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Wallkill River Center for the Arts
July 31, 2024 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wallkill River Center for the Arts, 232 Ward St. Montgomery NY 12549, hosts Hot Wrk Ensemble f. guest artist Gwen Laster, beginning at 3pm on Saturday, August 3, 2024
FREE CONCERT – Suggested Donation $20.00
Hot Wrk Ensemble, the saxophone/woodwind and percussion trio founded in 2020 by award- winning musicians J Brooks Marcus (J Why), Lois Hicks-Wozniak and Brad Hubbard, is committed to creating community through diverse, genre-eclectic “chamber grooves” that include collaborative improvisation.
Hot Wrk’s programs include Bossa Nova, Scarlatti, Son Jalisco, Funk, free jazz, prepared electronics and original compositions by ensemble members in an interactive experience. Audiences are invited to engage by sharing thoughts, asking questions, contributing ideas and listening. Hot Wrk Ensemble believes chamber music can be a voice for change by engaging community to interact with and partake in the creation process – breaking systemic barriers that have placed classical and jazz in niche markets.
“Hot Wrk Ensemble is three gifted composer/musician/improvisers with a uniquely pan-global focus. Are they a contemporary classical ensemble with truly eclectic instrumentation? Or are they a jazz group that has both Miles Davis and Domenico Scarlatti in their book? The single answer to all those questions is a resounding ‘YES!’ In short, HWE is the very much the poster child for broadly inclusive unconventional cultural engagement.” (Elysium Furnace Works)