Sat. Feb 18th,
8pm
tilt & Illegal Son
$15-30 suggested donation

Blue Butler Studios

https://www.bluebutlerstudios.com/directions

tilt exists in the space between improvisation and song, elastic and flowing, their music emerges from a shared love of words and experimentation. This Brooklyn-based collective brings together the voices of Isabel Crespo Pardo, Kalia Vandever, Carmen Q Rothwell. The intimacy found in the ensemble is apparent through their evolving chemistry on stage and their symbiotic improvisational approach. tilt premiered at bop dubu in Red Hook, Brooklyn in July 2022, with performances ongoing in NYC. tilt will be touring the West Coast in February 2023 in anticipation of their first album.

• Kalia Vandever, trombone/vox

• Isabel Crespo Pardo, vox

• Carmen Q Rothwell, acoustic bass/vox

Illegal Son is an interpretation of the Undocumented way of life through Sound and Music. day to day there is no promise of a tomorrow, there is only hope and fear – the revelry of another day is what i hope for.

to process life under the umbrella of being Undocumented consists of improvisation, constant back and forth of wondering what’s next; the music, the sounds, and ear of Illegal Son is improvisation. it’s insecure, it’s unstable, but hopeful.                                     

                                                      the trombone is my voice and my path as an Undocumented Immigrant is to uplift the countless voices of those unheard like mine. 

           i am Undocumented, Unafraid, and Proud of it. 

Denzel Mendoza, trombone
Daniel Rossi, drums
Matthew Holmes, upright bass