Upcoming at Rhizome (click on event for more details):
Exhibit runs July 5 - 31
Opening reception: Saturday July 5 from 5-7pm
Open during all events, or email us to schedule a different time to view
Ida y Vuelta: The Perspectives of Salvadoran Children
A Photographic Exhibition on the Salvadoran Diaspora in the DMV
The experience of growing up as a first-generation Salvadoran in the DMV is one shaped by movement—between languages, identities, and borders. Ida y Vuelta captures this journey through the perspectives of those who have grown up in the region while carrying the culture, traditions, and memories of El Salvador with them. Through photography, this exhibition explores how Salvadoran identity is lived, remembered, and reimagined in diaspora. From the everyday presence of our culture in the DMV to the emotional return to our homeland, Ida y Vuelta reflects on the duality of belonging—of being both here and there.
Tuesday July 15 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS
Cube - Cube is the electronic music project of NY-based artist Adam Keith. The project touches on industrial, noise, dub, drum & bass, and more, but it does so with a distinctly personal, infectious touch – the spirit of a songwriter lurks somewhere underneath. Live, Cube conjures a whirlwind of strobing light and video to hypnotic effect. Searing textures and violent rhythms give way to moments of hushed, eerie beauty.
Keith has toured extensively in the US, and performed in Europe, Canada, Mexico, Japan, and Hong Kong. He has performed alongside artists like: Boy Harsher, Container, Lightning Bolt, Helm, Hieroglyphic Being, Pharmakon, Beak>, The Soft Moon, Anika, YHWH Nailgun, Bill Converse, HIDE, Wolf Eyes, Vessel, and more.
Hen House - Oakland, California. Members of Relay for Death.
Creation In Vein - abstract percussive terror
Thursday July 17 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS
Matt Robidoux is a San Francisco based composer, improviser, and educator interested in the convergence of movement and sound as it relates to free improvisation and accessibility. Their primary instrument is the “corn synth” — (Kinetically Operated Randomness Network) a modular system that interprets physical input from two “ears of corn” sculptures cast in aluminum.
Matt Norman (San Francisco)
ben ‘leshy’ krasner is an interdisciplinary sound artist and educator. propelled by a desire to stretch the senses, their practice often involves objects, ceramics, and various electroacoustic systems. they research and utilize de/compositional processes as means of exploring intra-active and perceptual phenomena. this work typically manifests as performance, installation, and intermedia collaboration.
Christopher Griffiths: Tapes and electronics.
Friday July 18 * doors at 7, show at 7:30 * $10-20 * TICKETS
Steve Jansen is a sound maker originally from Arizona whose experimental music output includes solo and band performances on saxophone, prepared guitar, natural and manufactured objects, and cassette tape across a swath of genres, ranging from free jazz and electro-acoustic improvisation to harsh noise and primitive techno. A primary element of Jansen�s constructions hinges on live cassette tape manipulations featuring onsite field recordings and ad-libbed performances from worldwide locations such as Ghana, continental Europe, Mexico, rural Arizona deserts and forests, and a plane crash site in the Sandia Mountains. These sound emissions are often articulated through malfunctioning devices that may or may not work come performance time, which brings another improvisational element to the set.
Worm Jets are a Baltimore noise punk duo that sound like what their name sounds like.
Embroidered Bird (DC)
Embroidered bird is the project of DC based lalita (linc) kinnicutt, who makes minimalist music and sound using acoustic guitar, analog synthesizers and cassette tape loops.
Suburbanabuse (DMV)
Saturday July 19 * 10am * Free / donations * REGISTER
For more than 10 years, Johns Hopkins professor Matt Pavesich has documented over 1,000 ways that Washingtonians get creative with the D.C. flag, a project called DC/Adapters (dcadapters.org). This public research project has evolved into an illustrated guide to the graffiti aesthetics and local politics of Washington, D.C., including commentary on gentrification, arts and culture, and local political causes, such as D.C. statehood and home rule. This event will begin with highlights of the DC/Adapters archive, including hidden adapted flags around the neighborhoods, how people artistically advocate for causes they believe in, and how some of these designs even speak back and forth to each other, debating the past, present, and future of D.C. Then, we’ll shift into a creative workshop, drawing on the lessons of the archive. D.C. flag adaptation kits will be provided, and participants will become public artists by adapting their own flag designs to support the local issues they care most about.
Saturday July 19 * 1pm * in the backyard * $15-25 *REGISTER
Itching to get creative? Come dye with me! This class will cover making and dyeing with indigo, including the basics of shibori (Japanese tie-dye). You'll learn how to:-make an indigo vat-dye with indigo for long-lasting color-tie up the cloth for a variety of beautiful patterns-care for your indigo-dyed items. Each participant will receive 1 bandana to dye with. All other materials provided. You may bring a few additional items to dye from home. Small to medium sized items with 50% or more natural fiber content work best. In addition, wear clothing that you don't mind getting stained. Bring an apron if you wish, and rubber gloves if you have them.
Saturday July 19 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS
Please join us to be inspired by 8 individual puppetry shorts presented back-to-back! Warning: Puppet Shorts will probably cause you to have a sudden burst of inspiration about your own projects!
Presenting:
Cecilia cackley
Kara Turner
Prentiss & Prentiss
Genna Beth Davidson
David Greenfieldboyce
Merry Carver
Talia Linneman & Cooper Frank
Julia Tashiva
Sunday July 20 * 11am * $15-35 * REGISTER
Join us for an afternoon of kinky model drawing, guided by painter and art teacher: Dom. We’ll have models & expert artistic guidance. Meet your fellow Washington DC creatives. After a set amount of time we’ll open up the floor for people to make use of the space and create whatever images they wish. This workshop aims to celebrate body positivity and diversity while fostering a supportive, judgment-free environment for creative exploration.
Click through for community expectations.
Sunday July 20 * 1pm * Free / donations * REGISTER
Are you interested in any of the following: theater, building community, making new friends, board games, tabletop role playing games, improvisation, and/or trying new things? Then you would probably enjoy Live Action Role Play (or LARP)! LARP is an umbrella term for games where you physically embody a character using a huge variety of rules, props, locations, and participants. LARPs can go from as few as 2 to as many as 100s of people, and explore stories ranging from the silly and fluffy to the dark and tragic, but for now we'll be exploring some entry-level LARPS that are great for new players.
On Sunday, July 20 from 1-2:30 pm it's time to unionize! Specifically, the henchfolk of renowned supervillain Professor Von Doctor are sitting down at the table with the Professor themselves to hash out issues surrounding wages, uniforms, a superhero bounty system, and parking. This is a comedy LARP for 4-8 players about dealing with a less-than-ideal work environment and also superheroes. Think Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, Mystery Men, and Star Trek Lower Decks for tone comparisons.
Sunday July 20 * 3-5pm * RSVP
Death Cafes are opportunities for people to enjoy refreshments together and discuss the topic of death. The objective is to “increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives.” There are Death Cafes all over the country. What's on your mind about death and dying? Contact Death Cafe Facilitators Margaret Branch at margaret603@gmail.com or Monica Lynch at mlynch19@comcast.net.. Death Cafes are NOT therapy, grief support, or counseling sessions. Cost: Free (small donation for the space encouraged)
Sunday July 20 * 7pm * $10-$15 * TICKETS
Light Beams is a dance-punk band from Washington, D.C.
https://lightbeams.bandcamp.com
Time Room is a a Rock and Roll Music Group from Minneapolis
https://timeroom.bandcamp.com
Oddbodi is a DIY punk rock trio based in DC, known for their raw energy and introspective lyricism. Their 2024 EP, “ordinary / people” captures the bands gritty sound through four tracks that blend garage rock with post-punk influences. The lineup features thadMc on vocals and guitar, Ben Schultz on bass, and Antonio Peluso on drums and percussion.
https://oddbodimoe.bandcamp.com
Monday July 21 * 7pm * $10 * TICKETS
L.I.P.S.
Harlan, Kentucky hardcore punk
Triangle Fire
Athens Georgia crust punk
Dru the Drifter
Nashville Tennessee garage punk
PSYOP
DC hardcore punk
Tuesday July 22 * 6-9pm * Donations encouraged at the event * RSVP
SUPPORT OUR IMMIGRANT NEIGHBORS!
JOIN US FOR A COMMUNITY POTLUCK FUNDRAISER TO SUPPORT DSI (DIRECT SUPPORT FOR IMMIGRANTS INC)
POTLUCK GATHERING
WITH OPEN MIC, GAMES, RAFFLES, AND LIVE MUSIC
BRING YOUR FAVORITE MEALS & DRINKS TO SHARE WITH OTHERS!
ALL AGES ARE WELCOME!
