Thursday February 27 2020 * 8pm * $10 * TICKETS

Ledah Finck’s solo project is a collection of songs with which she accompanies herself on violin and viola. A classically trained violinist/composer and ravenous improviser, she’s currently exploring her interest in writing text to augment music (and vice versa), developing new accompanimental techniques, and reconnecting with her roots as a folk musician. She will release her first solo EP in early 2020. Based in Baltimore/NYC, she plays with the Bergamot Quartet and took part in the High Zero Festival 2019.

www.ledahfinck.com

Niccolo Seligmann, a 2020 Strathmore Artist in Residence, will perform acoustic viola da gamba improvisations based on material from his debut solo album, Kinship, to be released Feb 26, 2020 (Split Log Productions). Kinship's genrequeer soundworld includes elements of Kazakh overtone fiddle technique, early music, ambient black metal, and noise music, with no sound processing. Kinship expresses both a multispecies resistance to extractive capitalism and respect for Indigenous sovereignty. This work calls on us to rethink our relationships with our other-than-human kin: the animals, plants, fungi, and microbes who live and die with—and sometimes inside—us.

www.niccoloseligmann.com

Drones in the Deep is the heretical collaboration of Jonathan Een Newton and Marty Frye. They draw equal parts from recordings of tune masters from a bygone era and from recordings made of contemporaries in deep corners of campsites and cranky pubs where one can hear the cream of old-time and Irish tunes played today. Een Newton and Frye lean into their affinity for pondering a tune endlessly and relish in the creative freedom and engaging minimalism available in unaccompanied paired melody playing. Jonathan bows the fiddle and vibrates the vocal cords. Marty huffs the flute, squawks the uilleann pipes, scratches the fiddle, and vibrates the vocal cords.

Poster by Niccolo Seligmann with artwork by Derek Setzer