Wednesday March 13 * 7pm * $15-25 * TICKETS

Spiderwebs is the long-running duo project of guitarists Sandy Ewen and Tom Carter. An experimental guitarist, artist and architect based in Brooklyn NY, Sandy Ewen's guitar playing playing is centered around found objects and extended techniques. She performs solo and in many diverse musical and multi-media collaborations. Ongoing projects include duo with a Damon Smith, an all-female large ensemble, the trio Etched in the Eye, and a duo with Tom Carter called Spiderwebs. In his solo work and as co-founder of iconoclastic acid-folk improvisers Charalambides, Tom Carter weaves intricately detailed electric guitar improvisations and instant compositions from strands of melody, drone, fuzz, and charged silence. His Three Lobed 2LP Long Time Underground was selected as the number-one experimental album of 2015 by Pitchfork.

Sarah Hughes is a performing and visual artist currently living in Washington, DC.  She has 26 years of experience playing the alto saxophone and also doubles on the soprano saxophone, flute, and clarinet. She received training in classical saxophone performance from Dale Underwood at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in music education in 2008. In 2015, Hughes earned a master’s degree in jazz saxophone performance from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, where she studied with Jerry Bergonzi, Ran Blake, Anthony Coleman, and Donny McCaslin. Hughes’ music is intuitive and genre-liberated while displaying an unquestionable command of her instrument and musical vocabulary. Her improvisations and compositions are infused with knowledge of both traditional and contemporary approaches and combine a love for “The Greats” with a drive to innovate.

NVS Trio is Daniel Barbiero: double bass, prepared double bass, etc; Gary Rouzer: cello, objects, etc; Jeff Surak: The Impaler. Non-idiomatic improvisation informed by 20th/21st c. classical compositions.