OUTDOOR SHOW
$16 COVER
5PM DOORS / 7PM SHOWTIME
ALL AGES
*Outdoor shows may be moved indoors in the case of rain or extreme heat
Chama Devora (Crystal Myslajek & Liz Draper)
Crystal Myslajek is a multi-instrumentalist, performer, and composer, who blends looping, ethereal vocals, and effects with minimalist, post-classical, jazz, and pop forms. She is an avid collaborator across disciplines including experimental film, performance art, theater, and dance. Recent projects include, Stasis & Motion, a collaborative sound-film piece commissioned by the Walker Art Center; Circadia, an album released on Water Wing Records; a multimedia piece for the 2016 Red Eye Theater Isolated Acts commission; multimedia compositions commissioned by the Cedar Cultural Center’s 416 Club; collaborations with playwright Rachel Jendrzejewski and SuperGroup performance collaborative; and Reflectors, a collaborative music/film piece which she co-presented at the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival and the Eco Park Film Center in 2016, and at the MONO NO AWARE international film exhibition in Brooklyn, NY in 2015. Myslajek was vocalist and bass guitarist in Brute Heart. The trio was awarded City Pages’ 2012 Best Female Vocalist, featured in filmmaker Doug Aitken’s Station to Station project, and commissioned by the Walker Art Center to compose a score for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
LIZ DRAPER, classically and jazz-trained versatile bassist, has performed, recorded and/or toured internationally with such groups as the Grammy Award-winning Okee Dokee Brothers, Soul Asylum, Charlie Parr, The Rose Ensemble, Ben Weaver, Orkestar Bez Ime, and Davina and the Vagabonds. A professional musician since age 16, