Tuesday May 6 * 7pm * $15-25 * LOCATION: TONAL PARK (7014-C Westmoreland Ave) * TICKETS

Jordan Sand is a bassist, vocalist, improviser and composer weaving voice into the organ-like resonances of bowed double bass. Her solo music, described as  "Joni Mitchell meets Ligeti" (Omaha Under the Radar), blends song, free improv and noise to haunting effects. A seasoned solo performer, she has lived in four countries and ten cities, driven twice cross-continent in July, and plays on a Hungarian double bass of otherwise unknown origin.

Sand’s career began in NYC as a collaborator and freelancer. She has performed at Carnegie Hall, SNL, The Late Show, NPR's Tiny Desk, the Apollo Theater, and many festival stages and concert series across the US, Canada and Europe. An omnivorous, eclectic player with roots in folk and classical music, she moves fluidly between genres and scenes, often expanding the double bass’s voice with her siren-like singing, extended techniques, electronic processing, and a sharp command of the instrument's endless overtones. 

Now based in Trondheim, Norway, Sand returns to Washington D.C. in May 2025 for a recording project at Tonal Park. The resulting album will unfold as a collection of improvised songs, grains, textures, and tantrums for double bass and voice, performed unscripted and in-the-moment. The live solo set on May 6th will also be recorded and may find its way onto the album, hopefully infused with new collective energies, aberrations, and oddities that could never occur alone in the studio.

Tromba Marina Quartet

Born in 2025, this quartet is composed of four amplified trombas marinas -triangular string instruments mostly used between the Middle Ages and the Baroque era- played by Rachel Beetz, Alma Laprida, Nate Scheible and Brian Weitz aka Geologost. This will be the Quartet’s first concert and it'll be presenting improvised and composed pieces.