Red House Welcomes BowSmack This Weekend

Red House Arts Center will welcome nationally known duo BowSmack who will perform this weekend, November 7th and 8th at 8pm in the Redhouse Theatre. BowSmack is the fusion of Mike Block's versatile cello playing with Tupac Mantilla's "anything goes" percussions approach, featuring explorations of Pop music from today, yesterday, and the future.

Michael Block is an American cellist, singer, composer, arranger, and solo artist hailed as "the ideal musician of the twenty-first century" by cultural icon Yo-Yo Ma. Mike Block has worked with Yo-Yo Ma, Bobby McFerrin, Lenny Kravitz, Shakira, The National, Joe Zawinul, Alison Krauss, Rachel Barton Pine, Mark O'Connor, and other notable musicians. Block currently plays with the Silk Road Ensemble.

Tupac Mantilla is an internationally known Grammy Nominee percussionist/drummer.His work as a performer, educator, producer, and clinician has been recognizedworldwide and has appeared in major festivals at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Newport Jazz Festival to name a few. Mantilla is also the Director of the Children's Program for the Panama Jazz Festival and the Founder and Artistic Director and Founder of Columbia's Percussion Group TEKEYE.

Don't miss this chance to be "BowSmacked!" Check out their video on our website. The Redhouse cafe will be open prior to both performances and there will be a "meet and great" with the artists after both shows.
Tickets are available on the website www.theredhouse.org, at the box office, and by phone 315 425 0405.