Poster: Sarah Bachmann

Monday July 11 * 7pm * MASKS, VAX REQUIRED * TICKETS

Mike Gangloff is a fiddler and multi-instrumentalist who for the past few decades has wandered back and forth between traditional and avant garde music, seeking unity -- and beauty -- in long drones and freeform scree, in melodies wrapped in a skin of groans and whoops. He is a founder of bands that include veteran improvisers Pelt, old-time rowdies Black Twig Pickers, and most recently, the cosmic Appalachian quartet Eight Point Star. With albums by all three of these bands released last year, Mike is focusing on a set of new, solo fiddle compositions, many played on hardanger-style and octave-string instruments. Like much of his music, the new pieces revolve around and relate somehow to the people and atmosphere of his home in Southwest Virginia.

Andy McLeod is a Virginia based multi-instrumentalist who combines traditional music with original composition and drone, on guitar, banjo, and fiddle. Josh Moss of The Modern Folk said of his latest tape, Hierophantes: "Extremely heady blend of the traditional and modern with a great variety of textures, from dire drones to trickling, whimsical melodies. Beautiful and deep album."

Liam Grant is an acoustic guitar player with a punk attitude who’s following in the footsteps of Charley Patton, John Fahey, Robbie Basho, Peter Walker, Jack Rose, Glenn Jones, and Ry Cooder. His goal is to bring country, bluegrass, ragtime, blues, and other musicks for discerning listeners to modern audiences.