Pull out your planners or your iPhones or however it is you keep track of what you’ll be doing in a few weeks, and jot down the dates of Duke Performance’s Music in the Gardens series. Mixing stand-alone bills featuring area favorites like Eric Bachmann and Dex Romweber with new local lights like The Love Language and Megafaun, the series represents another coup for Duke’s ground-level, plugged-in booking under the leadership of Aaron Greenwald. All shows begin at 7 p.m. in or around the Duke Gardens, and each shows cost $10 for the public and $5 for Duke employees. Duke students and children under 12 get in for free. A rad series for the right price.
May 20: Ciompi Quartet with soprano Sandra Cotton
May 27: Ciompi Quartet with Emory University’s Vega String Quartet and oboist Joe Robinson
June 3: Thad Cockrell
June 10: The Rosebuds
June 17: Megafaun
June 24: Alina Simone
July 1: Dex Romweber Duo
July 8: Mallarme Chamber Players and Brussels Chamber Orchestra
July 15: The Love Language
July 22: Eric Bachmann (of Crooked Fingers/ Archers of Loaf)
July 29: Chris Stamey & Peter Holsapple
