Steven Mackey, Rinde Eckert with Big Farm & Jack Quartet: Ecstatic Music Festival

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Longtime collaborators and recent Grammy winners Steven Mackey (composer/electric guitar) and Rinde Eckert (voice/accordion) present, for the first time, the complete set of songs from the forthcoming debut album by their band Big Farm, featuring So Percussion's Jason Treuting on drums and Mark Haanstra on electric bass. Eckert, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama, Obie Award winner and recently‐named Doris Duke Artist, will also debut a new work commissioned by the Ecstatic Music Festival for himself plus JACK Quartet, who will also present a rare performance of String Theory, an acclaimed work by Steve Mackey. JACK, which has electrified audiences worldwide with its 'explosive virtuosity' (Boston Globe) and 'viscerally exciting performances' (New York Times), will also join Big Farm in songs during their expansive, theatrical set.

The Ecstatic Music Festival® returns this winter with more than 120 composers and performers from diverse musical backgrounds coming together for 11 utterly unique and highly original collaborative performances. The festival's musicians – soloists, bands, chamber ensembles, orchestras and everything in between – hail from diverse musical backgrounds, representing a contemporary culture in which the incorporation of many different influences is the norm, not the exception. The festival offers the opportunity for some of today's most compelling musicians to work together in exciting new combinations, allowing them to branch out in fresh, unexpected directions and explore the fertile terrain between classical and popular music.

Experience an engaging concert at a festival that is both of and about the present musical moment, at Merkin Concert Hall in the heart of New York City.