Upcoming at Rhizome (click on event for more details):
Monday June 23 * 7pm * $10-30 * TICKETS
The music of Høly River carries the message of humanity’s need for reconnection with the earth. Mystically political and wholeheartedly grassroots this DIY band finds themselves playing on large festival stages as well as backyard fire pits of intentional communities around the world.
Høly River is a musical duo known for their ethereal pop soundscapes, transcendent melodies, and environmental activism. Rooted in themes of nature, spirituality, and human connection, their music weaves together elements of indie folk, world, and ambient genres. The duo's performances create an immersive experience that transcends the boundaries of a traditional concert, offering audiences moments of reflection, introspection and inspiration.
In addition to their music, Laney and Jameson are passionate advocates for environmental stewardship and community building. They are the founders of Fonticello Food Forest, a thriving urban food forest in Richmond, VA dedicated to nature connection, education and community access to fresh and rescued food.
Valeska Populoh is an artist and performer, educator and cultural organizer living in Baltimore, on the un-ceded land of the Piscataway Conoy and other Chesapeake First Families. Embracing a wide array of tactics, from puppetry to participatory performance, Valeska's work is motivated by an interest in healing and repair, in our relationships to each other and to the natural world. Using the magic lantern of decommissioned overhead projectors, Valeska and fellow puppeteer Peter Redgrave conjure a landscape of transforming shadows in "Groundswell Spell/Who Are We but If Not of Each Other," an incantation to our hoofed and antlered selves.
Talk to Your Neighbor is a band from the DMV playing experimental, genre-bending music that combines rock, pop, folk, electronics, futuristic production, and an array of complex textures. Reviewers have described the band's single 'Knock' as “haunting folk minimalism” with “jazz-touched rhythmic intensity” and the track "Pyro" as having “rich moody textures and sublime keys underpinned by alluring melodic runs.” The song "Half Moon" explores textures as diverse as spaghetti western and hyperpop, which listeners say “manage[s] to fuse elements of trip-hop, classical, folk and about a million other styles into a haunting curveball.” The band consists of Ana Ruess (lead vocals) and Lukas Keel (guitar, bass guitar, production) both of the duo Help Yourself to the Citrus; Jeremy Padow (guitar) and Andrew Carlson (percussion), both formerly of the band Dope Francis; and Kevin Huang (keys) who collaborates with Be Steadwell and other DC-based artists.
Tuesday June 24 * doors at 6:30, music at 7 * $15-25 * TICKETS
Secret Planet presents...
The 12 piece Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp has scoured the stages of Europe to demonstrate that the formula "the more the merrier" has never been more true than on stage. Whether in prestigious festivals (Paléo Festival de Nyon, Fusion Festival, Incubate, Womad, Bad Bonn Kilbi, Jazz à la Vilette) or on the four albums released since its launch, the group shows an incredible fluidity. The Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp (a mischievous title in homage to traditional African groups -- Orchestre Tout Puissant Konono n°1, Orchestre Tout Puissant Polyrytmo etc... -- and to one of the greatest dynamizers of 20th century art) embraces the forms of its musicians while pushing them to their limits. The result is a powerful, experimental, unstable and terribly alive, organic sound. Mixing free jazz, post punk, high life, brass band, symphonic mixtures and kraut rock, their sound only goes beyond the limits of genre. Transcendental, almost ritualistic, the music is coupled with powerful lyrics, declaimed in rage against a world that is falling apart.
Throwaway is acclaimed guitarist Kirsten Carey's post-punk band that acrobatically leaps around virtuosic riffs and unexpected rhythms. Throwaway’s electric energy is “absolutely brilliant” (Soundsphere), with “aerodynamic rock-grit flavors of the likes of Primus or Deerhoof” (eCurrent). In 2019, Throwaway released their debut album, WHAT?, to widespread acclaim, snagging spots on international year-end lists from the likes of Ghettoblaster Magazine, Tinnitist, and Organ Thing. Their follow-up EP, Hand That Takes, was released in 2022 by FPE Records, which It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine celebrated as "a pissed-off, burnt-out, and checked-out soundtrack to the Great Resignation."
