An Evening with Haley Heynderickx and Mary Lattimore

About this event

Join us for an evening of music with two extraordinary performances in the stunning Rockefeller Chapel: Mary Lattimore and Haley Heynderickx. Lattimore, known for her ambient, meditative compositions, joins us in a solo harp performance, while Haley Heynderickx will perform a selection of her stunning solo work — drawing from folk, jazz, and her religious Filipino-American upbringing. Together, they will transform the Gothic space into an immersive evening of sound and songs.

This program is presented in partnership with the University of Chicago Division of the Arts & Humanities.

Mary Lattimore is a Los Angeles-based harpist. She experiments with effects through her Lyon and Healy Concert Grand pedal harp, concocting half-structured improvisations which can include both ambient glitter and unsettling noise. Her first solo record, the Withdrawing Room, was released on Desire Path Recordings in 2014. The solo recordings that followed, At the Dam and Collected Pieces, were released by Ghostly International.

Mary has also recorded synth + harp duo projects with Elysse Thebner Miller (And the Birds Flew Overhead) and Jeff Zeigler (Slant of Light) and has co-written reimagined scores for the 1968 experimental silent film Le Revelateur, directed by Philippe Garrel (who approved of the project), and the Czech New Wave classic Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, and performed these scores live throughout the US with Jeff Zeigler and the Valerie Project, respectively. She has contributed and written harp parts for such artists as Kurt Vile, Thurston Moore, Sharon Van Etten, Meg Baird, Steve Gunn, the Clientele, Hop Along, Jarvis Cocker, Karen Elson, Ed Askew and Quilt.

Ghostly International released her third solo record in late spring of 2018.

Singer/songwriter Haley Heynderickx draws from a wide array of influences, citing her religious Filipino-American upbringing, the folk music of the 1960s and ’70s, jazz radio, and the idiosyncratic acoustic guitar styles of Leo Kottke and John Fahey. All of those ingredients find their way into her music, which pairs deft fingerpicking with lyrics that flirt with levity but hew toward introspection. Her first album, I Need to Start A Garden saw release in 2018. Following years of heavy touring, Heynderickx unveiled her 2024 album, Seed of a Seed.

Coming November 21st 2025, Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover partner again for their second collaborative album, What of Our Nature via Fat Possum Records. The pair spent a year sharing songs from opposite corners of the country while reading Woody Guthrie’s words and biographies, slowly exploring a patchwork of Americanism to see where their stories fit. The result is a collection of music about profound friendship, the legacy of colonialism, generational identity, commercialism, and the slippery target of addressing social equity in song.

From Chicago Humanities Festival