Kalia Vandever is a New York-based trombonist who performs a mixture of composed and improvised music. Their 2023 album, Another View, delivers a collage of meditative, jazz-rooted tracks that blend rich and lyrical horn melodies, with steady rhythms, enchanting soundscapes, distortion effects and twisting electro-acoustic improvisation. Emily Francisco is a D.C.-based artist and educator. They perform in a duo with artist and musician Alex Tyson, whose work incorporates generative visuals, robots, metals, plaster and lasers. niki asfar is an Iranian-American, nonbinary/femme writer and interdisciplinary artist whose work explored hybrid identity, mental health and fluidity in language. Their mediums include poetry, text, sound collaging, mirror work and live singing and recording using a vocal loop machine.

Fred Frith is a multi-instrumentalist who has been performing for over 50 years. Best known for his work on electric guitar, Frith has roots in rock and folk music, and has also branched out in songwriting and composing for film, dance and theater. His sound blends noise, improvised music and notes of blues. Chiao Tian is a Chinese dulcimer instrumentalist who blends classical training with American folk traditions and improvisation.

This multi-bill show features a lineup of DMV-based artists across jazz, rock and experimental genres. Performers include: experimental rock trio Spark Isle; Spanish psychedelic rock group Sur Cósmico, led by Bolivian artist Jardiel Ruiz; My Mandy, the music project of artist Malynne Petoia; L☆LY and indie-pop rock musician Sir Cie.

Teiku is an ensemble co-founded by Chicago pianist Josh Harlow and Detroit percussionist Johnathan Barahal. The duo were inspired by the music traditions of their Jewish-Ukrainian upbringings, using Passover melodies as a base for sonic exploration. They interpret these ancestral sounds as liberation music, reworking it into a vehicle for protest and meditations on identity, politics and spiritual and cultural heritage. Alongside Harlow and Barahal, the quartet features bass clarinetist Jason Stein and bassist Jaribu Shahid. They utilize voice recordings, ritualistic chants, orally-passed down Passover songs and meditative free jazz improvisation to produce expressive and haunting electro-acoustic soundscapes. They perform tracks from their album Klang, released on June 5. Accordionist and pianist Simone Baron, who splits her time between the DMV and New York, writes music that is “ego-less, genre agnostic and without expectations” as CapitalBop’s Jackson Sinnenberg wrote about her in JazzTimes. Her works often blend and blur and multitude of musical traditions into something greater than the sum of its parts, while still maintaining the beauty of the individual influences.