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Come See These 4 Unique Events at the American Music Festival!

LATE NIGHT LOUNGE SESSIONS, I AM I AM I AM, AND ARGUS QUARTET

Friday, May 31 — Saturday, June 1

EMPAC | Troy Savings Bank Music Hall | St. Paul’s Episcopal Church

Friday, May 31:
Late Night Lounge

Molly Joyce, Breaking and Entering

EMPAC Cafe | 10:00pm

Price: $10 | Free with Festival Pass

After the powerful Dogs of Desire Concert, grab a drink and stay for the Late Night Lounge Session with Molly Joyce. Composer/performer Molly Joyce takes to the late night stage for a set of musical works for voice, vintage toy organ, and electronics. Joyce aims to engages and challenge her impaired left hand physically and artistically in an act of “breaking and entering” the human body to a realm beyond ability.



Saturday, June 1:
Late Night Lounge

Clarice Assad

EMPAC Cafe | 10:00 PM 

Price: $10 | Free with Festival Pass

GRAMMY® nominated composer, celebrated pianist, and brilliantly original jazz/improvisatory vocalist, Clarice Assad brings her unique artistry to the Late Night Lounge Session after the American Music Festival Orchestra Concert. Hear her unique blend of classical, world music, pop, and jazz in a relaxed salon atmosphere.


SATURDAY, JUNE 1:
START YOUR MORNING WITH I AM I AM I AM

I AM I AM I AM

Troy Savings Bank Music Hall | 9:30am

Price: $10 | Free with Festival Pass

Sun-Ly Pierce, Seolah Yoo, Chloe Schaaf, Paulina Swierczek

The vocal collective IAMIAMIAM presents Raise Your Voice!, a program of works by living women composers. Through subjects ranging from the Salem Witch Trials to the 1969 Stonewall riots, IAMIAMIAM celebrates the voices that society has not always been ready to hear. The program includes works by established and emerging composers and illuminates the connective thread of humanity in the words of Eleanor Roosevelt, Nikita Gill, poet Aiden Feltkamp and more.

Read About the Composers


Saturday, June 1:
AFTERNOON CONCERT WITH ARGUS QUARTET

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church | 2:00 PM

Price: $10 | FREE with Festival Pass

The Argus Quartet returns to the American Music Festival to perform David Del Tredici’s stirring piano sextet, Bullycide, Juri Seo’s Infinite Seasons, and Christopher TheofanidisConference of the Birds. Argus is dedicated to reinvigorating the audience-performer relationship through innovative concerts and diverse programming. The ensemble’s repertoire includes not just master works of the chamber music canon, but also a wide range of pieces by living composers.


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