Concert of British Banjo Music: Fingerstyle Banjo Solos from the Turn of the 20th Century at Wesleyan

Olin Library 252 Church Street, Middletown

Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at 12:00pm Olin Library, Gribbel Reading Room 202A Free and open to the public   Graduate students in music Ethan Schwartz (banjo) and Emma Mistele (piano) present a noontime concert of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century works for five-string banjo by British composers. Ethan is a doctoral student in ethnomusicology and Emma is a master’s […]

Finding the Spirit of Inanga: An Inanga Concert with Steven Sogo

Olin Library 252 Church Street, Middletown

Free and open to the public Hear a performance by renowned Burundian musician Steven Sogo, featuring the inanga, a unique and significant musical instrument played by people from across the Great Lakes region of Africa. Steven Sogo’s  visit has been arranged by Chance Kinyange MA ’25, founder of the PVD World Music Institute (Providence, RI) and curator of the current exhibition […]