The ReMemberers: The FireBird
October 4 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Sunday Oct 4 at 7pm
About The ReMemberers
The ReMemberers are a multidisciplinary trio weaving ritual storytelling, global song, and multi-instrumental virtuosity into an experience that feels part theater, part concert, part ceremony. Violet Southard’s numinous voice, Alex Harvey’s resonant strings, and John de Kadt’s percussive tale-telling create an atmosphere where ancient myths breathe again — told, sung, and drummed into presence.
Each gathering begins with an inherited wisdom tale and unfolds as a journey inward. Musical traditions from across the planet converge in this awakening of ancient folklore. The ReMemberers, in partnership with their audience, rekindle one of humanity’s oldest customs: coming together to listen, imagine, and be transformed.
About The Firebird
A Russian folktale dating back ten generations is revived this season in a fresh retelling. In a forest gone silent, a young Huntsman finds a single golden feather blazing on the path before him — a feather shed from the burning breast of the Firebird, the most extraordinary creature in all the world. Against the counsel of his talking horse, he takes it. And from that one moment of ambition, everything unravels.
Task by task, a tyrannical ruler — the ego made sovereign — escalates his demands on the obedient Huntsman who stumbles deeper into complicity with the authoritarian regime. The Huntsman makes one compromise after another, each one more absurd than than the last, until he can no longer remember where his own will has ended and the tyrant’s began. All the while the caged Firebird watches from the courtyard with eyes full of impossible light. Something is calling to him from the far horizon of his heart.
Courage won’t be enough to answer that call. Neither will serenity. Only a willingness to be completely undone.
This is a thousand-year-old Russian folktale. It is also a story about right now.
The ReMemberers bring this ancient tale to life through voice, world percussion, and acoustic strings in a ninety-minute performance that feels equal parts theater and concert. An evening that will remain with you like an old friend returning home.
The ReMemberers ARE:
Alex Harvey
Filmmaker, musician, and folklorist Alex Harvey creates mythic performance works that blend storytelling, global music, and theatre. His films include Walden: Life in the Woods starring Demián Bichir, I Am A Seagull, The Unsilent Picture, and space//space. A multi-instrumentalist and composer, he performs internationally with The ReMemberers.
Violet Southard
Singer, songwriter, and voice ceremonialist Violet Southard channels haunting vocal traditions drawn from nature and ancestral song. Her work explores sound as a pathway to reflection and transformation. Alongside performing internationally with The ReMemberers, she facilitates sound-based healing practices for individuals and groups.
John de Kadt
Percussionist, poet, and storyteller John de Kadt blends world percussion, spoken word, and mythic storytelling into edgeless performance. His five albums have over 130 million streams worldwide. Founder of BlessFest and former member of The Hanumen, he has shared performances internationally for more than twenty-five years, collaborating with Krishna Das, Mickey Hart, and Robert Bly.