Aoife O’Donovan performs America, Come and newly commissioned songs for chamber orchestra featuring The Westerlies, Brooklyn Youth Chorus (Dianne Berkun Menager, Artistic Director), Rob Burger, Alan Hampton, & Griffin Goldsmith, conducted by Eric Jacobsen

FreshGrass mainstay Aoife O’Donovan, who has graced the festival in more iterations than anyone — as a solo artist, with her bands Crooked Still and I’m With Her, as our Artist in Residence, with a FreshScores Commission, the list goes on — brings a remarkable and ambitious new project to the Hunter Center stage. She will perform her work for chamber orchestra and choir America, Come alongside 3 new songs, commissioned by the FreshGrass Foundation, with an extraordinary collection of collaborators.

The performance will be followed by an on-stage Q&A by WAMC Radio’s Sarah LaDuke.

Aoife O’Donovan – vocals, acoustic guitar

Jeremy Kittel – violin

Carson McHaney – violin

Corley Friesen-Johnson – viola

Karl Henry – cello

Hilary Jones – flute

Romie Langlois – clarinet

Lillian Copeland – oboe

Erik Holtje – bassoon

The Westerlies

Andy Clausen – trombone

Addison Maye-Saxon – trombone

Chloe Rowlands – trumpet

Riley Mulherkar – trumpet

Rob Burger – keys

Alan Hampton – bass, vocals

Griffin Goldsmith – drums, vocals

Brooklyn Youth Chorus – Dianne Berkun Menaker, Artistic Director

conducted by Eric Jacobsen