Leith will present an electro-chorale jazz-prog montage with Saxophone and electronics.

Heat On performs all original jazz/creative music/avant garde compositions by drummer/composer Lily Finnegan

FLYDLPHN will be performing “Critter Songs," a program of 2 commissions and another work written for their ensemble.

They’ll start with and through the pines, i hear the singing, a charming little romp where the members of FLYDLPHN sing like birds through the trees, move to Goose on the Loose, a flute and bassoon duet that pays homage to geese everywhere, and finish with Louis, Monkey and Friends, a piece about all of our cats that includes many cat sounds and quirky improvisation inspired by the feline.

Kora performs all original works for guitar and voice.

“an emotional weight that can stop you in your tracks, even long after the song is finished ” — NPR

Ara Topouzian is an Armenian-American musician whose proficiency at the Kanun (Middle Eastern harp) has made him a nationally-recognized artist.

Ara Topouzian and friends performs Instrumental compositions of Armenian and Middle Eastern music from around the Middle East with jazz, fusion, and new age influences.

falooshh performs original Neo-soul Motown Alternative music.

read more at https://www.falooshh.com/

mosscap cello performs original music for cello + electronics

PRAVDA will perform an all original set of music written specifically for 2 electric guitars with pedalboards, exploring the relationship between the traditional finger-style/etude-esque melodies achievable on the instrument, with the creative freedom one can find using pedals and electronic textures.

Dennard Deas Daher Trio will be flowing between structured free improvisations, original compositions, and a jazz standard or two.

Dizzy FTP will perform an improvised live electronics set of improvised grooves and melodies — think old school Detroit and House artists using drum machines vs vinyl records.

FURY will perform new music from their band FURY'S Epiphany. Songs that deal with love, hate, revolution, and believing in yourself.

Woven Duo will play two newly commissioned pieces for piano + percussion.

The first one is from Austria-based composer Alyssa Aska, and takes the ancient percussion instrument Sistrum as its starting point. In ancient Egypt, this instrument was used for worship of the goddess Hathor, who represented concepts of beauty, music, dance, joy, love, sexuality, and maternal care. In the famous myth "The Destruction of Humanity", Hathor herself takes the role of the Eye of Ra in a bid to save humanity. She manifests as Sekhmet, who becomes a fierce, destructive warrior. Hathor thus also contains the dichotomy of order and chaos. The work thus explores this dichotomy through pitch, rhythm, and narrative. Ancient cultures are one of Aska's passions and we could not be more excited to be bringing her music to Michigan/the midwest this year.

The second is a new experimental work from Toledo-based (soon to be Detroit) composer Collin McEneaney that utilizes feedback looping in a creative way, with loops traveling from piano microphones through a snare drum and back to the piano. Using different mixer techniques and effects, this piece will be unique among works for this instrumentation.

The set will be all original music/interpretations, groove oriented music, very vibrant and textural both electrically and acoustically.