Tuesday, August 09 08pm & 10pm
The STONE
Northwest corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street, New York, NY 100009
2016 Doris Duke Artist Jen Shyu is an experimental jazz vocalist, composer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer, and Fulbright Scholar. She has produced six albums, becoming the first female artist and vocalist as bandleader of Pi Recordings. She specializes in lesser-known traditional forms such as East Timorese and Taiwanese songs, Javanese Sindhenan, and Korean Pansori. Her latest album, Sounds and Cries of the World (Pi, 2015) ranked in The Nation’s and The New York Times’ Top 10 “Best Albums of 2015.”
8 pm Show: Song for Baridegi (Mother of All Shamans)
Jen Shyu (composition, vocals, gayageum, Taiwanese moon lute, piano)
Contemporary work inspired by the legend of Baridegi
10 pm Show: Korean Pansori (Simcheongga) and Gayageum Byeongchang
Jen Shyu (vocals, gayageum) & Jinwook Hong (soribuk, janggu)
Traditional performance of excerpts from Simcheongga and select Gayageum Byeongchang pieces
For more information visit: http://www.koreanculture.org