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Join us at @hungrybrainchicago for the final night of CJSS! Surprise improv configurations of past and present festival players will close out another great weekend of adventurous string playing. Doors at 7pm, Performances start at 9.

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CJSS continues tonight at @constellationchicago ! Doors at 7pm, Show at 8pm Set 1: Theresa Wong Set 2: Indira Edwards / King Sophia Set 3: Carla Kihlstedt

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Tonight at @constellationchicago ! See you soon!

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Thank you to everyone who donated generously to help us meet the goal for our fundraising campaign!! The String Summit starts tomorrow, Friday May 8 at @constellationchicago !

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The Chicago Jazz String Summit starts this Friday May 8th at @constellationchicago ! Find tickets and full details through the link in our bio.

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Zosha Warpeha and Carlo Costa kick off the Chicago Jazz String Summit this Friday May 8th at @constellationchicago ! Zosha Warpeha is a Brooklyn-based composer-performer working in a meditative space at the intersection of contemporary improvisation and folk traditions. Performing on Hardanger d’amore, a sympathetic-stringed relative of the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle, her durational performances are explorations of time, tonality, and resonant space; through deconstruction of idiomatic technique, she utilizes tradition as a point of departure. Percussionist, drummer, and composer Carlo Costa was born and raised in Rome, Italy, and has been based in New York City since 2005. Initially drawn to jazz, he gradually began exploring forms of improvised music that are increasingly subtle, spacious, quiet, and slow-moving. Over the years he has developed a highly personal instrumental approach, employing unorthodox techniques and objects added to his setup to expand the timbral and textural possibilities of the drum set.

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We’re 80% of the way towards our fundraising goal! Thank you to all of our supporters who have sustained the Chicago Jazz String Summit for 12 years! If you’d like to make a contribution, follow the link to our GoFundMe campaign in our bio. CJSS starts next week! Friday May 8 & Saturday May 9 at @constellationchicago . Sunday May 10 at @hungrybrainchicago . See you there!

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We’re especially looking forward to seeing Ataraxia, the Detroit-based duo of cellist King Sophia and violinist Indira Edwards, bring their genre-bending style to @constellationchicago next Saturday May 9th! Indira Edwards is a violist, composer, and music educator located in Detroit. They feature in a variety of live and recorded projects in Detroit, most notably as a touring and recording instrumentalist in the folk-rock band, Dick Texas. King Sophia is a cellist, vocalist, electric guitarist, composer, educator, disc jockey and poet based in Detroit, MI. Classically trained with a degree in cello performance from University of Miami — Frost School of Music, their music has roots in jazz, blues, and avant-garde.

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Thanks to @newcitymag for naming the Chicago Jazz String Summit as one of their top events for May! We agree! CJSS runs May 8 & 9 at @constellationchicago and May 10 at @hungrybrainchicago . Find full festival details and tickets through the link in our bio 🎻💥

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Carla Kihlstedt - violinist, singer, composer, and improviser performs at CJSS for the first time with a solo set on May 9th at @constellationchicago ! We’re looking forward to Carla delighting audiences with her wide range of styles encompassing art rock, pop, chamber music, and beyond. An award-winning violinist, a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and a long-time instigator of composer’s collectives and bands of all sorts, Kihlstedt fuses her classical technique and ear for nuance with her DIY maker-space ethos. A collaborator at heart, Carla has co-founded many bands, including Tin Hat (Trio), Rabbit Rabbit Radio, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, 2 Foot Yard, Minamo, The Book of Knots, Fred Frith’s Cosa Brava, and Causing a Tiger.

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The Chicago Jazz String Summit features musicians who have helped shape modern string playing, introduces rising artists to wider audiences, and showcases unique personal takes on global music traditions. May 8 & 9 at @constellationchicago and May 10 @hungrybrainchicago Find the festival details and tickets through our bio link now! Photo of Joanna Mattrey by Michael Jackson

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The trio of violinist Ayman Asfour, bassist Marwan Allam, and cellist Eric Allen perform at @constellationchicago on May 8 for CJSS! Expect everything from Arabic maqam, jazz, free improvisation and beyond as these innovative musicians inject their personal styles into familiar traditions. Ayman Asfour, a violinist, composer, and improviser currently based in New York, performs a diverse musical repertoire ranging from Egyptian folk to free improvisation. Marwan Allam is a New York City–based bassist, composer, and bandleader originally from Tunisia, his performance is rooted in jazz, improvisation, and Arabic musical traditions. Eric Allen is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and arranger living in Brooklyn who has created arrangements for Regina Spektor, Cynthia Erivo, Diana Ross, William Shatner, Ben Folds, Bun B, and many other professional artists.

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