David Amram’s Many Worlds: Concert & Book Release
MAS Presents: David Amram’s Many Worlds
Robert Mirabal
Sip craft cocktails and join fellow music lovers for a night of extraordinary music.
Evening begins at 7 pm, music at 8 pm.
All ages welcome.
Students receive 25% discount on tickets with code MAS-Student25
Full bar: 21+ with valid ID.
Robert Mirabal is a Pueblo musician and multitalented instrumentalist from Taos Pueblo, New Mexico. Among his many musical talents, Mirabal plays percussion, keys, ocarina, didgeridoo, and flute, and even crafts some of his own instruments. Robert’s flutes have been on auction around the world and have been displayed at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of the American Indian.
An award-winning musician and leading proponent of world music, Mirabal performs worldwide, sharing flute songs, tribal rock, dance, and storytelling. Mirabal was twice named the Native American Music Awards' Artist of the Year, and received the Songwriter of the Year award three times. In 2006 he was featured on the Grammy Award-winning album, Sacred Ground: A Tribute to Mother Earth and in 2008 he took home the Grammy for Best Native American Music Album.
Of his music, Mirabal says, “I offer my work as a healing for the human spirit and a remembrance of why we are all here together”.
In addition to the music and instruments he creates, Mirabal is also a celebrated painter, poet and playwright. He is the author of A Skeleton of a Bridge, a book of poetry prose and short stories. He has lent his words and insights to several educational and documentary films, including two narrated by Robert Redford, Silent Witness and Sacred Sites. And, he is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts award and the New York Dance and Performer’s “Bessie” Award for composition.
Curtis Stewart
Sip craft cocktails and join fellow music lovers for a night of extraordinary music.
Evening begins at 7 pm, music at 8 pm.
All ages welcome.
Students receive 25% discount on tickets with code MAS-Student25
Full bar: 21+ with valid ID.
Praised for “combining omnivory and brilliance” (The New York Times), four-time Grammy Award-nominated violinist and composer Curtis Stewart translates stories of self determination to the concert stage.
Tearing down the facade of “classical violinist,” Stewart is in constant pursuit of his musical authenticity, treating art as a battery for realizing citizenship. As a solo violinist, composer, Artistic Director of the American Composers Orchestra, professor at The Juilliard School, and member of award-winning ensembles PUBLIQuartet and The Mighty Third Rail, Stewart realizes a vision to find personal and powerful connections between styles, cultures and musics.
As a soloist, Curtis Stewart has been presented by Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, Cal Performances, Washington Performing Arts, Virginia Arts Festival, The Juilliard School, and the 2022 GRAMMY Awards, among many others. He has made special appearances with Los Angeles Opera and singer-songwriter Tamar Kali; as curator and guest soloist with Anthony Roth Costanzo and the New York Philharmonic “Bandwagon,” touring performance installations from NYC’s Whitney Museum, Guggenheim Museum, and Museum of Modern Art; to MTV specials with Wyclef Jean; and sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden with Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, and Seal. Stewart’s 2021 album of quarantined song cycles and art videos, Of Power (Bright Shiny Things), was nominated for a GRAMMY Award for Best Classical Instrumental Solo.
In 2022, Stewart was named Artistic Director of the American Composers Orchestra, a national organization dedicated to the creation, celebration, performance, and promotion of orchestral music by diverse and innovative American composers.
An avid teacher, Curtis Stewart teaches Chamber Music, Improvised Chamber Music, and “Cultural Equity and Performance Practice” at The Juilliard School; directs the Contemporary Chamber Music program at the Perlman Music Program; served on the board of Concert Artist Guild; conducted several orchestras and opera pit orchestras; and for 10 years led all levels of music theory and string orchestra at the Laguardia High School for Music & Art and Performing Arts in New York City.
Announcement: Fall 2024 Shows
Tune in on Friday, June 28 for MAS Presents’ fall line-up.
Jolie Holland
Doors @ 7:00 PM
All ages welcome.
Beer, wine & cocktails: 21+ with ID.
For the first time since 2014, Jolie Holland – singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, and producer – returns to Denver.
The enigmatic artist, with eight studio albums to her name, embodies a style best described as a fusion of American roots, rock, and experimental. Formerly a member of the well-known Canadian folk-group the Be Good Tanyas, Holland has been on the road since the early 2000s, more recently sharing the stage with names such as Big Thief, St. Vincent, Elbow, and Mavis Staples.
Said Lou Reed once to Holland, “I could have listened to you all night”.
Holland’s latest album, Haunted Mountain (2023), was received with great acclaim reasserting “her stature as one of the most electrifying performers on the contemporary scene” (Vinyl District). For this album, the songstress teamed up with Buck Meek of Big Thief to create an “otherworldly” and “intimate” (NPR) masterpiece with lyrics rooted in discord and provocation.
Holland’s debut solo album, Catalpa (2003) along with her sophomore release, Escondida (2004), established Holland as one of the nation's most important young songwriters. Her follow-up albums Springtime Can Kill You (2006), The Living and the Dead (2008), and Pint Of Blood (2011) are hailed as “transmissions from dustier times” with Holland’s voice “cutting through the din” (NPR). Wildflower Blues, her seventh studio album, is a captivating collaboration with former Be Good Tanyas bandmate, Samantha Parton, released in 2017.
Holland’s authentically raw and emotive voice, as well as her ability to embody the weird and the wonderful (Wine Dark Sea (2014)), have earned her space in the studio with Booker T, Lucinda Williams, and TV On The Radio, collaborations with Hal Willner, Kronos Quartet, and Boots Riley, and Tom Waits as a fan.
Grab a ticket, come early, stay late, and simmer in the haunting sounds of Jolie Holland.
