An evening of traditional New Orleans jazz with Aurora Nealand and the “Mississippi Gipsy” Russell Welch will be presented at the Dublin School campus on Friday, July 8, at 7:30 p.m.
Nealand is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and sound artist based in New Orleans, Louisiana. She leads projects that span from traditional New Orleans Jazz to avant-garde rock to free improvisation. She is the leader of The Royal Roses, Rory Danger & the Danger Dangers, and other bands. She has been awarded residencies to develop her original compositions at MacDowell Colony, New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts.
She regularly works with Found Sound Nation, an organization based in NYC, facilitating international musical collaboration and diplomacy, and has participated in the Dosti Project in India and Pakistan, LADAMA in South America, and OneBeat.
She was a faculty member at the Walden School, a summer music camp held on the Dublin School campus, for five years.
She is returning for the third summer to perform at the school. This year she will be joined by musicians from New Orleans, featuring the music of guitarist Russell Welch. Welch is is a specialist in gypsy jazz, a la Django Reinhardt, and has toured worldwide performing both his original compositions as well as with Meschiya Lake & the Little BigHorns. They will be joined by violinist Dr. Sick of the Squirrel Nut Zippers, Tomas Majcherski of the Rhythm Wizards, Leo Forde and Joshua Gouzy, both of the New Orleans Jazz Vipers.
This will be an outdoor event, weather permitting, on the lawn outside the Fountain Arts Building. Bring lawn chairs or blankets.
The concert is free and open to the public. It is co-sponsored by The Walden School, the Monadnock Folklore Society and the Dublin School.
For more information, visit www.monadnockfolk.org or www.waldenschool.org.