Featuring Silkroad Ensemble Artists:

Pura Fé | Lap-steel Slide Guitar, Vocals
Shane Shanahan | Percussion
Michi Wiancko | Violin, Composer

Silkroad presents Train Station Trios, a series of open workshops generating new music as part of Silkroad's multi-year American Railroad project, an initiative led by artistic director Rhiannon Giddens that illuminates the impact the African American, Chinese, Indigenous, Irish, and other immigrant communities had on the creation of the Transcontinental Railroad and connecting railways across the United States. 

In this one-of-a-kind Merced event, a trio of Silkroad artists along with Dr. David Rouff, UC Merced Associate Professor and Grey Roberts and Bette Woolstenhulme Presidential Chair in History, and Merced Historian Sarah Lim will explore untold stories from these communities, contextualizing the railroad through music and reminding us of America’s intricately rich history.

The Art Kamangar Center at The Merced Theatre
4:30 – 5:30 PM: Pre-Concert Talk with Silkroad Artists and UC Merced Faculty & Staff
7:00 PM: Train Station Trios Concert

Lead Sponsors: UC Merced Arts, UC Merced Dept. of History and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Merced Symphony, Community Foundation of Merced County, and Amtrak San Joaquin