Singer Bari Koral to Perform at UMC March 24
Singer Bari Koral will perform at the University of Minnesota, Crookston (UMC) Wednesday, March 24, at 8 p.m. in the Eagles Nest Lounge in Sahlstrom Conference Center. The performance is free and open to the public.
Koral, whose music has been called “folkish funk,” has garnered praise in dozens of magazines, including feature articles spotlighting her 2001 full-length CD “Joy” in Billboard Magazine and Rolling Stone. She released her second CD, “Cloudwalking,” in 2002 and has been touring the college circuit across the country while planning, writing, and recording her third CD.
A soulful combination of smart pop hooks and sassy lyrics, Koral's musicality took root, ironically, in the Off-Broadway theatres of New York City, where she began performing at age thirteen. She was a "theatre brat" in a variety of productions. It wasn’t until her freshman year of college at Syracuse University when she discovered rock and roll through artists like the Grateful Dead, Chrissie Hynde and Patti Smith.
Her passion for music notwithstanding, Koral spent most of her college days studying media and philosophy, and playing dead girls in student films. Three weeks away from receiving her degree at the Newhouse School of Communications fate stepped in, and Koral opened a guitar case that had been lying under her bed for three years. The find proved to be an omen as she discovered an immediate knack for composing and singing her own material.
After college she soon would "quit the day job" and move to marketing and promoting her own music. Her self-titled EP introduced Koral to the New York City music scene, where artists like Lisa Loeb, Jeff Buckley, and Joan Osbourne were breaking. It was on this scene that she would meet the musicians who would form her current band. The band quickly developed a following and continues to perform at premier venues in New York. Koral and her band have since been voted one of the best live acts by Newsday, and she was picked the most likely to succeed by the Village Voice newspaper.
For more information, visit the artist’s website: www.barikoral.com.
The performance is sponsored by UMC’s Student Programming and Activities for Campus Entertainment (SPACE) committee. Disability accommodations are available upon request and can be made by calling 218-281-8506.
Posted 03/16/2004
Contact: Andrew Svec,
218-281-8435