Friday October 6 * 7pm

BASrelief is a creative music group co-led by mandolinist Majid Araim and cellist Benjamin Shirley, with Julian Scott Bryan on percussion. The group seeks to fashion a space for the traditions of jazz, mountain music, and experimental improvisation to interact, with a focus on deep listening, dynamic energy, and collaborative composition.

Fiddler Mike Gangloff plays free Appalachian music that weaves together improvisation, melodic composition, and traditional tunes learned from older players in a region around his home in Southwest Virginia. He is a founding member of Pelt, Black Twig Pickers and Eight Point Star, and also often performs solo fiddle shows, often on hardanger-style or octave violin, as well as in duos, including this year with UK guitarist C Joynes, with Prices Fork, Va., cellist Kaily Schenker, and with fellow Black Twig guitarist and banjoist Isak Howell. Last year he recorded Evening Measures, a solo album released by VHF Records. An LP-length collaboration with Elkhorn is due out later this year.

Adam Kiesling's favorite thing to do is playing his guitar and backing up a good old-time fiddler. He got his start playing bass as a teenager in south-eastern Wisconsin, and ended up playing more guitar after moving to the Twin Cities in the early 90s, where he fell down the rabbit hole of flatpicked fiddle tunes à la Norman Blake and the country blues of Mississippi John Hurt. Adam started playing old-time string band music around 2000 and spent some time with the Wild Goose Chase Cloggers, the Mill City Grinders, and also had a stint as the bass player for Pert Near Sandstone from 2010 to 2014. In addition to performing as a solo artist, Adam's main musical output has been with Corpse Reviver, a Minneapolis-based trio who focuses on the music found on Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music. His latest solo recording, Down The River I Go, was released in September of 2023.

Raven Bauer Durham is an experimental guitar-based performer from Virginia, incorporating electric and acoustic ambient textures, voice, and song layers. Previously a member of the improvisational group Phoenix Auto Group.