Gallery+Tangled Up in Blue explores the line between functionality and display with a performance of 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century American folk songs that takes place within the labyrinthine aisles of the Yale University Art Gallery’s American Decorative Arts Furniture Study. In this 25-minute program, members of Tangled Up in Blue, Yale’s premier American folk music group, lead the audience on “walking tours” guided by music. As they sing, the performers’ voices meet between chairs and around wardrobes, weaving together songs of love, protest, history, and home into one continuous piece of music that speaks to the necessity and beauty found in the histories of this furniture and this music.

The performance will run twice, at 5:30 pm and 6:15 pm. Space is limited. Please come directly to the Furniture Study at 149 York Street, one block from the Gallery.

Organized by Jack Lawrence, JE ’18, and Alden Walters, JE ’18, and featuring Catherine Cerise, ES ’21; Louis DeFelice, JE ’19; Raffaella Donatich, BK ’19; Kai Dougan, ES ’19; Zachary Kreiser, SY ’19; Jerilyn McLean, SY ’20; Elena Saavedra Buckley, SM ’18; Anna Sudderth, PC ’19; Alden Walters, JE ’18; and Auguste White, SY ’21.

Gallery+ is an ongoing series of collaborations that invites responses to the Gallery’s collection through special programs and performances.