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The Weill Music institute presents Kenyan songs led by Sylvester Makobi, bluegrass with Grammy-nominated musician Michael Daves, and Armenian folk with vocal trio Zulal.
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by CARMEN SIERING
Staging a theater production is a tough proposition in a socially distanced, mostly virtual world. Locally, Cardinal Stage has worked to fill the gap by offering everything from an online, streaming cabaret series to Walkabout Radio Plays, which encouraged patrons to get off the couch and, with help of a smartphone, literally follow along as stories unfolded in Bloomington neighborhoods and on the Indiana University campus.
While these innovative approaches were good stopgap measures, Cardinal Artistic Director Kate Galvin says that after a year, patrons are ready to get back to more traditional theater.
“In January, we surveyed our audience and what we heard was that while our patrons were impressed with what we were doing, they were tired of dealing with screens and were ready to get back to live performances,” Galvin says.