Thursday April 27 * 7pm * TICKETS

HayFever

Emily Hay plays C flute, alto flute, bass flute and piccolo combined with electronics and unusual vocalizations.  She specializes in avant garde, experimental, jazz and improvisational music.  Hay has performed, toured and recorded throughout North America and Europe with ensembles such as Hay Fever, Mooncake, U Totem, The 5 UU’s, The Motor Totemist Guild, Adam Rudolph’s Go: Organic Orchestra, Polarity Taskmasters, The Rich West Ensemble, Otherparts, The Jeff Kaiser Okodektet, Rent Romus’ Mandala Ensemble and many others.  Hay is a featured recording artist on various release on Cuneiform Records, ReR Records, Dragnet Records, Nine Winds Records, Public Eyesore, pfMentum and other labels.  Notable reviews of her work can be found on All About Jazz, Touching Extreme , Prog Archives and BabySue, amongst others.

Steuart Liebig is an American bassist and composer of modern creative jazz and the free improvisational music. He plays 6-string bass guitars. At an early age he performed and recorded with Les McCann,, studied classical double bass at California State University, later creating the fusion band, BLOC, with guitarist Nels Cline. He also played with Julius Hemphill's JAH-Band along with Alex Cline and Bill Frisell. Liebig has collaborated, performed and recorded with pother notable musicians, including percussionist Gregg Bendian, bassist Mark Dresser, violinist Jeff Gauthier, multi-instrumentalist Vinny Golia and others.   In 2005, Liebig was named a bassist deserving wider recognition in the DownBeat poll, and in 2008 he was nominated for the Alpert Awards in the Arts.

Wayne Peet is an American jazz pianist & organist, active chiefly on the West Coast jazz scene. Peet was a founding member with John Rapson of the Frobisher Hall Art Ensemble, has performed and recorded with notable musicians Alex Cline, Nels Cline, Vinny Golia, and Steuart Liebig  and is a highly skilled audio recording engineer in Los Angeles. Peet has composed extensively for film and television, and also does production and engineering for Nine Winds, pfMentum, Blue Note, Enja, Atavistic, Little Brother, SST and other labels. He wrote arrangements for Brian Setzer from 1992–94, played with Bobby Bradford in 2000 and engineered the first Leviathan Brothers EP in 2005.

Michael Vatcher is an American drummer and percussionist, recently relocated to NYC after living and working as a musician in the Netherlands for many years.  He has performed and recorded for decades with saxophonist Michael Moore and musicians John Handy and Terry Gibbs. Vatcher was active in many groups like Tristan Honsinger's Sextet, the Maarten Altena Ensemble, The Ex, Roof (with Phil Milton, Tom Cora, and Luc Ex), Available Jelly, and in a trio with Michiel Braaam and Wilbert de Joode. He also actively performed alongside Van Dyke Parks, John Zorn, Simon Nabatov, Georg Gräwe, Hans Lüdemann, and Ernst Reijseger. In 2012 worked with Magnus Broo, Ken Vandermark, and Steve Swell. Vatcher also worked as a "sideman" on about 50 albums. Vatcher also worked regularly as an accompanist for the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam and has collaborations with dancers Katie Duck and Eileen Standle. A few favorites from Vatcher’s discography include a number of recordings led by Michael Moore as well as Tristan Honsinger ‘s“Picnic,” John Zorn’s epic “Spy vs Spy”, Tom Cora ‘s “Roof,” the Seteve Swell Trio’s “Brain in a Dish” and many other renowned releases.

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Nelson Dougherty is a Washington, DC-based jazz guitarist, composer and educator. He finds the intersection between differing genres of music, often using guitar pedals to create vast soundscapes. He currently co-leads ¡FIASCO! which has released two albums, Arson (2020) and Post-Truth (2021). Both of which were named #1 on Capitol Bop’s list Best D.C. Jazz Albums in their respective years. Nelson’s most recent collaboration is the duo, Tyson (with Saxophonist Tyler Cassidy). Their recent release, Found Audio, explores ambient and soundtrack-like textures.