HUDSON — The Olana Partnership and Sustain Music & Nature invite all outdoor and music enthusiasts to Trail Sessions, a hike and concert in Olana State Historic Site’s artist-designed landscape 1-4 p.m. June 25. Attendees will start the event with a hike, which can be modified to accommodate mobility needs with a bilingual Spanish option upon request. After the hike visitors will enjoy an acoustic outdoor concert on Olana’s Ridge Road overlooking the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains with our guests Murmur (UPSTATE) and Naomi Westwater.
“We love making music outside because we feed off of the sounds we hear that inspire and enliven us to create and perform. The best days are spent playing music in the fresh air with birds, bugs, and trees surrounding us. We’re so very thrilled to be performing at the Olana State Historic Site,” said Murmur.
“Nature inspires my songwriting and is integral to my creativity, so being able to perform in nature at Olana State Historic Site is very special to me,” said Naomi Westwater.
Trail Sessions are a series of guided educational hikes and concerts on public lands in Colorado and New York. Each summer, Sustain Music & Nature features local and national bands at beautiful parks and land trust properties by partnering with conservation groups and non-profits to provide environmental education.Audiences engage with nature and music.
MURMUR, a duo based in Hudson, is made of two musicians, Mary Webster and Melanie Glenn, from the group Upstate. With the two’s bigger group, the band weaves traces of Americana, Jazz, Gospel, and R&B. Throughout the past decade, Upstate honed their sound and stage craft. While doing so, they built a reputation for their eclectic instruments, musicianship, and dense vocal harmony. Last year, their music was streamed on Spotify 1.4 million times across 300,800 listeners in 125 countries.
Naomi Westwater (she/they) is a queer, Black-multiracial singer-songwriter from Boston, Massachusetts. Their work combines music and music production with creative writing, visual art, and spirituality. Naomi’s sound is a blend of Americana, jazz, soul, folk, and electropop. She has performed at CD Baby’s EU DIY Musician Conference (Spain), Camp Fire Festival at Club Passim (MA), September Nights at The Museum of Fine Arts (MA), Crooked Coast’s Coast Fest (MA), Radio Bean (VT), Bust Out Boston at Brighton Music Hall (MA), ONCE Somerville (MA), An Informal Night of Comedy with Eugene Mirman (MA), and The Burren (MA). Naomi holds a Master of Music in Contemporary Performance and Production from Berklee College of Music and was nominated for best singer-songwriter Boston Music Award in 2021. She is a 2020 617Sessions Artist, a 2020 Boston Opportunity Fund recipient, a 2019 Club Passim Iguana Music Fund grant recipient, and a 2019 Berklee College of Music Post Master’s Graduate Fellow.
In addition to making music, Naomi is on faculty at Club Passim and Not Sorry Productions teaching songwriting, English, and spirituality, and they lead the Boston chapter of Beats by Girlz.
Event tickets can be purchased at sustainmusicandnature.org, on a sliding donation scale from $5 to $75 with children under 12 free. Ticket purchases support the musicians and program expenses.
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