Wednesday June 25 * 7:30pm * Free / donations * RSVP
THE SWORD AND THE NECK: A poetry night for Palestine
In memory of Ghassan Kanfani
Thursday June 26 * 7pm * $20-25 * TICKETS
Transparent Presents Gian Pérez (solo guitar) plus Fateful Encounter (Antonyraj/Saifi/Saifi)
Gían Pérez is a multi-disciplinary artist, improviser, and composer from Puerto Rico, based in Brooklyn, NY, whose work focuses on the elucidation, fermentation, and subversion of form. Recently, Pérez has worked with artists like Brandon Lopez, gabby fluke-mogul, Elliott Sharp, Brandon Seabrook, Marc Edwards, among others. He’s performed at venues like The Stone, Downtown Music Gallery, and Joe’s Pub. By extending the guitar to its extremes as a physical material, Pérez denatures the electric guitar beyond its ascribed historical identity, envisioning a language that was never conquered and had been left to govern itself. His debut solo guitar record, bambú, was released on zOaR Records. Ñ, his most recent solo record, is available everywhere now.
Fateful Encounter is a DC based free improvisation trio that centers collective liberation. The trio features saxophonist Lavender Antonyraj, bassist Teymour Saifi, and guitarist Kiyan Saifi. Kiyan Saifi is an experimental guitarist who currently performs with DC-based bands: Red Sunflower, Opposite Tiger, Fateful Encounter, and Sense Memory. Teymour Saifi is a DC based bassist who currently performs with Red Sunflower, Opposite Tiger, Fateful Encounter, and Sense Memory. Lavender Antonyraj is an experimental musician operating in DC. Her practice is grounded in green spaces with natural sounds to uncover methods outside of traditional practice. She brings these methods into improvised performance to genuinely connect and express to fellow musicians and audiences. Her practice has been aligned with grassroots spaces featuring trans and Queer musicians throughout the city.
Friday June 27 * doors at 7, music at 7:30 * $10-15 * TICKETS
B.A.D.G.E (NYC)
https://badgenyc.bandcamp.com/album/whats-not-to-love
Grudge (Baltimore)
https://grudge.bandcamp.com/
Saafewaay (DC)
https://saafewaay.bandcamp.com/album/thank-u-4-shopping
Saturday June 28 * 11am-4pm & Sunday June 29 * noon-5pm
GazaThrift is back for our first DC event of the summer!
Find us at Rhizome DC on June 28th-29th for a weekend market fundraiser, in which 40-100% of all proceeds raised will go to support Paletinians with housing, food, and other vital needs.
Vendors:
@yazanphoto
@tumharimehandi
@amouls_dmv
@indiepopupshop
@mauisroom
@catsoupclub
@alfiesyanrin
+ more!
Tattoos:
@ziz.inc
@ph0tosynthetic
@calic0creations
We're also hosting a raffle until June 22nd, enter for a chance to win tattoos, clothing, books and more! Donations are sliding scale from $10-100. 100% of the funds raised from the raffle will go directly to aid for displaced families in dire need of urgent support. Enter the raffle at gzthrift.onl/raffle
Saturday June 28 * doors at 7, show at 7:30 * $10-20 * TICKETS
Jacky Cougar & The Vampires from Africa is the electro punk project from Jack Abok ( Foul Swoops, Des Demonas, Sex Faces). Melding his love of the delta blues, hip hop, post punk and Krautrock.
