The week-long Bloodlines Interwoven Festival will feature artist talks, workshops in traditional and contemporary music, evening-length concerts featuring world premieres by acclaimed composers, late-evening fireside music-making, and curated storytelling and discussion sessions. All will be led by Festival Artistic Director Kaoru Watanabe, a renowned instrumentalist and composer, and feature a multicultural collective of world-class musicians.

As part of this initiative, the fifteen featured artists whose work is informed by their diverse creative, ethnic, and geographic backgrounds are currently deep in a months-long residency at Baryshnikov Arts in Manhattan, where they are sharing the stories of their ancestors, artistic process, and artistic vision in multiple “Gatherings,” in order to collectively create new musical compositions that draw from the interweaving of each other’s narratives. This unique artistic process will culminate in the festival.