Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series to Launch with Turtle Island Quartet Feat. Nellie McKay, 11/3

The 2013-14 season of the Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series begins in November with the music of Turtle Island Quartet with Nellie McKay and a performance of sacred dance and music by Tibetan monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery.

On Sunday, November 3, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and actor Nellie McKay will join two-time GRAMMY Award-winning Turtle Island Quartet to present A Flower is a Lovesome Thing, featuring the music of 1920's Berlin as well as jazz standards made famous by Billie Holiday. McKay's talents on piano, mallets and ukulele combined with Turtle Island's famed innovative rhythmic techniques create the opportunity for an unprecedented range of possibilities in this sweeping concert. The one night only event will also include original music, for which both Ms. McKay and the Turtle Island Quartet are renowned, rounding out this delightfully kaleidoscopic evening.

Endorsed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery share their cultural traditions that date back 600 years in a presentation of Sacred Music, Sacred Dance on Friday, November 22. Sacred Music, Sacred Dance - a contribution to world peace and greater awareness of the endangered Tibetan civilization - features the famed multiphonic singers in an inspiring performance of music and chants for purification and healing. The presentation of sacred performing art includes dances of the Black Hat Masters, Skeleton Lords and Snow Lions. The Drepung Loseling monks appeared with Philip Glass in a live performance of his Academy Award nominated score to the Martin Scorsese film Kundun. They are featured on the Golden Globe nominated soundtrack of Seven Years in Tibet and have shared the stage with Kitaro, Paul Simon, Sheryl Crow, Michael Stipe, Patti Smith, Natalie Merchant, the Beastie Boys, and many others.

Bryn Mawr College is located at 101 N. Merion Avenue in Bryn Mawr, PA. Tickets to individual events in the Bryn Mawr Performing Arts Series are $20, $18 for seniors over 65, $10 for students with ID and Dance Pass holders, and $5 for children under 12. Tickets, subscriptions and more information are available online at brynmawr.edu/arts/series.html or by calling 610-526-5210.