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A string quartet, a string band, a woman's vocal quartet, a jaw-dropping improvising world-music collective.pick a box and Real Vocal String Quartet will think outside it, with style. RVSQ's simultaneous singing and stringing may just be the perfect combination for straddling musical worlds. RVSQ plays original songs and unique arrangements that pay tribute to music from Appalachia to Kenya to Brazil, incorporating sparkling improvisation that impresses and moves.
"They've all got the classical bona fides, but they're also astoundingly fluent in jazz, klezmer, bluegrass, hip-hop, Brazilian, Balkan, Cajun, Middle Eastern, West African, and probably a dozen more musical languages....RVSQ's music is by turns beautiful, haunting, mesmerizing and foot-stomping fun."
- KQED Arts
"...As can be witnessed on their debut eponymous recording (February 9, 2010, independent release) and in concert, they bang on their violins, stomp their feet, and allow African trance music to influence their take on old timey standards. ..."There is a perception that 'new music' for classically trained musicians needs to be difficult or inaccessible," says Dina Macabee, a violinist/fiddler/violist in the group. "We are all totally into challenging ideas but we also like pop music. And we feel like just because you have a highly trained skill set doesn't mean you need to play obscure music.""
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"Cliches interrupted."
Heroes of Indie Music
RVSQ was formed in 2003 by premier San Francisco violinist/composer Irene Sazer one of the founding members of
Grammy-winning Chamber Music Sensation The Turtle Island String Quartet. Since then, the quartet has performed to sold out audiences around the Bay Area. The group is thrilled to announce the release this February of their first studio album. RVSQ's influences range from traditional American string band music to contemporary improvisation, from Brazilian folk rhythms to hypnotic meditations from West Africa. Through it all, the threads of spine-tingling vocal and instrumental harmony and fearless, inspired improvisation weave a web of original acoustic music played with a deep groove.
Irene Sazer is a violinist, composer, arranger and singer. She has served as concertmaster with the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra as well as the Bay Area Women's Philharmonic, and has performed with The Oakland Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony, and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. She has recorded and/or performed with, to name just a few, Jai Uttal, Ali Akbar Khan, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Natalie Cole, Frank Sinatra, Kitaro, Smoky Robinson, David Grisman, Linda Rondstadt, Bjork, Maria Marquez and Billy Joel.
Violinist Alisa Rose is a member of the Real Vocal String Quartet, Homespun Rowdy, Forty-Nine Special, Quartet San Francisco, and A.J. Roach and the Strange Pilgrims. Alisa performed recently at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Strawberry Music Festival, the Olympic Music Festival, Blue Highways Festival in Utrecht, Netherlands, Reinberger Chamber Hall, and in Carnegie Hall, and on PBS "Song of the Mountains." She has also recorded and/or performed with Mars Arizona, Matt Bauer, Rachel Ries, Nels Andrews, Anais Mitchell, ALO, Train, and Bauhaus.
Bay Area native Dina Maccabee performs with many Bay Area ensembles on violin and viola. She performs with The German Projekt (songs of Kurt Weill), Howard Wiley's Angola Project (contemporary spiritual-inspired jazz), the Japonize Elephants (circus-klezmer-bluegrass), Evie Ladin's Evil Diane (original old-timey folk), and the Middle-Eastern psychedelic ensemble Khi Darag. Performance highlights include appearances with Donovan, Sufjan Stevens, and Tin Hat Trio.
Jessica Ivry (cello) plays with the Real Vocal String Quartet, an original music string and vocal ensemble and with avant-cabaret composer and singer Amy X Neuburg and the Cello ChiXtet. Jessica has also performed and toured Balkan women's choir, Kitka and recorded on Grammy nominated album, "Blueprint of a Lady". Recently Jessica performed with ARK, a conglomerate of Bay Area and New York Klezmer musicians at the 18th Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, Poland as seen on KQED "Spark".
1/23 - room 9
2/13 - room 9
Food & Plays Potluck - please bring food & a play to share (if possible to bring your play a few days in advance so the scene you want to perform will be ready at the gathering)
Saturday, January 28, 8:00 pm
Charlie Varon’s
Rabbi Sam
Copresented with Gan Halev: The Jewish Congregation of the San Geronimo Valley
Wildly entertaining...skillfully blends hilarity with real food for thought — SF Chronicle
Saturday, March 17, 5:00 PM
Lagunitas School Multipurpose Room
$15 adults, $12 Senior, $8 Children. Family of 3 or more $35.
With MC Extraordinaire Jasper Thelin!
Kids: get your green on and show your talent!
Save the date for a rollicking good St. Patrick’s Day celebration for a worthy cause!
Local youth talent ranging in age from the single digits to their 20’s will blow our minds with stellar performances to benefit the Community Center After School Programs. One of the Center’s all-time favorite events. Parents: please help your kids plan their acts and practice them for a 50% reduction in pre-show jitters. We are seeking volunteer to make this the best talent show ever – if you can bake cookies or help the day of the show please email arts@sgvcc.org or
Call Hannah at 488-8888 #253. Don’t miss the registration forms in the next issue of Stone Soup & in notes home.
Plan to come early for an easy, affordable dinner with your family and friends!
It all supports the scholarships that make our Community Center’s youth programs affordable for all our families – thanks for making this a warm, wonderful community for all our kids!
B. Someone who loves the Internet and would like to help get the word out about Community Center events by researching and posting to various community, arts and other sites.
C. An organizational genius who likes to set up filing systems, organize storage and otherwise help develop systems for stuff and information.
D. People who like to walk and check out the shops to help distribute event posters to local shops and boards and/or those in other parts of Marin.
E. Artists and designers who would like to upgrade our fliers or donate design for one of our larger events.
F. Be a community host for one of our events. See an event you think is great! Help us by inviting 10 of your friends and letting us use your name on our community host list in publicity.
G. Are you buff? Lift heavy things for a good cause -
For more information or inquiries about other ways to volunteer please call
Hannah at 488-8888 #253 or Email: arts@sgvcc.org
