbison’s “In Dreams.”  \nPascali’s work songs\, protest numbers\, lullabies and ballads about everyday struggle are resonating with a diverse global audience. With one viral video after another\, she has garnered over 130k followers on Instagram. Her fans appreciate her captivating voice\, poeticism and preternatural ability to find old songs that reverberate across countries and centuries. The accolades have followed: Fulbright Scholar\, Artist-in-Residence at the Library of Congress\, World Expo performer in Osaka\, official showcase artist at Folk Alliance International\, and awards from the Calandra Institute\, Mid-America Arts Alliance\, Kerrville Folk Festival\, and Houston Arts Alliance. But perhaps more meaningfully\, Pascali proves that old songs can be endlessly reshaped for new generations. \nAmanda Pascali –  \nAs the rising voice of America’s most ethnically diverse generation of young people\, 26-year-old Amanda Pascali writes songs that speak to the experience of growing up as a first-generation American. In 2023 her popularity exploded on social media following several viral videos of her song translations. Amanda’s music\, now coined\, Immigrant American Folk delivers a powerful narrative on being\, “too foreign for here\, too foreign for home\, and never enough for both.” \nThe internationally acclaimed\, bilingual singer/songwriter and 2021 Houston Chronicle “Musician of the Year\,” was born in Queens\, New York\, and is based between Houston\, Texas and Palermo\, Sicily. Amanda has released music and performed internationally\, from the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. to the European Union Parliament in Brussels and across the globe. Her latest work\, To Sing and Recount\, is a project to translate and revitalize the Sicilian folk songs endorsed by the US State Department and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. \nBlending folk/Americana influences with southern Italian and Latin rhythms Pascali’s songs are powerful tales of America told through the eyes of immigrants and those who have always felt like the “other”.  With a father who was thrown out of his home country for rebelling against the government and an immigrant mother who built a career from scratch in 1980s Brooklyn\, Amanda was driven from a young age to be a messenger of her family’s stories and diaspora
URL:https://underthebeams.org/event/amanda_pascali/
LOCATION:New Harmony Inn Conference Center\, 628 North Street\, New Harmony\, IN\, 47631\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ranky Tanky
DESCRIPTION:Gullah Music of the Carolina Coast \nRanky Tanky makes joy sound like a responsibility. The two-time Grammy Award winning quintet from Charleston\, South Carolina featuring Quiana Parler (vocals)\, Charlton Singleton (trumpet\, vocals)\, Clay Ross (guitar\, vocals)\, Kevin Hamilton (bass)\, and Quentin E. Baxter (drums\, percussion)\, draws on the living well of Gullah music from the Sea Islands and carries it forward with jazz verve\, gospel fire\, blues feeling\, and soul-deep groove. Their very name\, from the Gullah language\, means “work it” or “get funky\,” which is exactly what they do: turn ring shouts\, children’s game songs\, work songs\, and spirituals into modern American music that moves both body and memory.  \n \nFormed in 2016\, Ranky Tanky broke through with a self-titled debut that rose to No. 1 on Billboard’s Jazz chart\, proof that a music rooted in community could also top the national conversation. Coverage followed on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross and NBC’s TODAY\, milestones that introduced Gullah’s cadences and stories to an even wider audience.  \nGood Time (2019) expanded the canon with originals inspired by tradition and earned the band its first Grammy for Best Regional Roots Music Album in 2020\, the first time an album of Gullah music received that honor. In 2023\, Ranky Tanky captured their onstage electricity with Live at the 2022 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and won the category again\, becoming the most awarded group in its history.  \nAs cultural stewards and world-class performers\, the band has brought Gullah music to major platforms including PBS NewsHour and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’s #PlayAtHome\, where the charge is simple and urgent: celebrate\, remember\, repair\, and… dance.  \nThe band’s newest single\, and title track off their upcoming album\, “This Village” is out now. “The song speaks on love and the spirit of the culture\, the generosity\, the shoulder to shoulder\, the helping one another out\, and actually having one another’s backs\, even when you need your own back had\,” says Baxter; who also serves as Producer on both the title track and full album. “’This Village’ really means a lot to me. It’s about family and community.  Growing up in a small community in a small town\, everyone knew each other. It’s about standing strong\, being together as one and unity. That’s what ‘This Village’ means to me\,” says Parler\, who shares lead vocals on the song with writer Singleton.  \nOn this new album\, ‘This Village’ (July 17\, 2026)\, Ranky Tanky have returned with more of their own original music than ever before – steeped in the rich traditions of the Gullah community. They are joined on the album by legendary multi-time GRAMMY winner Lisa Fischer for two interpretations of classics: a cover of Bill Withers’ “Grandma’s Hands\,” and their own arrangement of the traditional “Pick’n Po Robin” (featured prominently in the recent Sinners soundtrack). Each of the five band members participated in the writing process on This Village\, with additional collaborators including GRAMMY Award-winning engineers Vance Powell (Sputnik Sound – Chris Stapleton\, Jack White)\, Elliott Elsey (Truphonic Recording) and Vlado Meller (Vlado Meller Mastering)\, as well as Demetrius Doctor (piano\, string arrangement – This Village). With the new album\, Ranky Tanky look to build on a sound that has already brought them so many of the accomplishments mentioned above.  \nQuentin Baxter / Drums and Percussion\nKevin Hamilton / Bass\nQuiana Parler / Vocalist\nClay Ross / Guitar and Vocals\nCharlton Singleton / Trumpet and Vocals
URL:https://underthebeams.org/event/ranky_tanky/
LOCATION:New Harmony Inn Conference Center\, 628 North Street\, New Harmony\, IN\, 47631\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Brothers Comatose
DESCRIPTION:The Brothers Comatose fuse traditional bluegrass with a modern folk-rock edge\, crafting tight harmonies\, virtuosic strings\, and a rowdy back-porch spirit. Their high-energy\, participatory shows and storytelling-driven songs have made them a standout in the Americana scene\, bridging roots authenticity with fresh West Coast flair. \n\n \nDon’t let the name fool you — The Brothers are anything but Comatose. From day one\, the band’s ethos has always been simple: “You’re here\, we’re here\, let’s party!” Now\, as the stages and audiences have grown\, nothing has changed; only the parties are much\, MUCH bigger. Bursting with relentless energy\, lightning-fast picking\, and a crowd-first attitude\, the genre-blending outfit has turned their brand of high-octane acoustic music into a must-see movement. \n​Hailing from California\, the band has a long-held reverence for the traditions of bluegrass music. But existing in their own ecosystem\, far from the epicenter of bluegrass\, they haven’t been constrained by those same traditions. The result is “GOLDENGRASS\,” a term the band has fully embraced to describe their unique style of music — born out of bluegrass\, but with the undeniable freedom and rock ’n’ roll attitude of California. \n​At the heart of the band are brothers Ben and Alex Morrison\, whose songs incorporate the best aspects of modern Americana: poignant lyrics sung in close\, blood harmony\, creating memorable melodies that conjure images of well-worn highways and the vast American experience. The recent addition of the band’s first “sister\,” Addie Levy\, rounds out their rich blend with clear\, Appalachian-soaked high harmonies and a driving mandolin chop steeped in bluegrass. Soaring above it all is the controlled mayhem of Philip Brezina’s violin\, whose improvised\, blistering solos bring the rawness and rebelliousness of a rock ’n’ roll guitarist. Underneath it all is Steve Height on upright bass\, whose unwavering\, workman-like thump will make you swear — or wish — you were at a back porch hootenanny drinking out of a jug. \n​From down-home bluegrass and folk festivals to mainstream pop and country festivals to the stage of the Grand Ole Opry\, The Brothers Comatose have earned their reputation as the go-to for folks who want to kick up the dirt and bask in the good vibes of their live shows — an experience that proves bluegrass isn’t just a tradition to be preserved\, but a celebration meant to be blown wide open.
URL:https://underthebeams.org/event/brothers_comatose/
LOCATION:New Harmony Inn Conference Center\, 628 North Street\, New Harmony\, IN\, 47631\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured
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