Wednesday July 23 * 7pm * Free / donations * RSVP
The poet Alice Notley passed away on May 9, 2025 in Paris, France, her home for many years, at the age of 79. The author of more than forty books, Notley was a poet, first and only. She wrote a thousand different poetries, invented forms and the substrate of forms, and spoke to the dead. Come be astonished as a group of poets offer her words to the air at Rhizome on July 23 at 7 PM. Bring food and drink if you'd like and are able. We love you.
Thursday, July 24 * 7pm * $15 * TICKETS
Potosí (NoVA screamo bilingüe)
https://potosiherndon.bandcamp.com/album/fujimori-is-dead
Sunshower (screamo from winston-salem, NC)
Muhnday (DC post-hardcore)
https://muhnday.bandcamp.com/track/gone-again
Cuni (DC emotional music)
Friday July 25 * 7pm * $15-25 * TICKETS
CHEER-ACCIDENT
Hailing from the singularly vibrant musical hotbed known as Chicago, CHEER-ACCIDENT has been a creative, vital force in rock music for over 30 years. They constantly strive to surprise their audiences and themselves through relentless reinvention. From dreamy pop to angular art-rock, CHEER-ACCIDENT strikes a powerful balance between personalized and unique studio wizardry and the visceral excitement of a well-honed, explosive live rock band.
Saturday July 26 * doors at 230pm * $15-25 * TICKETS
Jeff Surak (DC) focuses on deconstructing sound and reassembling it into beautiful slabs of nonlinear audio narratives.
AM Tango is a new Baltimore trio made up of long time collaborators Jeff Mcgrath, Emmanuel Nicolaidis, and Stephen Santillan. This is the 3rd project that all 3 have all been in together, and outside of that their histories run even deeper, allowing a further exploration of an idiolect started long ago.
Hatchetface is a DC-based band that blends grunge with experimental elements.
Mia and the Argonauts - A new quartet from Washington, DC featuring all teachers from Jackson-Reed High School. Singer-songwriter Mia Chu on guitar and vocals, with James Kelly (Boys Club) on lead guitar, Marc Minsker (MFS JMB & Co.) on bass, and Andrew Bourgeois on drums.
Opposite Tiger
Perfume is Fly is a psychedelic rock trio (guitar, bass, drums) from Baltimore,MD. Their new EP Fall Collection is out now.
Sunday July 27 * noon-4pm * $5-10 suggested * RSVP
The DC Modular Society is a group focused on learning, teaching, and performing electronic music with modular synths. DCMS meetups are open to all with an interest in electronic music, modular and other hardware synths, and hybrid systems for creating and performing music. We encourage and support building a diverse and inclusive community—if you’re wondering if you belong—the answer is yes! No equipment is necessary to attend meetups, but feel free to bring gear if you like. Mixer and PA system provided. We frequently do informal demos of synths and electronic music techniques.
Sunday July 27 * 4:30pm * $20-25 * TICKETS
Transparent Productions presents Jen Chapin (vocals, guitar), Stephan Crump (bass), and Jamie Fox (guitar).
Jen Chapin, accompanied by GRAMMY© nominated bassist Stephan Crump and “impeccable melodist” (New York Times) Jamie Fox on electric guitar, will debut a new cabaret-style performance of her urban folk songs entitled Anything Goes, and How Did We Get Here? The two-set show weaves historically-informed, jazz-inspired questions and answers about our current and rapidly-changing political moment around old and new selections from Jen’s critically-acclaimed urban folk catalog.
"With songs delivered in a style that ranges from tender fragility to unexpected steeliness, Chapin brings a jazzy edge to the folk form. Sometimes she explores a fleeting emotion, sometimes she weaves a solid narrative—not at all surprising from the daughter of Harry Chapin, a master musical storyteller.” - The New Yorker
Jen Chapin has been celebrated for writing “brilliant soulfully poetic urban folk music” (NPR) for three decades. Nurtured in and around NYC by a large family of artists, writers, and musicians, Jen's “observant, lyrically deft, politically aware and emotionally intuitive” (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel) songwriting features both her "extraordinary voice” (De krenten uit de pop, The Netherlands) and “astonishing jazz band” (popmatters). As much as an artistic legacy, the roots of Jen's upbringing have inspired her "potent, jazzy, layered folk" (Newsday) songs and a lifetime of passionate activism, through ongoing work with WhyHunger (founded by her late father Harry Chapin), and teaching high school global history in Brooklyn. Since 2023, she has led the J. Chapes Jazz Band, playing spontaneous traditional arrangements from the classic American songbook.
