Please note this is an outdoor performance. In case of rain, the performance will take place Sunday June 21st.

Bowerbird is pleased to co-present Follow the Sound at Stoneleigh: a natural garden. This unique program blends a naturalist-led walk through the garden, with particular attention focused on birds, bugs and ‘the here and now’ of the environmental soundscape, interspersed with site-responsive impromptu performances by trombonist Dan Blacksberg and saxophonist Andrew Urbina along the way. This will be a rare and special opportunity for deep communal listening and attunement in a beautiful setting.

Estimated run time: 60 minutes

Ticketing link will be available soon.
There will be two time-slots to choose from:
6pm start and 6:30pm start

$30 – Natural Lands member ticket
$40 – Non-member ticket
$20 – Young Adult ticket (30 and under)
$10 ACCESS ticket

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Genre-defying and tradition-inhabiting trombonist, improviser, and klezmer musician Dan Blacksberg creates a vast musical universe that encompasses everything from the minute variations of a melody that power the unencumbered joy of a Yiddish Dance Party to the hair-raising extended techniques of the most avant-garde jazz and noise rock, and most everything in between.

Andrew Urbina (saxophone) is from the suburbs of Philadelphia and of Colombian descent. He is a freelance musician who performs and teaches throughout the United States, Canada, and Colombia. He earned a Bachelor of Music from New England Conservatory and a Masters of Music from McGill University both concentration in Jazz Studies. He also completed his PA K-12 Teaching Certification at Immaculata University. In the summer of 2008, Andrew participated in the Banff International Workshop of Jazz and Creative Music at the Banff Centre led by Dave Douglas in Alberta, Canada. The following year in January 2009, Andrew performed at the VI Panama Jazz Festival with an ensemble from New England Conservatory and later from 2012-2016, he lived in Bogota, Colombia and was an active performer and educator throughout the country. In January 2016, he had the opportunity to perform with the Ida y Vuelta ensemble at the X Festival Internacional de Musica in Cartagena, Colombia. Currently as a performer, Andrew is an active member of the Norman David Eleventet, U.S.E. Trio, Phantasma, BeUs Quartet and performs regularly with various groups throughout the greater Philadelphia area. He is also an active and passionate educator and has worked in many educational settings such as La Universidad Sergio Arboleda, McGill University, PA Governor’s School of the Arts, and Bala Cynwyd Middle School. He currently is a Music Teacher at Radnor Middle School where he teaches concert band, jazz band, general music and music technology.

Organized in collaboration with World Askew and funded in part by PECO, Team Pennsylvania, and Pennsylvania Creative Industries