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3 RITES: Life, Liberty, Happiness is a trilogy featuring three interactive performance rituals that integrate dance, live music, text, visual installations, community discussions and shared meals to humorously and poignantly interrogate why life, liberty and happiness were included as unalienable rights in the United States Declaration of Independence. 3 RITES explores what the right to life, liberty, and happiness means today, who has access to these rights, and how they manifest in the body.

3 RITES: Life, Liberty, Happiness is a trilogy featuring three interactive performance rituals that integrate dance, live music, text, visual installations, community discussions and shared meals to humorously and poignantly interrogate why life, liberty and happiness were included as unalienable rights in the United States Declaration of Independence. 3 RITES explores what the right to life, liberty, and happiness means today, who has access to these rights, and how they manifest in the body.

3 RITES: Life, Liberty, Happiness is a trilogy featuring three interactive performance rituals that integrate dance, live music, text, visual installations, community discussions and shared meals to humorously and poignantly interrogate why life, liberty and happiness were included as unalienable rights in the United States Declaration of Independence. 3 RITES explores what the right to life, liberty, and happiness means today, who has access to these rights, and how they manifest in the body.

3 RITES: Life, Liberty, Happiness is a trilogy featuring three interactive performance rituals that integrate dance, live music, text, visual installations, community discussions and shared meals to humorously and poignantly interrogate why life, liberty and happiness were included as unalienable rights in the United States Declaration of Independence. 3 RITES explores what the right to life, liberty, and happiness means today, who has access to these rights, and how they manifest in the body.

Central African jams w Jaymo Kasenge, Mbalire I Nulu, Sydney MC, Bruno Semax, Julius Juuko and Touch n’Soul Band

Solo guitar sets w Matt Gold

In this workshop you'll be introduced to the different philosophies of alternate guitar tuning, from Open to Modal and beyond. You'll learn the secrets of your favorite players Elizabeth Cotten, Nick Drake, Keith Richards, and Thurston Moore. Instructor Nathaniel Braddock brings his years of experience as a player, teacher, and composer to help you explore the guitar's paths less taken.

Nathaniel introduces his method for arranging basic folk and pop music for solo fingerstyle guitar with a clear melody on top and harmonic accompaniment on bottom. You'll also get a couple of finished arrangements in this style. A familiarity with the major scale and pitch is recommended.

Tired of the same handful of tunes and patterns? Fingerstyle guitarist Nathaniel Braddock shares alternate resources for new rhythmic and harmonic invention and discusses a method for keeping your playing fresh and engaged. Composer and performer Braddock is a former OTS instructor now located on the East coast. Recommended for intermediate and advanced guitarists. Some fingerstyle experienced required.

Explore your understanding of scales and harmony while opening up your access to the fingerboard! This workshop presents a set of shapes that break you from your normal patterns and opens up your ears. These are the tools that inspired everyone from Miles Davis to Carlos Santana. From the familiar to the exotic, you'll come away with tools for interesting solos and sparkling chords, and can even change the way you think about writing songs! Open to electric and acoustic players.

Online concert presented by Non-Event will feature new and experimental work for acoustic guitar

West African guitar workshop

West African guitar workshop

Learn the essentials to play the music of Nick Drake

Learn essentials of the music of John Fahey

An online concert of original, Americana, and African fingerstyle guitar music