We bring you this special event through a collaboration with Dragonfly Wellness Center and
Wild at Heart Healing Arts Studio!
Join acclaimed NYC-based musician Chris Dingman for an evening of transcendent music journeys. Chris's captivating journeys are an immersive sound experience that many have described as transportive and deeply healing. You are invited to experience this like a sound bath, with space to lie down, relax, and travel through a transformational evening. You will be invited (but not required) to reflect on and share your intentions for the evening. Chris will then use the ethereal, crystalline sound of the vibraphone in patterns and layers with own voice to channel a 60-minute soundscape attuned to the people in the room and in service of bringing in an expansive and healing energy for all. Chris’s musical soundscapes will bring you through a dynamic inner journey. Come out feeling refreshed, inspired, and ready for the week ahead.
All are encouraged to bring a mat or cushion and any other items to be able to lie down during the experience. Chairs provided for those who wish to sit instead.
About Chris: NYC-based vibraphonist and composer Chris Dingman is known for his distinctive approach to the instrument: sonically rich and conceptually expansive. In his captivating solo performances, he casts an enveloping atmosphere, creating layers of simultaneous sound on the vibraphone. It’s an immersive listening experience that many have described as transportive and deeply healing.
Having worked with legendary artists Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter, Dingman brings together this background with a host of influences from around the world, including his studies of the mbira music of Zimbabwe, in service of taking listeners on a journey to a transcendent place.
While working as an acclaimed vibraphonist in NYC since 2002, Chris documented his solo improvisations privately for many years, until his world changed. When his father entered hospice care in 2018, he created the 5-hour extended album Peace, recorded as he played it for his father, and ultimately released in 2020. This led to an ongoing evolution of his solo music and his critically acclaimed albums journeys vol. 1 and vol. 2 , which have been described as “hypnotic” (The New York Times), “spellbinding” (Bandcamp), “absolutely beautiful” (Jazz at Lincoln Center), and “solo masterpieces” (Downbeat).
Chris is actively touring and has performed around the world, including in India, Vietnam, and extensively in Europe and North America, including at Omega Institute, The Rubin Museum of Art, Tibet House, and many other venues. Chris also leads the twice-monthly online series Transformations, inviting participant dialogue as part of a healing music session. This exchange has proven to be very meaningful, leading participants to describe the experience as “immediately energizing and healing on a physical, emotional and spiritual level.”
Chris has been profiled by NPR, the New York Times, Downbeat, AMNY and many other publications, and has received fellowships and grants from Chamber Music America, New Music USA, South Arts, and the Thelonious Monk Institute. Hailed by the New York Times as a “dazzling” soloist and a composer with a “fondness for airtight logic and burnished lyricism,” the fluidity of his musical approach has earned him praise as “an extremely gifted composer, bandleader, and recording artist.” (Jon Weber, NPR).
Doors open at 6 pm
Exchange: $45