Collage by Sam Weinberg

Tuesday May 21 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS

Sam Weinberg is a saxophonist and improviser living in New York City. Recent focus has been material for solo saxophone, and trio music represented on Plays Quarter Notes and Other Notes (with Henry Fraser and Jason Nazary) and Implicatures (Astral Spirits, 2023) with Tom Rainey and Chris Lightcap. Sam played the very first show at Rhizome, in 2016, and we are excited to welcome him back!

Simone Baron is a polyglot pianist, accordionist, improviser and composer whose work “ego-less, genre agnostic and without expectations” (JazzTimes) engages curiously and charismatically with a broad spectrum of idioms. Educated at Oberlin and Tel Aviv University and joyfully de-educated at festivals and performances across Europe and the Americas, Simone has won grants, fellowships and residencies from Chamber Music America, South Arts, Maryland State Arts Council, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Hambidge Center, Sacatar Foundation, iPark, Strathmore, VCCA, ArtOMI, UMD, Avaloch Farm, the Banff Centre, and Spectrum Toronto. In 2016 Simone founded Arco Belo, a diasporic chamber music ensemble. Simone is a Victoria Artist and plays a Poeta XB Accordion, and is a founding member of the Boulanger Initiative.

Ryan McDermott is a guitarist who works to make the instrument sound like anything other than a guitar. Like a cello. Or a sledgehammer. Or a 60-foot fall.