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We are bringing back the lost art of the European “Salon”.
Art takes many forms - visual, performing, culinary. We’d like you to join us!
Judd Street Exchange, home of the Van Dell Studio & Gallery, is located above the historic Marine General Store and is a premiere gallery for visual arts exhibitions. The “Salon Series” features music, theatre, spoken word, dance, and more in monthly gatherings designed to fully immerse an intimate audience into the world of a specific art form. A combination of performance and creativity exchange, this new collection of live art will include events all year long.
Scroll down for a little "Salon" history and to see upcoming events!
Performance + Art + Conversation
Thursday, July 25th
7:00pm-8:30pm
Guest Artist: Mark Billy
Cash bar provided by Änna's Bistro!
Event Location: Judd Street Exchange - 101 Judd Street, Suite 4, Marine on Saint Croix, MN (Above the Marine General Store)
Mark Billy is a Verdi baritone of Indigenous (Choctaw) ancestry from Finley, Oklahoma. Mr. Billy enjoys a multi-faceted career in opera, recital, and concert work.
The baritone just completed a successful educational music tour with Intermountain Opera Bozeman called the Wheels of Harmony tour. Mark and two other indigenous musicians traveled over 1500 miles across the state of Montana performing a program of standard opera repertoire, as well as works by living Indigenous composers and traditional ceremonial music.
In May the Choctaw baritone will make his New York City debut with National Sawdust performing a concert as a featured artist in the North American Indigenous Songbook.
Last November Mark made his Madison Opera debut singing the role of the Sacristan in Puccini’s Tosca and covering the role of Baron Scarpia. Last spring Mark jumped in as a last minute replacement in University of Wisconsin Opera’s performances of La Traviata as Giorgio Germont.
This October Mark will make history. Mark will create the lead baritone roles of Inki’ (Loksi’s father) and Okhina’ (the river) in Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate's opera Loksi’ Shaali’ (Shell Shaker) which is the first opera ever to be written completely in an Indigenous language (Chickasaw). The opera will premier in Oklahoma with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic.
Later this spring Mark will make his debut singing the baritone solos in Orff's Carmina Burana with the Duluth Superior Symphony. 2024 includes many important recital debuts including one in Seattle with the Music of Remembrance concert series.
In April 2025 Mr. Billy will join the Oklahoma City Philharmonic in the world premier of Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate's American Indian Symphony. Mark has on two other occasions joined the Oklahoma City Philharmonic, singing in Choctaw and playing the native flute. In the 2021-22 season, the baritone stepped in last minute to sing Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate's work Standing Bear in the Ponca language at the 2022 Moab Music Festival in Utah.
Mark is the recipient of numerous awards and performance grants including the Music in Action Grant from the Wagner Society of the Upper Midwest, Opera Reading Project’s IDEA Fellowship, 1st prize in the St. Croix Valley Opera Competition and first prize in the Schubert Club Competition.
Mark has been a young artist with Hawaii Opera Theatre and a Gate City Bank Young Artist with Fargo Moorhead Opera. Mark was a national finalist in the Ryan Opera Center auditions at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. In the summer of 2023 the baritone made his debut with the Minnesota Orchestra. Mark’s major teachers have been George Smith, Richard Anderson, Carol Vaness, Marilyn Horne, and David Etheridge (clarinet).
Please follow Mark on Instagram @markwobilly and his personal website for upcoming performances: markbillybaritone.com
www.markbillybaritone.com
$150/Ticket
Includes:
Next 6 Salons: July - December 2024
2 Friend Passes for first-time attendees
VIP Ticket for summer Concert on the Croix
(Value = $225+)
Thursdays, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
July 25
August 22
September 26
October 24
November 21
December 19
To reserve your tickets:
- Pay by card over the phone 651-300-9474
-Pay by check to Frosted Glass Creative - 270 5th Street, Marine on Saint Croix, MN 55047
-Click below to order online!
Directors Calyssa Hall and Randal Berger with Actors David Michaeli, Stephen Neff, Sarah Dickson, Cassidy Hall, and Michael Dufault
Synesthesia Artist Sarah Kraning and Composer Dana Vannen Anderson
Steve Clarke with Other Country Ensemble
Comedian Jason Douglas
A little history on the European "Salon”:
“Salons are nothing new, humans have been gathering together to discuss and debate ideas, and to share and savor new literature and music for centuries. They fall in and out of trend depending on the era, but for a solid 400 years or so, from about 1500 – 1900, salons were popular across Europe. The term salon suggests some modicum of regularity, and with that regularity came conversation, connection and community. Sometimes salons centered around a specific theme like poetry and at other times they were more general in scope. But the one central theme amongst them all was that the focus was on listening and speaking to each other, learning from those around you, your fellow guests at the salon.
While the roots of the salon can be found in Ancient Greece and Rome, the first recorded salons took place in Italy in the 15th Century, and these were a precursor to the Enlightenment Period. They were an opportunity for artists, poets, musicians, thinkers, the Renaissance intellectual glitteratti and their hangers-on, to come together across social classes to hob-nob and share ideas…” (Read more at this amazing source: thesalonhost.com)
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