Mike Block
Biribá Union at Geneva Music Festival
Geneva Music Festival
124 N Main St
Geneva, NY 14456
May 19, 2024
7:00 PM EDT
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November 11th 2023
Wonderful creative repertoire of new music with upbeat, foot tapping cello, base guitar and beatbox percussion. Fabulous spontaneous freestyle rapping and of course, stunning cello playing and vocals by local Mike Block!
Cambridge, MA@Club Passim
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Mike Block Biography
MIKE BLOCK is a pioneering multi-style cellist, singer, composer, and educator, hailed by Yo-Yo Ma as the "ideal musician of the 21st-Century", and acclaimed by the NY Times for his "vital rich-hued solo playing". While still studying at the Juilliard School, Mike joined Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble, with which he has toured extensively throughout the world, and won a 2017 Grammy Award for Best World Music Album. Mike is also an active recording artist of original material, folk music, cross-cultural collaborations, and he has an ongoing project to record all of the Bach cello suites in acoustically glorious bathrooms of famous concert halls, via BachInTheBathroom.com. As one of the first wave of cellists to adopt a strap in order to stand and move while playing, Mike was the first standing cellist to perform at Carnegie Hall, using a cello strap of his own design, called the Block Strap, a performance which the NY Times called "Breathless ... Half dance, half dare."
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