INDOOR SHOW

$12 COVER

6PM DOORS / 7:30PM SHOWTIME

ALL AGES

Paul Metzger + Krissy Bergmark:

Paul Metzger summons the spirits of his musical Appalachian forefathers, guitarist Django  Reinhardt and classical sitarist Nikhil Banerjee, among others, weaving a peerless, highly individualistic style that sounds unlike anyone but himself. Metzger’s playing  doesn’t imitate raga structures so much as use those modal figures as his starting point.  He employs dazzling, breviloquent string plucks on the main banjo strings, whilst  producing rhythmic, droning textures on the cross strings of an added bridge.

Krissy Bergmark is a tabla player, percussionist, composer, and educator. Bergmark  centers her creative work on bringing tabla to new genres and cross-genres through  composition and performance. She has received commissions and grants through the Cedar Commissions, the Jerome Foundation, the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council,  and the Minnesota State Arts Board for her tabla studies and compositions for tabla,  percussion, and strings. She attended the International Workshop in Jazz and Creative  Music at Banff Center for Arts and Creativity in 2018, and Silkroad Ensemble’s Global  Musician Workshop in 2016. She composes and performs with her progressive folk trio  Sprig of That, experimental duo Lo.mocean, and a variety of other artists in  Minneapolis, Saint Paul, Chicago, and New York. Krissy is a 2010 graduate of Northern  Illinois University and a 2012 graduate of the University of Minnesota. She is an Adjunct  Professor of Percussion at Gustavus Adolphus College. She studies tabla with Pandit  Yogesh Samsi. You can stay updated on her latest recordings, projects, and  performances via www.krissybergmark.com, Facebook, and Instagram.