Friday July 23 * 7pm * in the backyard * ADVANCE TICKETS
Francis/Hughes/Redgrave/Thuro -- A first time collaboration between four of the area's vital, expansive, singularly tough-to-define improvisers.
Peter Redgrave is a cultural worker, an artist, and educator, based in Baltimore, Maryland. www.peterredgraveperforms.com/
Sarah Hughes loves to be free to roam the space between disciplines. Her art career has many homes, making it a cloud-like entity, with loose boundaries. www.sarahmariehughes.com/
Nik Francis is an improvising musician based in the D.C. area. His music focuses on the drum kit, often incorporating electronics and small acoustic instruments. topology.bandcamp.com/
Corey Thuro is a musician, writer, organizer, visual artist, mover, and creative programmer living in Baltimore, MD. coreythuro.bandcamp.com/
John Hoegburg & Jonah Giuliano
John Hoegberg is a guitarist and singer-songwriter whose music is an idealistic marriage of the emotional intensity, poetics and narrative of songwriting with the instrumental experimentalism, novelty and freewheeling energy of free-improvisation. The songs bend back and forth between order and disorder, using confoundment as a major compositional tool. Microtonal tunings and various extended techniques flavor his guitar playing - the notable example of which is his preference to play seated with the guitar flat on it’s back in his lap. An emphasis on patterns, à la American primitivism and minimalism, is also a strong element.
Like the compositions themselves, his sung lyrics are simultaneously highly abstract just as they are affecting. Influences in this arena include poets such as Christopher Dewdney, and writers such as David Markson.
Accompanying his guitar and voice is often a percussionist, Jonah Giuliano, whose musical ability to comfortably traverse between arrhythmia and rhythm, chaos and structure, has made them a logical and personally enjoyable musical duo since they began performing together as children.
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