11/26/2010 EXCERPT Turtle Island Quartet: Turtle Island Quartet will make a stop on its 25th anniversary tour for a Live at Rose Lehrman performance at 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 3, in the Rose Lehrman Arts Center on the Harrisburg Campus of HACC. Guest musicians Mike Marshall (mandolin) and Cyrus Chestnut (piano) will accompany the group in a concert featuring a mix of jazz, folk and R&B styles with a flavoring of holiday tunes. David Balakrishnanin started the quartet in 1985 and it has been a ... Read More

Musicians, like other species, mutate and adapt to survive — or, in the case of groups like the pioneering Bay Area–based Turtle Island String Quartet, simply because doing so captivates them and stirs the juices that got them going in the first place. Oh, yeah: Adding some screaming licks based on the most celebrated psychedelic-era musician of all time never hurts, either. This double-Grammy-Award-winning group is now celebrating its 25th anniversary with two San Francisco ... Read More

Grammy-Winning Quartet Relies on Bartlett Microphones A two-time Grammy winner, the Turtle Island Quartet is known for its lush string sound and genre-bending musical innovation. Now celebrating its 25th year as a quartet, this Fall the group has chosen Bartlett miniature instrument microphones for their live-sound reinforcement. Violist Jeremy Kittel says, “The mics are sounding great -- no EQ at all necessary most of the time.” The quartet had previously used microphones that needed a fair ... Read More

Nov 6, 2010 Dancers challenge quartet with ‘Danzón’ DANCE By HOWARD DUKES Tribune Staff Writer The Luna Negra Dance Theater tries to bring an avant-garde feel to art forms that have been viewed as being somewhat old school. Photo provided The Luna Negra Dance Theater performs Wednesday and Thursday at the University of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts. ________________________________________ Onstage Luna Negra Dance Theater, Turtle Island Quartet and Paquito D’Rivera ... Read More