Passing Strange Director Annie Dorsen's Newest Project Comes To Brooklyn and NJ

Passing Strange director Annie Dorsen's latest project, ETHEL's Truck Stop will be come to Brooklyn and New Brunswick, NJ.  The show was created in a co-collaboration between Dorsen and the group ETHEL with video design by Kate Howard. The world premiere will take place in New Jersey at the State Theatre Friday, September 19, 2008 at 8:00 PM. On October 14th, and 16-18th it will have its New York Premiere at the Brooklyn Academy Of Music.

Road-tested yet brand new, ETHEL's TruckStop: The Beginning is a heart-stirring presentation of the power of music as a common language. Since its launch in 2007, ETHEL's TruckStop tour has quickly grown as a vehicle for ETHEL to create music that is uniquely idiosyncratic, through rich and unexpected collaborations with musicians from a vast array of genres, traditions and geographic regions in a series of community-driven residencies and locally hosted performances.  Over 40,000 miles later, ETHEL has come away profoundly moved and changed by the human experience and continues to defy categories and pioneer uncharted musical landscapes.

ETHEL's TruckStop™ steers its way to New Brunswick, NJ, and Brooklyn, NY, with ETHEL's TruckStop™: The Beginning, a show conceived by ETHEL and directed by Annie Dorsen (Passing Strange) featuring ETHEL and four award winning TruckStop™ artists. The characteristically eclectic program will feature collaborative works with GRAMMY award-winning Hawaiian slack-key guitarist Jeff Peterson; NAMMY (Native American Music Award) award-winning and 2008 GRAMMY award winner, flutist Robert Mirabal from Taos Pueblo, New Mexico; "Queen of Tex-Mex" Tejano Conjunto accordionist Eva Ybarra from San Antonio, Texas; and Kentucky Blue Grass legend Dean Osborne; all interwoven with abstract projections "from the road" created by videographer Kate Howard.

Photo Credit Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.

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