Dallas Sierra Club and GreenSourceDFW.org present “Montopolis: The Living Coast”, a gorgeous nature film, dynamic storytelling and live music performance that explores the Texas gulf coast. Montopolis features members of the Austin Symphony Orchestra and Texas’ best rock musicians touring with an environmental scientist. The show is a love letter to the region as well as an opportunity to discuss broader environmental challenges. Surfers and sailors, shrimpers and oilmen, poets and scientists all share their stories about this complicated region of serene beauty, vast industry, and incredible contradictions. The Living Coast film was produced by acclaimed cinematographer Anlo Sepulveda and drone pilot Reagan Jobe.
This project is generously funded by Mid-America Arts Alliance, the National Endowment for the Arts,
and the state arts agencies of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas.
Featuring the music of Montopolis, film by Anlo Sepulveda (Yakona), and archival photography of the Great Galveston Hurricane, the deadliest storm in US history. Surfers and sailors, shrimpers and oilmen, poets and scientists all share their stories in interviews about this complicated region of serene beauty, vast industry, and incredible contradictions.
Scientists Wendy Gordon and Megan O'Connell perform on stage with Montopolis as well as providing educational outreach before and after the concerts. Please contact us for more information about their educational outreach programs.
Anlo Sepulveda, director of the film Yakona, has created some truly stunning imagery that screens during the concert. A native of Corpus Christi, Anlo's knowledge of the region has enabled him to capture never before seen perspectives of beaches and wetlands, oil rigs and refineries, epic kite surfing, and industrial fishing boats - a complete visual portrait of life on the coast.
Fourth in the Montopolis concert series about places in Texas, The Living Coast is their most ambitious musical incarnation to date with a horn section, string section, and rock rhythm section featuring members of the Tosca String Quartet, Okkervil River, the Polyphonic Spree, and the Austin Symphony.
Press
"A Montopolis show is like a night of beautiful chamber music, but with electric guitar and the twang of pedal steel giving a Texas kick to the keys and strings."
Texas Monthly
"a multimedia love letter to the Texas coast, with voices and images from the Gulf set to an original score"
"Montopolis can create forceful sounding songs that have a bit of rock ‘n roll snarl, but it is also capable of mournful classical sounding pieces and others that are mysterious and ambient. The group’s range of expression is striking…"
Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle
Bio
Led by composer Justin Sherburn, Montopolis combines country, folk, and rock styles into modern classical arrangements. The group produces multi-media events that combine live music with video and interactive storytelling. Montopolis hopes to inspire responsible stewardship of our natural resources through performances that celebrate the beauty of nature. Montopolis is a proud member of the Texas Commission on the Arts Touring Roster.
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- $20
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