Turkwaz and Medusa Quartet

Celebrate International Women’s day with Turkwaz and Medusa Quartet at Hugh’s Room! Turkwaz is a unique combination of four musician/singers, immersed in diverse traditions from mysterious Sufi devotional love songs, to rousing Thracian dance music. Each performer brings a special flavour to the group: Maryem Hassan Tollar draws on her Arabic language heritage; Jayne Brown and Sophia Grigoriadis bring their experience with Greek music; and Brenna MacCrimmon adds Turkish elements to this mix. They have a long-standing collective interest in Balkan traditions and bring Albanian, Bulgarian and Macedonian songs (and whatever else strikes their fancy) to their repertoire. The love and respect they have for the traditions they draw from are clear, but they are not afraid to arrange the tunes in new and unexpected ways, giving them a fresh spin. Get ready to stomp your feet, laugh, cry, and hear sounds you've never heard before with the electrifying chamber-folk band Medusa Quartet. Wielding ancient fiddle-like instruments that could propel classical music scholars right out of their chairs, these four folk musicians are reimagining the Western string quartet. Medusa Quartet cross-pollinates traditional music from around the world with original tunes, engaging stories, and their one-of-a-kind stringed instruments to create a "must-see live show!" (Sam Boer, Exclaim!). Medusa Quartet is Georgia Hathaway, Lea Kirstein, Marta Sołek, and Saskia Tomkins.