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SUMMARY:Eliza Blue: Kithship Collective
DESCRIPTION:The Matthews Opera House & Arts Center is excited to present The Kithship Collective in partnership with author\, folk-musician\, and shepherd Eliza Blue on Sunday\, October 2 at 2 pm in the Matthews theater! \nThe Kithship Collective’s objective is to preserve\, share\, rediscover\, and reimagine melodies from the grasslands. For this installment\, Eliza will be hosting Lakota flutist and hoop dancer Kevin Locke\, and North Dakota folk-singer and rancher Chuck Suchy for an interactive\, family-friendly afternoon of stories\, songs\, and dancing. \n\nKithship = a relationship built on shared knowledge of place \nEliza’s inspiration for creating the collective: \n“The grassland ecosystem is one of the most endangered on the planet and one of the least appreciated…and this ecosystem’s biodiversity and potential for carbon capture is exceptional! \nI began work for the collective as a series of invocations of praise and prayers of gratitude for the prairie\, for healing\, for understanding and for rebuilding our relationships to this place and to one another. I wanted to write love songs to all there is to fall in love with. I wanted to write songs people could dance to together\, and I wanted to find other musicians and artists who were interested in doing the same thing. I hope the Kithship Collective can be the start of a bigger movement of embracing the beauty of the world\, and learning to better cherish it and all the beings who call this place home.” \n\nAbout Eliza Blue\nEliza Blue is a folk musician\, writer\, environmental advocate\, and rancher residing in one of the most remote counties in the contiguous United States\, Perkins County\, South Dakota. She writes a weekly column about rural life\, Little Pasture on the Prairie\, that is carried by 17 different print publications\, writes and produces seasonal audio “postcards” from her ranch for South Dakota Public Broadcasting and Prairie Public Radio\, and released her first book\, Accidental Rancher\, in 2020. Her writing on rural life has also been featured in the New York Times\, The Guardian\, and she is regular columnist for The Daily Yonder\, a national publication for and about rural people. Blue’s latest project\, a traveling concert television show for PBS that celebrates rural culture & arts called Wish You Were Here with Eliza Blue\, was recently nominated for a Midwest-Emmy\, and is now filming its third season.\n\n\nFor more\, catch Eliza’s visits with North Dakota troubadour Chuck Suchy on PBS’s Wish You Were Here: Bohemian Hall and Kevin Locke on Wish You Were Here: Tuttle\, North Dakota.\n\nAbout Chuck Suchy\nSinger/songwriter Chuck Suchy (soo’ key) is a working North Dakota farmer whose original universally-themed songs and stories have earned him broad acclaim and esteemed venues including Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion\, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and many other major music festivals across North America.\n\nThe late Rod Kennedy\, founder of the famed Kerrville Folk Festival\, called Suchy “One of the great American songwriters.” Folk music magazine\, Dirty Linen says of Suchy: “Ya gotta love this guy!  He writes a great song\, plays solid guitar\, sings with rare confidence and lives his material!” In 2015 he was awarded the North Dakota Governor’s Award for the Arts\n\nAbout Kevin Locke\nKevin Locke (Lakota name: Tȟokéya Inážiŋ\, meaning “The First to Arise”; born 1954) is Lakota (Hunkpapa band) and Anishinaabe. He is a preeminent player of the Indigenous\nNorth American flute\, a traditional storyteller\, cultural ambassador\, recording artist\, fluent Lakota language and sign language speaker\, and educator. He is most known for his hoop dance\, The Hoop of Life.\nBorn in 1954 in Southern California\, at the age of five years Locke moved north with his family\, later to settle in South Dakota on the Standing Rock Reservation in 1966. It was from his mother\, Patricia Locke\, his uncle Abraham End-of-Horn\, mentor Joe Rock Boy\, and many elders and relatives that Kevin received training in the values\, traditions and language of his native Sioux culture. He is frequently cited as an ambassador of Native American culture to the United States and the world.\nMr. Locke attended the Institute of American Indian Arts in New Mexico for high school and earned a master’s degree in educational administration from the University of South Dakota. He taught himself to speak Lakota\, his ancestral language\, as a young adult. Mr. Locke learned the hoop dance\, which had nearly died out\, from Arlo Good Bear\, a Mandan Hidatsa Indian from North Dakota. Since 1978\, he has traveled to more than 90 countries to perform.\nMr Locke uses folk arts to emphasize universal themes that are integral to all peoples. Universality of human spirit\, its inclination towards peace\, balance\, harmony\, and a longing that all human beings have for the Divine Springtime are a few central themes that he displays in his hoop dance\, which is essentially a prayer for the unification of all mankind.
