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Tomeka Reid Stringtet

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Tomeka Reid. Photo: Michael Jackson.

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“A New Jazz Power Source . . . a melodic improviser with a natural, flowing sense of song and an experimenter who can create heat and grit with the texture of sound.” —New York Times

Chicago-based cellist, composer, and MacArthur “Genius” Tomeka Reid has emerged as one of today’s most original and versatile musicians in the international jazz and improvised music scene. The Walker presents Reid’s most ambitious project to date—her full Stringtet, a 15-member improvising chamber orchestra that features stellar jazz and classical players such as Jason Kao Hwang, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Sylvia Bolognesi, and Tomas Fujiwara, among others, conducted by Taylor Ho Bynum.

Presented in partnership with Liquid Music.

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Accessibility

Assistive-listening devices are available at the box office. For more information about accessibility or to request additional accommodations for this performance, call 612-375-7564 or email access@walkerart.org.

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Program support provided by King’s Fountain/Barbara Watson Pillsbury in honor of Henry Pillsbury, actor, theater director, and leading figure in Franco-American cross-cultural exchange in dance, theater, and music. Additional support provided by Leni and David Moore, Jr./The David and Leni Moore Family Foundation.

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It Makes Us Who We Are: Tomeka Reid and Damon Locks on Musical Improvisation, from Jazz to Punk Rock and Beyond

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