When: Thursday March 31st, 2022, 7:00PM
Tickets: $20 Advance, $25 Day of Show
Masks and full vaccination required
Contact Joel Boyer to reserve your tickets as attendance for this event will be limited.
email: joelmboyer@gmail.com
Named one of Dance Magazine's "25 to Watch," dancer, musician, and dance researcher Nic Gareiss has been hailed by the New York Times for his "dexterous melding of Irish and Appalachian dance" and called "the most inventive and expressive step dancer on the scene” by the Boston Herald.
Nic Gareiss presents a 60-minute solo performance drawing from his deep love of sound and gesture from across the North Atlantic. From a capella percussive dance pieces, simultaneous song and flatfoot numbers following the legacy of fellow Midwestern singer and dancer John Hartford, and virtuosic improvisations, Gareiss offers warmth, finesse, and do-it-yourself folk inventiveness through the medium of dance as music.
A child of the folk revival, Gareiss grew up being dragged to folk festivals in the Midwest. At these events Nic learned Appalachian, Irish, English, and Canadian step dance surrounded by fiddlers, banjo-players, balladeers, and folksingers. This mix of instrumental melodies, traditional songs, and movement from rural places has become the heart of Nic's creative work as a performer.
Nic received the Michigan Heritage Award, his state's highest distinction bestowed on traditional artists, and a Canadian Folk Music Award nomination for traditional singer of the year. He has performed in sixteen countries with many of the luminaries of traditional music including The Chieftains, Bruce Molsky, Liz Carroll, The Gloaming, Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas, and Phil Wiggins at venues such as London's Barbican Centre, the Irish National Concert Hall, the Munich Philharmonic, the Kennedy Center, and Steve Reich's 75th birthday at the Cork Opera House. Always jubilant, often puckishly queer, Nic Gareiss is swiftly becoming recognized as one of the most singular voices in traditional dance and music.
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