With support from the California Arts Council, Van-Anh Vo & Blood Moon Orchestra will present “Recounting Resilience”, a series of interactive music workshops and recitals hosted at community centers in the San Francisco Bay Area emphasizing post-pandemic community building. The project will be led by Greater Mekong Subregion cultural bearers.
Blood Moon Orchestra’s members have the innate ability to blend different sounds and musical genres together, creating surprisingly new and fresh musical dialogue. Throughout the years, BMO has performed concerts at major venues such as Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Lincoln Center, Yerba Buena Center for Performing Arts, Houston Miller Outdoor theatre. BMO has done residencies and performances at universities, in local libraries and community centers.
At its recent international tour at BridgeFest Vietnam, a festival that was hosted by the U.S. Embassy and Oxfam International to foster dialogue surrounding diversity and equality, BMO performed for 10,000+ audience members at the main concert and conducted 6 workshops for another 3,300 students at universities. In the past 5 years, BMO has developed two different workshop series to work with K-12 students and seniors. These workshop series have been successfully implemented at schools and community centers in the Bay Area.