That This - former members of PRIESTS & EX HEX
Sunday June 29 * 7pm * $15-25 * TICKETS
Shane Parish is a guitarist, composer, improviser and interpreter. He is the leader of the avant-rock band Ahleuchatistas, a member of the Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet, and a renowned acoustic soloist. Parish’s 2024 album, “REPERTOIRE” (Palilalia Records), is a collection of solo acoustic fingerstyle arrangements of works by musical giants like Alice Coltrane, John Cage, Aphex Twin, Kraftwerk, Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus, and more. Parish first gained widespread attention as a solo guitarist upon the release of his 2016 album, Undertaker Please Drive Slow, on Tzadik Records.
Regan Bowering’s solo work explores the rhythmic and percussive potential at the intersections of improvisation, sound art and experimental composition. Her performance practice incorporates various combinations of drums, objects, amplification, microphones and feedback. She released her debut album in on Bezirk tapes in 2023, Solos for _ _ _ _ Spaces, which was described as “a play of contrasts, contradicting voluminous expressions with confined phrases, taming resounding feedback with faint percussive flutters, but one that feels driven by the desire to craft electrifying drama rather than pure autotelic dissonance.” (The Quietus). She is one third of a collaborative project with Li Song and Conal Blake, with two releases: “2 Movements” (Feedback Moves, 2024) and "Music for Snare Drums and Portable Speakers" (Infant Tree, 2023). Regan is currently a visiting scholar at Columbia University in NYC, as part of her ongoing practice-based PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Heather Stebbins is a DC-based composer and multi-instrumentalist whose work explores porous boundary between memory and emotion. She foregrounds cello, synthesizer, and an array of other electronics, creating music that is imbued with patience, unfolding slowly over the course of multi-movement suites. Her most recent album, On Separation, was released by Outside Time in May.
Sunday June 29 * 7:30pm * OFFSITE at 4429 GEORGIA AVE NW * $5-10 * TICKETS
*THIS MONTH AT INCUBATOR HOUSE: 4429 GEORGIA AVE NW*
Jam nights are an opportunity for people to show up and create art together. Bring a guitar, sticks, sketch pad, didgeridoo, or your dancing shoes and come vibe. Amps, speakers, drum set, and microphones are provided. Featured artist: Stardust Creations
Monday June 30 * 7pm * Free * RSVP
WWPH Literary Salon: PRIDE edition hosted by Washington Writers' Publishing House co-editors Jona Colson and Caroline Bock and featuring award-winning poet and scholar Dr. Tonee Mae Moll (You Cannot Save Here, WWPH), Kim Roberts, and more!
Free creative writing mini-workshops, reading, open mic discussion, snacks & treats reception & more! Free. All invited. Space limited.
Tuesday July 1 * $15-25 * 7pm * TICKETS
Folk Music
Nate Wooley – trumpet/amplifier
Chris Corsano – percussion/half-clarinet/electronics
Ches Smith – percussion/sampler/electronics
After a decade of conceptually-minded bands such as Mutual Aid Music and knknighgh, trumpeter Nate Wooley put together the trio Folk Music to reconnect with pure improvisation. Asking two of his favorite collaborators, the percussionists Chris Corsano and Ches Smith, to join him with the only rules being flexibility and spontaneity. The result has become an improvising trio capable of whispering sensitivity and huge monoliths of sound.
Nate Wooley (b.1974) was born in Clatskanie, Oregon and began playing trumpet professionally with his father, a big band saxophonist, at the age of thirteen. Considered one of the leading lights of the American movement to redefine the physical boundaries of the horn, Wooley has been gathering international acclaim for his idiosyncratic trumpet language.
Chris Corsano (b. 1975, USA) is a New York-based drummer who has been active at the intersections of collective improvisation, free jazz, avant-rock, and experimental music since the late 1990's.
Originally from Sacramento, California, Ches Smith is a drummer, percussionist, and composer based in New York.
Weed Tree - Amanda Huron and Layne Garrett have been improvising together for 15 years and counting on drums, prepared guitar, and etc.
