METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE AT BRIC CELEBRATE BROOKLYN! FESTIVAL

EMILY WELLS WITH METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE


Emily Wells, Brooklyn-based singer and multi-instrumentalist, performs with the Metropolis Ensemble, opening for legendary experimental rock band Tortoise


Saturday, June 22, 2019
Prospect Park Bandshell / 9th Street & Prospect Park West / Brooklyn, NY
6:30pm (gates) / 7:30pm (show)

 
 
Wells builds dense layers of breathtaking strings and electronics while questioning life’s ultimate purpose
— Robin Hilton, NPR Music
The musician, composer, and producer has clearly hit her stride with on her sixth release, a masterful, epic collection of songs...haunting, emotional, and suspenseful.
— Sarah C. Jones, BUST Magazine

Emily Wells “works in the space between art-pop and neoclassical chamber music.” (New Sounds with John Schafer) The Brooklyn-based singer and multi-instrumentalist is joins Metropolis Ensemble, who commissioned and perfomed on her ethereal new album This World Is Too _____ For You.

The legendary experimental rock band Tortoise will play its “weirdly beautiful and impossible to pin down” (Pitchfork) 1998 masterpiece TNT start to finish.

Metropolis Ensemble artists appearing:

Jennifer Liu, violin
Lauren Cauley, violin
Emily Brandenburg, viola
Mariel Roberts, cello
Evan Runyon, bass
Rachel Drehmann, french horn
Andrew Cyr, conductor


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