Sunday July 27 * 7:30pm * $5-10 * TICKETS
Jam nights are an opportunity for people to show up and create art together. Bring a guitar, sticks, sketch pad, didgeridoo, or your dancing shoes and come vibe. Amps, speakers, drum set, and microphones are provided. Featured artist: Pony Payroll Bones
Monday July 28 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS
Stan Zenkov plays clarinet, bass clarinet, tenor and alto saxophones, cornet, and also folk wind instruments with a focus on improvisation and experimentation as a means of inquiry into the mysteries and transformative properties of the human perception of sound, and exploration of music as universal human ritual. Joining Stan will be D.C. improvisers Abe Mamet (French horn) and Jamie Sandel (violin and bass). With all their music, both Jamie and Abe use improvisation to dive deeper into the worlds of their instruments, seeking new sounds, modes, and relationships with music-making devices.
The Art Jam Collaborative performs cohesive improvised sounding and painting. Founded 2 years ago by visual artist April Enelly Galvan and sound artist Joseph Sioui, the Denton, Texas-based act has notably performed at the Joan of Bark Concert Series. They will be joined by guitarist Andrew Getman.
For the last decade, flutist, vocalist and composer Alex Hamburger has been creating her own musical direction. Alex's highly anticipated sophomore album, What If? delves into perception, transition, and the boundaries of human experience.
Tuesday July 29, Wednesday July 30, & Monday August 4 * 7pm * $5 each or $10 for all shows * TICKETS
TPSS Co-op Presents…
July 29 - Food for Change: A Documentary Film About Food Co-ops (2014)
looks at the current resurgence of food cooperatives in America and their unique historic place in the economic and political landscape. Born in the heartland, cooperatives are seen as the middle path between Wall Street and Socialism.
July 30 - Civilizing the Economy (1990) + Punk Football (2013)
Civilizing the Economy is a 1990's look into the Co-ops of Bologna Italy. Punk Football is documentary about FC United of Manchester, a soccer team run by the people, for the people, for the enjoyment of the people. Each screening is 30 minutes.
August 4 - A Silent Transformation (2018)
A Silent Transformation sets out to explore the innovative self- help efforts of different communities across the Province of Ontario, Canada. By addressing their needs collectively they are helping to regain the radical vision of co-operation.
Thursday July 31 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS
BASSMASTERS is a rowdy synth punk duo from Washington DC. Mason Scan (Catscan!) and Khai Phan (The People) serve up short, intense dance punk rock with irreverent lyrics and distorted heavy bass riffs, a stiff cocktail of Death From Above 1979, DEVO, Viagra Boys, and IDLES. Their new 7" single 'Stainless Steel' is now available on super-limited vinyl from Exactly Records.
Syd's Lunch is a band from Arlington, Virginia influenced by the punk music of DC. Songs range from math rock instrumentals to 1 minute hardcore songs that harken back the likes of Minor Threat and Void. As of now, they function as a duo, consisting of guitar and drums. This is their first (or second, depending on how you think about it) show.
Different Answers is DC's favorite gutter band. Beautiful melodies, heavy lyrics, jangling acoustic guitar meets thudding basslines. Check out their EP Where I Been Known to Go and demo Car Troubles No More on soundcloud. As seen at DuPont Circle Sings, DC's District of Pride at the Lincoln Theater, WUMC Third Rail, and more.
Friday August 1 * 7pm * $15 * TICKETS
Speedway (from Sweden on Revelation Records)
Poisición Unida (from DC on Rebirth Records)
Square One (from New York on Scheme Records)
Sluggo (from DC)
Sunday August 3 * 1pm * $5 suggested * REGISTER
Gain the knowledge you need to attend live drawing sessions! This workshop is intended for beginners to help build confidence to jump into live drawing sessions and connect with local figure drawing communities (we'll provide a list of regular sessions in the DMV area). But people at all levels are welcome~
To keep this budget friendly, we'll be taking turns modeling for each other (with relatively short poses). We've got basic supplies covered, but feel free to bring your own!
Sunday August 3 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS
Music researcher and Canary Records founder Ian Nagoski uncovers the forgotten musical masterpieces of early 20th-century immigrants and natives in this engaging lecture and listening party.