Saturday July 5 * 1-4pm * MASKS REQUIRED (N95 & KN95) * $5-25 * TICKETS
We are thrilled to announce our second fundraising event! After last year's successful masks-required COVID conscious open mic gathering, we are hosting our second. Come and share your voice - through song, poem, dance, or another creative medium! Sign up to perform HERE.
Proceeds go to helping Clean Air Solidarity continue to fund our COVID-aware community efforts. We provide the DC with a free lending library of HEPA purifiers, and have been working on other ways to expand our contributions. This effort is inspired by many similar organizations across the country who have been helping make artist and musician events safer as the pandemic continues on.
Exhibit runs July 5 - 31
Opening reception: Saturday July 5 from 5-7pm
Open during all events, or email us to schedule a different time to view
Ida y Vuelta: The Perspectives of Salvadoran Children
A Photographic Exhibition on the Salvadoran Diaspora in the DMV
The experience of growing up as a first-generation Salvadoran in the DMV is one shaped by movement—between languages, identities, and borders. Ida y Vuelta captures this journey through the perspectives of those who have grown up in the region while carrying the culture, traditions, and memories of El Salvador with them. Through photography, this exhibition explores how Salvadoran identity is lived, remembered, and reimagined in diaspora. From the everyday presence of our culture in the DMV to the emotional return to our homeland, Ida y Vuelta reflects on the duality of belonging—of being both here and there.
Sunday July 6 * 11am * $20 / sliding scale * REGISTER
AKA, applique. Beginner level. We will learn how to make shapes and patches that add detail to projects or can be used to repair holes. No experience necessary, but recommended for best experience: slip knot, single crochet, chain stitch.
Sunday July 6 * 7pm * $15-20 * TICKETS
S-L-U-G WORLDWIDE ENTERPRISES PRESENTS…
A BENEFIT FOR BALDWIN HOUSE..
FROM PHILLY
EARLY GRAVE
frantic early ushc style, probably demo of the year for me featuring mems of blank spell, s-21, u-nix, delco mf, phantom..
FROM JERSEY
PHANTOM
fast and loud hardcore punk rock, feat mems of early grave
AND LOCALS…
CORVO fewer lives appearances lately, would be silly to miss
PRAY TO BE SAVED
dcs premiere disrocker band Another sex fiend abomination hit
Info about Baldwin House can be found here: https://baldwin-house.org/
Monday July 7 * doors at 7, music at 7:30 * $12-25 * TICKETS
Anastasia Coope is also a painter when she’s not singing, playing, and communing with the disembodied, and that is pertinent to her style of recording, where voices are spread across the canvas unevenly, often with little regard for the mess that creates. Coope doesn’t appear to be overly concerned about cleaning things up, and that all adds to the ramshackle charm… while [Darning Woman] sounds like an old-world afternoon tea dance, you suspect some snifters may have been imbibed and that the night is still young and stretching out before us. – The Quietus
Also known for being a lead contributor to the band Chanel Beads as a singer, songwriter and instrumentalist - Maya McGrory’s solo-artist project under “Colle” was initially an experiment in electronic music production, and became her defining sonic identity with the self-release of her first EP “For Now” in 2021 -- the heartfelt work of Colle soundtracks emotional landscapes with expansive glacial synths, strings and driving beats, all enriched by her sincere and alluring vocal expression.
Candyweather is a DC-based project comprised of songwriter Katie Pindell on vocals and guitar, Dan Hockstein on pedal steel and lead guitar, Mike Snow on keys, and Ben Melrod on percussion. The group collaborates on layered and atmospheric arrangements to complement Pindell's melody and lyrics.
Tuesday July 8 * doors at 630, music at 7 * $20-25 * TICKETS
Transparent Productions presents an evening of music from two DMV-based improvising ensembles.
dream feeder is a jazz and creative music trio consisting of Brad Linde (saxophone) Keith Butler Jr. (drums) and Nelson Dougherty (guitar). The group’s repertoire consists of compositions contributed by each member. They create a sound that is gentle, unhurried, and expansive, yet also discordant and mysterious. Dream Feeder released their debut record Everything at Once on July 9th, of 2024 on Bleebop Records.
