Tuesday July 9 * 7pm * $25 * TICKETS
Transparent Productions presents two amazing local ensembles: Dream Feeder and Illusion Transmitter. Tuesday July 9th at 7m at Rhizome DC.
Dream Feeder is Brad Linde (sax), Nelson Dougherty (guitar), and Keith Butler, Jr. (drums).
Illusion Transmitter is the duo of Liz Prince (tuba) and Jon Birkholz (guitar).
Dream Feeder is a jazz trio consisting of Brad Linde (saxophone) Keith Butler Jr. (drums) and Nelson Dougherty (guitar). The group’s repertoire consists of compositions contributed by each member. They create a sound that is gentle, unhurried, and expansive, yet also discordant and mysterious. This performance will be recorded and later released as an album.
Brad Linde is a saxophonist, educator, bandleader, and impresario in the Washington DC metro area. He is the director of Jazz and Creative Music at Georgetown Day School and founder/co-director of the Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra.
Having come of age in the cultural melting pot of Wilmington, North Carolina, Keith Butler, Jr. has deep roots in many musical traditions. Due in no small part to his versatility and creativity on the drum set, he has become a mainstay of the Washington D.C. music scene, performing with some of the area’s top bandleaders, including Brian Settles, Saltman/Knowles, Amy K. Bormet, Sarah Hughes, Luke Stewart, Elijah Jamal Balbed, Alex Hamburger, and Stephen Arnold. Butler was also a founding member of adventure music ensemble The New World, and is a member/composer of avant-jazz quartet ¡FIASCO! Butler has composed scores for DC productions of the plays Vietgone, and Venus (a staged reading,) both directed by Natsu Onoda-Power as well as Classic Red, a new play by DC playwright Abigail Chase. Butler released his debut album, Greener Grasses, in April of 2019, and is currently in the finishing stages of his second album. Butler is also a 2022 graduate of the MFA in Music Composition program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Nelson Dougherty is a Washington, DC-based jazz guitarist, composer and educator. He finds the intersection between different 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.
Illusion Transmitter is a Baltimore based collective started by Liz Prince (tuba) and Jon Birkholz (guitar). They play music in the borderlands of improvised, jazz, classical, and composed music. Repertoire includes works by Bley, Moondog, Morricone, and more. The rotating cast of instruments and musicians creates unique combinations of tones and sounds.
Liz Prince started out playing tuba in a trad jazz combo at Roosevelt High School. She played tuba in the band from 2003-8 while studying tuba performance and music history at the University of Maryland. Liz went on to play trad jazz gigs in New York City, Baltimore, and D.C., with bands and ensembles such as Grandpa Musselman and the Syncopators, Dix Out, Sac Au Lait, and the Capital Focus Jazz Band.
Jonathan Birkholz has been described as a ‘secret weapon’ in the Baltimore music scene. He can be heard playing with bands such as Super City, Adjective Animal, Soul Cannon, $100 Girlfriend. Well versed as a composer, producer, arranger and recording artist, he has produced and recorded tracks by local artists Nina Gala and Ginger’s Palace. He is teaching Creative Music Technology at Towson University, having completed a Masters in Music there in the Spring of 2023.