Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: Castle of Our Skins with Daniel Bernard Roumain and Val-Inc

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Dates:	Sunday, March 29, 2026 - Sunday, March 29, 2026
Hours:	1:30pm - 3:30pm
Ages:	Kids, Teens, Adults
In/Outdoor:	Indoor
Cost:	$$ see below
Category:	Music & Concerts

The Gardner’s longtime collaborators, Castle of Our Skins, perform a portrait concert of violinist, composer, and musical firebrand Daniel Bernard Roumain, joined by the composer himself on electric violin along with Val-Inc as sound chemist.

This concert includes three string quartets from Roumain’s cycle of musical portraits of major Black figures: String Quartet No. 1, “X” (1993); String Quartet No. 2, “King” (2001); and String Quartet No. 4, “Angelou” (2004).

Roumain’s music thrillingly mixes classical American music, jazz, and hip-hop, all transformed through his own unique voice.

His quartets are powerful testimonies to the lives and legacies of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and Maya Angelou.

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s Winter/Spring 2026 Weekend Concert Series features a fifteen-concert season curated by Abrams Curator of Music George Steel running from January 25 through May 17, 2026.

The winter/spring season showcases world-class artists in the Museum’s extraordinary Calderwood Hall—a 300-seat “sonic cube” with three levels of balconies designed so that 80% of seats are front row, creating a uniquely intense and intentional listening experience.

Dating to 1927, the Gardner’s Weekend Concert Series is the longest running museum music program in the country.

COST

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$50-85 (students & children age 5-17 are $20; seniors are $45)

WEBSITE

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www.gardnermuseum.org/calendar/castle-our-skins-daniel-bernard-roumain-and-val-inc

LOCATION

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25 Evans Way, Boston, MA, 02115 map
Phone: (617) 278-5156