Folk music quartet to feature new album’s songs at Caltech concert

Folk music group The Syncopaths will perform song from their new album Saturday at Caltech in Pasadena.

The quartet’s spirited American and Celtic folk sounds, delivered with an improvisational and playful style, have attracted fans for years.

“We’re excited to perform music from our new album ‘Be Like the Sea,'” said Ashley Hoyer, the group’s mandolin player. “Selections will include beautifully sung stories by our own Christa Burch as well as energetic fiddle tunes written by the other members of the band.”

According to the Pasadena Folk Music Society, “The Syncopaths can knock you over with the powerful singing of Christa Burch and get you jumping with lively interplay of fiddle and mandolin by Ryn McKasson and Hoyer, gaining extra drive from Jeffrey Spero on piano and Burch on the bodhran, an Irish hand drum.”

The concert starts at 8 p.m. in Caltech’s Beckman Institute Auditorium, 400 S. Wilson Ave. The Beckman Institute building is just west of the larger, round Beckman Auditorium, event organizers said.

Free parking lots are on both sides of Michigan Avenue just south of Del Mar Boulevard. Two structures on Wilson Avenue just south of Del Mar Boulevard will also provide free parking.

Tickets are sold at the Caltech Ticket Office, 626-395-4652. General admission is $25, and $10 tickets are available for Caltech students and attendees 16 years old or younger.

The concert is presented by the Pasadena Folk Music Society.

More information is available at pasadenafolkmusicsociety.org.

Updated July 1, 2024, 10:23 p.m.