Arts & Entertainment
Carlsbad Music Festival
The 8th annual Carlsbad Music Festival will take place in the charming seaside Village of Carlsbad from Friday-Sunday, September 23-25, 2011. The Festival has been praised by KPBS as “one of the area’s most innovative music showcases” and by the Los Angeles Times as magnificently enlightening.”
Saturday, Sept 24
-12:00pm FREE picnic concert at the Village Faire
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Carlsbad Village Theatre concerts:
-1:30pm Vicky Chow, piano
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-5:30pm Penelope
-9:00pm My Brightest Diamond
plus free outdoor performances throughout
the day
VICKY CHOW, PIANO
Called “brilliant” by The New York Times, pianist Vicky Chow (who is a member of New York’s ground-breaking Bang on a Can All-stars) brings her dazzling virtuosity and impeccable taste to a program of works by some of the country’s hottest young composers and most fascinating established masters.
PENELOPE
Called “rapturous” by The New York Times and“the year’s most affecting creation” by Time Out New York, Penelope is a song cycle by composer Sarah Kirkland Snider featuring vocalist Shara Wordenof My Brightest Diamond. Inspired by Homer’s epic poem, the Odyssey, Penelope is a meditation on memory, identity, and what it means to come home.
MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND
As impressive as her list of recent collaborators, Shara Worden’s voice and arresting live performances have left audiences thunderstruck from the Sydney Opera House to Lincoln Center to the House of Blues. She’s performed under the experimental-pop moniker My Brightest Diamond for the last seven years, and counts Bryce Dessner (The National), Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), David Byrne, Laurie Anderson and The Decemberists among friends and fans.