Kaatsbaan Cultural Park’s 2024 Festival & Contemporaneous present an early look at Act 1 of an upcoming work entitled History of Life by composer Dylan Mattingly and writer Thomas Bartscherer. A new epic, History of Life is a wild, enthralling 6-hour musical event — a folk revival, a rock concert, a communal feast, and a meditation on all that has lived and all that has died in this world. More than just a performance, History of Life is a celebration — like a wedding or a wake — that bears witness to the vast, beautiful, violent, manyvoiced history of life on Earth. The performance at Kaatsbaan Festival 2024 will feature vocalist Isaiah Robinson.