Ahead of the Bluecoats Opening Night Community Celebration on June 28th, the Bluecoats announced 'Change Is Everything' as their 2024 DCI production. Check out the full trailer below:

In their own words, here's what the Bluecoats have to say about their 2024 production:

"Wood turns to sawdust, ice melts, your coffee gets cold. A star explodes into supernova and then collapses into a black hole. Accelerating rhythm becomes tone and creates harmony before descending into cacophony.

Entropy is the arrow of time, moving us relentlessly from order to disorder. How do we create human moments even as everything devolves around us? 

I. We search for shapes and patterns, arranging moments of sonorous melody before noise takes over. Brick by brick we build and rebuild even when we know every solid structure will eventually melt away.

II. Ordering and reordering our thoughts, we drift through a sea of emotional disarray, seeking to understand our existence when change is the only certainty.

III. Can we find a way to create meaning in the beautiful mess of our own lived experience?

The forward progress of time is measured in seconds, but it is the moments we create in time that measure our humanity. We are nothing but matter, but in this moment, we matter."

This moment changes everything. Change Is Everything

In true Bluecoats fashion, the repertoire for their production is full of exciting and interesting pieces that come together to form a wonderfully unique arrangement of vibe and energy.

The repertoire for 'Change Is Everything' includes the following musical selections for the various movements within the production:

Part One - Consonance / Dissonance

• Change Is Everything - Son Lux
• Foreplay / Longtime - Boston
• The Four Sections Mvmt. 4 - Steve Reich
• Rose - Michael Laurello

Part Two - Form / Antiform

• Plans We Made - Son Lux
• The Four Sections Mvmt. 2 - Steve Reich
• Agape - Nicholas Britell
• Love/Lover/Friend - Caroline Rose

Part Three - Fusion / Confusion

• Threshold - Sungazer
• Dymaxion - Darcy James Argue

Coda - Deconstruct / Construct

• Lost It To Trying - Son Lux

Check out the gallery of photos from their debut performance at the 2024 Bluecoats Opening Night Community Celebration.

Fans of the Bluecoats can look forward to seeing upcoming performances from the Canton-based ensemble at the Summer Music Games In Cincinnati on July 2, The Whitewater Classic on July 6th, and River City Rhapsody on July 7th. To check out the full Bluecoats summer tour schedule, click here!