MDOU MOCTAR - Fri, Sep 25th, 2026 at 7:00 pm
Mdou Moctar is a prodigious Tuareg guitarist and songwriter. Mdou Moctar boldly reforges contemporary Saharan music and "rock music "by melding Eddie Van Halen pyrotechnics, full-blast noise and guitar shredding, field recordings, drum rhythms, poetic meditations on love, religion, women's rights, inequality, and Western Africa's exploitation at the hands of colonial powers to rip a new hole in the sky with the Afrique Victime album.
Tara’s Pizza will be onsite with fresh wood fired pizza
THE SAAMI BROTHERS - Sat, Sep 26th, 2026 at 7:00 pm $45
Hailing from Karachi, Pakistan, the Saami Family are the living custodians of one of the world’s
oldest and most powerful musical legacies. A Sufi dynasty with an unbroken lineage spanning
nearly 800 years, the family—led by Ustad Naseeruddin Saami—are master practitioners of two deeply spiritual and technically demanding traditions: Khayal and Qawwali.
Passed down solely through oral tradition, their vocal artistry embodies a rare level of mastery.
The Saami family uniquely blends the contemplative stillness of Khayal—rooted in breath,silence, and tone—with the ecstatic, rhythmic devotion of Qawwali. This expert juxtaposition creates performances that are both meditative and electrifying, offering a transcendent serenity found only in such profound command of form. Equally at home performing each tradition on its own or weaving them together in a single set, they are dynamic, genre-defying artists whose range continues to captivate audiences worldwide. Each performance is spontaneous, deeply felt, and entirely unique.
Ear, Voice, Heart: Learning Khayal with the Saami Brothers - workshop info here
Doaper Indonesian will be onsite serving Indonisian food * Halal options available.
Setting- Sat, Nov 7th, 2026 at 7:00 pm $15
with Wednesday Knudsen & Andris Ballins
Setting is Nathan Bowles (solo/trio, Pelt, Black Twig Pickers) on strings, keys, tapes, and percussion; Jaime Fennelly (Mind Over Mirrors, Peeesseye) on synthesizers and harmonium; and Joe Westerlund (solo, Califone, Sylvan Esso, Jake Xerxes Fussell) on drums, percussion, metallophones, and zither. After the release of their acclaimed 2023 debut L" Shone a Rainbow Light On' (Paradise of Bachelors), a record borne of performances in private rather than in public, Setting honed their group approach to improvisation and arrangement via a string of dates up and down both U.S. coasts.
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