Stave Sessions returns to 160 Mass Ave March 20-24                                                  
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Stave Sessions 2018

March 20-24
160 Mass Ave., Boston

What do they have in common? On the surface, not a whole lot. A hip hop orchestra, a red-hot young jazz singer, an audacious solo flutist and protean singer-songwriter, a hammered dulcimer ensemble that defies categorization, and a Boston rock band with a violinist and a live sound designer. Maybe the thing that ties them all together is the fact that we can’t wait to hear them, and it's only a month away.

Don’t miss this year's Stave Sessions when the five-night festival returns to 160 Mass Ave, an intimate club venue with floor-to-ceiling glass windows located on the Berklee College of Music campus.

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Jazzmeia Horn
Tuesday, March 20

Dallas-born singer Jazzmeia Horn supercharged her young career with a win in the 2015 Thelonious Monk Institute competition, and impressed critics with her 2017 debut album, A Social Call. JazzTimes called her “a fully realized stylist and a first-rate scatter” with “vivacity, imagination, gutsiness and sociopolitical savvy.” Downbeat Magazine praised her “thrilling presence, with a musical sensibility that strikes a deft balance between mid-century jazz and contemporary neo-soul.”

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House of Waters
Wednesday, March 21

Brooklyn’s House of Waters blends unexpected instrumentation with influences spanning four continents and as many genres: jazz, folk, world, indie rock. Fronted by “the Jimi Hendrix of the hammered dulcimer” (NPR) Max ZT, the trio also includes drummer Ignacio Rivas Bixio and six-string bass player Moto Fukushima. New York Music Daily calls them “one of New York’s most interesting and unique bands. Part funky jamband, part Afrobeat and part pan-Asian, there is no other group in the world who sound remotely like them.”

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Ensemble Mik Nawooj
Thursday, March 22

Oakland-based Ensemble Mik Nawooj, led by Berklee alum and composer/pianist Joowan Kim, injects Western European classical compositional techniques into hip hop to create “something that sounds giant and important” (East Bay Express ). MCs/lyricists Do D.A.T. and Sandman share the stage with a classical chamber ensemble (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano), heavy bass, funky drums, and a lyric soprano to perform original compositions and to reinvent East Coast and West Coast classics.

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Claire Chase and My Brightest Diamond
Friday, March 23

Flutist Claire Chase – MacArthur fellow, Avery Fisher Prize winner, founder of the International Contemporary Ensemble, and “staggering virtuoso with the assurance of a rock star” (LA Times) – makes her Celebrity Series debut on a double bill that also features the return of My Brightest Diamond, fronted by relentlessly collaborative and versatile composer and vocalist Shara Nova.

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Bent Knee with Boston Conservatory at Berklee Percussion Ensemble
Saturday, March 24

This Boston-based six piece experimental rock band – lead singer/keyboardist Courtney Swain, guitarist Ben Levin, bassist Jessica Kion, drummer Gavin Wallace-Ainsworth, violinist Chris Baum, and live sound designer Vince Welch – breaks “new stylistic and temperamental ground” ( The Boston Globe) by bringing rock, pop, minimalist, and avant-garde elements into a lush, thrilling whole that’s “equal parts ingenuity and deliciousness” (The Wall Street Journal). Bent Knee will be joined by the Boston Conservatory at Berklee Percussion Ensemble.

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