Global Music at the Schermerhorn
Silkroad Ensemble Presents American Railroad
With a mission to, “create music that engages difference, sparking radical cultural collaboration and passion-driven learning for a more hopeful and inclusive world,” the Silkroad Ensemble’s newest initiative, American Railroad, meets this challenge. Nashville proved to be one of only ten audiences fortunate to experience this project live – other performances taking place in Illinois, Michigan, Arkansas, South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina, and New York during November 2024. Conceived in 1998 by Yo-Yo Ma with the intention of creating a new musical language founded in difference, a worldwide collection of artists was assembled representing dozens of nationalities and artistic approaches, the result of which was an exchange of ideas, traditions, and innovations across cultural boarders and throughout music genres. Under Rhiannon Giddens, the current artistic director of the Grammy award-winning group, the Silkroad Ensemble continues to record, tour, create new music, engage with social impact initiatives, and commit to educational partnerships. American Railroad: A Musical Journey of Reclamation was presented on Sunday, November 10 to a robust and appreciative audience at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. Of the project the Silkroad Ensemble offers the following: A program of original works, identified with an accompanying asterisk in the listing below, and repurposedRead More
