In a performance that blends the talent of artists from many musical genres, Mel Starr has gathered a group of friends who have never met before with the goal of playing some beautiful music together. Everyone will get to play together as well as perform some of their own music.
Mel Starr (they/them) is a boston-based self taught singer-songwriter who writes folk tunes as a tool to process experiences in their life and the world. They have been working on an album called “Tether” that’s coming out soon.
Diego Martinez is a Boston-based double bassist & improvsier that has utilized their extensive background as a classical performer to inform their improvisational language. Via their involvement in avant-garde music in both a through-composed & improvised setting, Diego has a fundamental belief in the limitlessness of sonic possibilities on the double bass; thus encouraging them to seek the expansion of vocabulary on which the instrument in a context of complete creative freedom that acknowledges & implements the tradition of innovation within radical musical movements throughout history.
Ezra Rudel is a trumpet player and composer from Cambridge, MA, inspired by friends and folk traditions from around the world. They are obsessed with the relationship between music and language and strive to imitate the rawness and honesty of the human voice through their trumpet playing.
The Cutoffs, comprised of Leah McCarthy and Em Plotkin, are a folk-leaning acoustic duo that blend their affinity for sweet vocal harmonies and melodic fiddle with their love of rock and their angsty formative influences (think Avril Lavigne). The two met through work, and together have not only rescued their floundering nonprofit organization, but have cultivated a creative relationship based on their shared approach to music. Both classically trained violinists since the age of three and recovering overachievers, The Cutoffs balance their formal background with play, resulting in a beautifully unserious project.