Pull out your planners or your iPhones or however it is you keep track of what you'll be doing in a few weeks, and jot down the dates of Duke Performance's Music in the Gardens series. Mixing stand-alone bills featuring area favorites like Eric Bachmann and Dex Romweber with new local lights like The Love Language and Megafaun, the series represents another coup for Duke's ground-level, plugged-in booking under the leadership of Aaron Greenwald. All shows begin at 7 p.m. in or around the Duke Gardens, and each shows cost $10 for the public and $5 for Duke employees. Duke students and children under 12 get in for free. A rad series for the right price.
May 20: Ciompi Quartet with soprano Sandra Cotton
May 27: Ciompi Quartet with Emory University's Vega String Quartet and oboist Joe Robinson
June 3: Thad Cockrell
June 10: The Rosebuds
June 17: Megafaun
June 24: Alina Simone
July 1: Dex Romweber Duo
July 8: Mallarme Chamber Players and Brussels Chamber Orchestra
July 15: The Love Language
July 22: Eric Bachmann (of Crooked Fingers/ Archers of Loaf)
July 29: Chris Stamey & Peter Holsapple
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Hey Karen— Yup, looks like it does. The series "showcases the best of local chamber music and independent rock—two genres in which the Piedmont excels." I suppose they wanted to keep to that theme.
Nice line up. Does the series really end on July 29? I would have thought they'd add a little jazz or blues.
Actually, I don't anymore. This paper's pointed out that now moot point several times in the past, and this is—after all—a listing of an upcoming concert schedule, not a feature on the band. But good look, though.