A Musical Evening with Decoda & Ringdown ft. Caroline Shaw & Danni Lee Parpan
June 16 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Tuesday, June 16, 2026 | 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm | $30 non-members; $27 Members; $15 students Event Details & Tickets
Ringdown’s music is like calling your first love on a rotary telephone, percussively tearing out the hammers from a 1924 vintage upright, and flinging each of them into space while you wait for every heartache you’ve ever felt to quietly return. Collaborators Caroline Shaw and Danni Lee Parpan—who between the two of them have a Pulitzer Prize, a handful of Grammys, and a “Best Drum Major Award”—describe Ringdown as an electronic cinematic pop duo based in Portland, Oregon and New York City. Others have described Ringdown as the love child of Johannes Brahms and Brandi Carlile—if they were born in the same century and if Brahms was a queer woman. You decide.
Decoda is an artist-led chamber music collective dedicated to creating a more compassionate and connected world through music. As the only affiliate ensemble of Carnegie Hall, Decoda combines virtuosic performance with deep community engagement, bringing chamber music to concert halls, schools, shelters, hospitals, and correctional facilities.
The Asheville Art Museum promises to be a vibrant gathering place where art sparks imagination, broadens perspectives, and connects people across time and cultures. As a cultural institution rooted in community service, we welcome all visitors and embrace practices that encourage mutual respect, foster dialogue, and strengthen community. We are devoted to the art of the United States with a special focus on art from the Southern Appalachian region. We embrace the richness and complexity of the American experience, championing an broad vision of the United States and affirming the power of art to shape and inspire our culture. We strive to enrich and uplift our community by collecting with purpose, collaborating generously, inviting boldly, welcoming warmly, and engaging deeply. ashevilleart.org
