Muncie Three Trails Music Series

09/30/2024

09/20/2024

Bookmark our website and STAY TUNED! 🎶 Explore the Trails, Enjoy the Music!

https://www.MuncieThreeTrails.com

09/19/2024

THANK YOU to all of our wonderful local food and drink vendors! LOVED having all of them with us at Canan Commons for the 2024 Muncie Three Trails Music Series! We hope all of you will and and support The Pie Lady, The Downtown Farm Stand, Guardian Brewery, Three Bears Concessions, Chef Steve, and La Patrona! 🎶 Explore the Trails, Enjoy the Music!

09/18/2024

Explore the Trails, Enjoy the Music! 🎶

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https://www.MuncieThreeTrails.com/threetrails

09/17/2024

THANK YOU to all of our wonderful Funders, Sponsors, Partners, and Advertisers! 🎶 Learn all about - and please support - them here:
https://www.MuncieThreeTrails.com/partners

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09/16/2024

THANK YOU to all of the FANTASTIC performers who graced our stage for four FREE CONCERTS at Canan Commons in Downtown Muncie at the 2024 Muncie Three Trails Music Series! 🎶 Thank you to The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band and Lovesick Moan, Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers and My Brother's Keeper, the Sensational Barnes Brothers and Doc Peterson’s Club Band, and Sybarite5 and the Ball State University Jazz Ensembles! Muncie loved seeing all of you!

https://www.MuncieThreeTrails.com

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09/15/2024

THANK YOU, MUNCIE! 🎶 The Muncie Three Trails Music Series will return BIGGER and BETTER, stay tuned! See you in 2025!

https://www.MuncieThreeTrails.com

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09/14/2024

Join us TONIGHT for the unique and wonderful Sybarite5! 🎶 The Ball State University Jazz Ensembles open up! The music starts at 7p for the last FREE CONCERT of our 2024 Muncie Three Trails Music Series at Canan Commons in Downtown Muncie! Come early and come hungry for our local food/drink vendors!

RSVP and learn more here:
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09/14/2024

Sybarite5 is TONIGHT! 🎶 Join us at Canan Commons in Downtown Muncie for our last FREE CONCERT of the 2024 Muncie Three Trails Music Series! The Ball State University Jazz Ensembles open up! Music starts at 7p on Saturday, September 14th, TONIGHT! Come early and come hungry for our local food/drink vendors! Lawn chairs, all ages, and dancing are always welcome!

RSVP to the show here:
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Explore the Trails, Enjoy the Music! 🎶

Learn more here:
https://www.MuncieThreeTrails.com

09/13/2024

Sybarite5 is TOMORROW! 🎶 Come see this exciting group and the Ball State University Jazz Ensemble at Canan Commons in Downtown Muncie on Saturday, September 14th - TOMORROW! This is the last FREE CONCERT of the 2024 Muncie Three Trails Music Series, don't miss it!

Learn more and RSVP to the show here:
https://www.facebook.com/share/8oH6r4xbd9bLfKpK/

Explore the Trails, Enjoy the Music! 🎶

https://www.MuncieThreeTrails.com

09/11/2024

Come THIS SATURDAY for the last show of the 2024 Muncie Three Trails Music Series and check out Emilee Dixon with Ball State University Jazz Ensembles! She is the Winner of the Jazz Vocal Audition and will open for Sybarite5 with the Jazz Ensembles at our FREE CONCERT on Saturday, September 14th at Canan Commons in Downtown Muncie! 🎶 Come early and hungry for our local food/drink vendors!

RSVP to the show here:
Sybarite5 at the 2024 Muncie Three Trails Music Series

Explore the Trails, Enjoy the Music! 🎶

Learn more here:
https://www.MuncieThreeTrails.com

09/06/2024

Opening for Sybarite5 on Saturday, September 14th at the last show of the 2024 Muncie Three Trails Music Series is community favorite, Ball State University Jazz Ensembles! 🎶

RSVP to the show here:
Sybarite5 at the 2024 Muncie Three Trails Music Series

The Ball State University Jazz Ensembles, under the direction of Mark Buselli, is the flagship group of the University’s jazz program. They have performed five times at Switzerland’s Montreux Jazz Festival and they have toured China, Poland, Prague, Berlin, and Costa Rica. The Ensemble has received numerous awards from over 20 appearances at the Elmhurst Jazz Festival in Chicago, the Kansas City Jazz Fest, and the National Collegiate Jazz Fest in Mobile, Alabama. The Ensemble has also had the honor of being invited to appear multiple times at Dizzy’s Jazz Club in NYC. Ball State University is our main sponsor for the 2024 Muncie Three Trails Music Series, THANK YOU!

