Sound Check: Scott Patterson
April 14th - 8:30pm

Baltimore-based multi-award-winning artist Scott Patterson of Afrohouse will fill the Deering Lobby with his lux musical stylings on April 14th, at 8:30pm. His artistry has been described as “a masterly blend of virtuosity, singing style and beautiful voicing.” Be sure to come out for this BCS Sound Check to hear a blend of classical, soul, and rock, simultaneously futuristic and retro compositions that will leave you wanting more.


Scott Patterson

Scott Patterson is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Afro House, a Baltimore-based organization committed to creating disruptive music culture. This work is done through live performances, such as the Afro House Concert Series, theatrical productions featuring Afro House’s Astronaut Symphony, film and collaborations with other organizations and artists. Since 2012 Patterson has toured with Camille A. Brown & Dancers. He is contributing composer of the Bessie Award winning Mr. TOL E. RAncE and Brown’s critically acclaimed work, BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play and ink. His compositions for these have been performed for audiences at numerous venues, such as, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, Belfast Festival at Queen’s, White Bird, The Joyce Theater, and Debartolo Performing Arts Center. 2019 marks a significant shift for Patterson. He began to turn his epic Afrofuturistic sci-fi opera-ballet into a film. He became a Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund Fellow in 2020 and was selected to participate in the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund’s 2020 and 2022 screenplay lab for Cloud Nebula. Under Patterson’s direction, Cloud Nebula, the theatrical work was performed in both traditional and non-traditional venues, including festivals, such as Artscape and Brilliant Baltimore, The Peale and The Walters Art Museum, the Afro House Concert Series and WTMD as a live radio broadcast. In 2021, Patterson worked with Baltimore-based director, Marissa Dahl, on Kojo Astronaut, a filmed performance featuring songs from his catalog. In May 2021 a portion of the film appeared on PBS’s Great Performances: The Arts Interrupted. The entire film will appear on the streaming service, kweliTV, in 2022. Patterson is a recipient of the 2020 Regional Independent Artist Award for Performing Arts from the Maryland State Arts Council. He is a 2019 Baker Artist Award, Mary Sawyers Imboden Awardee, and is a recipient of a Creative Baltimore Fund Grant and Artist/District Grant.

Learn more about Scott Patterson at www.afrohouse.org

 

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