wild project in association with New York City’s Open Culture program present
Wild Culture
Wild Culture is a series of outdoor performances & events occurring every Saturday throughout the Summer. Wild Culture’s purpose is to facilitate cultural sustainability and help support our artists and venue by bringing the East Village neighborhood together to overcome the challenges brought by the pandemic through art and performances.
Throughout the summer Wild Culture will produce downtown artists across music, spoken-word, poetry, dance, theater & more on our E. 3rd St. block, just outside our venue to help revive, with our neighborhood partners, the East Village, and our city.
This Saturday Wild Culture is proud to present a musical performance by Youth in a Roman Field!
Saturday, June 5, 2:00 PM
YOUTH IN A ROMAN FIELD
Claire is a violinist, vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, actor, and advocate originally from North Dakota and based in Queens, NY. She leads the surrealist folk band Youth in a Roman Field, which released their second album, Storm Conductor, produced with Grammy-award-winning producer Stewart Lerman in 2018. Their music has been featured in theatre, web series, and video projects, including episodes of Matching Pursuit and The Dreamers. They released their first music video in January 2020 and are currently working on their third studio record, ‘Get Caught Trying.’
Claire has worked as an arranger, writer, and performer on records from Stuart Ward, Kaye, The July, Goldie Haunt, Behaviorist, Erik & Jessie, Gabe Liebowitz, Mount Hudson, Allen Tate, Jeff Yoder, Tom West, Charging Moose Media, Feathered Mason, Ben Magnuson & The Fret Knots, and Amy Beth Anders, among others. She contributed strings to the short films ‘Between The Pines’ (Emma Bell) ‘Kitchen’ (Dani Bryant, Patrick Holland, Mary Hollis-Inboden) and the documentary ‘Trans-Pecos’ (Muse Light Music NYC). She composed the music for the critically acclaimed off-Broadway play Accidentally Brave by Maddie Corman, which can now be heard as an audiobook through Audible. She has composed in collaboration with dancers and choreographers, including for ‘Open Forum’ with Mimesis Theatre Company and ‘Simone,’ choreographed by Katie Spelman, in celebration of Agnes deMille at the SDC’s George Abbott Awards Ceremony. Her music has also been featured as part of art installations and exhibits, including at the Sweet Pass Sculpture Park in Dallas, TX.
She is a full-time member of the Brooklyn-based rock band San Fermin and has contributed to the bands Glad Fanny, Albert, 2/3 Goat, and The Jamie Elman Trio, which performs at The Varnish in Los Angeles. She has toured with Delta Rae and Once The Musical, in which she also performed on Broadway. She sits in with a handful of bands in the NYC area, frequently performing with Nikkie & The Revivals, Haunting Renditions, Apartment Sessions, Behaviorist, and Kill The Whale.
All performances associated with Open Culture occur outdoors. Please use the ticket link to purchase advance tickets. All donations directly support our #Savewildproject GoFundMe campaign which helps wild project overcome the shuttering of our 89-seat theater due to Covid-19. Wild Culture continues to follow CDC guidelines, seating is 6 ft apart, sanitizing stations and free masks will be available and on-hand. Seating is limited, please purchase advance tickets to secure a seat. Patrons are welcome to attend passing by, we ask all to practice social distance.
Open Culture is a program created by New York City to help cultural institutions secure outdoor space for safe live performances.
Made possible with generous support from the New York State Council on the Arts and the Department of Cultural Affairs.
*Any opinions or other content expressed by wild project and the artists do not necessarily reflect the opinions and views of the New York State Council on the Arts and/or other supporters of this program.