Nightingale Trio performs rare tripleheader on July 18th

If you are traveling between Washington and Baltimore on I-95 this coming Saturday there is a good chance you’ll pass the Nightingale Trio on their way to or coming from one of their gigs. After starting the morning in DC at the Historic Brookland Farmers Market at 10:00 am, the Trio travel to Baltimore to perform at ArtScape at the University of Baltimore Student Center (3:00 pm on the ”Worlds in Collusion“ stage) before back to DC for the nightcap of their tripleheader, a house concert 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 performances this weekend see www.nightingaletrio.com