Turtle Island Quartet

The program Island Prayers features works by Terence Blanchard, Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate, Rhiannon Giddens, and TIQ founder and violinist David Balakrishnan. Known as a singular force in the creation of bold, new trends in music for strings TIQ has won two Grammy awards and Balakrishnan himself has been nominated seven times. The group’s name, Turtle Island, is the name for North America used by some Indigenous people. Poet Gary Snyder pointed out that American culture was really an immigrant culture, coming from all points of the globe. The founding members of the quartet felt this fit them perfectly, since their aim was and continues to be, melding the wide range of music performed in North America, both past and present. $35/$25/$15