The Red Skies Music Ensemble combines music, theater, and scholarship, 
making archives and special collections come alive 
through research and performance.

Trudy Williams, Artistic Director/Curator 
George Boziwick, Curator/Music Director 
2019 Pre-Pandemic Performances 

At the Library of Congress:
"Take Me Out to the Ball Game": The Story of Katie Casey, Suffrage and Our National Pastime
Co-Authors: George Boziwick, Trudy Williams

At the Long Island Museum of American Art and History:
Walt Whitman, William Sidney Mount and the Sounds of the 19th Century 
Author: Trudy Williams

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Walt Whitman, Williams Sidney Mount ​and the
Sounds of the 19th Century  
Music and the Artistry of
​William Sidney Mount

Emily Dickinson in her Elements:
​Accomplished Musician,
Emerging Poet

Take Me Out to the 
Ball Game

About the Shows
Trudy Williams (Artistic Director/Curator) and George  Boziwick (Curator/Musical Director) create and produce research-based programs that are entertaining and educational for general audiences.

Through the The Red Skies Music Ensemble's Public History/Public Musicology performance model, each show uses a humanities approach to bring research to the stage through the lens of music in an engaging, research-based narrative, musical and theatrical performances, and large screen images of archival documents and artifacts. These elements are combined in a single setting to bring the audience on journey that contextualizes historical and cultural facts, insights and interpretations, many of which have been hidden in plain sight or dimmed in cultural memory. Programs include opportunities for audience participation, and conclude with a Q&A.

Irish Traditions 
Hidden and Revealed
The Red Skies Tent
We welcome collaborative engagement with public and private institutions related to their mission, archives and special collections, as well as with affiliated and independent scholars, historians, musicologists, researchers and curators. Programs are designed to accommodate formal and informal performance settings.
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The Red Skies Music Ensemble co-founders commit to producing programs, and seeking places for performance, that share our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and indigenous land acknowledgement in their values, practices and staffing.

Images: Amherst College Library, Special Collections; Long Island Museum of America Art and History; The New York Library for the Performing Arts.
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Copyright 2022 George Boziwick and Trudy Williams                                                                                          The Red Skies Music Ensemble: Co-founded in 2010 by George Boziwick and Trudy Williams