Poster credit: Josh Levi

Thursday April 6 * 7pm * TICKETS

David Menestres is a double bassist, improvisor, composer, radio host, and writer. For the last ten years he's been the leader of Polyorchard. For the last twenty-three he's been collaborating with Eugene Chadbourne. His bass playing has been described as "seductive" (The Wire) and his music as "something akin to staring an abyss in the face – and taking the plunge – full on, head first into annihilation” (FreeJazzBlog). Christina Carter co-founded the group Charalambides in 1991. Ever since then, she has deeply mined her own vein of sound-as-music with voice and lyric. Christina's latest releases are the Tamarisk Plays A Word For Sun CD (Waveform Alphabet), the Nighte Pin Down The Dust CS (mappa) and the solo voice album Librarie (Many Breaths). Andrew Weathers (b.1988) is a composer and improviser whose work engages with notions of place, tradition, repetition, and spirit, splitting the difference between folk music and Land Art. A consistent presence in the underground music scene over the past decade, Weathers’ work covers a wide spectrum from solo acoustic guitar to electronic noise. He also performs and records regularly with Tender Crust, Wind Tide, Satin Spar, Tamarisk, Llano Estacado Monad Band, Tethers and Real Life Rock & Roll Band. Weathers also produces recordings for the Full Spectrum, Other Minds, and Rural Situationism record labels, curates the Longitudes music series at CO-OPt Research + Projects in Lubbock, TX and works as a freelance mixing and mastering engineer. Together, the three artists form Tamarisk.

Arising from the fertile ashes of the northern California guetteur de botte scene, The Andrews breathe a welcome breath of ambient farmhouse air into the heartworn Americana landscape. Both former (and current) drummers, and both recently relocated from west coast to east, the duo brings years of sonic sense and sensibility to their spontaneous yet guided explorations through musical landscapes both primal and refined. Guitarist Richard Andrews -- who wrote, recorded and gigged during San Francisco’s frenetic performance art rock scene of the early 80s -- met steel guitarist Andrew Waegel -- veteran of the Bay Area honky-tonk scene -- during their tenure in Sonoma Driftwood. The duo is looking forward to collaborating on Merlepool, a multi-co-temporal exploration of the music and lyrics of Merle Haggard. Photographer Christine Carr has exhibited in solo shows in Michigan, Virginia, Texas, California, Washington, DC, and in numerous group shows throughout the United States and internationally. She is currently an Artist in Residence at the Roanoke Stormwater Utility.

lgod: Brand new organ-based excursions by Layne Garrett and collaborator(s).