Ethernaut to perform exclusive album preview concert at Reynolds Place Theatre
Winston-Salem, NC (November 20, 2024) – This Saturday, November 23, local jazz supergroup Ethernaut will play an intimate concert in downtown Winston-Salem previewing their upcoming album. The band is comprised of five prominent musicians well-known to anyone who frequents the local jazz scene: Nathaniel Ward on guitar, John Ray on bass, Kassem Williams on drums, Michael Kinchen on keyboards, and Joseph Dowdy on saxophone.
Nathaniel Ward, the band’s primary organizer, is a Winston-Salem based jazz guitar player, recording artist, music educator, and community arts advocate. Recent projects in partnership with Arts Council of Winston-Salem include three successful seasons of the “Sizzlin’ Summer Nights” jazz series at Simon’s Community Garden, and a three-year run of NCMA’s “Jazz at SECCA” series.
Ward describes Ethernaut as an improvisational, modern jazz band. Concert-goers can expect contemporary favorites and jazz standards mixed in with original material. “However you connect to music, you’ll find something that works for you about what we do”, Ward says of Ethernaut’s musical scope. “Jazz has always been about taking what’s current and imagining it in a unique, interpretive way. It’s not a historical re-enactment, and it shouldn’t be. Ethernaut is about the futurity that is inherent to jazz music.”
The concert will take place at Reynolds Place Theatre in the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts (251 N Spruce Street). Tickets ($20 + taxes/fees) are available at intothearts.org/ethernaut or at the door before the show. Doors open at 7:00pm; the concert begins at 7:30pm.
Arts Council of Winston-Salem & Forsyth County is the leading advocate of arts in our region and seeks to enhance and support the local artistic and cultural landscape. Established in 1949 as the first arts council in the nation, the pioneering organization is celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2024. Arts Council owns and operates a campus which includes Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts and Hanesbrands Theatre. In 2023, it hosted 670 on-campus events with 60,000 attendees and in FY24 distributed over $1.4 million in grants and programs, benefiting over 800,000 people. Additionally, Arts Council is the largest funder of Arts Education for Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools.
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