Aurora nealand biography
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AURORA NEALAND
Aurora Nealand is a multi-instrumentalist active in the vibrant music scene of New Orleans, USA. “I think separating ‘musical life’ from ‘life’ at this point is a challenge for me,” she reflects. After attending the renowned Conservatory at Oberlin College, where she designed her own major in “Contemporary Music,” Aurora moved to Paris to study at the Ecole du Theatre Physical Jacques Lecoq, taking the opportunity to explore doing music/sound for theatre. She eventually landed in New Orleans, where for the past 8 years, she has been playing Traditional New Orleans jazz and diving into the rich musical culture of the city. Today, she is a band leader and contributing member to a number of performing groups, as a saxophonist, singer, composer, and improvisor. Aurora was a OneBeat Fellow (Dosti’s sister program) in 2013 and joins Dosti as both a Fellow and a city coordinator: she and her partner Lisa Giordano of Sound Observatory New Orleans have curated all of the performances and social engagements opportunities that will happen during Dosti’s week-long residency in NOLA.
Project categories: Fellows 2015
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Aurora Nealand
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BySophie Lucido Johnson
On a sleepy Saturday in 2008, tables were moved around at the now- defunct Sound Cafe to make way for the Panorama Jazz Band, who were scheduled to play a program intended for children. A few parents and their kids scattered around the cafe had clearly been waiting for this, and they moved in close to the band to sit cross-legged on the ground. Jazz concerts intended for children in the languid afternoons of unassuming Saturdays are among the charming quirks one comes to expect in New Orleans, but this ensemble had something unique. In addition to their traditional jazz-meets-salty Eastern European sound, the alto saxophone player was a girl—and girls are rare in traditional jazz music. Her name was Aurora Nealand.
Nealand, who sat near the front, showed a curious, curly-haired girl how air moved through the holes in her saxophone. A squadron of toddlers danced recklessly in the back. Still, it was impossible to look away from Nealand, whose gentleness was hypnotizing, and whose very presence on the coffee shop stage quite simply lit it up.
Nealand was born in Pacifica, California, and lived there until she was three in a self-described “house-shack on the beach.” But the house washed away during a flood surge, and so her family (she’s the youngest o