'Cloud Nebula' is out of this world!

By Ashley Sterner,

Melissa Gerr

Published April 4, 2025 at 9:59 AM EDT

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Astronaut Symphony, a part of Cloud Nebula, by AfroHouse. Photo: Dagfoto

Matthew Paul D'Agostino

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Astronaut Symphony, a part of Cloud Nebula, by AfroHouse. Photo: Dagfoto

Matthew Paul D'Agostino

This weekend at The Voxel performing arts theater, audiences will step aboard a spaceship, and train their eyes, and ears, on the stars …
"Cloud Nebula" is an afro-futuristic cinematic opera produced by Baltimore-based music collective Afro House.

We talk with writer Scott Patterson, also co-founder and Artistic Director of Afro House and with Alisha Patterson, co-founder and Managing Director of Afro House to get a preview!

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Ashley Sterner

Ashley Sterner is the co-host of WYPR’s On The Record. With co-host Sheilah Kast, Ashley interviews artists, scientists, community leaders, and others.

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Melissa Gerr

Melissa Gerr is a Senior Producer for On the Record. She started in public media at Twin Cities Public Television in St. Paul, Minn., where she is from, and then worked as a field producer for Oregon Public Broadcasting in Portland. She made the jump to audio-lover in Baltimore as a digital media editor at Mid-Atlantic Media and Laureate Education, Inc. and as a field producer for "Out of the Blocks." Her beat is typically the off-beat with an emphasis on science, culture and things that make you say, 'Wait, what?'

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