8 pm | EARTH WIND & CHOIR
Sarah Good conductress
Annie Shaw piano
Vocalists:
Tee Caterini • Bailey Duff • Babette de Jong • Olga Kirgidis • J Burbage • Katie Penrose • Jess Carey • Rebecca Duyzer • Christeen Urquhart • Emily Sattler • Ian Challenger • Jon Dalton • Kieran Commanda • Lee Skinner • Hope Wickett • Ania Fritch • Mimi Vukasevic • Amy Gowling
This ever-evolving local vocal institution Earth Wind & Choir introduced their fun, adventurous sound some 15 years ago. Conductress Sarah Good plays the choir of 15-20 dedicated creative vocalists like an instrument, presenting idiosyncratic takes on the most beautiful, ugly and/or interesting music the group can find—from early polyphony to avant-pop.
9 pm | BOB WISEMAN
One time Blue Rodeo keyboardist, singer, guitarist, accordionist & songwriter Bob Wiseman has become even more prolific and artistically omnivorous since leaving the band in ‘92. His music is hard to pigeonhole varying from avant-garde to political pop. Wiseman makes super 8 films and videos that he accompanies live on accordion, guitar or piano.
He has co-written, produced and played on records for a wide variety of artists ranging from the Barenaked Ladies to John Oswald to Mendelson Joe, as well as scoring music for many television & film projects.
Wiseman toured with Feist, Final Fantasy, Ron Sexsmith, and Scott Thompson and was a guest performer with Wilco, The Wallflowers, Eugene Chadbourne, Jimmy Carl Black (of Frank Zappa), Edie Brickell, Michelle Wright, Ashley MacIsaac & Garland Jeffries.
10 pm | HEAR IN NOW
From Chicago, New York City and Siena, HEAR in NOW is comprised of Mazz Swift on violin/ vocals, Silvia Bolognesi on double bass and Tomeka Reid on cello. A world-caliber collective of women working in a class almost entirely their own, HEAR in NOW is a string trio that composes and improvises fluidly between free jazz and contemporary classical, folk music and avant-garde. In over a decade since their first encounter, Hear in Now has become a rare egalitarian ensemble for three highly active musicians who are as often singular band leaders as they are sidewomen.
The trio’s compiled musical CV is as impressive as it is diverse – including collaborations, performances and recordings with Anthony Braxton, Nicole Mitchell, Butch Morris, William Parker, Common, Jay-Z and Kanye West. As a unit they have comprised half of the Roscoe Mitchell Sextet for several European shows in early 2017. Not Living in Fear, their second studio album, was engineered by Griffin Rodriguez (Icy Demons, Beirut, Modest Mouse) and Alex Inglizian (Experimental Sound Studio), and features guest vocals by Chicago jazz legend Dee Alexander.
"They begin by telling us stories, these stories have all kinds of twists and turns plots and counterplots. . . . The musicians use sound hieroglyphics to set up structures that construct and deconstruct regrouping after every excursion. These compositions change hue and timbre, landing at different positions then eventually returning to a place of silence. This is music with a new sensibility that flies and hops over fields of blues, jazz, bluegrass, classical, yet it is none of these things; it is MUSIC – nameless, eloquent, not locked into category." – William Parker
$25 advance tickets (for 3 acts) via Eventbrite
$35 door
$65 festival weekend pass via Eventbrite
No one is refused admission for lack of funds
