We are starting a *NEW* concert series- Bergamot Quartet Extended!

Our 1st installation of BQE is next Thursday, 4/27 8pm at Putnam’s Pub & Cooker and will feature our friend and collaborator Dan Trueman. We hope you join us to kick off the start of this exciting journey and to come hear some sparkly tunes!

More about Bergamot Quartet Extended:
Bergamot Quartet Extended is a monthly concert series featuring BQ and our collaborators. Hosted by Putnam’s Pub in Clinton Hill, BQE is a time for friends to gather, hear great music, and celebrate community together. The format of the shows are a short set by BQ followed by a showcase of the featured performer(s) of the month, all beginning at 8pm in Putnam’s ~secret basement cabaret lounge~!

Future BQEs:
5/30 Feat. Tanner Porter
6/29 Feat. Ambrose Getz

More about Dan Trueman:
Dan Trueman is a musician: a fiddler, a collaborator, a teacher, a developer of new instruments, a composer of music for ensembles of all shapes and sizes. He has worked with ensembles such as So Percussion, the PRISM Quartet, Eighth Blackbird, Gallicantus, the JACK Quartet, as well as individuals like scientist Naomi Leonard, choreographer Rebecca Lazier, poet Paul Muldoon, director Mark DeChiazza, fiddler Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, vocalist Iarla Ó Lionáird, guitarist/songwriter Monica Mugan, pianists Adam Sliwinski and Cristina Altamura, and many others. Dan’s work has been recognized by fellowships, grants, commissions, and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Barlow Endowment, the Bessies, the Fulbright Commission, the American Composers Forum, the MacArthur Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, Meet the Composer, among others. He is Professor and Chair, Department of Music at Princeton University.
His tools of the trade are the first-of-its-kind Hardanger d’Amore fiddle by Salve Håkedal (played with a beautiful baroque bow by Michel Jamonneau), bitKlavier, and the ChucK music programming language by Ge Wang.