BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//NONSGML Sandhills Development\, LLC//NONSGML Sugar Calendar Fe eds v3.4.0//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Mike Block Trio X-WR-CALDESC:Portland Downtown X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20230312T070000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20230312T070000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Mike Block Trio DESCRIPTION:Mike Block Trio\, Featuring Joe K. Walsh (mandolin) and Zach ariah Hickman (bass)\, is a supergroup of three unique and virtuosic mus icians. By fertilizing American roots music with contemporary and intern ational influences\, they bring an exciting and personal perspective to acoustic music.\n\nMike Block is a pioneering cello player\, singer\, co mposer\, and educator\, passionate about cross-cultural collaboration th rough music. Acclaimed by the New York Times for his “vital rich-hued solo playing”\, and by Salt Lake City Desert News as “a true artist a sight to behold”\, Mike Block “is one of the bravest\, most int riguing musicians on the American fusion scene.” (Gramophone). Mike’ s performances offer a rich mixture of classical repertoire\, folk music \, original compositions\, and songs. Since 2005\, Mike has been a membe r of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble\, with which he has been featured a s both cello and vocal soloist\, contributed arrangements and compositio ns\, and earned a Grammy Award in 2017 for their album Sing Me Home.\n\n Mike is among the first wave of cellists to adopt a strap to stand and m ove while performing. Using his patented design\, The Block Strap. Mike was the first standing cellist to perform at Carnegie Hall\, which the N ew York Times characterized as “breathless … half dance\, half dare. ” In 2020\, Mike founded Play For The Vote\, which organizes musical p erformances at polling locations across the country on Election Day\, wi th the goal of increasing voter turnout by providing a more positive vot ing experience. As an educator\, he is the founder/Director of two summe r programs: the Mike Block String Camp\, as well as Silkroad’s Global Musician Workshop. Mike teaches online through his Multi-Style Cello Sch ool at ArtistWorks.com\, and is on faculty of New England Conservatory.\ n\nJoe K. Walsh is a Bluegrass mandolin player and singer known internat ionally as an exceptionally tasteful player from his work with the legen dary Gibson Brothers band\, which the International Bluegrass Music Asso ciation (IBMA) has named winner of awards for Entertainer of the Year\, Album of the Year\, Vocal Group of the Year\, and Song of the Year. Joe has also released two recordings under his own name\, featuring original compositions and vocals\, as well as friend and legendary fiddler Darol Anger\, with whom Joe regularly tours. After being the first mandolinis t to graduate from the Berklee College of Music on that instrument\, Joe returned to Berklee in 2011 as both a mandolin instructor and as Managi ng Director of the American Roots Music Program.\n\nZachariah Hickman is a double bassist\, singer\, multi-instrumentalist and producer based ou t of Boston\, MA. Originally from Lynchburg\, VA\, he received his forma l training in jazz performance and composition from the Oberlin Conserva tory of Music. For most of his adult life he has toured with singer-song writer Josh Ritter\, traveling all over the world and recording 7 full-l ength albums. Currently\, he is performing as bassist and musical direct or for Ray Lamontagne. He has performed at many notable venues and festi vals\, including Carnegie Hall\, Radio City Music Hall\, Red Rocks\, Bon aroo\, Dublin Castle\, The Fillmore\, and the Royal Albert Hall. With Jo sh Ritter\, he has also performed with the Boston Pops in Symphony Hall\ , the New York Pops in Central Park\, and many other orchestras in Europ e and the United States. Television appearances include five David Lette rman appearances\, Conan O’brien\, Ellen Degeneres\, and Late Night wi th Jools Holland for the BBC. As a producer\, Zachariah as made records with a number of talented singers\, including Rose Cousins (for which he won a Canadian JUNO award)\, Mark Erelli\, Laura Cortese\, Miss Tess\, and his own bluegrass band Barnstar! He has also produced and ringmaster ed his own circus\, released his own brand of mustache wax\, and runs a vaudeville style variety show\, Zack Hickman’s House of Ill Repute. URL;VALUE=URI:https://portlandmaine.com/events/mike-block-trio/ UID:urn:uuid:436ae001-569b-4972-9e9c-c4121191b8db STATUS:CONFIRMED ORGANIZER: DTSTAMP:20260624T092221Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230622T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230622T230000 LOCATION:181 State St\, Portland\, Maine 04101\, US END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR