Please join Concerts On The Hill on Saturday, April 11 at 4pm, presenting a collaborative performance between singer/composer Moira Smiley and Rasa String Quartet in a program that explores the space where classical and folk traditions intersect and influence one another.
Rooted in themes of connection – both visible and hidden – the program explores the ways we remain intertwined, like the underground rhizome networks that nourish life from beneath the surface. Works by Moira Smiley, Caroline Shaw, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and Sato Matsui will be performed both collaboratively and individually. Smiley’s striking Rhizome Project is the velvet ferocity of voices and strings, very old folk songs and their power to remind us of our shared “sugar-in-the-ground” – an unsentimental, underground connectivity that defies a divisive era.
About the project, Smiley offers, “The Rhizome Project celebrates all the powerful ways we are connected, though, like the rhizome roots, those connections may be hidden or forgotten.”
If you are one who loves folk music, chamber music, roots music, beautiful songs performed authentically, this show is for you. To learn more about the artists, please visit our website here.
PRAISE FOR THE RHIZOME PROJECT
“a multifaceted work that includes a superb album with thoughtful lyrics and an accompanying book” – Angel Romero, World Music Central
“She has a liberated sound, no mist & clouds but an inner voice.” – John Apice, Americana Highways
“The Rhizome Project is organically profound, one of Smiley’s most exciting and ambitious endeavors in a career full of wondrous moments.” – Adriane Pontocarvo, PopMatters
All quotes by Moira Smiley, sourced 02-02-26 by Concerts On The Hill from her website https://moirasmiley.com/
