By Chrisite Bender
Grand Rapids Public Museum
The Grand Rapids Public Museum (GRPM) welcomes the ambient R&B music of Bronze Wolf on Thursday, Feb. 28 for the third concert in the 2019 Concerts Under the Stars series in the GRPM’s Chaffee Planetarium.
Bronze Wolf totes the sounds of exploratory dark-electronic pop. Blurring the lines, vocalist, producer and multi-instrumentalist Eric Tempelaere, garners inspiration from every facet of life, molding stimuli into something personal – striving to make art and act of catharsis to please his own whims and embracing genre bending with no fear or regard for easy categorization. Accompanying Bronze Wolf with live visuals on the planetarium dome will be Nate Eizenga.
Concerts Under the Stars begins at 7:30 p.m., with Museum doors opening at 6:30 p.m. Refreshments, beer, and other beverages will be available for purchase. Performers will play two sets, with a short intermission in between.
Tickets are $12 for GRPM members and $15 for non-members if purchased in advance, and $15 for members and $18 for non-members on the day of the concert. Tickets are currently on sale at grpm.org, by calling 616.929.1700 or at the Museum’s front desk.
Bronze Wolf is expansive in his scope, yet internal in his expression – a proudly gay artist who has shed his small-town, conservative background in favor of an amorphous, ever expanding view of this world. From a young age, Eric was drooling over synthesizers and various electronic gear; scouring eBay for keytars, moogs, theremins, and Rhodes. To this day, Eric primarily uses the singular Nord synthesizer he saved up for in grade school with his paper route money, ultimately using limitations as a source of inspiration, allowing his songwriting to speak for itself.
Nate Eizenga is a Grand Rapids native who moonlights as a video artist focusing on accompaniment for live musical performances. By using controllers intended for digital music production to create, mix, and manipulate video in real time, he crafts a visual experience that toes the line between artistic spontaneity and musical synchronicity. Since his first public show in 2015, Nate has performed for numerous events, including Concerts Under the Stars 2017 and 2018.
The 2019 Concerts Under the Stars series will conclude on March 21 with the electronic sounds of Pink Sky.