Learn more here:
www.bsu.edu/jazz

Learn all about the Muncie Three Trails Music Series here:
https://www.MuncieThreeTrails.com

All ages, lawn chairs, and dancing are always encouraged! Come early and come hungry for our local food/drink vendors! 🎶 Explore the Trails, Enjoy the Music!

09/03/2024

SYBARITE5 TO HEADLINE FREE CONCERT IN MUNCIE, INDIANA! 🎶

Acclaimed chamber music group Sybarite5 will be performing in a FREE outdoor concert as part of the 2024 Muncie Three Trails Music Series! The concert will take place at 7:00p on Saturday, September 14th at Canan Commons (500 South Walnut Street) in the heart of Downtown Muncie, Indiana! Series favorites Ball State University Jazz Ensembles will open the show! Come early and come hungry for our local food/drink vendors!

RSVP to the show here:
Sybarite5 at the 2024 Muncie Three Trails Music Series

In today’s turbulent modern world, we need to come together more. Diversity is a strength and chamber quintet SYBARITE5 is known for bridging genre gaps to bring unexpected musical combinations together to create unique, dynamic, and intoxicating concert experiences. Dubbed the “Millennial Kronos,” SYBARITE5’s eclectic repertoire includes music with roots in classical, rock, jazz, hip-hop, Armenian folk, and the avant-garde. From David Bowie to Radiohead, John Coltrane to Astor Piazzolla, Pete Seeger to the Punch Brothers, and Akiho to Komitas, their selections, when combined with their commanding performance style, are turning heads throughout the music world.

Comprised of Sami Merdinian and Suliman Tekalli, violins; Caeli Smith, viola; Laura Andrade, cello; and Louis Levitt, bass, SYBARITE5 has taken audiences by storm all across the US, forever changing the perception of chamber music performance. From the moment their bows hit the strings, this quintet of talented, diverse musicians takes the audience on an exciting ride that engages the senses and redefines the rules.

Recent seasons have included performances in 43 states and counting, from the Library of Congress and St. Paul’s Schubert Club to Anchorage Concert Association and Sun Valley Center for the Arts, as well as concerts in their home of New York City at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, National Sawdust, the Apple Store and the 92nd Street Y. In addition to their own groundbreaking, portable music festival, Forward Festival, SYBARITE5 has appeared at Ravinia, Caramoor Center for the Arts, Wolf Trap Opera, Grand Teton Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Music in the Mountains, Chautauqua Music Festival, Green Lake Music Festival, Look and Listen Festival and many others. International appearances include Canada’s Tuckamore Music Festival, the New Docta International Music Festival in Cordoba, Argentina, and the Osaka Festa in Osaka, Japan.

Their latest album, Collective Wisdom, was five years in the making. Although three-fifths of the ensemble was replaced with new blood, there is no seismic alteration in the group's sound, no doubt attributable to the stabilizing presence of double bassist Louis Levitt and violinist Sami Merdinian and the clarity of vision the two founding members bring to the group. For SYBARITE5’s debut appearance at Canan Commons, expect an experience that will satisfy your inner rock star AND your secret Mozart.

The Muncie Three Trails Music Series is a non-profit partnership between Muncie Downtown Development Partnership, Muncie Arts and Culture Council, and Rick Zeigler, series founder and organizer. The mission of the series is to bring critically acclaimed, national recording artists to perform at Canan Commons, Muncie’s premier outdoor performance venue, located in the heart of Downtown Muncie. A second mission is to promote the many recreational, artistic, and cultural attractions located along, or in close proximity to, Canan Commons and Muncie’s popular “Three Trails” -- The White River Greenway, Cardinal Greenways, and Muncie Arts and Culture Trail. We hope attendees will heed our slogan, “Explore the Trails, Enjoy the Music!” 🎶

Complete information about the Muncie Three Trails Music Series can be found here:
www.MuncieThreeTrails.com.