Ian Nagoski is an independent music researcher and reissue record producer in Baltimore, Maryland, who has specialized for 20 years in early 20th-century recordings made by immigrants to the U.S., especially musicians from the Ottoman Empire. He has made anthologies for Dust-to-Digital, Tompkins Square (including To What Strange Place: The Music of the Ottoman-American Diaspora in 2011), the Database of Recorded American Music, Mississippi Records, and his Canary imprint, which has released over 150 digital albums. He has toured widely as a speaker from Thessaloniki to Fresno, including talks at the Library of Congress, Brandeis, Carnegie Mellon, NYU, UCLA, the University of Chicago, the Armenian Museum in Watertown, MA, and the Onassis Cultural Center in Athens. He has presented installations at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, the Wellcome Collection in London, and the Center for PostNatural History in Pittsburgh.
Thursday August 7 * 7pm * $10-15 * TICKETS
Editrix, the annihilators of indie rock, are a trio of compassionate music nerds from NYC and Western Mass. They are currently touring on the release of their new album "The Big E".
Landowner plays abrasively-clean minimalist punk. They aim to slap hard, without using distortion. Their music utilizes repetition, and makes space for lyrics that touch on the systems our lives are tangled in and the dark absurdities we take for granted. They are from western Massachusetts and have released four LPs.
That This, of DC, is a new band from former members of Priests and Ex Hex.
Friday August 8 * doors at 7, show at 730 * $15 * TICKETS
Small Doses (Asheville)
https://smalldoses.bandcamp.com/
Continuals (DC)
https://continualsdc.bandcamp.com/
Future Living (Kalamazoo)
https://futurelivingkzoo.bandcamp.com/
Chill Parents (DC)
https://chillparents.bandcamp.com/
Sunday August 10 * 1pm * RSVP
A community potluck event for home fermenters to share their favorite brews, batches, and recipes. Have an extra jar of homemade kimchi sitting in the back of the fridge? A loaf of sourdough? We'll trade recipes, swap tips, and sample one another's ferments! All levels of experience welcome, but please bring something for everyone to try. Email jasperswartz.m@gmail.com with any questions
Monday August 11 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS
Fruit LoOops - No-wave dance pop from Chicago/Cincinnati. Manic live and digital percussion, frazzled synthesizer, and electronic saxophone with unhinged vocals and theatrical performance art. Midwest Blackhole. Musical Memory Hole.
Drawn - DC/Philly - memories from an unreliable narrator. Nenet on vocals, Nate Scheible on drums, Layne Garrett on guitar.
Weapons Envelope (DC) is harsh noise and power electronics by Emily Haugh. War poetry for remembering.
Wednesday August 13 * doors at 7, show at 730 * $15 * TICKETS
4-piece harsh blackened screamo from port huron & detroit michigan
I Have No Mouth
Anti fascist hardcore punk from Indiana.
Samskara
Black/Post-Metal from Baltimore
Denouement
DMV Metalcore
Friday August 15 * 7pm * $15-25 * TICKETS
Nikel is a quartet from Switzerland consisting of saxophone, electric guitar, percussion and piano. For this concert, they will be debuting “how strong the spindle” by David Menestres.
A mix of traditional and contemporary, these instruments combine to form an alternative chamber music output where electric and acoustic sounds are fused into a unified sonic organism built on a wide, yet discerning musical vocabulary. The continual search for new musical ideas is not based on aesthetic prejudice or dichotomies of musical genres, but on passion and devotion to making and performing great music.
Composer, flutist, and improviser, Rachel Beetz explores presence through sound and listening. Her works recreate physical atmospheres based on her deep listening adventures in the wild, exploring hidden worlds of nature and machines. Combining experimental field recordings and electronically modified flutes, her works examine community, environmentalism, and women’s work through sound, textiles, and lighting. Her projects have been featured in concert halls and galleries in Australia, Iceland, India, the United Kingdom, and the United States. You can hear her on Orenda, Blue Griffin, iikki, Neuma, and Populist record labels. She is currently a co-director of wasteLAnd music and Populist Records.
Saturday August 16 * 1pm * $15-35 * REGISTER
Join us for an afternoon of kinky model drawing, guided by painter and art teacher: Dom. We'll have models & expert artistic guidance. Meet your fellow Washington DC creatives. After a set amount of time we'll open up the floor for people to make use of the space and create whatever images they wish. This workshop aims to celebrate body positivity and diversity while fostering a supportive, judgment-free environment for creative exploration.
Click through for community expectations.
