Ted Hearne and The Crossing. Coming to Boston and to Brooklyn.  In anticipation of our forthcoming album release,  Sound From the Bench is going 'on tour'! Join us for this (we could not have possibly anticipated just how timely and important) music that tells the stories of how we got to where we are and what it means.  Compelling, energizing, and brilliant music.

A single sentence from the Iraq War Logs, wealth distribution and privilege, the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, and the 2013 case of rape by high school students in Steubenville, Ohio: inspirations all for the music of Ted Hearne, among the most imaginative composers writing for voices today. Love, anger, compassion - in an eclectic musical language without stylistic boundaries, with virtuosic voices, guitars, and drums alike. The centerpiece of the program is Ted's  Sound From the Bench, a setting of deft appropriations from Philadelphia poet Jena Osman which repurpose the words of ventriloquism handbooks and Supreme Court justices.