8pm Doors / 8:30pm Sound
Tickets $18 (discounted or free for members)
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Ka Baird is an American multi-instrumentalist, recording artist, producer, and performer based in New York City. She is heralded for her raw, ecstatic, boundary pushing live solo performances involving highly energetic experimental body movements, extended vocal techniques and mic use, luminous driving flute meditations, and innovative use of live electronics. She creates a radically present tense and vigorous type of “body music" that seeks extreme release through physical exertion and psychic extension.

Guitarist, singer, and player of some species of dismantled electrified folk, John Saint Pelvyn is a musical enigma of the best kind. At the root of his playing is something akin to fingerstyle blues, but rich with quivering whammy bar wobble and shimmering feedback which he seems to harvest from the air using his guitar like a musical dowsing rod.

7:30pm doors / 8:00pm show
Tickets $25 (discounted or free for members)
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Arto Lindsay (b. 1953 Richmond, VA, lives and works in Rio de Janeiro) has stood at the intersection of music and art for more than four decades. As a member of DNA, he contributed to the foundation of No Wave. As bandleader for the Ambitious Lovers, he developed an intensely subversive pop music, a hybrid of American and Brazilian styles. He has a distinctive soft voice and an often noisy, self-taught guitar style, contrasted frequently with gentler, sensuous Brazilian music themes. Throughout his career, Lindsay has collaborated with both visual and musical artists, including Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Animal Collective, Matthew Barney, Marisa Monte, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Caetano Veloso and Rirkrit Tiravanija.

Recently, Lindsay has been combining music, technology, choreography, and allegorical elements in the form of parades. The first one, "De Lama Lãmina” (Salvador, 2004), a collaboration with Matthew Barney, was followed by "I Am a Man" (Frankfurt, 2008), "Multinatural [Blackout]” (Biennale de Venezia, 2009), and "Somewhere I Read" (New York, 2009). Lindsay’s new albums include "Encyclopedia of Arto,” released in 2014, and "Cuidado Madame,” released in 2017.