the Stone Forest Ensemble
New York City, New York, United States
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The Stone Forest Ensemble is Hip-Hop. Is Classical. Is African Drums. Is Chinese Lute.
The Stone Forest Ensemble is the huddled mass of MCs freestyling by the corner store in Brooklyn. The string quartet tuning back stage at the Manhattan conservatory. The hundred pairs of hands in the drum circle beating the body of one rhythm. The sharp fragments of sound flickering from the Pipa and filling the space that stretches from the tunnels of the NY subway to the palaces of Beijing.
The Stone Forest Ensemble is from America. Is from China. Is from Sri Lanka. Is from Russia. Is from Japan.
The Stone Forest Ensemble is the people of New York City as a symbol of the people of the world.
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Recent Stone Forest Ensemble performances include the Orpheum Theatre (Los Angeles), the Toronto Centre for the Arts, the Cipriani Ballroom (NY), The Supper Club (Times Square, NY), the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (ORE), the National Black Writer’s Conference, the Queens Museum of Fine Art, the Chinese New Year Parade, SOBs (NY), Santos Party House (NY), the Nuyorican Poet’s Café (NY), etc…
The group, or fragmented pieces of the group, have toured France, Germany, Japan, Russia, Canada, and China.
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