Yellow Barn Concert Series: World on a String

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YELLOW BARN CONCERT SERIES
The Iva Smith Memorial Gallery of Fine Art will host a summer concert series with various dates held June - September. Listeners are invited to ask the performers questions and see their instruments at close hand. 

WORLD ON A STRING: Afro-Cuban and Brazilian jazz/world music ft. Paul Meyers on guitar; Vanderlei Pereira on percussion & Michael O'Brien on bass guitar  to perform on Sunday, June 18 at 5:00pm.

Jazz guitar virtuoso Paul Meyers, who lived and worked professionally for over 40 years in and around NY City, now living in Hannawa Falls, will be joined by his NYC compatriots to bring the unique sounds of Brazilian jazz and more to the yellow barn for an opening concert that promises to be the essence of cool and the first of its kind in our area!

For more than 10 years Paul has led World on a String, which features the wonderful drummer Vanderlei Pereira, originally from Rio de Janeiro, who brings in a vast knowledge of Brazilian and Afro-Cuban rhythms. On bass is another fantastic musician, Michael O'Brien, a veteran player of these styles as well as much African music, and another very melodic soloist as well.

Paul says "The repertoire is of my original compositions and arrangements, using a core of great players/improvisers to perform music that fuses the jazz tradition with Brazilian & Latin and beyond. It’s my own version of world music, but all with a swinging, grooving foundation.

2023 Yellow Barn Concert Schedule
June 11: FIDDLERS THREE at 5:00pm
June 18: WORLD ON A STRING at 5:00pm
July 12: CANTIGA at 5:00pm
July 23: SUMMER AFTERNOON SONG SOIREE FT. IVY WALZ & PEJ REITZ at 3:00pm
July 30: A GATHERING OF VOICES at 5:00pm
August 13: SING-ALONG, PLAY-ALONG JAM WITH BARB HELLER at 5:00pm
September 9: THE ATKINSON FAMILY BAND CONCERT at 7:00pm
September 17: CARAMELO TRIO PRESENTS: A SOUND TAPESTRY SOUTH OF THE BORDER at 5:00pm
September 23: MAEVE GILCHRIST at 2:00pm