Bowerbird is pleased to present a morning birdwalk at the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge at Tinicum led by Tony Croasdale interspersed with two performances by Matt Engle and Juan Castrillón.

Please take note of the weather and dress accordingly with appropriate footwear.
Meet at the Environmental Education Pavilion, to the right of the visitor center, near the parking lot, there are toilets and a water fountain nearby. Map

Estimated run time: 120 minutes
Distance: approx. one mile
Terrain: ADA accessible
Free admission – reservations are encouraged

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Matt Engle grew up in the Philadelphia area and has been an active member of the creative and improvised music scene for 20 years. Matt defies categorization seamlessly moving among different styles and disciplines. His work extends to the world of electronic music, featured on his recording with poet Michael Szekely under the name The Alternate View. Recently Matt recorded with the Chad Taylor Quintet for a release on Otherly Love records entitled Smoke Shifter. His love of the acoustic bass matches the intimacy of the pairing of his mind and body to this particular instrument. His deep interest in birds, waves, unique people, esoteric sounds, the moon and all celestial objects helps to increase the emotional, spiritual and creative content of his work in music.
He has contributed to many situations in music previously performing and/or recording with Chad Taylor, Bobby Zankel, Sonic Liberation Front, Shot By Shot, Yapp, Split Red, Dave Liebman, Marshall Allen, Sam Newsome, Rick Iannacone, jaimie branch, Elliott Levin, Anthony Pirog, Raymond King, David Middleton, Dan Blacksberg, Vince Johnson, Muhammad Ali, Oliver Lake, Tim Berne, Pete Angevine, Thurman Barker, and Brandon Seabrook among many others.

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Juan Castrillón is a multimodal cultural anthropologist, ethnomusicologist and musician with regional expertise in Türkiye and the Northwest Amazon in Colombia. His research interests include theories of listening, media archives, contemporary healing arts, mimesis, and modalities of inscription. His multimodal work and performances dialogue with contemporary debates about decoloniality, heterogenesis, visual and sound/music cultures, and indigenous analytics of the person, space, magic, and technology.

Tony Croasdale started birding at about nine years old. Tony has performed field research in the Canadian Arctic, Alaska, Brazil, Peru, and in the Mid-Atlantic. He was the singer of R.A.M.B.O., a hardcore punk band and birded extensively while on tour. Tony works as an environmental educator and co-hosts the Urban Wildlife Podcast <http://www.urbanwildlifecast.com/>.

Organized in collaboration with World Askew