Vessel Festival at Vessel Festival at The Vanderelli Room

- Franklinton-based art gallery and performance space The Vanderelli Room will play host to the 1st annual Vessel Festival the weekend of September 23rd. Vessel Festival is a music festival featuring improvised and experimental music from around the U.S.
The guiding ideal of "vessel" is one commonly held dear to improvisers, that of being an open channel or vessel for expression and music to flow through. This is distinct from a controlled approach of only playing within a certain style, never going off-script or only playing within personal comfort zones. The musicians on the program of Vessel all have preferences and certain inclinations but in the spirit of Vessel, they allow for the possibility of doing things musically they never would have guessed or assumed...

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- Franklinton-based art gallery and performance space The Vanderelli Room will play host to the 1st annual Vessel Festival the weekend of September 23rd. Vessel Festival is a music festival featuring improvised and experimental music from around the U.S.
The guiding ideal of "vessel" is one commonly held dear to improvisers, that of being an open channel or vessel for expression and music to flow through. This is distinct from a controlled approach of only playing within a certain style, never going off-script or only playing within personal comfort zones. The musicians on the program of Vessel all have preferences and certain inclinations but in the spirit of Vessel, they allow for the possibility of doing things musically they never would have guessed or assumed. As Hamilton actor Leslie Odom Jr. said "If you're an open channel when you're onstage, if you're just a vessel, things are going to come out that are stored away deep in your DNA."

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