J-Way String Quartet-Sunday Afternoon at the ‘Greenough House Parlor Concert

*SPECIAL TIME! 2:30 PM*

J-Way String Quartet

J-Way String Quartet — an innovative quartet of Jamaica Plain residents Catherine Bent (cello), Alishah Raven (5-string violin), Rika Ikeda (violin), and Tomoko Iwamoto (violin) will offer a program featuring original pieces by J-Way and other modern classical, jazz and Brazilian selections, on Sunday, May 4, 2014, at 2:30 p.m. at the historic Loring-Greenough House, 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain.

J-Way was founded by associate faculty and graduates of Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory with a common interest in jazz and creative music. Four accomplished string players with training in the European tradition and the music of various parts of world bring their original compositions and arrangements, music from Argentina and Brazil and other music with African roots. All of its members being emigrants from other continents, J-Way appreciates the paths that music travels, the deep vibrations of the old world within the new, and the special weight of time and place when music is performed far from home.

Meet the artists at afternoon tea following the program.

The Sunday Afternoon at the Greenough House series recreates the atmosphere of 18th and 19th century musical afternoons in the 1760 Loring-Greenough House, twice monthly, October to May. Tickets are available at the door: donation $15 ($10 seniors, students and JPTC members). Tea reception follows the concert. Space is limited; reservations are suggested: call 617-524-3158 or email lghouseconcerts@aim.com.

Upcoming concerts in this series:
May 18: Pentimento: ‘Play’d in Massachusetts’: American music from 1620-1820. Georgian Music for a Georgian House. Eric Haas, recorders, and Olaf Chris Henderson, Guitar, archlute and cittern.