
JUNE 10–16, 2024
120 Broadway
Tivoli, NY 12583
Fifteen acclaimed music artists created and composed new works and world premieres drawn from one another’s personal and historical narratives and diverse creative, ethnic, and geographic backgrounds.
THANK YOU FOR A WONDERFUL FESTIVAL!
Festival Artistic Director
Kaoru Watanabe
Kaoru Watanabe’s work is grounded in traditional Japanese music while imbued with contemporary jazz, improvisation, and experimental music elements. His signature skill of infusing Japanese culture with disparate styles has made him a much-in-demand collaborator working with such iconic artists as Wes Anderson, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Laurie Anderson, Jason Moran, Yo-Yo Ma, Japanese National Living Treasure Bando Tamasaburo, Eva Yerbabuena, Silkroad Ensemble, and Rhiannon Giddens. A trained jazz musician, he lived in Japan for a decade, where he became the first American to become a performer and Artistic Director of the iconic taiko drumming ensemble Kodo. Each collaboration, each note, and each interwoven bloodline deepens his understanding of the world and his place within its vast musical landscape.

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The week-long inaugural Bloodlines Interwoven Festival featured artist talks, workshops in traditional and contemporary music, evening-length concerts with world premieres by acclaimed composers, late-evening fireside music-making, and curated storytelling and discussion sessions. All were led by Festival Artistic Director Kaoru Watanabe, a renowned instrumentalist and composer, and featured a multicultural collective of world-class musicians.
As part of this initiative, the fifteen featured artists—whose work is informed by their diverse creative, ethnic, and geographic backgrounds—completed a months-long residency at Baryshnikov Arts in Manhattan, where they shared the stories of their ancestors, artistic process, and artistic vision in multiple “Gatherings,” in order to collectively create new musical compositions that drew from the interweaving of each other’s narratives. This unique artistic process culminated in the festival.
Featured artists: Layale Chaker (violin, voice), Mino Cinélu (various percussion, voice, guitar), Amir ElSaffar (trumpet, santur, voice, modular synthesizer), Matt Garrison (bass guitar, electronics, sound design), Maeve Gilchrist (Celtic harp), Alicia Hall Moran (mezzo-soprano), Susie Ibarra (kulintang, sarunay, drumset, other percussion), Adam O’Farrill (trumpet, electronics), Martha Redbone (voice), Jen Shyu (voice, Taiwanese moon lute, Japanese biwa, Korean gayageum), Rajna Swaminathan (mrudangam, voice), Nasheet Waits (multiple percussion instruments), Kaoru Watanabe (shinobue, ryūteki, nohkan, taiko, narimono), Du Yun (voice, objects), Jeffrey Zeigler (cello)
Weekend daytime artists: Damon Banks (bass), Trina Basu (violin), Sameer Gupta (tabla, drums), Abdurrahim Hakmoun (percussion and voice), Hassan Hakmoun (sintir, voice), Stephen Haynes (cornet, trumpet, flugelhorn), Amanda Krische (interdisciplinary movement), Chris Pattishall (auxiliary keyboards), Alexis Marcelo (piano), Samora Pinderhughes (voice, piano), Arun Ramamurthy (violin), Adam Rudolph (percussion), and Imani Uzuri (voice)
SCHEDULE *
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Monday, June 10, 2024
6:00 PM–7:30 PM | Meet the Artists: Musical Dialogue
Featuring: Martha Redbone, Rajna Swaminathan, Kaoru Watanabe
Venue: Black Box Theater (Indoors)
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
6:00 PM–7:30 PM | Meet the Artists: Musical Dialogue
Featuring: Layale Chaker, Matthew Garrison, Jen Shyu, Kaoru Watanabe
Venue: Black Box Theater (Indoors)
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
6:00 PM–7:30 PM | Meet the Artists: Musical Dialogue
Featuring: Maeve Gilchrist, Alicia Hall Moran, Kaoru Watanabe, Jeffrey Zeigler
Venue: Black Box Theater (Indoors)
Thursday, June 13, 2024
6:00 PM–7:30 PM | Meet the Artists: Musical Dialogue
Featuring: Mino Cinélu, Amir ElSaffar, Susie Ibarra, Kaoru Watanabe
Venue: Black Box Theater (Indoors)
8:00 PM–9:30 PM | Members-Only Event | Barn Concert and Reception
Featuring: Layale Chaker, Maeve Gilchrist, Alicia Hall Moran,
Adam O’Farrill, Kaoru Watanabe, Jeffrey Zeigler
Venue: Barn
Friday, June 14, 2024
4:30 PM–6:00 PM | Meet the Artists: Musical Dialogue
Featuring: Adam O’Farrill, Nasheet Waits, Kaoru Watanabe, Du Yun
Venue: Black Box Theater (Indoors)
7:00 PM–8:30 PM | Interwoven Concert I
Featuring: All Artists
Venue: Black Box Theater (Indoors)
This event has been moved indoors due to expected rain.