Dada Dada --- Tim Carolla (guitar), Jeff Cosgrove (drums), Carter Stevens (piano, accordion) --- is dedicated to a shared love of both the experimental improv techniques of the North-Eastern Free Jazz Scene and the lush romanticism found in the classical and jazz standard repertoire.
Thursday July 10 * 7pm * Free / donations * RSVP
Please join us for a special performance to celebrate the release of Fargo Tbakhi's TERROR COUNTER. This hourlong performance will be supported by Francesco Leandri, and books will be available for sale after the performance courtesy of People's Book.
TERROR COUNTER is a debut collection of poems which acts against the many languages—interpersonal, legal, literary, rhetorical—constricting the lives and meanings of Palestinians. It moves through sections of varying experimentalism, from an invented visual form (the Gazan Tunnel) to all-caps queer ecstatic, attempting to carve out a space for the negotiation of an alternative subjecthood. The voices in this collection are driven by despair, futility, utopia, vulnerability and the spirit of a collective liberation; they move in search of a lyrical voice which can inhabit both the paranoid preservationist mode that facilitates Palestinian survival, and the imaginative possibilities that might make possible Palestinian life. TERROR COUNTER asks: where and how might a Palestinian subject escape the public consumption of American letters? And, ultimately, how can we continue to love each other amidst the endless terror of the colonial world?
Friday July 11 * doors at 6:40, music at 7 * $15-20 * TICKETS
Joseph Allred is a Tennessee-based guitarist, singer, multi-instrumental composer, and visual artist with deep roots in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee and Kentucky. Their guitar playing draws from diverse musical styles including Appalachian folk, bluegrass, blues, flamenco, and classical guitar, as well as from folk iconoclasts John Fahey and Robbie Basho, figures of the 20th century avant-garde like Albert Ayler, Derek Bailey, and Henry Flynt, and the musical traditions of India, Iran, and the Arab world.
Growing up in the Annapolis area and attending University of Maryland with friend and labelmate Robbie Basho, Max Ochs contributed two tracks for the 1967 "Contemporary Guitar" on John Fahey’s Takoma label. Inspired by his friend Fahey, Ochs developed his own interest in fingerstyle guitar, learning from one of the masters, Mississippi John Hurt, during a one-month residency in Ochs’ New York apartment when Hurt reappeared on the folk scene in 1964. Ochs was also performing with the legendary band, Seventh Sons, founded by Greenwich Village mainstay and early folk innovator Buzzy Linhart.
Since 2003, Philadelphia-based improv ensemble Kohoutek has constructed a dynamic, stylistic range of abstract sound, consisting of textural drone, atmospheric rock, harsh noise freakouts, clattering percussion, guitar heroics and alien electronics, all congealing to form a multihued psychedelic extravaganza. Inspired by such varied musical entities as Can, Amon Duul 2, Trad Gras Och Stenar, Dead C, Sun City Girls, Hawkwind, This Heat, Sun Ra, Art Ensemble of Chicago, and King Crimson, they inhabit a world of murky terrain where drone, musique concrete and noise coalesce with cosmic folk, where doom and sludge metal merge with fiery jazzoid polyrhythms.
Saturday July 12 * 3-10pm * $15 * TICKETS
Fashion designers create outfits for bands at OCCIPITAL, serving & encouraging collaboration between fashion and music.
OCCIPITAL II presents eclectic performances, customized style, craft workshops, and vendors. OCCIPITAL’s clothing swap, photoshoots, and sustainability efforts add to this community building via local art.
