Friday, June 8th at the Red Room!

ANNA CROOKS & JARRETT GILGORE
There are melodies hidden in speech. Anna & Jarrett unearth these melodies and provide a strange new context for poetry. The duo began during Superbowl LI (2017) and has since performed around Baltimore on lineups with Susan Alcorn, Twig Harper, Lexie Mountain, BLUD. Expect a recording to come out in the next 5 years.

Anna K. Crooks is a poet and artist living and working in Baltimore, MD. She is a member of the artist collective Open Space and co-founded the poetry programs Proliferate and Tender F.M.

Jarrett Gilgore //  multi-instrumentalist, improviser, composer, and educator currently residing in Baltimore, Maryland. He primarily plays saxophone. He performs actively in the U.S.A. and internationally in a wide variety of contexts. He has performed/recorded with many amazing musicians including Anna & Elizabeth, Dan Deacon, Cass McCombs, Tony Malaby, Lonnie Holley, Rubblebucket, Michael Formanek, Susan Alcorn, Dave Rempis, Jaimie Branch, Tashi Dorji, Dave Ballou.

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WENDY EISENBERG

Wendy Eisenberg is an improvising guitarist, banjo-player, vocalist and poet. Using the languages of free jazz, new music, extreme metal and art song, her music sets to pose and expose the questions surrounding the human body in the world and the representational and technical demands placed on it in artistic practice.

“Circles, angles, arcs, lines, intersections, Wendy Eisenberg is an explorer, inventor, author, observer, reporter, and much more. On the vanguard of the new new school, where teacher and student are irrelevant distinctions, Wendy has smelted these fine alloys for you; to build a skyscraper with a new type of scaffold.” – Matt Pike, Founder of HEC Tapes
http://wendyeisenberg.bandcamp.com/
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NICK A BISCEGLIA (NA B) (MA)
“a polyphonic spree”
https://hectapes.bandcamp.com/album/platos-drain-vessel

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PETER REDGRAVE
Peter Redgrave is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. He is a founding member of Smelling Salt Amusements, Sweet Thunder (NYC ’97), and Irratum. He has danced with Effervescent Collective, Deep Vision Dance Company, Alex D’Agostino/ Noelle Tolbert and Lynne Price. He organized the Move Move Collaborative, a ten day workshop with a collaborative teaching and performing model. He has performed in Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington D. C., as well as, Berlin and Leipzig. He currently teaches middle school science in Baltimore, MD.

Event location:

The Red Room at Normals Books and Records 425 E. 31st Street Baltimore, MD 21218

The Red Room is a volunteer-run space in Baltimore dedicated to mind-expanding experimental culture, headquartered at Normals Books and Records.