OCT0ber 9 - 7:00pm
Mark Stewart: All Folks Present!
Songs from our shared common currency (folk, popular, ethnic) of the last 200 years
Mark Stewart: guitars, banjo, voice and original instruments & all folks present!
This is a 60-70 minute program to be performed without an intermission.
Tickets are limited and must be purchased online in advance of the concert.
(Tickets will not be available at the venue on the evening of the performance)
$20/Regular; $18/Seniors; $15/students
Limited to 50 tickets, General Admission
Masks, regardless of vaccination status, will be required in the venue.
We wish to thank our Sponsors for their generous support. This event is funded by a grant from the Windham Foundation and CREATE Council on the Arts.
www.windhamfoundation.org
www.greenearts.org
www.communityofwindhamfoundation.org
Windham Rotary
www.wripfm.com
MARK STEWART
Mark Stewart is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, song leader, composer, improviser and instrument designer that has been heard around the world performing old and new music. Since 1998 he has recorded, toured and been Musical Director with Paul Simon. A founding member of the Bang on a Can All-Stars and the duo Polygraph Lounge with keyboard & theremin wizard Rob Schwimmer, Mark has also worked with Steve Reich, Sting, Anthony Braxton, Bob Dylan, Wynton Marsalis, Meredith Monk, Stevie Wonder, Phillip Glass, Iva Bittova, Bruce Springsteen, Terry Riley, Ornette Coleman, Don Byron, Joan Baez, Hugh Masakela, Paul McCartney, Cecil Taylor, Bill Frisell, Jimmy Cliff, the Everly Brothers, Steve Gadd, John Adams, Fred Frith, Alison Krauss, David Krakauer, Bobby McFerrin, Patty Scialfa, David Byrne, James Taylor, The Roches, Aaron Neville, Bette Midler, and Marc Ribot. He has worked extensively with composer Elliot Goldenthal on music for the films The Glorias, Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, Across the Universe, Titus, The Butcher Boy, The Good Thief, In Dreams and Heat.
Mark has designed instruments for Julie Taymor's Across the Universe, Midsummer Nights Dream & Theater For A New Audience's production of King Lear, and is the inventor of the WhirlyCopter, a bicycle-powered Pythagorean choir of singing tubes and the Big Boing, a 24 ft. sonic banquet table Mbira that seats 30 children playing 490 found objects. Mark is a co-founder (w/ Karen Curlee) of soundstewArt, a company that designs & builds immersive musical environments & instruments for all to play upon while presenting workshops to facilitate just that. Since 2012, he has been the Artistic Director of Guitar Mash, leading the participatory communal Urban Campfires together with renowned artists sharing their favorite songs and life stories, and is a Visiting Lecturer in musical instrument design at MIT. He is also curator at MASS MoCA of the immersive Gunnar Schonbeck exhibit of musical instruments.
He lives in Brooklyn, NY and North Adams, Massachusetts making his living playing and writing popular music, semi-popular music and unpopular music, whilst designing instruments that everyone can play.