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DePauw grad Joel Karabo Elliott to perform live from South Africa tonight
The Greencastle Virtual Music Festival continues Friday evening with a former Greencastle musician now based in South Africa.
Everyone is invited to Joel Karabo Elliott, a South Africa-based former Greencastle resident, for a one-hour interactive performance at 8 p.m. Friday.
View the concert on the Greencastle Virtual Music Festival Facebook page or at www.greencastlemusic.org.
The 2020 Greencastle Summer Music Festival didn’t happen this year due to the COVID-19 situation. However, Eric Edberg is organizing the 2020-21 Greencastle Virtual Music Festival, a series of interactive live-stream performances. Future events to be announced soon.
Elliott is a composer, bandleader, alchemist of musical ecology and an American immigrant in South Africa. Above all, he loves to surrender and be played by music. He weaves a global circle of sound, visual design, education and permaculture into a life rooted in faith, community, spiritual ascension and adventure.
He’s known by the name of Karabo throughout southern Africa, where he is the steward and composer of Roots Grown Deep, a post-genre musical ensemble that harmonizes African and Euro-American voices and traditions into a truly “world music.”
“There is an entrancing multi-lingual, cross-cultural and community-oriented sound to his music, encouraging both contemplation and celebration,” Edberg wrote. “As a performer, Joel employs his voice in unique and untamed ways, while playing guitar, trombone, Hopi flute, piano or percussion.”
Elliott is a volunteer servant and guide of several ecological regeneration projects and considers access to nature and loving personal human relationships to be his primary forms of wealth. His guiding mantra is also the title of one of his albums: “Grow within and you shall not go without”.
Elliott is a 2006 graduate of the DePauw School of Music, honor scholar and history major. Delve deeper into his journey at www.rootsgrowndeep.com.
Edberg invites the public to make the concert experience more fun — invite a few friends for an indoor or outdoor socially-distanced get together
The festival is cosponsored by the Greencastle Summer Music Festival, the Putnam County Convention and Visitors Bureau and Gobin Memorial United Methodist Church.