{"id":3223,"date":"2022-10-10T20:32:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T20:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryarchives.web.illinois.edu\/sousa\/?p=3223"},"modified":"2024-02-20T23:32:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T23:32:47","slug":"kasa-and-eddie-barbash-quartets-performing-for-folk-roots-festival-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/2022\/10\/10\/kasa-and-eddie-barbash-quartets-performing-for-folk-roots-festival-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"KASA and Eddie Barbash Quartets Performing for Folk & Roots Festival 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kyle Price, Aaron Schwartz, Stephanie Price-Wong, Andy Liang, and Eddie Barbash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Sousa Archives is sponsoring the KASA and Eddie Barbash Quartets\u2019 performances and workshops for this year\u2019s 14th<\/sup> annual Folk & Roots Festival that will take place on October 21 and 22 at the Rose Bowl Tavern and the Urbana Public Library.\u00a0 This year\u2019s programming is presented in conjunction with the Sousa Archives\u2019 exhibition \u201cThe Imperfect Saxophone\u201d that looks at America\u2019s complex social and cultural relationship with the saxophone during a period known as the \u201csaxophone craze.\u201d<\/p>\n

As in previous years, the Festival will feature national, regional and local artists and folk groups for more than 80 performances and participatory activities in downtown Urbana. This year\u2019s festival includes music performances, dances, instructional sessions, jams, song-circles, family activities, storytelling, instrument making, and more!<\/p>\n

Andy Liang, Aaron Schwartz, Stephanie Price-Wong and Kyle Price founded the KASA Quartet in summer 2016.\u00a0 The quartet earned first prize during the 2017 Coltman Chamber Music Competition.\u00a0 Critics have described KASA as one of the country\u2019s newest rock stars of the string quartet because of its fluency in multiple genre-defining music styles that fuse classical string repertoire with jazz, musical theater, folk, and pop standards. The ensemble has taught and performed as featured artists for the Ravinia Festival, Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Austin Chamber Music Center, Second City Chamber Series, Miami Music Project, and the Chamber Music Connection.\u00a0 KASA holds a regular summer residency at New York\u2019s Caroga Lake Music Festival and the award-winning quartet released its debut album, Forever Wild<\/em>, Volume 1, in August, which also features Eddie Barbash.<\/p>\n

Eddie Barbash, best known for his American roots music performances on the alto saxophone, is a founding member of Jon Batiste\u2019s Stay Human ensemble, the house band for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. \u00a0\u00a0Eddie\u2019s saxophone performances regularly weave old-time fiddle, bluegrass, rhythm and blues, soul, and classical New Orleans, Texas and Appalachian melodies into colorful kaleidoscopes of sound that meld beautifully with the KASA Quartet. \u00a0He debuted at Carnegie Hall in 2013, and has performed at major music festivals worldwide since then. \u00a0Currently living in New York City, Eddie has held regular residencies at Dizzy\u2019s Club Coca-Cola, the Django, and the Manderley Bar in Chelsea.<\/p>\n

For a complete schedule of performances, workshops, and all-ages programming sponsored by the Sousa Archives visit https:\/\/folkandroots.org\/<\/a>.\u00a0 For further information about the Sousa Archives and its new exhibits either email schwrtzs@illinois.edu<\/a> or call 217-333-4577.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Listen to Eddie Barbash’s performance of Kyle Athayde’s arrangement of “I’ve Only Got Eyes for You” with the KASA.<\/p>\n\nhttps:\/\/libraryarchives.web.illinois.edu\/sousa\/files\/2022\/10\/Some-Day-My-Prince-Will-Come-KAS.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

Listen to the KASA Quartet’s performance of “Some Day My Prince Will Come” arranged by Aaron Schwartz.<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/libraryarchives.web.illinois.edu\/sousa\/files\/2022\/10\/I-Only-Have-Eyes-For-You-Eddie-B.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sousa Archives is sponsoring the KASA and Eddie Barbash Quartets\u2019 performances and workshops for this year\u2019s 14th annual Folk & Roots Festival that will take place on October 21 and 22 at the Rose Bowl Tavern and the Urbana Public Library.\u00a0 This year\u2019s programming is presented in conjunction with the Sousa Archives\u2019 exhibition \u201cThe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3883,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions\/3883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}