Saturday August 16 * 6pm * $15-25 * in the backyard, weather permitting * TICKETS
Reign of Ferns (Taipei, TW and Colorado) is Ryan J Raffa and Andrew Weathers. They embark on their first US tour this summer, playing improvised sets of Fourth World fever dream music. The duo’s work has been released on Aural Canyon and Longform Editions.
Oms (Washington DC) is the multimedia collaboration between artists Monica Stroik and Doug Kallmeyer.Heavyweight sonics interact with an ever evolving tapestry of imagery, conjured through an improvisational blending of analog modular electronics, string instruments and customized video software.
Weathering (Baltimore, MD and Frederick, MD) is an electroacoustic duo formed by Matt Carey (clarinet, piano) and Carolyn Zaldivar Snow (modular synthesizers). Their work merges field recordings from natural environments with intricate, experimental electronics, creating immersive soundscapes that evoke both organic and technological worlds.
Monday August 18 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS
Don Barry: A Quixotic Exploration re-enlivens the meta- narrative of Cervantes’ Don Quixote by placing a real-life experimental filmmaker, Barry Gerson, into the Don’s role and filming his life work’s exploration of madness in a mad world among the crowds of Mexico’s magical city of Guanajuato.
The life and work of an experimental filmmaker in his 80s is layered atop the first great novel to draw out explorations of intuitive processes, cathartic landscapes, and the specters of death and creative succession. A young assistant (Sanchia, stand-in for Cervantes' Sancho Panza) helps revive Don Barry’s creative drive and push him to expand his cinematic explorations of light into new realms beyond narrative. The film is about the struggles that all artists face in today’s changing world.
Saturday August 23 * doors at 1, show at 1:30 * $10-15 * TICKETS
Gooma Productions 1 Year Anniversary
Metalcore Blast Matinee Cookout
Out to Destroy (DC)
Balisong (DC)
Denouement (MD)
HardTruth (New DC Metalcore!)
Monday August 25 * doors at 6:30, show at 7 * $15 * TICKETS
Taylor Hollingsworth is a fingerstyle guitarist and songwriter based in Birmingham, AL. Taylor is primarily known for his roles as lead guitarist and co-writer for Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band. Since that time, Taylor has developed a solo performance style he’s dubbed “Folk n Roll.” His style takes cues from Mississippi Hill Country blues artists like R.L. Burnside, folkies like Richard Thompson, country pickers like Merle Travis, and rock n rollers such as Chuck Berry. His most recent release, "Yahola," is out through Dial Back Sound.
Cody Summit is a songwriter from Baltimore, MD. He plays fingerstyle acoustic and resonator slide guitar, and sings his own songs influenced by folk traditions. Since releasing his album “Welcome to Greener Then” in 2019, he plays regionally on a regular basis, at festivals and opening for nationally touring artists.
Friday August 29 * 7pm * $15-25 * TICKETS
Bark Culture is a Philadelphia-based trio led by vibraphonist Victor Vieira-Branco, featuring Joey Sullivan on drums and John Moran on bass. The group released their first album “Warm Wisdom” on Vieira-Branco’s label Temperphantom in September of 2024 with an accompanying 20 date tour through the United States. Warm Wisdom was included on Bandcamp’s “Best Jazz of September 2024”, and acclaimed jazz writer and critic Hank Shteamer listed the album as his Debut Release of 2024.
Victor Vieira-Branco is a Brazilian/American vibraphonist, having spent the 2010s in the vibrant São Paulo music scene. While Bark Culture is Vieira-Branco’s primary vehicle as a leader, his performances include work with Rob Mazurek’s Exploding Star Orchestra, the Chad Taylor Quintet, Daniel Villarreal Trio, as well as a new duo with pianist Sam Yulsman.
No Trick Pony is a Washington, DC power-trio. Consisting of seasoned DC veterans Amy K. Bormet (piano, voice), Keith Butler Jr. (drums), and Brian Settles (tenor saxophone), the group presents a unique sound that most often finds Bormet constructing song, poetry, and harmony, above a quiet tornado of exploration from Settles and Butler underneath. Though each member is steeped in streams of traditionally defined music — jazz, popular music, punk, and classical, to name a few — the group tends to focus on a deconstruction of the strict barriers of jazz, exploring instead on the transitional points between composition and improvisation. Groove abounds as a way to moor the listener in these explorations, which have the uncanny ability to present as both song and not-song. No Trick Pony has appeared at The Duck Pond in Georgetown, Rhizome DC in Takoma Park, and was a featured billing as part of the 2022 Capital Fringe Festival.