9:00 PM–10:00 PM | Fireside Music
Featuring: Various Artists
Venue: Barn (Indoors)
This event has been moved indoors due to expected rain.
Saturday, June 15, 2024
12:00 PM–6:00 PM | Music in the Field
Featuring:
- 12:00 PM–1:00 PM Jen Shyu (Meadow Stage)
- 1:00 PM–2:00 PM Mino Cinélu (Black Box Theater)
- 2:00 PM–3:00 PM Maeve Gilchrist (Barn)
- 3:00 PM–4:00 PM Adam Rudolph Trio—with Stephen Haynes, Alexis Marcelo, and Adam Rudolph (Black Box Theater)
- 4:00 PM–5:00 PM Hassan Hakmoun Trio—with Abdurrahim Hakmoun, Hassan Hakmoun, and Adam Rudolph (Black Box Theater)
- 5:00 PM–6:00 PM Susie Ibarra (Meadow Stage)
6:00 PM–6:45 PM Members-Only Pre-Performance Reception
Venue: Studio Complex, Studio 2
Enjoy food and beverages between performances.
7:00 PM–8:30 PM | Interwoven Concert II
Featuring: All Artists (Mountain Stage)
Venue: Mountain Stage (Outdoors)
9:00 PM–10:00 PM | Fireside Music
Featuring: Various Artists
Venue: Fireside Performance Space (Outdoors)
Sunday, June 16, 2024
11:00 AM–2:00 PM | Music in the Field
Featuring:
- 11:00 AM–12:00 PM Samora Pinderhughes, Amanda Krische (Black Box Theater)
- 12:00 PM–12:30 PM Arun Ramamurthy Trio—with Damon Banks, Sameer Gupta, and Arun Ramamurthy (Black Box Theater)
- 12:30 PM–1:30 PM Imani Uzuri (Farmhouse Performance Space, Outdoors)
- 1:30 PM–2:00 PM Arun Ramamurthy Duo—with Trina Basu and Arun Ramamurthy (Meadow Stage)
3:00 PM–4:30 PM | Interwoven Concert III
Featuring: All Artists
Venue: Mountain Stage (Outdoors)
*schedule subject to change


Featured Festival Artists
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Adam O’Farrill
Adam O’Farrill has been heralded as “among the leading trumpeters in jazz—and perhaps the music’s next major improviser.”
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Alicia Hall Moran
Alicia Hall Moran is an operatic mezzo-soprano and conceptual vocal artist.
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Amir ElSaffar
Amir ElSaffar is an Iraqi-American trumpeter, santur player, vocalist, and composer, described in The New York Times as “the celebrated trumpeter and composer who explores vital connections between jazz and Arabic music.”
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Du Yun
Du Yun, born and raised in Shanghai, China, currently based in New York City, is a composer, performer, advocator, working at the intersection of orchestral, opera, theatre, chamber music, cabaret, oral tradition, public performances, sound installation, electronics and noise.
