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Blackearth Percussion Group Retrospective at PASIC 16 in Indianapolis

The Blackearth Percussion Group was conceived in 1971, formed in 1972 and disbanded in 1979. It was inspired in part by Jan Williams’ New Percussion Quartet of Buffalo and named after a small farm town in central Wisconsin. I was one of the original group members at age 22, along with my brother Rick Kvistad … Continue reading Blackearth Percussion Group Retrospective at PASIC 16 in Indianapolis

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“On the Road Again” with NEXUS

NEXUS has always been a groundbreaking ensemble and Saturday night, June 4th was no exception. We had the honor of being the first percussion group to play at the 35-year-old Rockport Chamber Music Festival in the spectacular Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport, Massachusetts. One feels like a 3-D component of a Norman Rockwell painting … Continue reading “On the Road Again” with NEXUS

GARRY KVISTAD, founder / owner of Woodstock Chimes, has been performing with Steve Reich since 1979 and a member of the internationally renowned percussion group NEXUS since 2002. Garry has a BM from the Oberlin Conservatory and a MM from Northern Illinois University, where he received its Distinguished Alumni Award in 1993. Garry was a Tanglewood Fellow in 1968, worked with Lukas Foss in Buffalo ’71-’72, co-founded the Blackearth Percussion Group in 1972 and remained a member until 1979, and is currently on the Bard College Conservatory faculty.