Chrysalis Dagger (hardcore/alternative) x Sessho (alternative fashion w/ a Japanese twist)
Anxiety Monster (neolithic art grunge) x Alightenment (insane screen printing, dyeing, & embellishment)
Quiet Room (experimental fusion rock) x Bbugnug (silly block prints, patch work, and embroidery on thrifted fabrics)
Whiskey Girl (trip hop) x Vintage Thrivals (sustainable, inclusive, & expressive wearable art)
Niiasii (alternative pop) x Beaver Run Club (street style)
Tripping Corpse (punk rock) x Beane Beane (punk-inspired maximalist & distressed fashion)
Candle Making Workshop w/ @smokeandfireartwork
Petri Dish Art Workshop w/ @makhe02 & @paint.brains
OCCIPITAL organized by Alana McCarthy Light @alightenment
Sunday July 13 * 11am * MASKS REQUIRED * $35-45 * REGISTER
Dye sessions act as an interactive introduction to natural dye. Every dye session is uniquely tailored to each group and may change seasonally due to the availability of natural dye materials. Each participant will work with cotton bandanas to learn and practice a variety of dye techniques.
Fatima Janneh is a Gambian American fiber and textiles artist. Based in DC, she works primarily with natural dye and is an avid knitter. Currently teaching dye workshops and selling at markets around the city.
Scholarships are available - please reach out via email to info@rhizomedc.org
Sunday July 13 * 7pm * $15-25 * TICKETS
Eric Frye is an American composer and artist. He is known for his solo performance and installation work - an exploration of the dissociative and psychoactive functions of sound and image. Frye’s music dances and drips around the inside of your skull, a folding transmutation of paranoiac pastiche and entropic jamais vu. Over the past decade Frye has toured extensively in the US, UK, Europe, and Asia. He has presented lectures at The Institute of Sonology Den Haag, held residencies at EMS Elektronmusikstudion Stockholm, and been featured in The Wire Magazine and Neural Magazine. Frye is a recipient of the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emerging Composers Grant.
Michael Masaru Flora is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in the Santa Cruz Mountains. His work explores the emergent phenomena that occurs through non-deterministic and autopoietic processes. Informed by architecture, systems, perceptual psychology, and computer music, his works often take the form of large scale installation and performance.
Heather Stebbins is a DC-based composer and multi-instrumentalist whose work explores the porous boundary between memory and emotion. She foregrounds cello, synthesizer, and an array of other electronics, creating music that is imbued with patience, unfolding slowly over the course of multi-movement suites. Her new album, On Separation, was released by Outside Time in May.
Monday July 14 * 6-10pm * $10-20 * RSVP
Come celebrate the release of Mt Plantry Zine Volume 1 at Mt Plantry-fest on Monday, July 14! This science-fair style event will feature multiple interactive stations where you can learn how to:
-Make pinhole cameras and take photographs using them
-Develop film and prints using coffee and wine
-Develop motion picture film with sustainable developer made using local invasive plants
-Create chemograms (photographic prints without a camera)
All methods are featured in Mt Plantry Zine Volume 1, available for purchase at the festival. Art from the zine and from collective members will also be on display.
No experience in photography or film development is necessary!
Festivities start at 6pm and run until 10pm. Come for a bit or come for the whole night! We’ll end the night with a movie screening of Super 8 film processed in plants at the event! It will be an homage to the original Rhizome event where this collective first formed.
Entry is $10-20 sliding scale, with any proceeds over $10 going to DC Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid.
Tuesday July 15 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS
Cube - Cube is the electronic music project of NY-based artist Adam Keith. The project touches on industrial, noise, dub, drum & bass, and more, but it does so with a distinctly personal, infectious touch – the spirit of a songwriter lurks somewhere underneath. Live, Cube conjures a whirlwind of strobing light and video to hypnotic effect. Searing textures and violent rhythms give way to moments of hushed, eerie beauty.
Keith has toured extensively in the US, and performed in Europe, Canada, Mexico, Japan, and Hong Kong. He has performed alongside artists like: Boy Harsher, Container, Lightning Bolt, Helm, Hieroglyphic Being, Pharmakon, Beak>, The Soft Moon, Anika, YHWH Nailgun, Bill Converse, HIDE, Wolf Eyes, Vessel, and more.
