Friday July 27th  8PM   $10

Lucas Brode, a native of New York's Hudson Valley, is a guitarist & composer who draws from jazz harmony, experimental rock textures, and African rhythms. In addition to studying jazz guitar and composition, he spent several years learning percussive concepts from traditional Ghanian master drummer, Yacub Addy. Lucas often performs solo, leads his own trio, co-leads the Post-Rock / Math-Rock hybrid Hannibal Montana.

John Thayer is a New York based musician, composer and audio engineer. Thayer explores the intersection of acoustic and electronic music, using tape manipulations and experimental recording techniques, to produce instrumental music in a wide spectrum ranging from exploratory group improvisation to solo ethereal soundscapes. His work has appeared in numerous television and feature films and he is a Montello Foundation artist in residence for 2018.

Sarah Hughes and Nate Scheible are two mainstays within the Baltimore and DC improvised music communities working within and against a variety of genres, from dense, untethered free jazz to delicate, stark minimalism. Hughes and Scheible have been collaborating for the past two years, eschewing the expectations of the typical saxophone and drums duo, and utilizing it as a jumping off point to explore deeper possibilities of sound. This oftentimes involves integrating text, movement, and other non-idiomatic approaches, while still maintaining a sense of self-awareness and humor.

Corey Thuro is a Baltimore-based mandolin player. He has spent the past few years developing an original technique for the mandolin which involves the treatment of all eight strings as separate, non-static, tones in place of traditional grouped pairs. Aside from playing improvisational music he is a member of local bands Seneca and Sam Cooper & The Sleepwalkers.