Comprised of King on percussion, New York-based artist Chris Speed as reedist and Happy Apple’s Erik Fratzke on guitar, King says the group sounds as “if the great Nashville bands of the '60s and '70s could improvise and were Coltrane fanatics.”

Andrew Broder with George Cartwright
Multi-instrumentalist Andrew Broder began making eccentric turntablist music as Fog and hooked up with the British label Ninja Tune. Born in Minneapolis, MN, where he continued to reside, Broder turned to music as an escape from the outside world. He confined himself to his basement and learned several instruments while simultaneously taking an interest in the escapist aspects of hip-hop.

Second set: Andrew Broder (turntable) with George Cartwright (saxophones)

JOAN GRIFFITH and CLEA GALHANO
Joan Griffith is known in the Midwest as a teacher, performer and composer. She has toured and recorded extensively as a classical and jazz guitarist, a bassist and a mandolinist. Her jazz CD, Enter You, Enter Love, featuring many of her own compositions, was chosen as one of the top ten best recordings for 1996 by KBEM. Her choral composition Sweet Noel won the 1998 Christmas Carol Contest sponsored by the American Composers Forum and the Plymouth Music Series.

Brazilian recorder player Clea Galhano is an Internationally-renowned performer of early, contemporary and Brazilian music. Galhano has performed in the United States, Canada, South America and Europe as a chamber musician. As a featured soloist, Galhano has worked with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra conducted by Christopher Hogwood, Nicholas McGegan and Emmanuelle Haim, World Symphony, Milwaukee Baroque and Lyra Baroque Orchestra.

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Douglas Ewart
Perhaps best known as a composer, improviser, sculptor and maker of masks and instruments, Douglas R. Ewart is also an educator, lecturer, arts organization consultant and all around visionary. In projects done in diverse media throughout an award-winning and widely-acclaimed 40-year career, Mr. Ewart has woven his remarkably broad gifts into a single sensibility that encourages and celebrates--as an antidote to the divisions and compartmentalization afflicting modern life-the wholeness of individuals in culturally active communities.

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MIRA & TOM KEHOE with KEVIN DALEY
Multi-instrumentalists Mira and Tom Kehoe met in New York City. Since the mid-1980's they have been teaching and performing throughout the United States and Brazil from intimate clubs to concert stages in a collaboration which includes jazz, world music, original compositions, theater and movement. They are a creative and versatile duo, playing and improvising in a broad range of styles. Kevin Daley, jazz guitarist, has been playing with Mira & Tom for almost 20 years. Currently on the faculty of McNally-Smith College of Music in St. Paul, MN, he is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music and author of a series of instructional books for the guitar published by the Neil A. KJOS Music Company. Awards include the West Bank School of Music Jazz Composer award, and the Minnesota Music Awards best jazz-fusion guitarist. As a freelance guitarist, Kevin has worked in a variety of styles ranging from Broadway shows at the Ordway to performances with the New Music Theatre Ensemble and Zeitgeist, including a variety of jazz and pop groups.

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Jelloslave
(Jacqueline Ultan, Michelle Kinney, Carnage the Executioner and Gary Waryan)
Jelloslave, which originally formed as a duo in 2003 by cellists Jacqueline Ultan and Michelle Kinney, has since become an established quartet with the addition of drummer Greg Schutte and Gary Waryan on tablas. Known for their dynamic improvisational compositions, the foursome pours heart and soul into an eclectic original repertoire ranging from mesmerizing fusions of jazz, Afro-Caribbean, Middle Eastern and Indian rhythms, to surprising pop music interpretations. Jelloslave's two critically acclaimed CD's, Touch It, released in 2006, and Purple Orange, released in April 2010 feature original compositions by cellists Michelle Kinney and Jacqueline Ultan, as well as arrangements of compositions by other artists such as Leonard Cohen and Astor Piazolla. Jelloslave has been a featured act at some of the Twin Cities most prominent festivals and venues, including St. Paul's Concrete and Grass and Sur Seine Festivals, The Northrop Summer Music Series, Macy's Day of Music, Mill City Live Summer Concert Series, Walker Art Center, Cedar Cultural Center, Southern Theater, and many more.

Carnage the Executioner, beat boxing: Carnage The Executioner is widely recognized for his mind-numbing lyrical dexterity, boundless energy on stage, and uncanny ability to compose musical symphonies with his mouth through beat boxing. His unwavering work ethic and kind heart have earned him the respect of many of independent & commercial music's most reputable artists. He teaches both private and group beatboxing lessons in community and school settings, extensively covering the fundamentals of beatboxing while adding in components of basic rhyme/rap-writing structure.

Gary Waryan, tablas: Gary Waryan has studied and played tablas for over 30 years. His focus is on the lighter folk rhythms of India. His East meets West approach to his classical tabla training puts him in demand among several prominent Twin Cities artists.

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J. Otis Powell! with Steve Hirsh
J. Otis Powell! - Writer, performance artist, mentor, curator, consultant, Open Space Technology facilitator and arts administrator. J. Otis was a founding producer of Write On Radio! while working at The Loft Literary Center. He has received: Loft Creative Nonfiction Award, Jerome Mid Career Artists Grants, Jerome Travel and Study Grant and Intermedia Arts’ Interdisciplinary McKnight Fellowship. In 2009 the MN Spoken Word Association awarded Mr. Powell! their Urban Griot Innovator Award and inducted him into the MN Spoken Word Association’s Hall Of Fame. Powell! is also a founding curator for Bridges - a performance arts program with Pangea World Theater. His poetry, essays and articles have appeared in two books of his original work: THEOLOGY (Traffic Street Press) and My Tongue Has No Bone (Porter Publishing) and numerous anthologies, newspapers and magazines. His writing was included recently in: Barefoot In The Mountains, Views From The Loft and his work will be featured in an upcoming anthology of poems from Downstairs Press. As of this biography he was recording a new CD project titled BALM! with TruRuts/Speak Easy Records.

Originally from N.Y.C., Steve Hirsh has made his home in Minnesota for 20 years and now lives in St. Paul. He has collaborated with J. Otis Powell! on several projects, including in the multi-disciplinary performance group the Ways Ensemble. He has played with Jim Ryan's Forward Energy, and with his own quartet, Black Ice. He received an Individual Artist Grant from the Region 2 Arts Board, which supported a recording of Black Ice. He is currently at work on a new collaboration with J. Otis that aims to integrate music, dance, spoken word and visual art into a cohesive, spontaneously creating band.

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Grant Hart
Grant Hart is best known as the drummer and co-songwriter for the influential alternative rock and hardcore punk band Hüsker Dü. After the band's breakup in 1987, Hart formed the alternative rock trio Nova Mob, where he moved to vocals and guitar. Hart's solo career became his main focus after the dissolution of Nova Mob in 1997.
As the co-songwriter of Hüsker Dü, Hart's songs (such as "The Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill" and "Turn On The News") received praise from critics and contemporaries. Hart's vocal style, in contrast to that of Hüsker Dü-bandmate Bob Mould, was a more measured and melodical delivery. His choice of lyrical themes, which included teenage alienation in "Standing By The Sea" and the depiction of a murder in "Diane," helped to expand the subject matter of hardcore punk.

Mankwe
Mankwe Ndosi (MN/IL) is a songmaker, an educator and a cultural strategist focused on sound, story, structure and expanding our vocabularies. She collaborates with organizers, musicians, gardeners, dancers, MC's, visual artists, and creative producers of all kinds.

If the Native people had it almost right - so close to "an eternally inehaustible earth and a forever lasting peace" how can this (our current society) be progress?

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