December 12, 2022

The Hands Free & Alicia Hall Moran

RESERVE GENERAL ADMISSION

Caroline Shaw, violin
James Moor, guitar/banjo
Nathan Koci, accordion
Eleonore Oppenheim, bass
with Alicia Hall Moran, mezzo-soprano

The Hands Free is a new acoustic quartet of cutting-edge, genre-hopping musicians featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning composer-violinist-singer Caroline Shaw, James Moore (guitar/banjo), Nathan Koci (accordion), and Eleonore Oppenheim (bass). Here, they pair with mezzo-soprano Alicia Hall Moran (“magnificent,” L A Times), who starred on Broadway in The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. Drawing upon Classical, folk, and jazz idioms, theirs is “a beautifully eclectic mix of sounds” that maintains “the warmth and spontaneity of an impromptu jam session.” (Second Inversion)

 

Program

Henry Purcell — “Thanks to These Lonesome Vales” from Dido and Aeneas (arr. The Hands Free)

George Gershwin — I Loves you Porgy from Porgy and Bess

Bryce Dessner — Silver and Gold

James Moore — Oil and Salt

Trad. African American spiritual, arr. Margaret Bonds — He's Got The Whole World in His Hand

Margaret Bonds — Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Classical-, jazz-, folk- inflected original compositions and improvisations

 

Watch & Listen

The Hands Free performs Kellam’s Reel & Rusty Gully

 

RESERVE ADMISSION

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