Experience music “outside the box” in Alchemy Art Center’s iconic geodesic dome space. This installment of the Music in the Dome series features folk music icon Kath Bloom and David Shapiro out of Litchfield, Connecticut, as well as beloved island songsters Trinity Althoff (performing her acoustic set) and John Bellows performing solo.

Where: Alchemy Art Center, 1255 Wold Rd
When: Sunday, April 6th. Doors 6:30pm / Music 7pm.The concert should run about 2 hours.
Admission is $15 suggested donation at the door. Please carpool!
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Kath Bloom moved through an early life absorbed and in love with the 60s sea change of musical expression, into a development of her own singular voice that would age to cast a wide net of influence. Her prolific relationship with Loren Mazzacane Connors in the 80s produced a body of work held sacrosanct by generations of avant-folk luminaries. Her song “Come Here” was featured memorably in Richard Linklater’s 1995 film “Before Sunrise”, in a scene which Ethan Hawke claims was “my favorite scene I ever filmed.” 

Although performing this strange and yearning body of work made her nervous and withdrawn at the time, Bloom continued to write and perform quietly all the while. She developed happy careers in music therapy for children and horse training, learning new forms of connection that channeled back into her music and healed her relationship with performing.

In recent years she has toured regionally from her home in Connecticut and has been invited several times to tour internationally, honing her current musical partnerships with musical comrade David Shapiro on guitar and vocals.

John Bellows will open the show, playing songs off his record l o n g, an album circling themes of love, relationships, dreams, desires, drives, all through measured metaphor. Some of the songs have an almost battle-march vibe to them, an anguish that is assured and confident, yet misguided, maybe even a little misdirected. 

Trinity Althoff is the vocalist and guitarist for the local punk outfit Mudbath. For this evening she will showcase a whole other repertoire. She blends influences of classical, gypsy folk, and cabaret to showcase songs that are potent and mesmerizing. Trinity will headline.

The show is Sunday, April 6th. Doors 6:30pm / Music 7pm. The concert should run about 2 hours. Admission is $15 suggested donation at the door. 

Alchemy Art Center is located on 1255 Wold Road on San Juan Island. Please Carpool.