American Patchwork Quartet
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7:30 AM - 9:30 AM
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American Patchwork Quartet (APQ) brings new life to old songs. Led by multi-GRAMMY Award-winning guitarist and vocalist Clay Ross, the ensemble binds timeless American folk songs with jazz sophistication, country twang, West African hypnotics, and East Asian ornamentation.
A southern-born roots music aficionado, Ross is also the founder of the world-renowned Gullah group Ranky Tanky. In APQ, Ross intertwines with other Grammy-winning artists: Falguni Shah, an eleventh-generation Hindustani classical vocalist, Moto Fukushima, an internationally acclaimed Issei jazz bassist, and Rudy Royston, a renowned jazz drummer whose fibers were honed by African American church traditions. Together, they approach American roots music as a living practice: something carried, questioned, transformed, and passed on.
Their GRAMMY-nominated self-titled debut album reveals the United States as a place of overlapping histories and evolving traditions, where folk songs become vessels for memory and migration, struggle and hope. In APQ’s hands, familiar melodies open into new textures and unexpected connections, inviting audiences to hear American music as a shared but unfinished story.
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