PROGRAM:
Doors 4
Show starts 4:30
Begin with a Student Showcase from the Departments of Music and Studio Art, then a Conversation with Artists and Scholars on Harry Smith, life and work, Followed by an expanded cinema performance by Lori Goldston and Swil Kanim.
Light refreshments will be available.
ARTIST BIOS:
Lori Goldston is a cellist and composer from Seattle. Her voice as a cellist draws connections between far-flung ideas and explores timbral thresholds of her instrument, driven by a restless curiosity and informed by a long, widely varied history of collaborations with bands, ensembles large and small, composers, film makers and choreographers including Earth, Nirvana, the BBC Scottish Symphony, Mirah, Black Belt Eagle Scout, Helms Alee, Jim Fletcher, Christian Rizzo, Maya Dunietz, Jherek Bischoff, Jessika Kenney, Eyvind Kang, Ilan Volkov, David Byrne, Lonnie Holley, Stuart Dempster, Shelley Hirsch, Ghedalia Tezartes, Ellen Fullman, Lynn Shelton and many, many others. Referred to by UK’s The Quietus as a “ a hugely important character in contemporary music history”, she performs in the US and abroad, and has released recordings on on Sub Rosa, Woodland Fauna, Marginal Frequency, Yo Yo, K Records, Second Editions, Sub Pop, Mississippi Records, Eiderdown, Substrata, Ed Banger, PIAPTK, SofaBurn, Broken Clover, and No Sun.
Swil Kanim is a US Army Veteran, classically trained violinist, native storyteller and actor, is a member of the Lummi Nation. Because of his unique ability to inspire audiences to express themselves honorably, Swil Kanim is a sought-after keynote speaker for conferences, workshops, school assemblies, and rehabilitation centers. He travels extensively throughout the United States, enchanting audiences with his original composition music and native storytelling. Swil Kanim considers himself and his music to be the product of a well supported public school music program. Music and the performance of music helped him to process the traumas associated with his early placement into the foster care system. Swil Kanim’s compositions incorporate classical influences as well as musical interpretations of his journey from depression and despair to spiritual and emotional freedom. The music and stories that emerge from his experiences have been transforming people’s lives for decades.
Bret Lundsford is an American vocalist, songwriter, guitarist, author and founding member of the influential band Beat Happening and D+. In addition to his own musical endeavors, Lunsford owns and operates Knw-Yr-Own Records, an independent label based in Lunsford’s hometown of Anacortes, Washington, and manages What the Heck Fest, an annual music festival featuring independent and local musicians. He is also a writer of cultural criticism, and author of Images of America, Anacortes. From 1990 to 2005, Lunsford was the owner of The Business record store in Anacortes. In 2021, Lundsford’s book Sounding for Harry Smith: Early Pacific Northwest Influences is a biography of Harry Everett Smith (1923-1991) that explores the mysteries of his Salish Sea youth during the Great Depression years in Anacortes, Washington, was published.
Felicia Youngblood received her PhD in Musicology from Florida State University in 2019, where she was a member of the Fellows Society, a Krebs Scholar, and a graduate assistant with the Program for Instructional Excellence. Her current work evaluates how music sustainability efforts can be used to reclaim traditionally underrepresented voices, for which she received a Presser Foundation Graduate Music Research Award in 2017. In particular, she collaborates with the Club per l’UNESCO di Galatina to analyze how the contributions of women to a centuries-old Southern Italian ritual, known as tarantism. Dr. Youngblood’s research explores how the Club’s tarantism festival and reenactments highlight the voices and essential roles of these women as cornerstones of Apulian identity. An article on this topic, “On Un-Silencing Voices: Tarantismo and the Gendered Heritage of Apulia,” was published in the journal Folk Life in March 2019. Youngblood is associate professor of Musicology/Ethnomusicology, Musicology Area Coordinator at Western Washington University
Moderated by Sasha Petrenko, Associate Professor of Sculpture and Expanded Media at Western Washington University in Bellingham. where she also runs Sound.Out.Radio with amazing student TAs and volunteers