In the Stacks: The Bayberries
Join us for an exploration of the connections between women, music, and the natural world, brought to life through performance and archival discovery.
Baltimore-based acoustic trio The Bayberries (Hana Morford, Samantha Flores, and Danielle Williams) will perform original music rooted in bluegrass and folk traditions, with classical touches and global influences. The program will invite audiences to consider how music has shaped human relationships with the natural world and with one other.
Complementing the performance, historic bound volumes of sheet music from Sheridan Libraries Special Collections will offer a deeper perspective. Created, collected, and passed down by women from the early nineteenth through the twentieth centuries, these volumes reveal how music has preserved cultural memory and connected generations of families and communities.
Together, the music and materials will illuminate how people have long turned to both nature and song as sources of meaning, continuity and connection.
