On June 9, the Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park will host Rose & the Nightingale, a female quartet on tour to celebrate “the sublimity of gardens through poetry and song”.
Rose & the Nightingale is a New York City-based quartet of world-class improvising vocalists and instrumentalists, who create unique genre-defying music that blurs the boundaries of world music, folk, and jazz improvisation. “The Spirit of the Garden” integrates poetry about gardens and nature into the lyrics of a cycle of original songs and improvisations created in collaboration with local San Francisco poets Evan Karp and Silvi Alcivar. The new compositions by Karp and Alcivar, inspired by the Conservatory of Flowers, receive their premiere at the event, the first West Coast stop on a nationwide concert tour to botanical gardens throughout the country.
The concert begins at 8pm at the Conservatory, followed by a Q&A with the quartet at 9:30pm. Attendees can arrive as early as 7pm to tour the Conservatory grounds (and see the current Plantosaurus Rex exhibit!).
Tickets for the show are $30 for general admission, $15 for youth, and are available online.
Sarah B.
Listen to songs from “The Spirit of the Garden” album: