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the dream songs project: Northern Songs

Intermedia Arts
Minneapolis, MN

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the dream songs project: Northern Songs

Hobos, mermaids, chickens, and all the other birds you could ask for!

Celebrate the wealth of contemporary music for voice and guitar in Minnesota through the dream songs project's performances of Carol Barnett's "Voices," Jeffrey Van's "A Ring of Birds," Chris Gable's "Hens: Their Diseases and Cure," and the premiere of Daniel Nass' "Songs of Cowboys and Hobos."

There are three performances of this concert at three different venues:

Thursday, January 17 7:30pm Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis
Friday, January 18 7:30pm Studio Z, St Paul
Sunday, January 20 2:00pm Dreamland Arts, St Paul

Please be sure you are purchasing tickets for the correct date/time. This page is for the THURSDAY, JANUARY 17 concert.

Formed in 2010 by mezzo-soprano Alyssa Anderson and guitarist Joseph Spoelstra, the dream songs project has performed in venues across the Midwest. The duo programs a wide range of repertoire, including guitar transcriptions of lute songs and opera arias, classical and romantic art songs written for the instrument, as well as modern pieces and newly commissioned works for the ensemble. In 2012, the dream songs project was awarded a Metropolitan Community Arts Council Community Arts Grant to fund a series of performances focusing on voice and guitar pieces by Minnesota composers and to fund a commission for a new piece for the duo by composer Daniel Nass. This award was made possible because of the Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund, part of Minnesota's 2009 Legacy Amendment. Through the incubator program of Springboard for the Arts, the dream songs project is a not-for-profit organization.

This activity is funded, in part, by appropriations from the Minnesota State Legislature with money from the State's general fund, and its arts and cultural heritage fund that was created by a vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008.