Hen House - Oakland, California. Members of Relay for Death.
Creation In Vein - abstract percussive terror
Sunday July 20 * 7pm * $10-$15 * TICKETS
Light Beams is a dance-punk band from Washington, D.C.
https://lightbeams.bandcamp.com
Time Room is a a Rock and Roll Music Group from Minneapolis
https://timeroom.bandcamp.com
Oddbodi is a DIY punk rock trio based in DC, known for their raw energy and introspective lyricism. Their 2024 EP, “ordinary / people” captures the bands gritty sound through four tracks that blend garage rock with post-punk influences. The lineup features thadMc on vocals and guitar, Ben Schultz on bass, and Antonio Peluso on drums and percussion.
https://oddbodimoe.bandcamp.com
2nd & 4th Wednesdays * online at 8pm Eastern * Free / donation * RSVP
A weekly guided dream-sharing hangout…. Welcome to the theater of your dreams—an inexhaustible source of images and stories that can provide entertainment and insight, and that requires no cable service and no subscription—just attentiveness and an open mind. Participants will share dreams, using a gentle, non-intrusive method for unlocking the metaphors that structure dreams (derived from the long-tested method of Dr. Montague Ullman). We’ll also talk about techniques for recalling and recording dreams, as needed.
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Thursday, July 24 * 7pm * $15 * TICKETS
Potosí (NoVA screamo bilingüe)
https://potosiherndon.bandcamp.com/album/fujimori-is-dead
Sunshower (screamo from winston-salem, NC)
Muhnday (DC post-hardcore)
https://muhnday.bandcamp.com/track/gone-again
Cuni (DC emotional music)
Friday July 25 * 7pm * $15-25 * TICKETS
CHEER-ACCIDENT
Hailing from the singularly vibrant musical hotbed known as Chicago, CHEER-ACCIDENT has been a creative, vital force in rock music for over 30 years. They constantly strive to surprise their audiences and themselves through relentless reinvention. From dreamy pop to angular art-rock, CHEER-ACCIDENT strikes a powerful balance between personalized and unique studio wizardry and the visceral excitement of a well-honed, explosive live rock band.
Sunday July 27 * 4:30pm * $20-25 * TICKETS
Transparent Productions presents Jen Chapin (vocals, guitar), Stephan Crump (bass), and Jamie Fox (guitar).
Jen Chapin, accompanied by GRAMMY© nominated bassist Stephan Crump and “impeccable melodist” (New York Times) Jamie Fox on electric guitar, will debut a new cabaret-style performance of her urban folk songs entitled Anything Goes, and How Did We Get Here? The two-set show weaves historically-informed, jazz-inspired questions and answers about our current and rapidly-changing political moment around old and new selections from Jen’s critically-acclaimed urban folk catalog.
"With songs delivered in a style that ranges from tender fragility to unexpected steeliness, Chapin brings a jazzy edge to the folk form. Sometimes she explores a fleeting emotion, sometimes she weaves a solid narrative—not at all surprising from the daughter of Harry Chapin, a master musical storyteller.” - The New Yorker
Jen Chapin has been celebrated for writing “brilliant soulfully poetic urban folk music” (NPR) for three decades. Nurtured in and around NYC by a large family of artists, writers, and musicians, Jen's “observant, lyrically deft, politically aware and emotionally intuitive” (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel) songwriting features both her "extraordinary voice” (De krenten uit de pop, The Netherlands) and “astonishing jazz band” (popmatters). As much as an artistic legacy, the roots of Jen's upbringing have inspired her "potent, jazzy, layered folk" (Newsday) songs and a lifetime of passionate activism, through ongoing work with WhyHunger (founded by her late father Harry Chapin), and teaching high school global history in Brooklyn. Since 2023, she has led the J. Chapes Jazz Band, playing spontaneous traditional arrangements from the classic American songbook.