09/01/2024

WOW! We agree! 🎶 RSVP to our September 14th FREE CONCERT with Sybarite5 and the Ball State University Jazz Ensembles here:
Sybarite5 at the 2024 Muncie Three Trails Music Series

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“Some chamber groups attempt to let their hair down and fall flat - what’s striking about this disc is how fearlessly, how naturally Sybarite5 own and inhabit what they play … A terrific collection, superbly played.”
— The Arts Desk, UK

“I love the energy of these performances by the New York string quintet, which presents its first new studio album in years. It was worth the wait, Five Stars."
— BBC Music Magazine

“… impeccable musicianship, technical prowess, and impassioned musicality.“
— All About the Arts

“Sybarite5 has been called “the millennial Kronos"; (by Theater Jones), but at this advanced stage of its career references to others are neither necessary nor appropriate. The music the group's making and the releases it's producing are all that's required to argue for the outfit's vitality and ongoing existence.”
— Textura

“The songs were so skillfully presented, diverse in type and engagingly played that I was gripped from beginning to end.”
— Broadway World

"...In a program of serial high points, there were too many to mention...An intriguing and hugely enjoyable evening in every way — and a standout in the Washington Performing Arts Society’s fine winter season."
— The Washington Post

“HYPER-ACCURATE YET FIERCELY VIVACIOUS...anyone with a taste for crisp playing and next-level ensemble coordination will find something to love."
— I Care If You Listen

”Smart as a fox... musically speaking they like to inhabit the centre ground between acerbic and sweet; accessible and deep; and between current hip and soon-to-be hip."
— Limelight Magazine

"There’s not a dull moment on an album brimming with the quintet’s trademark energy and drive."
— The Whole Note

“For those unfamiliar with Sybarite5, they are a cutting-edge string quintet...Based in New York, their brash and vibrant style is a reflection of their home."
— Gramophone Magazine

"New York-based chamber quintet Sybarite5's latest genre-bending album is irresistible. Imagine a canon shot from a cannon and you'll grok... (Sybarite5's) life-affirming essence transcends genre."
— Stereophile

“One of the smartest decisions Sybarite5 made for its fourth album was to record it live, as shown by the palpable energy emanating from the performances on Live from New York. While each piece is executed with precision, the music's visceral punch calls to mind the excitement of a sweaty rock concert more than the refined formality of a chamber classical set."
— Textura

"Expect an experience that will satisfy your inner rock star and your secret Mozart."
— Arizona Daily Star

“Their rock star status... is well deserved... Their classically honed technique mixed with grit and all out passionate attack transfixes the audience, whether on Piotr Szewczyk’s “The Rebel” or Radiohead’s “Weird Fishes.”
— Sarasota Herald Tribune

"SYBARITE5 is a New York – based group of gifted young string musicians who have gained a reputation for juxtaposing the likes of Stravinsky with Radiohead, or Dvorák with Led Zeppelin. But that doesn't even begin to describe the range of their eclecticism or the depth of their repertoire."
— Strings Magazine

"[SYBARITE5] excelled at the exquisite... [they played] with relish, a sense of comfort, and a frisson of missionary zeal."
— The Washington Post

"If you're looking for a worthy successor to the Kronos Quartet as a small string ensemble pushing the envelope of concert music, count this exciting gang of five as one excellent candidate.”
— Blogcritics Magazine

"Their fresh approach to classics and their approach to new repertoire represent an ideal of what we strive for in Aspen."
— Alan Fletcher, President & CEO, Aspen Music Festival

“…enormous and touching impact in a supremely musical rendition...”
— Sarasota Herald Tribune

"Not your grandparents' chamber music."
— The Observer

"Classically trained to rock your ******* socks off."
— Creative Loafing Magazine

"On SYBARITE5’s Everything in Its Right Place CD: SYBARITE5’s concert schedule has garnered much acclaim; their classically‐sharpened expertise and passion have mesmerized crowds from Alaska to Florida…showcases a musical brilliance…SYBARITE5 proves chamber music can be thinking people’s music which can also interest folks who appreciate progressive and passionate music.”
— Audiophile Audition

Explore the Trails, Enjoy the Music! 🎶

Learn more about the Muncie Three Trails Music Series here:
https://www.MuncieThreeTrails.com