Photo provided Dixon’s Violin will begin his HUMANKINDness tour at Columbus’ Crump Theater this weekend.
Dixon’s Violin will be kicking off his HUMANKINDness tour at Columbus’ Crump Theater this weekend.
The concert is at 7 p.m. Saturday with doors open at 6 p.m. Advance tickets cost $29 and are available at eventbrite.com and on dixonsviolin.com. Tickets at the door cost $35 if available. Tickets for children 12 and under cost $5. All ages are welcome.
Dixon grew up in Davison and graduated from the University of Michigan-Flint where he was also the assistant concertmaster of the University of Michigan-Flint Symphony. He is also the former assistant concertmaster of the Flint Youth Symphony, one of only two youth orchestras in the United States that have been invited to perform in Munich, Germany.
He had been playing classical music all his life, but a 2005 trip to the Burning Man festival challenged him to improvise and presented a perfect opportunity to create his own music for the first time.
“When I saw the look in people’s eyes, that I could move them with my own music, it changed my life,” Dixon said. “I made up my mind then and there to rearrange my life priorities. I had been playing for 25 years, but for the first time I truly fell in love with music.”
A former technology leader and symphony violinist, Dixon walked away from a distinguished career to follow his dream full time and invented a new music genre. He now improvises on a five-string electric violin with a looping system he developed to create an all live one-man symphony, guided by his personal story of life transformation.
Dixon has given four TED Talks and performances and has performed at Burning Man for over 10 years, in addition to appearing in film, TV and on the radio.
When he realized the power of sharing from the heart and the soul-moving experiences one can share through music, he said he knew he had to do this full time.
“Humankindness is the blending of humankind and kindness,” Dixon said in the release. “I believe we are all connected and we can honor each other with compassion and care.”
