BELLOWS FALLS — Stone Church Arts presents Dunham Shoe Factory, a new musical collaboration among Mac Ritchey, Anna Patton, Dave Haughey, and Todd Roach, on Saturday, Feb. 27, at 7:30 p.m.
This contemporary acoustic ensemble will perform their original compositions crafted from the traditions of the world and the sounds that surround us in the Chapel at Immanuel Episcopal Church, “the stone church on the hill,” 20 Church St.
Combining the clarinet, oud, cello, and percussion, the music of Dunham Shoe Factory draws from myriad styles including jazz, Brazilian, Egyptian, Turkish, classical, and Indian music.
Roach is a percussionist, teacher and producer living in Brattleboro. He performs on a wide range of world percussion instruments and has studied Middle Eastern and North African drumming in depth since 1989. He had been involved in a number of projects locally, regionally, and internationally. In the last year he has been working with the Paul Winter Consort and he was recently commissioned to score the independent film Dates for Coffee.
Patton (clarinet) holds a master's in performance degree from the New England Conservatory. She is a folk/jazz/world music clarinetist, traveling throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe with innovative dance bands such as Elixir and the swing quartet Housetop.
Multi-instrumentalist Ritchey brings a diverse palette of sounds and skills to both performance stage and recording studio. Studying electronic music at Oberlin College and anthropology at Brandeis University, his decades of musical involvement have been sculpted and influenced by an assortment of genres and cultures: classical Turkish to rock, jazz to reggae, the traditional to the cutting-edge.
Haughey holds a bachelor's in classical cello performance from the University of Northern Colorado and a master's in improvisation from the University of Michigan. He is an accomplished performer in a variety of musical styles and genres.
He has performed around the U.S., Europe, South America, and the Middle East with many artists, including Paul Winter, Eugene Friesen, Armen Ksajikian, Roman Stolyar, Michael Gould, Andrew Bishop, Yaniel Matos, Marcelo Viera, and Eugene Uman.