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.
Saturday, July 31
2:00 PM
Livvy Marcus & Morningglory
Instagram— @morninglory.music
New York-based singer-songwriter Livvy Marcus has been making music under the name “Morninglory” for over a year now. With a sweet and precise lyrical style and a lilting soprano, Marcus has made waves for herself by crafting beautiful songs out of the ugliest emotions. Her style vacillates comfortably between rootsy folk and contemporary sound design. Her debut album, affectionately titled “Livvy Marcus Eats Her Shoe,” is available now on Bandcamp.
3:00 PM
Will Curry, Music Director/Violinist/Violist
Will Curry is a music director, conductor, violinist, violist, and teacher living in New York City. Will has played and conducted Les Miserables, Fiddler on the Roof, Miss Saigon, and My Fair Lady on Broadway and has toured with Les Miserables and Miss Saigon. An active teacher, Will teaches violin/viola at Friends Seminary and The Elisabeth Morrow School. The performance is a set of intimate works for solo violin and will include works by Florence Price, Ignatius Sancho, and Georg Philip Telemann.
4:00 PM
Sean Hagerty & Friends
Join Sean Hagerty for a set of acoustic violin looping and mandolin songs alongside longtime collaborators Isaiah Singer, Jesse Merandy, and Will Hanza. Each musician will play their own overlapping half our performance.
Jesse Merandy is a singer, songwriter, guitarist for the Breakneck Boys, an Americana inspired band that takes influences from everywhere, throws them in a backpack, and sets off on a journey through the mountain trails of memory and imagination.
Will Hanza will transport you into a mystical state of mind with his improvisational playing from rock and blues to folk, celtic, bluegrass and raga to spacey and funky jams.
He has been a proud Ropeadope recording artist since 2014. Endorsed by Eastman Guitars & Mandolins, he’s been a contributor for Guitar World Magazine and featured on PBS, The Village Voice, Time Out NY, JamBase, Relix Magazine, Live for Live Music, WXPN, WEQX, WFOX and more.
Isaiah Singer is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist with absolutely zero discipline. His coruscating melodies have graced dives from Lincoln Center to CBGB with groups including Psychic TV, Snatch Attack, and Third Rail Productions.
Sean Hagerty is a composer, violinist, and sound designer based in NYC. He’s been a longtime collaborator with Third Rail Projects, creating immersive soundtracks for Then She Fell (Bessie Award), Grand Paradise, Midsummer : A Banquet (Drama Desk Nom), and many more. His work includes performances at Lincoln Center, New World Stages, La Jolla Playhouse, New York Live Arts, The Performing Garage, and Le Poisson Rouge. Performing live, his music harkens to the plaintive looped violin melodies of multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird. He’s designed and engineered shows at Wild Project since 2012. www.seanhagerty.com
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.