GUILFORD-On Friday, April 5, the Boston(1)-based vocal quintet Culomba will appear in Wendy's House Concert series on Tater Lane in Guilford at 7 p.m. Culomba specializes in close harmony singing from many different global styles, including American folk traditions, music from Georgia, Corsica, and the Balkans, renaissance polyphony, and originals.
Culomba's singers have traveled internationally to study with masters of traditional music and have performed at venues such as Club Passim (Cambridge), Jalopy (Brooklyn), Caffe Lena (Saratoga), and the inaugural Songroots Polyphony Festival (Vancouver). Current members include Sophie Michaux, Adam Simon, Lysander Jaffe, Lexi Ugelow, and Daniel Fridley.
Some of these singers performed in a Palaver Strings performance at the Brattleboro Music Center last month with Fredy Clue, a Swedish nyckelharpa virtuoso.
Brattleboro musician Anna Patton writes of Culomba: "Culomba's performances are stunning! I'm delighted by the complex musical places they go, but it also never feels like complexity for its own sake: I feel simply immersed, carried along by their fearless, full-voiced, and whole-hearted harmonies."
Suggested donation at the door is $20. Call Wendy Redlinger for information and directions at 802-254-6189.
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