Friday August 1 * 7pm * $15 * TICKETS
Speedway (from Sweden on Revelation Records)
Poisición Unida (from DC on Rebirth Records)
Square One (from New York on Scheme Records)
Sluggo (from DC)
Sunday August 10 * 1pm * RSVP
A community potluck event for home fermenters to share their favorite brews, batches, and recipes. Have an extra jar of homemade kimchi sitting in the back of the fridge? A loaf of sourdough? We'll trade recipes, swap tips, and sample one another's ferments! All levels of experience welcome, but please bring something for everyone to try. Email jasperswartz.m@gmail.com with any questions
Saturday August 23 * doors at 1, show at 1:30 * $10-15 * TICKETS
Gooma Productions 1 Year Anniversary
Metalcore Blast Matinee Cookout
Out to Destroy (DC)
Balisong (DC)
Denouement (MD)
HardTruth (New DC Metalcore!)
Monday September 8 * doors at 7pm * $20 * TICKETS
A collective turned trio, Tara Clerkin craft free-flowing psychedelia with heavy dub drums amidst woozy washes of harpsichord and synths. Influenced by the natural landscape and their West Country hometown, their 2023 EP On the Turning Ground is a mesmerising sophomore release. Their sound lies somewhere between the avant-jazz of Moondog, the sun-tinged psych-folk of These Trails, and something else entirely. Tara Clerkin Trio embody an extraordinary otherness that should be witnessed by all.
“Drifting from dubby minimalism to smudged acid jazz, Tara’s stark and tuneful voice acts as the vehicle for her concise poetic lyricism. The group coalesce disparate influences into a cohesive sound, reflecting a romantic view of a familiar world.” - The Wire
The Caribbean - "They're taking Brill Building songs and writing them in invisible ink, turning jazz standards into Twilight Zone episodes, turning folk songs into clouds of fog." - PopMatters
Sunday November 9 * doors at 630, show at 7pm * $15 * TICKETS
“For 15 years the trio of Ak’chamel has built a solid reputation as a compelling stage project. Wearing nightmarish costumes and engaging in hallucinatory “rituals”, their singular sound comprising desert-scorched psychedelia, post-apocalyptic shamanism, and lo-fi ritual-folk is as unique as the physical theater of their live performances.”
Zelzeleh - Iranian multi-instrumentalist Kamyar Arsani (Faraway Ghost) and Indian-born drummer/electronic music producer Ravish Momin (Sunken Cages) create their own brand of digital folk music that draws on Sufi mysticism, traditional Persian Music, street rhythms from Mumbai and contemporary electronic music at once. Momin accompanies Arsani’s vocals and daf (frame-drum) with a masterful blend of electronic and acoustic percussion, including live-looping via his unique drum-loop performance system.
Derek Monypeny sees his musical mission as adding to and expanding on what he calls the "desert continuum;" the psychedelic sirocco swirl of desert-based stringed instruments played with utter abandon by musicians the world over. Derek is a former member of the bands Oaxacan (Oakland, CA), ALTO! (Portland, OR), and Sir Richard Bishop's Freak Of Araby Ensemble. He has an ongoing duo project with Bryan Hillebrandt, OAE (Oakland Afternoon Ensemble). He has performed and toured with artists such as Bill Orcutt, Mike Watt, Jozef van Wissem, Lau Nau, Arrington de Dionyso, and many others.
Recent events:
2nd & 4th Wednesdays * online at 8pm Eastern * Free / donation * RSVP
A weekly guided dream-sharing hangout…. Welcome to the theater of your dreams—an inexhaustible source of images and stories that can provide entertainment and insight, and that requires no cable service and no subscription—just attentiveness and an open mind. Participants will share dreams, using a gentle, non-intrusive method for unlocking the metaphors that structure dreams (derived from the long-tested method of Dr. Montague Ullman). We’ll also talk about techniques for recalling and recording dreams, as needed.
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