with special guests SOUBRETTE and JIJA

$15 ADVANCE / $20 DAY OF SHOW

9:30PM DOORS / 10PM SHOWTIME

21+

FPA is the project of Frances Priya Anczarski, the multifaceted artist and musician from Minneapolis set to release her debut album for 37d03d, Princess Wiko. Written and recorded mainly in her bedroom over quarantine, the album introduces the work of a master daydreamer. Princess Wiko showcases Anczarski’s beautifully evocative voice and deep well of philosophical curiosity, and takes shape through detailed instrumentation and cinematic landscapes—all infused with elements of R&B, spoken word, hip hop, and folk traditions.

Though Anczarski was born in Minneapolis to a Nigerian mother and Polish father, the idea of Princess Wiko finds its origins in Paris, where she spent six formative years on her own studying music and philosophy. “It was a really influential experience because I was surrounded by talented musicians at the time, and constantly learning new things—from the electronic and house show scene in particular,” she recalls. While her influences range from Nietzsche to Billie Holiday, and Dostoevsky to Max Richter, it is Anczarski’s musical and emotional intuition that informs the shape and color of her art. Like her Minneapolis peers Lizzo and Dua Saleh, no vocal style nor instrumentation is off limits; like Sudan Archives, a slow beauty emerges from her music. The narrative ambiguity and emotional force of her work shares a thread with all great art: no matter what specific topic the project is about, its mystical appeal transcends and becomes personal, making it entirely possible that every listener will see Princess Wiko in a different light.

“My hope is that this record makes people feel something,” she says. “And maybe, in some way, relate to the Princess of Wiko as more than just a fictional character.” While this is not her first release, Princess Wiko feels like an early chapter of an epic novel still being written by FPA.

Soubrette’s music swirls operatic references with childish collage, apathy with cabaret kitsch, somatic pulse with anti-beat, pure with dirty. Her muses flirt on the surface in bikinis then free dive into the deep, mining dreams and braving history where it lurks, Nelle June Anderson’s genre-sovereign voice leading the way. 

Soubrette is an opera singer's avant-pop rebellion. After studying voice at Bard College and Oberlin Conservatory’s training program in Italy, Anderson performed with the Gilbert and Sullivan Very Light Opera Company and toured as a soloist with the Bach Society of Minnesota and Montréal's Ensemble Caprice. In 2020, her music video for original song “Can I Wait,” co-directed and animated by Matt Semke, was featured on Minnesota Public Radio’s The Current “Friday Five” with videos from Dua Saleh and Jeremy Messersmith.

Soubrette was born in residency at the Center for Performing Arts in Minneapolis in 2018, where Anderson made experimental-pop arrangements of Bellini, Poulenc, and Debussy pieces for piano, loop pedal, and voice.

A gifted pianist from childhood and a hungry academic steeped in spiritual esoterica, Anderson’s captivating presence and mysterious musical philosophy shine in contexts as disparate as musical theater, pop covers, and glossolalia poetry—all of which come out to play as Soubrette. 

JIJA Canjero (aka JIJA) is a singer-songwriter born and raised in Minneapolis. As a first-gen Somali musician, JIJA stands as an anomaly. She recounts painful introversion in her youth but a mind that was expansive, curious, and eager to experience the chaos that is life. In her recent years JIJA has made music, storytelling and alter egoic escapes an artform. JIJA takes influence from global neo-soul, pop, hip hop, and r&b rhythms. JIJA commands listeners with uninhibited lyrics, detailing rocky relationships, self-destruction, and an arise from the ashes type of self-love (journey). JIJA captivates the modern ear.

In her debut project, JIJA's raspy melodies bolster her tales of naivete, aggression, and control (or lack thereof...). Jija's wordplay and fervent storytelling prove there is more than meets the eye. With the help of artist & producer Ness Nite's dreamy synths and bass-heavy beats, JIJA stamps her place in the alternative r&b landscape. JIJA plans to release her debut EP "SIREN" spring of 2022. The sultry sounds will transport audiences through the tales of her evolutionary journey in love, loss, doubt, and womanhood.