Yo Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble at Tanglewood (Live Stream)
Yo Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble at Tanglewood (Live and Archived Stream)
Wed., July 29, at 8PM. Tickets for video accses: $8.
Yo Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble is by definition a globe-trotting band, working with musicians from around the world. During the lockdown they’ve presented various solo performances online, but tonight, Yo Yo Ma’s getting the band back together for a special online concert. It’s a ticketed event and will feature numerous guests, like the Grammy and MacArthur winning singer and multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens, joined the ensemble back in 2016 to record this New Orleans classic, the "St James Infirmary Blues."
The Wed. July 29 concert celebrates Silk Road’s 20th anniversary at Tanglewood with two world premieres jointly conceived by Maeve Gilchrist and Kevork Mourad and by Edward Perez and Kaoru Watanabe; a distanced collaboration by Rhiannon Giddens, Sandeep Das, and Kojiro Umezaki; and archived footage from a 2012 performance at Tanglewood by the Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma. Both Rhiannon Giddens and the Silk Road Ensemble are part of Wed. night's live streaming concert presented by the Tanglewood Festival. There will be special post-concert Q&A with the artist on July 29 only, and the video stream will be accessible for five days, starting 8PM on July 29.