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Jeffrey Zeigler
Jeffrey Zeigler has been described as “fiery,” and a player who performs “with unforced simplicity and beauty of tone” by The New York Times.
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Jen Shyu
Jen Shyu is a vocalist, composer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer, Guggenheim Fellow, USA Fellow, and Doris Duke Artist.
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Kaoru Watanabe
Kaoru Watanabe’s work is grounded in traditional Japanese music while imbued with contemporary jazz, improvisation, and experimental music elements.
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Layale Chaker
Layale Chaker, composer and violinist, was raised speaking multiple languages in her native Lebanon, both linguistically and musically.
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Maeve Gilchrist
Maeve Gilchrist, the Edinburgh-born harpist and composer, has been credited as an innovator on her native instrument and taken the Celtic (lever) harp to new levels of performance and visibility.
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Martha Redbone
Martha Redbone is a vocalist, songwriter, composer, and 2021 United States Artist fellow, whose music embodies the folk and mountain blues sounds
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Matthew Garrison
Matthew Garrison, son of Jimmy Garrison (John Coltrane’s bassist), has collaborated with Herbie Hancock, Joe Zawinul, Joni Mitchell, Chaka Khan, Whitney Houston, John McLaughlin, the Saturday Night Live Band, and many others.
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Mino Cinélu
Mino Cinélu considered by many as one of the greatest and most innovative percussionists worldwide, has worked with Sting, Miles Davis, Weather Report, Herbie Hancock, Peter Gabriel, Stevie Wonder, Lou Reed, Vicente Amigo, Dizzy Gillespie, Pat Metheny, Kate Bush, Branford Marsalis, Pino Daniele, and Salif Keita, among many others.
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Nasheet Waits
Nasheet Waits, interest in playing the drums was encouraged by his father, legendary percussionist, Frederick Waits, who played with such legendary artists as Ella Fitzgerald, Sonny Rollins, Max Roach, McCoy Tyner, and countless others.
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Rajna Swaminathan
Rajna Swaminathan is an acclaimed mrudangam artist, composer, and scholar and leads the ensemble RAJAS, which has been described as “unlike any other on the scene” (The New York Times).
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Susie Ibarra
Susie Ibarra is a Filipinx composer, percussionist, and sound artist, working to support Indigenous and traditional music cultures
TICKET PRICING
One-Day Ticket: Monday, June 10–Thursday, June 13, 2024
Ticket: $29 ($25 + $4 fee)
Ticket + $25 donation: $54 ($50 + $4 fee)
One-Day Pass: Friday, June 14–Sunday, June 16, 2024
Ticket: $44 ($40 + $4 fee)
Ticket + $25 donation: $69 ($65 + $4 fee)
Week Pass: Monday, June 10–Sunday, June 16, 2024
Ticket: $104 ($100 + $4 fee)
Ticket + $25 donation: $129 ($125 + $4 fee)
Baryshnikov Arts does not offer refunds. Refunds are available through XCover at checkout and are unrelated to Baryshnikov Arts.
No exchanges are permitted outside of the Baryshnikov Arts Annual Membership Program.
For ticketing questions, please email boxoffice@baryshnikovarts.org
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Baryshnikov Arts has introduced tiered pricing for all performances. Audience members can choose a price at a tier that reflects their personal capacity. Tier 2 includes a donation.
THE PREVIEW SHOWING
May 13, 2024
An insider’s look into the Bloodlines Interwoven Festival.
