About

“Maybe New York is a genre after all”

- I Care If You Listen

Recent season highlights include national tours of Noctuary for Adé and Passages, two large-scale multimedia works that bring ShoutHouse’s fusion of chamber music, hip-hop, and storytelling into the wind ensemble world through consortium premieres, guest residencies, and touring collaborations. ShoutHouse has appeared at venues and festivals including The Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage, National Sawdust’s Resonator Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Roulette, and The Greene Space, while continuing to cultivate residencies and developmental collaborations with universities, presenters, and creative partners around the country. Equally at home in concert halls and underground venues, the ensemble continues to appear at iconic New York spaces including The Sultan Room, The Bitter End, The Shrine, and Rockwood Music Hall. Their projects have been featured internationally on programs including WNYC’s New Sounds, and recent work has positioned ShoutHouse at the forefront of a new model for genre-fluid, socially engaged ensemble creation.

ShoutHouse is a collective of musicians that brings together poetic hip-hop, complex grooves, high-octane vocals, and instrumental solos in a way that is entirely their own. The brainchild of composer/multi-instrumentalist Will Healy, they grew out of a desire to bring together some of his favorite musicians in the New York music scene, regardless of genre background, from the musicians in an Afrobeat band to some orchestral musician friends. Over the years, they have solidified into a core roster of a dozen artists, including one emcee, a string section, dancers, and jazz soloists, presenting cutting-edge concert experiences that are redefining the boundaries of genre. Their debut album, Cityscapes, came out on New Amsterdam Records in June 2019, featuring “a lavishly orchestrated, absolutely unique blend of postrock, art-rock and indie classical.” (New York Music Daily)