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By Trace Salzbrenner \u2014 [email\u00a0protected]<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n A trio of internationally acclaimed musicians will bring a global sound to Concord this month.<\/p>\n The Concord Conservatory of Music will host Birib\u00e1 Union on Friday. CCM Executive Director Kate Yoder said the group blends musical traditions from around the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThey are just so happy and joyful and different than anything that has been presented out here before,\u201d Yoder said.<\/p>\n The ensemble was formed through Silkroad, an organization that promotes cross-cultural collaboration among musical artists. The trio features cellist and singer Mike Block, beatboxer and songwriter Christylez Bacon, and bassist and composer Patricia Ligia.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cEverything just felt magical from day one, and then we started writing our own music, because no music already exists for our particular instrumentation,\u201d Block said.<\/p>\n The group blends hip-hop rhythms with Brazilian styles such as Forr\u00f3 and Choro, along with elements of American roots music and jazz.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat we really enjoy is this feeling that every performance is different, and we\u2019ve got a strong improvisational element, so there\u2019s a lot of spontaneous interaction and a lot of just positive energy that we\u2019re kind of feeding off of each other,\u201d Block said.<\/p>\n Yoder said the group stood out immediately when she first heard them.<\/p>\n \u201cI think that [concertgoers] should be expecting an evening of wonderful rhythms and interpretations of music that they may know, but never imagined it being reintroduced in Birib\u00e1 Union\u2019s fashion.\u201d<\/p>\n Birib\u00e1 Union performs at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, April 10, at the Concord Conservatory of Music. Tickets are $35 or free for students 18 and under. They are available at concordconservatory.org<\/a> and at the door.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source concordbridge.org \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Trace Salzbrenner \u2014 [email\u00a0protected] A trio of internationally acclaimed musicians will bring a global sound to Concord this month. The Concord Conservatory of Music will host Birib\u00e1 Union on Friday. CCM Executive Director Kate Yoder said the group blends musical traditions from around the world.\u00a0 \u201cThey are just so happy and joyful and different […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2365585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2365584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Global-trio-bringing-a-new-sound-to-Concord-Conservatory-of.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2365584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365586,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2365584\/revisions\/2365586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2365585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2365584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2365584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2365584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}