“Voicebox” program offers sung, spoken performances by Amherst College artists

Amherst, Mass. A free multimedia event, “Voicebox: Words and Music of Amherst,” will take place on Friday, April 11 at 7:00 pm in Buckley Recital Hall at Amherst College (Arms Building, 53 College Street). The performance will showcase works by faculty, staff, and students that deploy the human voice across a range of styles and traditions. This program is open to the public.

Genres will include embodied storytelling with voice and movement, traditional American song, live puppetry with live songs, Syrian muwashahat and maqam improvisation, and acoustic voice with digital media and piano. Creators include Tim Eriksen, Miriam Kuzbary, Jess Martin, Angelica Monteiro, Eric Sawyer, JaMario Stills, and LJ White. The creators will be joined onstage by performers including Marwan Kamel, Abby Hanna, Katherine Saik DeLugan, and Amy West. Readings of new poems will also appear as cameos throughout the program, a collaboration between two Amherst courses, “Advanced Poetry Writing” and “The Craft of Speaking II.”