Eddy Kwon and Harpeth Rising

All photos by Michael Wilson

Eddy Kwon is a composer-performer and community-based teaching artist. He is Director of MYCincinnati, a free youth orchestra program in Price Hill, and Founding Director of the Price Hill Creative Community Festival. Eddy is a 2016 United States Artists Ford Fellow.

http://www.eddykwon.net

Chamberfolk: Three classically trained musicians playing original music, as intricately arranged as a string quartet, lyrically rooted in the singer/songwriter tradition, and wrapped in three-part vocal harmonies reminiscent of both Appalachia and Medieval Europe. Building from the tonal depth of the cello (or is it a bass?), layer in the shimmering sounds of a violin and the strikingly natural addition of banjo to create a sound at once familiar and impossible to categorize. Unapologetic genre-benders, Harpeth Rising fuses Folk, Newgrass, Rock and Classical into something organically unique.

http://www.harpethrising.com