Upcoming Performances

A. Spencer Barefield Super String Quartet 

Premieres in NYC

Monday, July 22 • 8:30 pm

Cornelia Street Cafe in NYC's Greenwich Village

29 Cornelia Street between Bleecker St and W. 4th. St. 

Set I

Curtis Stewart Trio - Cycles in Song:
Music of Bach, Brahms, Webern, Coltrane, Stewart, "Outkast," etc...

The Curtis Stewart Trio navigates classical, jazz, and hip hop through compositions that explore the textural and expressive connections between classical music and the "otherness." Jazz vocalist Nancy Harms, Blake Whyte of Mama Mia, opera singer Korin Kormick, and nationally lauded spoken word artist Darian Dauchan join the trio (Curtis Stewart, violin; Alex Hills Keys; Ian Baggette, Bass) for a set of songs that cycle through style and attempt to cultivate an inner connection between these seemingly disparate aesthetics. www.curtisjstewart.com, www.blakewhyte.com,www.nancyharms.com, www.dariandauchan.com, www.korinkormick.com

Set II-A. Spencer Barefield Super String Quartet
w/special guest Soprano Jessica Tivens Schneiderman

World-renowned guitarist/composer Spencer Barefield presents string quartet arrangements of his own composition,s as well as jazz standards and classical compositions that question the boundary between "folk" and "art" musics. Features music of Villa Lobos, Joe Henderson, Barefield, among others, with Jannina Kara Norpoth on violin; Curtis Stewart, violin; John-Paul Norpoth on bass, and featureing guest vocalist on Jannina's arrangment of VIlla Lobos, Jessica Tivens. www.spencerbarefield.com/

$20 cover includes drink

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A. Spencer Barefield Quartet Soirée in Palmer Woods

Saturday, Sept. 1 • 8 pm
CAC Concert Home in Detroit's Palmer Woods

Barefield, “an extraordinary guitarist/composer” according to JazzTimes, leads a stellar ensemble: Trumpeter Dwight Adams (Stevie Wonder's regular touring sideman); Djallo Djakate Keita on drums; and Canada's national treasure, Juno awardee Dave Young on bass (Oscar Peterson's bassist for decades).

Barefield @ MOCAD

Detroit-based guitarist and composer A. Spencer Barefield was honored to collaborate with Joshua White and Gary Panter’s Light Show at MOCAD (Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit) on Fri. April 6 at 8 pm.

Barefield @ Imagination Station

Barefield Super String Quartet:

Creative Transformation in Detroit's

Corktown Neighborhood

Sunday, August 28, 3–5 pm

2230 14th Street, AKA The Imagination Station

The Imagination Station at Roosevelt Park—two blighted but exploding with creative energy Corktown homes facing the iconic Michigan Central Train Station—was the setting for “Summer Soiree,” an adventurous jazzy classical concert and party on Sunday, August 28 at 3 pm. Guitarist-composer A. Spencer Barefield, a 2010 Kresge Arts Fellow, electrified 2230 and 2236 14th Street  with his cutting-edge music featuring violinist Jannina Norpoth, violist John Madison and bassist John-Paul Norpoth.