ACF’s 2026 Spring Residency & Show

Antenna Cloud Farm presents a special evening of live performance with renowned vocalist, composer, and video artist Emily Wells, along with guests from Antenna Cloud Farm’s musical community including composer-performer-improvisers Michi Wiancko, Che Ali and Philip McGinty (both ACF Experimental Institute alumni), and more. 

This show will be the culmination of a weeklong residency at Antenna Cloud Farm centered around creative exploration, project incubation, and musical engagements with students and youth in local schools and music programs. We are thrilled to be partnering once again with the beloved Shea Theater in Great Falls for this show. 

ACF’s 2nd Annual Spring Residency is supported in part by grants from the Montague, Gill, Leyden, Orange, and Northfield Cultural Councils - local agencies which are supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

ABOUT EMILY WELLS

Forging a bridge between pop and chamber music, Emily Wells builds songs from deliberate strata of vocals, synths, drums, piano, string and wind instruments. Wells has toured extensively throughout the world, including performances at Lincoln Center, the Guggenheim Museum, and the National Gallery of Art. She has released six critically acclaimed albums including 2017’s “visionary” (NPR) This World is Too ____ For You, and 2022’s “complex, vibrant, and dynamic” (Pitchfork) Regards to the End.

Wells is a 2025 Opera America discovery grant recipient, a 2022 NYU Center for Ballet and the Arts & National Sawdust Toulmin Foundation Fellow, and a 2020 New York Foundation for the Arts grant recipient. 

Recent collaborations include the premiere of The Glass Age in choreographed musical dialog with conceptual artist Alex Da Corte at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Regards to the End as Expanded Cinema with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at ICA Boston. Her first multimedia solo show, Fever, is on view at The Berman Museum of Art in Pennsylvania.

Wells’s evocative music (described as “thrilling” by Pitchfork) and performances (called “quietly transfixing” by The New York Times) impel listeners to be attuned. Her latest release, the ten-song album Regards to the End, explores the AIDS crisis, climate change, and her lived experience watching the world burn. A work of radical empathy, Regards to the End foregrounds the power of art, critique, and care to connect and perhaps redeem us.

www.emilywellsmusic.com