Saturday August 30 * 12-4pm * Free
Free Entry - Music - Delicious Raw Vegan + Vegan Food - Fresh Juice - Holistic Health Workshops - Midwifery - Colon Therapist - Herbalist + More!
Presented by Secrets of Nature Health Food Center
Saturday September 6 * 1pm * Free / donations * REGISTER
Are you interested in any of the following: theater, building community, making new friends, board games, tabletop role playing games, improvisation, and/or trying new things? Then you would probably enjoy Live Action Role Play (or LARP)! LARP is an umbrella term for games where you physically embody a character using a huge variety of rules, props, locations, and participants. LARPs can go from as few as 2 to as many as 100s of people, and explore stories ranging from the silly and fluffy to the dark and tragic, but for now we'll be exploring some entry-level LARPs that are great for new players.
On Saturday, September 6 from 1-2:30 pm, we'll be exploring our exploration of the moon (and why we don't go back there anymore). 2-9 players will collectively develop a documentary about fictional attempts to go to the moon, examining both the stated and underlying reasons for why we went there and subsequently stopped going. Take on the role of a former astronaut and spill your guts (or don't) about what really went on out there in space. The tone for this game can vary widely from farce to tragedy, so come prepared for anything!
Monday September 8 * doors at 7pm * $20 * TICKETS
A collective turned trio, Tara Clerkin craft free-flowing psychedelia with heavy dub drums amidst woozy washes of harpsichord and synths. Influenced by the natural landscape and their West Country hometown, their 2023 EP On the Turning Ground is a mesmerising sophomore release. Their sound lies somewhere between the avant-jazz of Moondog, the sun-tinged psych-folk of These Trails, and something else entirely. Tara Clerkin Trio embody an extraordinary otherness that should be witnessed by all.
“Drifting from dubby minimalism to smudged acid jazz, Tara’s stark and tuneful voice acts as the vehicle for her concise poetic lyricism. The group coalesce disparate influences into a cohesive sound, reflecting a romantic view of a familiar world.” - The Wire
The Caribbean - "They're taking Brill Building songs and writing them in invisible ink, turning jazz standards into Twilight Zone episodes, turning folk songs into clouds of fog." - PopMatters
Tuesday September 16 * doors at 630, music at 7 * $20-25 * TICKETS
Glenn Jones is a master of American Primitive Guitar, a style invented in the late 1950s by John Fahey, whose traditional fingerpicking techniques and wide-ranging influences were used to create modern original compositions. Jones, who led the post-rock ensemble Cul de Sac, brings his own made-up tunings, the use of custom-crafted partial capos, and a highly skilled picking style on both banjo and guitar, to create personal compositions that are lyrical, emotive and elegant.
Liam Grant is a New England guitarist with a punk ethos, cut from the American Primitive cloth. The restless guitar explorations, modal epics, and driving uptempo rags recall the likes of Grant's pedagogue; Takoma Records, and the path that was paved by his forebears John Fahey, Robbie Basho, Peter Walker, Max Ochs, and later, Glenn Jones, Steffen Basho-Junghans, Jack Rose, and others.
Kajwan Ziaoddini started performing Santour in 1998. He earned his master’s degree in Iranian classical music at the University of Tehran. As a musician, he has collaborated with several Iranian ensembles such as Eghbal, Ravian, and Hamnavazan, and has contributed to five albums: From the Saba’s Rose Garden, Hashtrud, Delkesh, Goshayesh, and Nowbang.
Wednesday September 17 * doors at 7, show at 7:30 * $15 * TICKETS
Null/Void Presents
Latter
Latter is a heavy noise rock duo from Chicago featuring Meredith Haines (MAIR) on vocals and guitar, alongside Jon Alvarado (Beach Bunny) on drums. The band formed in a chance encounter in 2022, after Meredith had given up playing music and was starting her career in sound art. Drawing inspiration from Chicago's rich art scene, Jon’s indie-pop background, and Meredith's Philadelphia roots, the duo crafts an immersive experience that pushes the boundaries of noise rock.
NÜDE
NÜDE is an experimental duo composed of Chicago-bred musicians Ruby Lucinda and Luke Clohisy. Both multi-instrumentalists, Lucinda and Clohisy write music that pulls from indie rock, drone, no wave, and grunge. The duo seeks to write honest music, about what feels like to be home— comforts and complications alike.
