WoCo Fest 2022 Day Two

Co-Presented by Strathmore
May 28, 2022

AMP by Strathmore
11810 Grand Park Avenue 4th Floor, North Bethesda, MD 20852

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Tickets

We kick off Day 2 with an incredible line-up of performers at AMP by Strathmore in North Bethesda, MD. Tickets for day two at AMP by Strathmore are purchased directly through Strathmore’s ticketing website from the button below.

We require that audience members wear masks during the festival. Proof of vaccination is required at AMP by Strathmore for all Day 2 attendees.

Day Two Schedule - May 28 @ AMP by Strathmore

Recap

1pm: Recap

Recap is a percussion quartet from a new generation of musicians dedicated to music reflecting the diverse society we live in today. Recap released their debut album “Count to Five” on Innova Recordings in September 2021 with premiere recordings of music by Angélica Negrón, Allison Loggins-Hull, Ellen Reid, Lesley Flanigan, Mary Kouyoumdjian, and Caroline Shaw. Their album is featured on both NPR's Top 10 Classical Albums of the Year (2021) as well as NPR's Top 100 Songs of the Year for their performance of Lesley Flanigan's "Hedera."

3pm: Leila Adu

Composer-performer Leila Adu-Gilmore has firmly carved her name into the space where electropop, avant-classical and singer-songwriter meet. Hailing from New Zealand, Britain and Ghana, performing as solo artist and band leader “Leila Adu” she has performed her original piano songs and improvisations alongside international artists at festivals and venues in the UK, mainland Europe, the US, Russia, Ghana and Asia. She has released five acclaimed albums, including two for Italian National Radio and ‘Dark Joan’ (recorded by Steve Albini); and has performed on BBC’s World Service solo and produced a short-film and documentary soundtrack with screenings on BBC Knowledge TV channel and the NZ Film Festival, as well as performing in Luscious Jackson on ‘Late Night with David Letterman.’

4:30pm: Panel Discussion

Composers discuss projects from their earliest inception to their fullest realization! We’ll talk about inspiration and obstacles, both internal and external, with a focus on what drives us to keep making our music happen and how we get it out there!

6:00pm: Jiji

Applauded by the Calgary Herald as “…talented, sensitive…brilliant,” Jiji is an adventurous artist on both acoustic and electric guitar, playing an extensive range of music from traditional and contemporary classical music to free improvisation. Her impeccable musicianship combined with compelling stage presence and fascinating repertoire earned the Korean guitarist First Prize at the 2016 Concert Artists Guild International Competition.

8pm: Attacca Quartet & Caroline Shaw

GRAMMY Award-winning Attacca Quartet, as described by The Nation, “lives in the present aesthetically, without rejecting the virtues of the musical past”, and it is this dexterity to glide between the music of the 18th through to 21st century living composer’s repertoire that has placed them as one of the most versatile and outstanding ensembles of the moment – a quartet for modern times.

Caroline Shaw is a GRAMMY Award-winning composer and is the youngest recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in Music for Partita for 8 Voices (Roomful of Teeth), and she works often in collaboration with others, as producer, composer, violinist, and vocalist. She has produced for Kanye West, Rosalía, Woodkid, and Nas. Her work as vocalist or composer has appeared in several films, tv series, and podcasts including The Humans, Bombshell, Yellowjackets, Maid, Dark, Beyonce’s Homecoming, jeen-yuhs: a Kanye Trilogy, Dolly Parton’s America, and More Perfect.