I'm performing with Canadian folk duo Russell & Gray tonight at the Atlantic Bar & Grill in Chicago's Lincoln Square neighborhood!
This is my "non-classical" gig, in which I can wear jeans or a short skirt if I want - instead of concert black - and I will be plugged in. Even though I have a Master's degree in flute performance and played the Nielsen concerto by memory in graduate school in front of an orchestra, nothing makes me nervous the way that having a microphone hooked on to my flute does. My academic training prepared me to be a great sight-reader and how to tune with a wind section in a chamber group or an orchestra, but playing with amplification is a test of different sorts. The microphone doesn't have a junk filter, so I feel a bit under a microscope like this. A boomy concert hall or a church can be acoustically forgiving. Will the microphone pick up the junky noise of my key pads, my breaths, the pulses in my vibrato?
And I'll be playing some dumbek as well. The dumbek is a Middle-Eastern drum which I feel in love with on my trip to Morocco last summer. I've been studying the rhythms of Arabic music since I came back from my trip, but won't be playing in that style this evening. And I don't dare call myself a percussionist yet.
The Atlantic is located in the heart of Lincoln Square at 5062 N Lincoln Avenue. Music will begin around 8pm.
This is my "non-classical" gig, in which I can wear jeans or a short skirt if I want - instead of concert black - and I will be plugged in. Even though I have a Master's degree in flute performance and played the Nielsen concerto by memory in graduate school in front of an orchestra, nothing makes me nervous the way that having a microphone hooked on to my flute does. My academic training prepared me to be a great sight-reader and how to tune with a wind section in a chamber group or an orchestra, but playing with amplification is a test of different sorts. The microphone doesn't have a junk filter, so I feel a bit under a microscope like this. A boomy concert hall or a church can be acoustically forgiving. Will the microphone pick up the junky noise of my key pads, my breaths, the pulses in my vibrato?
And I'll be playing some dumbek as well. The dumbek is a Middle-Eastern drum which I feel in love with on my trip to Morocco last summer. I've been studying the rhythms of Arabic music since I came back from my trip, but won't be playing in that style this evening. And I don't dare call myself a percussionist yet.
The Atlantic is located in the heart of Lincoln Square at 5062 N Lincoln Avenue. Music will begin around 8pm.
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