About Passim Presents Rasa String Quartet and Jake Armerding
The Trustees is collaborating with Passim—the Cambridge-based folk music nonprofit—for several concerts this year, bringing Passim’s renowned tunes to special places across Massachusetts.
This show, featuring Rasa String Quartet and Jake Armerding, is the first of two special shows in the barn at the storied Crane Estate—in Armerding’s hometown, Ipswich. These two acts, playing together in this venue, will be an experience not to miss!
About Rasa String Quartet
Rasa String Quartet explores the musical space where classical and folk traditions intersect and influence one another. Formed in 2019, the Boston-based ensemble brings together violinists Emma Powell and Maura Shawn Scanlin, violist Kiyoshi Hayashi, and cellist Mina Kim. By exploring the connection between music and storytelling at the heart of folk traditions, Rasa delivers fresh, engaging performances that blend classical elegance with folk charm, celebrate global musical roots, and highlight underrepresented composers. In Sanskrit, the term rasa refers to the indescribable power of art to move, inspire, and connect us—a quality Rasa String Quartet strives to embody in every performance.
About Jake Armerding
The Boston Globe calls violinist-composer Jake Armerding “the most gifted and promising songwriter to emerge from the Boston folk scene in years.” Armerding grew up playing classical violin and listening to 80’s pop radio. His neo-classical string quartet ROSIN released their debut at Carnegie Hall in 2018, and he splits his time between that ensemble, his Patreon project Shelter Island, and a ridiculously high-testosterone bluegrass band called Barnstar!. Over the course of three thousand performances, he has shared the stage with Bela Fleck, Nickel Creek, Josh Ritter, and Toad the Wet Sprocket.
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