Thursday March 6 * doors at 7, music at 730 * $10-20 * TICKETS

The music of Philadelphia-based Hour cuts a broad pathway, and remains hard to classify or compare. Perhaps most at home beside work from Bill Frisell, Eiko Ishibashi, ECM Records, or the Louisville experimental chamber group Rachel’s. Subminiature, their new live album, comes fresh off the heels of 2024’s ‘Ease the Work’ and provides a capstone for the band’s oeuvre to date. Across this collection of recordings harvested over two years of extensive touring, bandleader Michael Cormier-O’Leary demonstrates a deep understanding of the character of his shifting ensemble and its players.

Adelyn Strei is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist based in Brooklyn via Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Alone on stage with clarinet, voice and guitar, her live compositions demonstrate a fluid, melodically intuitive and improvisational arc. Adelyn credits her current approach—blending songs into a carefully woven bed of texture—to over a decade performing and arranging for friends’ projects before her solo debut in 2023.

Candyweather is a DC-based project comprised of songwriter Katie Pindell on vocals and guitar, Sebastian Rodriguez on synth, Ben Melrod on bass and percussion, and Dan Hockstein on pedal steel guitar. The group collaborates on layered and atmospheric arrangements to complement Pindell's melody and lyrics.