Field Song Album Release Show
with
Sara Pajunen

Friday, August 9th
Doors at 6:30, Music at 7pm
Walker United Methodist Church
3104 16th Ave S, Minneapolis

$10-20 sliding scale, none turned away for lack of funds.
Physical and digital copies of Field Song and Selected Ecotones will be available for purchase.

Kenan Serenbetz creates music that explores and extols the web of relationships that we share with all the beings of the earth. His work is rooted in preindustrial vocal traditions, ecology, and plant medicine. In Field Song, Kenan sings 10 original solo voice folk songs written about our relationship with the natural world. Each track was recorded live with a NAGRA tape recorder out in the field, with the sounds of birds and plants and insects and wind and water that are relevant to the song’s subject matter. In this live performance, Kenan will utitlize tape loops of each of the soundscapes from the original recording to bring the birds and insects and frogs to you. There will be accompanying projected photographs of each of the recording sites, along with species lists and locations.

Sara Pajunen is a multimedia artist specializing in music and the sonic arts. Born and based in Minnesota (USA), Pajunen’s work is motivated by the interaction between a deep connection to her ancestral roots and her experience of current American culture. As a violinist/vocalist and arranger, she has released six albums using folk and traditional music as the basis for singular collaborations. Sara will be playing a solo set of music for the hardanger d’amore.