This Saturday, our local Friends of Chamber Music continue their Early Music Series with a performance of Judith, composed and performed by world-renowned, Croatian-born, medieval music singer Katarina Livljanić, with accompaniment by medieval drums, flutes, stringy-things. It'll be at Grace & Holy Trinity Cathedral at 11th and Broadway (the gold domer) at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $15.
Why should you go?
Well, um ... Fleet Foxes? Sufjan Stevens? Nick Drake? Fairport Convention? LED STINKIN' ZEPPELIN?
Anyone who's into that side of rock music that's influenced by early European folk music -- from the druids to Roy Harper -- should be down for this type of gig. So should anyone who's a fan of Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal or The Lord of the Rings or Shakespeare. Click on the image below for a sample of what it's all about.
Judith is the biblical (though some would say Apocraphyal; I say simply "cool") story of a Hebrew woman who seduces then beheads an enemy general to free her people. If you've ever seen an old painting of a chick cutting off an old gnarly dude's head, it's a good chance that's ol' Judy.
Getcha some Culture for a change, mayn.
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