Family Junket
Chicago, IL
Music
Family Junket is the collective voice of Chicago-based musicians Alejandro Gallardo, Clarence Young, Rahila Coats, Scott Daniel, Hasani Cannon, and brothers Zach, Jonah, and Max Lazarus. They are social workers, teachers, dancers, writers, painters, photographers, performance artists, and engineers coming together to create healing spaces, community, and parties. Melding flutes, saxophones, trumpets, and violins, with unique vocal compositions, layered percussion, and wavy electronic production, the band creates music best listened to with the family.
They are at Ragdale working on Circle of Apathy, a humanist, ensemble-driven, two-act dance and music collaboration between House of DOV and Chicago band Family Junket. Built thematically on cycles of destruction and regrowth (or growth as destruction) the piece regards all human machinations (even war) as natural processes. Identifying a link between the evolving nature of Earth’s landscape, our own human social evolution, and the emergent nature of individual identity, the work attempts to depict this churning process on all three scales. “You don’t live on Earth, you are the Earth; you don’t live on the landscape, you are the landscape.”
Collaborators: Hasani Cannon, Rahila Coats, Scott Daniel, A Else, Jonah Lazarus, Max Lazarus, Drew Lewis, Isabella Limosnero, Hannah Marcus, Mya McClellan, Charles Pierson, and Isabelle Taylor