String quartet, string band, vocal quartet, jaw-dropping improvising world-music collective….pick a box and Real Vocal String Quartet will think outside it, with style. RVSQ plays original songs and unique arrangements that pay tribute to music from Appalachia to Kenya to Brazil, with sparkling improvisation that impresses and moves.
San Francisco Bay Area-based string quartet — violinists and vocalist Irene Sazer and Alisa Rose, violist and vocalist Dina Maccabee, and cellist and vocalist Jessica Ivry — comprise one of the most talented and innovative quartets on the chamber music scene (Sazer is an up-and-coming composer and a founding member of the Turtle Island Quartet, Rose is a current member of Quartet San Francisco, and all are gifted arrangers).
Sunday, March 30th, 4:00pm, 405 W. Illinois in Urbana
Donations will be collected for musicians
People are invited to bring a favorite beverage or finger food to share.