15 Mar 2024

NZ Live: The Black Quartet

From NZ Live, 2:20 pm on 15 March 2024
The Black Quartet

The Black Quartet Photo: Supplied

Aotearoa's premiere string ensemble The Black Quartet delivers a cool, contemporary take on the classical sound.

Jessica Hindin, Mahuia Bridgman-Cooper, Joseph Harrop, and Rachel Wells perform original compositions and some ingenious covers.

The Black Quartet played:

'Deja': "'Deja' is the name of a lovely young woman I met on a park bench at 1am in Byron Bay and had a couple of hours of cool conversation with... I never spoke to her again but she seemed to be able to solve all the world's problems or my problems... It was just a lovely meaningful moment and this was the tune" - Jessica Hindin.

'Purple Haze' (a Prince cover)

'Exhale' (original)

'Welcome Home' (a Dave Dobbyn cover)

The Black Quartet on YouTube:

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