Saturday October 14 * 730pm * TICKETS

The Dwarfs of East Agouza is a trio from Cairo, Egypt, featuring Maurice Louca (Alif, Bikya), Sam Shalabi (Land of Kush, Shalabi Effect), and Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls, The Invisible Hands, Alvarius B.) Born in 2012 when the three were living in the same apartment building in Cairo's Agouza district, the trio's instrumental improvisation-based explorations are propelled by Louca's North African percussion loops and shimmering keys, Shalabi's West African tinged free jazz guitar and grounded by Bishop's driving Krautrock-style acoustic bass.

Wheatie Mattiasich is a songwriter from Baltimore, Maryland who began performing solo works around 2004. Her music of the last decade has been mostly collaborative - involving mountain dulcimer and folk ballad inspired vocals, alongside multi-instrumentalist Stephen Santillan. Their most recent co-written songs were released this year as an LP on Open Mouth Records.

Jenny Moon Tucker plays C-Melody Tenor and Alto Saxophones, and anything else that could possibly make a sound. She performs and records by herself and in various collaborations in the Baltimore and DC area.

Secret Planet is an independent concert series in Washington DC by Electric Cowbell Productions presented in a variety of venues across the city. Artists come from close and afar. From countries and neighborhoods where English is not always understood and their culture is not always represented on the US stage. However, whatever their geographical origin, all Secret Planet artists tend to follow their own vision and not be held back by genre, rules, language, commercial appeal or concerns of authenticity. They all have in common a creative impulse never impeded by stylistic or geographical boundaries.