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Thursday, June 13
8:00 PM–9:30 PM | Barn Concert
Venue: Barn (Indoors/Outdoors)
Featuring: Layale Chaker, Maeve Gilchrist, Alicia Hall Moran,
Adam O’Farrill, Kaoru Watanabe, Jeffrey Zeigler

Friday, June 14
7:00 PM–8:30 PM | Bloodlines Interwoven Concert I
Venue: Black Box Theater (Indoors)
Featuring: Kaoru Watanabe (Festival Artistic Director), Layale Chaker, Mino Cinélu, Amir ElSaffar, Matt Garrison, Maeve Gilchrist, Alicia Hall Moran, Susie Ibarra, Adam O’Farrill, Martha Redbone, Jen Shyu, Rajna Swaminathan, Nasheet Waits, Du Yun, Jeffrey Zeigler
Saturday, June 15
7:00 PM–8:30 PM | Bloodlines Interwoven Concert II
Venue: Mountain Stage (Outdoors)
Featuring: Featuring: Kaoru Watanabe (Festival Artistic Director), Layale Chaker, Mino Cinélu, Amir ElSaffar, Matt Garrison, Maeve Gilchrist, Susie Ibarra, Adam O’Farrill, Martha Redbone, Jen Shyu, Rajna Swaminathan, Nasheet Waits, Du Yun, Jeffrey Zeigler
Sunday, June 16
3:00 PM–4:30 PM | Bloodlines Interwoven Concert III
Venue: Mountain Stage (Outdoors)
Featuring: Featuring: Kaoru Watanabe (Festival Artistic Director), Layale Chaker, Mino Cinélu, Amir ElSaffar, Matt Garrison, Maeve Gilchrist, Alicia Hall Moran, Susie Ibarra, Adam O’Farrill, Martha Redbone, Jen Shyu, Rajna Swaminathan, Nasheet Waits, Du Yun, Jeffrey Zeigler


Baryshnikov Arts Receives $2 Million from the Mellon Foundation to Support the Work of Artist Kaoru Watanabe, in the Creation of the Bloodlines Interwoven Festival
Baryshnikov Arts is pleased to announce that it has received a grant for $2 Million from the Mellon Foundation to support the first iterations of the new Bloodlines Interwoven Festival, with acclaimed composer and musician Kaoru Watanabe as Artistic Director. Taking place for one week each summer beginning in 2024, with a confirmed second run in 2025, the grant will support the work of Kaoru Watanabe and dozens of diasporic performers, scholars, and artists.
The Bloodlines Interwoven Festival has been conceived as a durational dialogue of diaspora musicians and other artists, and a sharing of all that makes up culture—language, food, religions, customs, and philosophies. Presenting a broad range of traditions as they speak to one another—and a full plate of approaches in music and other artistic disciplines, Bloodlines will seek out and embrace original and unique perspectives and concepts.
Bloodlines will be a true cross-cultural exploration via art, focusing on the multi-generational life journeys it took for each artist and attendee to get there. For more information, read the full press release here.
Baryshnikov Arts Founder and Artistic Director, Mikhail Baryshnikov said, “This is the fiftieth year since my arrival in the West. It’s here I found the freedom to pursue my artistic journey and Baryshnikov Arts was founded to help other artists enjoy that same freedom. I am moved and humbled by the Mellon Foundation’s generous support of our mission. It will ensure the commitment of Baryshnikov Arts to artists as critical interpreters of our past, present and future.”
Bloodlines Artistic Director Kaoru Watanabe said, “Artists confront, embrace, and propel forward the rituals, traditions, songs, and dances passed on through generations and carried in our bodies. I’ve dedicated myself to blending my heritage and musical experiences into a unique aesthetic for decades. The trust and support from the Mellon Foundation and Baryshnikov Arts are testament to a journey that, while personal, resonates with a broader artistic community. This opportunity will allow me and my fellow artists to delve even deeper into our stories unapologetically, explore profound new ways of seeing the world through the eyes of others, and share these discoveries with a broader audience.”
“We are so grateful to the Mellon Foundation for this vital $2 Million grant. It makes it possible for Baryshnikov Arts to continue its dedication to the cultivation and support of new perspectives as we focus on developing our organization beyond the scope of its current structures. With the help of this important grant, Baryshnikov Arts will further its mission of supporting artists in order to help create a transformative sense of belonging and community,” said Sonja Kostich, President and Executive Director, Baryshnikov Arts.














