OCT0ber 9
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Family workshop with Mark Stewart
Orchestra of Original Instruments
Presented in Partnership with Windham Mountain
Windham Mountain Resort
19 Resort Drive, Windham, NY 12496
Mark Stewart visits Windham Mountain on October 9 to present a workshop for families. This workshop will take place as part of Windham Mountain’s annual Homecoming on Saturday (9am-5pm) during Autumn Affair Weekend. The Autumn Affair is an annual fall festival with food, crafts and live entertainment throughout the town of Windham on both October 9 & 10 that is hosted by the Windham Chamber of Commerce. At Windham Mountain, both the Skyride to the top and the Bike Park will be open, along with the BBQ and Bar outside the Base Lodge where there will be live music from 11am-3pm from David Kraai & Saddle Tramps. The workshop with Mark Stewarttakes place just outside the Base Lodge on the large back patio.
For the full schedule of the day at Windham Mountain visit: www.windhammountain.com/event/homecoming
about the workshop
The O of Oi (Orchestra of Original Instruments) workshop launched in July during the Summer of 2003 at the Bang On A Can Music Festival. A moveable sonic feast for one & all, it has since travelled far & wide appearing city streets, in event centers, artist colonies & stages everywhere, recently landing at 1Beat, the annual gathering of community minded musicians from every corner of the globe. Attendees will build simple delightful instruments, create pieces and play them in small groups and in a whole large ensemble. Different supplies will be provided and used including wooden coffee stirrers, balloons, tubing and drainage hose. Come join in on the fun and bring the family!
This is a FREE Event, and Open to All.
(to take place outside on the back patio at the base lodge)
Registration Not Required.
about MARK STEWART
Mark Stewart is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, song leader, composer, improviser and instrument designer that has been heard around the world performing old and new music. Since 1998 he has recorded, toured and been Musical Director with Paul Simon. A founding member of the Bang on a Can All-Stars and the duo Polygraph Lounge with keyboard & theremin wizard Rob Schwimmer, Mark has also worked with Steve Reich, Sting, Anthony Braxton, Bob Dylan, Wynton Marsalis, Meredith Monk, Stevie Wonder, Phillip Glass, Iva Bittova, Bruce Springsteen, Terry Riley, Ornette Coleman, Don Byron, Joan Baez, Hugh Masakela, Paul McCartney, Cecil Taylor, Bill Frisell, Jimmy Cliff, the Everly Brothers, Steve Gadd, John Adams, Fred Frith, Alison Krauss, David Krakauer, Bobby McFerrin, Patty Scialfa, David Byrne, James Taylor, The Roches, Aaron Neville, Bette Midler, and Marc Ribot. He has worked extensively with composer Elliot Goldenthal on music for the films The Glorias, Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, Across the Universe, Titus, The Butcher Boy, The Good Thief, In Dreams and Heat.
Mark has designed instruments for Julie Taymor's Across the Universe, Midsummer Nights Dream & Theater For A New Audience's production of King Lear, and is the inventor of the WhirlyCopter, a bicycle-powered Pythagorean choir of singing tubes and the Big Boing, a 24 ft. sonic banquet table Mbira that seats 30 children playing 490 found objects. Mark is a co-founder (w/ Karen Curlee) of soundstewArt, a company that designs & builds immersive musical environments & instruments for all to play upon while presenting workshops to facilitate just that. Since 2012, he has been the Artistic Director of Guitar Mash, leading the participatory communal Urban Campfires together with renowned artists sharing their favorite songs and life stories, and is a Visiting Lecturer in musical instrument design at MIT. He is also curator at MASS MoCA of the immersive Gunnar Schonbeck exhibit of musical instruments.
He lives in Brooklyn, NY and North Adams, Massachusetts making his living playing and writing popular music, semi-popular music and unpopular music, whilst designing instruments that everyone can play.