Sunday June 22, 2025 | 8:30 pm | $10-20
Jordan Sand (doublebass), Simone Baron (accordion) and Samuel Burt (bass clarinet)
We love musicians who both are masters of their instrument and highly creative performers. Jordan Sand is one of these visionary virtuosos.
Jordan Sand is an American bassist, vocalist and improviser weaving voice into the organ-like resonances of bowed double bass. Her solo music, described as “Joni Mitchell meets Ligeti” (Omaha Under the Radar), blends song, free improv and noise to haunting effects. An omnivorous, eclectic player with roots in folk and classical music, she moves fluidly between genres and scenes, often expanding the double bass’s voice with her siren-like singing, extended techniques, and a sharp command of the instrument’s endless overtones. Sand is currently based in Trondheim, Norway. A seasoned solo performer, she has lived in four countries and ten cities, driven twice cross-continent in July, and plays on a Hungarian double bass of otherwise unknown origin.
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Photo credit: Lili Zaneta
Simone Baron is a polyglot pianist, accordionist, improviser and composer whose work “ego-less, genre agnostic and without expectations” (JazzTimes) engages curiously and charismatically with a broad spectrum of idioms. Educated at Oberlin and Tel Aviv University and joyfully de-educated at festivals and performances across Europe and the Americas, Simone has won grants, fellowships and residencies from Chamber Music America, South Arts, Maryland State Arts Council, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Hambidge Center, Sacatar Foundation, iPark, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Strathmore Foundation, ArtOMI, UMD, Avaloch Farm, the Banff Centre, and Spectrum Toronto. In 2016 Simone founded Arco Belo, a diasporic chamber music ensemble. Simone is a Victoria Artist and plays a Poeta XB Accordion, and is a founding member of the Boulanger Initiative.
Samuel Burt received classical training in clarinets and composition while simultaneously developing his improvisation skills with the many experimenters around him. His work ranges from computer generated music to full orchestra. He’s known for bass clarinet and synthesizer. He also builds daxophones and experiments with other homemade noise makers. He helps run shows at the Red Room and volunteers time the High Zero Foundation.