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SUMMARY:An Afternoon with Kimberly Kaye Bachman
DESCRIPTION:The Matthews Opera House & Arts Center is excited to present an afternoon of live music with Kimberly Kaye Bachman on Sunday\, October 16 at 2 pm in the Matthews theater! \nKimberly Kaye brings that EmmyLou Harris meets Kacey Musgraves sound to every stage. She is an award-winning multi-instrumental singer-songwriter who has played the stages with names you know and love.  Her music has been twice inducted into the South Dakota Country Music Hall of Fame\, Top 20 Songwriter at the prestigious Red Lodge Montana Songwriter Festival\, and recently chosen as South Dakota favorite in the National Public Radio Tiny Desk songwriting contest two years in a row.  Because of her rural background\, time in the saddle\, and contagious sense of humor\, her music\, western poetry\, captivating storytelling\, and shows are deeply ingrained in reminiscent nostalgia of yesteryear. Her audiences love her! She loves them! You’ve got to know Kimberly Kaye! \nSDPB recently sat down with Kimberly and you can listen to the full interview and hear samplings of her music! \nNeed a listen? \n\n[arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtA3o4ela2I” loop=”no” muted=”no” /] \n[arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx4A-Onrou8&t=45s” loop=”no” muted=”no” /]
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SUMMARY:Live Music with Philip Daniel
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Matthews Opera House & Arts Center on Friday\, October 28 at 7:30 pm at the Matthews Opera House & Arts Center for an evening of live music with pianist and composer Philip Daniel! \n\n“Philip Daniel’s deeply-moving classical compositions are elegant in their simplicity yet complex in their sublime depth of emotion. Daniel has an uncanny knack for finding the perfect moment to introduce strings and subtle synths to his hauntingly beautiful piano pieces. They are startling moments within sprawling cinematic movements\, which powerfully pull on the heartstrings and can bring a tear to the eye.” \n~ musicvine \n \n\n\n  \nAbout Philip Daniel\nFrom Lincoln\, Nebraska\, Daniel did his graduate work at the UMKC Conservatory in Piano Performance and his undergraduate studies at Hastings College\, where he earned a Bachelor’s in Piano Performance and Piano Pedagogy. \nDuring his undergraduate years\, Philip discovered a passion for creating his own music. He was heavily inspired by contemporary classical composers such as Olafur Arnalds\, NIls Frahm\, Philip Glass\, Max Richter and more by their ability to transmit powerful emotions thru simplistic\, minimalistic sound while each possessing their own unique “voice” in a non-cliche manner. He aims to follow in these musician’s footsteps by blending aspects of classical music\, minimalism\, cinematic qualities\, and more. He seeks to appeal to the seasoned\, trained musician as well as the normal\, non-musically inclined listener in a way that can impact both. \nPhilip has released 6 studio albums as follows 1. Gradient (2017) 2. This Tree is Made for Climbing (2018) 3. Between Us (2019) 4. Re: Gradient (2019) 5. BLOMMA (2020) and 6. When Softness Lifted Us (2021) as well as several EP’s. He continues to compose/record solo artistic projects yet is venturing into the film scoring and music licensing world. His music is featured by several licensing companies and has been used countless times in film. This last year has also seen him begin to custom compose soundtracks for films as well as dance collaborations. \nHis sole purpose as a composer is to create music that’s primary goal is to convey unequivocal emotion and to make people truly “feel.” Philip believes that music has a unique ability to cause change in the world through this personal connection to individual listeners and aims to be a small part in positively impacting his community thru his music. \nPhilip currently resides in Lincoln\, Nebraska with his wife and dog working in his home studio. He is set to begin performing again next fall throughout the midwest. \nWatch…\n[arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SNNteAr8LY&t=14s” loop=”no” muted=”no” /] \n[arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q9EcS9TKuo&t=15s” loop=”no” muted=”no” /] \n[arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjZUPty43Vw&t=7s” loop=”no” muted=”no” /]
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