Nightingale Trio performs rare tripleheader on July 18th

If you are traveling between Baltimore and Washington on I-95 Saturday July 18th, there is a good chance you’ll pass the Nightingale Trio on their way to or coming from one of their three gigs that day. After starting the morning in DC at the Historic Brookland Farmers Market at 10:00 am, the Trio travels north to Baltimore to perform at ArtScape at the University of Baltimore Student Center (3:00 pm on the “Worlds in Collusion” stage) before heading back to DC for the nightcap of their tripleheader, a house concert at Casa Phoenix near DC’s famed U Street entertainment district.

The Nightingale Trio is a women’s vocal arts group inspired by traditional folk songs and vocal techniques from the Balkans and Eastern Europe. Nila Bala, Rachel LaViola, and Sarah Larsson met at Yale University where they were members of the Yale Women’s Slavic Chorus. One year after finishing their degrees in law, film and anthropology the three couldn’t help but reunite. Today the Nightingales sound fuller than a trio yet still maintain the intimate, tight harmonies of a family band. Though dedicated to recreating the rhythmic complex folk songs that have spanned centuries of Slavic artistic culture, the Nightingale Trio also strives to expand the boundaries of traditional folk music by bringing their own unique forms of expression and creativity to the dynamic and ever-evolving art form.

For more information about the Nightingale Trio including their upcoming appearance in Baltimore, see www.nightingaletrio.com

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