Upcoming Events
Mason Artist-in-Residence: Small Island Big Song
Apr 20, 2024, 8:00 - 9:30 PM
Mason Artist-in-Residence
Right before Earth Day, join Small Island Big Song for a moving concert experience combining music, spoken word, and stunning projections to showcase unique oceanic grooves and soulful island ballads, while shining a light on the devastating effects of climate crisis on our world’s ocean.
Framed against panoramic visuals, more than 100 indigenous artists are represented to highlight a shared seafaring ancestry with interconnected musical traditions. These unique lineages mixed with their diverse contemporary styles—roots-reggae, beats, grunge, folk and spoken-word—establish a contemporary musical dialogue between cultures as far afield as Madagascar, Aotearoa, Taiwan, Mauritius, Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea, Tahiti, and Rapa Nui. Billboard describes Small Island Big Song as “one coherent jaw-dropping piece that is likely the first time these traditional instruments have been mixed together... The result is breathtaking.”
Small Island Big Song is the brainchild of Australian filmmaker and music producer Tim Cole and Taiwanese theater producer BaoBao Chen, who traveled to 16 island nations over four years to capture unique sounds and cinematic sights while working with over a hundred local artists, elders, community groups, and grassroots musicians.
This performance is appropriate for all ages.
Tickets: $48, $41, $29; half-price for youth through Grade 12
Run Time: 90 minutes, plus intermission