SALT BAY CHAMBERFEST: Concert 1

Opening Salt Bay Chamberfest’s 2025 “Earth Song” festival by honoring Mother Earth, the all-female drumming group Cipelahq Ehpicik (“Thunder Women”) and Passamaquoddy singer Lauren Stevens highlight Wabanaki traditional music and new music by Dawn Avery, closing with Dvořák’s viola quintet inspired by American Indigenous drumming.

Program:
Traditional Wabanaki Drumming
AVERY: Ohneka’shon:’a (The Waters)
STEVENS/AVERY: Skitkomiq (Mother Earth)
SOCKABASIN: Uzkummeedach (Forever)
DVOŘÁK: String Quintet No. 3

Musicians:
Lauren Stevens, singer/drummer
Aaron Boyd, violin
Jesse Mills, violin
Misha Amory, viola
Natalie Loughran, viola
Wilhelmina Smith, cello
Cipelahq Ehpicik, traditional drumming