RUMPUT! A Night of Music and Shadow Theatre

Tonight, Richmond meets Java meets Baltimore at Le Mondo! The night will feature several exciting new performance works from:

Rumput (Richmond, VA)

Rumput plays keroncong (a string-band tradition from Indonesia) and explores parallel threads with other traditions, especially old-time string-band music of the United States and British Isles, and Indonesian gamelan.  They produce multimedia performances involving traditional and original music paired with shadow theater comprising elements of American and Indonesian traditions — crankies (scrolling panoramas) and wayang (shadow puppets).

They will be premiering two new commissioned works from scrolling panorama artist Dani Iswardana and musician Danis Sugiyanto, both of whom are from Java. Rumput has learned from and collaborated with Danis Sugiyanto and a number of other Javanese musicians for many years.

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Katherine Fahey (Baltimore, MD)