The Kennedy Center will present cellist Amanda Gookin performing her female program Forward Music Project, including Nathalie Joachim’s Dam Mwen Yo for solo cello and field recordings in collaboration with video artist, Katy Tucker. This performance is part of DIRECT CURRENT and National Sawdust Projects.

NATIONAL SAWDUST @ THE WALLIS – May 30-31, 2019
“The startlingly visceral cellist Amanda Gookin performs stylistically contrasting commissions by seven female composers that explore a range of issues facing women today, from the LGBTQ+ to reproductive rights, sexual violence and empowerment.”

Program includes Nathalie Joachim’s Dam Mwen Yo for cello and field recordings. Additional composers include Angélica Negrón, Leila Adu, Jessica Meyer, Allison Loggins-Hull, Amanda Feery, Morgan Krauss