all-camp music video from mike block string camp released!
all-camp music video from mike block string camp released!

Click to watch it HERE!

Earlier this month, over 200 participants from 13 countries joined 16 Faculty on Zoom for a week of activities and classes for the Mike Block String Camp ONLINE 2020 experience, and we are excited to share our remotely-collaborative music video that we filmed/edited during camp to commemorate our time together, and to pay tribute to our beloved friend/collaborator/teacher Emy Phelps, who passed away a few weeks before camp. We performed the Haitian song “Fey-O”, which Emy taught the MBSC vocal class in 2011, and we hope that this video helps continue the spreading of joy and love through music that was a hallmark of Emy’s life. This video includes 2020 MBSC Faculty Darol Anger, Natalie MacMaster, Casey Driessen, Hanneke Cassel, Natalie Haas, Joe K. Walsh, Trina Basu, Arun Ramamurthy, Lauren Rioux, Melissa Brun, Taylor Morris, Colin Cotter, and past teachers who knew Emy well: Kimber Ludiker, Clay Ross, and Jeremy Kittel.

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MIKE BLOCK STRING CAMP IS GOING ONLINE: JULY 6-11

Mike Block String Camp ONLINE 2020 is a "GO" for launch, July 6-11! :) Our hope is to make the virtual experience as meaningful as possible by maintaining our level-based classes, community-building activities, the ever-popular Elective Classes, as well as nightly play-along jams, and performances by both faculty and students. All students this year will be together in the ONLINE TRACK, and when you enroll, you will gain access to "Member Only" pages of the website, which is where we will share elective class options, and Zoom meeting links to all the classes. Students will even be able to create a profile and connect with each other through our member directory. :) http://www.MikeBlockStringCamp.com/

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Online Performance raising funds for Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater

Join me this Friday, May 15th at 8:30-9:30p ET for a special Facebook Live concert fundraiser to help raise funds for Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic house built in the late 1930s. Fallingwater, recently added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. is unable to host visitors and lead tours at this time, preventing them from bringing in the necessary funds for regular care of the house, its collection, and the natural landscape. All of their major restoration projects are on hold.

Watch on Facebook, or Youtube.

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Great review from Bluegrass Today of my album "Walls of Time"

HERE you can read a glowing review from Bluegrass Today of of my recent folk album Walls of Time: "an album that’s singularly spectacular … a daring musical venture that brings new life to classic songs … Block breaks boundaries in wholly unexpected ways ... Walls of Time is an album that excels through invention and ingenuity. It reflects the vision of a true musical master … A transformative tapestry, it sets a standard few others will ever attain.”

You can get the album HERE!

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New Album! Step Into the Void: The Complete Bach Cello suites

 I’ve got a once-in-a-lifetime album coming out in a few weeks, which you can buy NOW on Pre-Sale: Step Into the Void: The Complete Bach Cello Suites! https://www.brightshiny.ninja/step-into-the-void 

The Bach Cello Suites have been a part of my life as long as I’ve been playing cello. In spite of my stylistic restlessness and years of artistic exploration outside of the Western Classical tradition, this is probably the repertoire I’ve played and thought about the most during my life, so I’m excited to share it with you all!

You may ask yourself, “did he record this in a bathroom?!”

NO! I payed for an ACTUAL recording studio this time, with MICROPHONES! :) It came out really beautifully, and your support of this project would be particularly meaningful.

You can purchase the album HERE:

 https://www.brightshiny.ninja/step-into-the-void 

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