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You Want a Happy Ending - Piano Concert with Cleedys Roohooff

Cleedys Roohoff uses the piano to study communication and language development.  For 30 years he has actively sequestered himself from the rules and influences that dictate music education, honing a process and style that is idiosyncratic.  “I’m not opposed to any type of music, but I’m compelled to understand forms that develop at the periphery.”

While jazz improvisation is a comparison that is often made, Roohoff’s work is perhaps more akin to slam poetry.  “I love precision, though just as much I look for raw emotion.”  The start of a work is unknown until begins.  One note played creates the need for the next.  The work unfolds in a different way with each sitting, sometimes in ways that even Roohoff cannot predict.

6:30PM doors open for Piano Bar
$18 Adult, $10 Senior/Military/Youth – Zech Hall

Earlier Event: June 25
Lecture Series on the U.S. Constitution
Later Event: August 4
Eye On The Island - Artists of South Whidbey 43rd Annual Art Show

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.