Life
Emotive hardcore since 2017
Saturday October 25 * 7pm * OFFSITE at Tonal Park (7014-C Westmoreland Ave, Takoma Park) * $25-30 * TICKETS
Transparent Productions presents…
Adam Rudolph (handrumset, electronic processing, thumb pianos, mouth bow, bamboo flutes, glockenspiel, gongs, vocal, percussion)
Kaoru Watanabe (taiko, Japanese percussion, noh kan and fue flutes, electric koto, vocal and electronic processing)
Alexis Marcelo (piano, electric keyboards, kalimba, melodica, percussion)
Composer, improviser, and percussionist ADAM RUDOLPH has been hailed as “a pioneer in World music” by the NY Times and “a master percussionist” by Musician magazine. Rudolph has released several albums as leader and has also recorded with musicians Sam Rivers, Omar Sosa, Wadada Leo Smith, Pharoah Sanders, Bill Laswell, Herbie Hancock, Foday Musa Suso, and Shadowfax. Acclaimed composer and instrumentalist KAORU WATANABE'S work is grounded in traditional Japanese music while imbued with jazz, improvisation, and experimental music elements. ALEXIS MARCELO is a New York City-based pianist whose musical journey began with classical training at the Harlem School of the Arts. As a Black Latino artist Alexis was highly influenced by the vibrant musical landscape of New York in the 80’s and 90’s.
Sunday November 9 * doors at 630, show at 7pm * $15 * TICKETS
“For 15 years the trio of Ak’chamel has built a solid reputation as a compelling stage project. Wearing nightmarish costumes and engaging in hallucinatory “rituals”, their singular sound comprising desert-scorched psychedelia, post-apocalyptic shamanism, and lo-fi ritual-folk is as unique as the physical theater of their live performances.”
Zelzeleh - Iranian multi-instrumentalist Kamyar Arsani (Faraway Ghost) and Indian-born drummer/electronic music producer Ravish Momin (Sunken Cages) create their own brand of digital folk music that draws on Sufi mysticism, traditional Persian Music, street rhythms from Mumbai and contemporary electronic music at once. Momin accompanies Arsani’s vocals and daf (frame-drum) with a masterful blend of electronic and acoustic percussion, including live-looping via his unique drum-loop performance system.
Derek Monypeny sees his musical mission as adding to and expanding on what he calls the "desert continuum;" the psychedelic sirocco swirl of desert-based stringed instruments played with utter abandon by musicians the world over. Derek is a former member of the bands Oaxacan (Oakland, CA), ALTO! (Portland, OR), and Sir Richard Bishop's Freak Of Araby Ensemble. He has an ongoing duo project with Bryan Hillebrandt, OAE (Oakland Afternoon Ensemble). He has performed and toured with artists such as Bill Orcutt, Mike Watt, Jozef van Wissem, Lau Nau, Arrington de Dionyso, and many others.
Friday December 5 * doors at 7, music at 730 * $15-20 * TICKETS
In support of her newest album Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark, Gwenifer Raymond returns to Rhizome during her winter tour of the States. The album is Raymond’s first since 2020’s Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain, which drew widespread acclaim for its repurposing of Mississippi blues and John Fahey’s intricate Americana to embody Raymond’s roots in rural South Wales and her interests in folk horror and the avant garde, a new form dubbed Welsh Primitive. Now, on her forthcoming album, Raymond finds herself conjuring the work of pioneering rocket scientists, the words of fictional hobo prophets and the concepts of mathematical infinity.
Christo Graham began writing his first songs when he was just 13. An old guitar and a Casio keyboard were all this lively singer-songwriter needed to fill summer after summer lovingly crafting demo tapes of the finest indietronica. His bedroom morphed into a recording studio, and Graham's head into an automaton that produced one quirky earworm after another. His effective minimalism is evident in his 2020 album 'Turnin'', whose 12 songs were inspired by a four-track recorder belonging to his grandmother and containing two songs recorded by herself at some point.
Recent events:
2nd & 4th Wednesdays * online at 8pm Eastern * Free / donation * RSVP
A weekly guided dream-sharing hangout…. Welcome to the theater of your dreams—an inexhaustible source of images and stories that can provide entertainment and insight, and that requires no cable service and no subscription—just attentiveness and an open mind. Participants will share dreams, using a gentle, non-intrusive method for unlocking the metaphors that structure dreams (derived from the long-tested method of Dr. Montague Ullman). We’ll also talk about techniques for recalling and recording dreams, as needed.
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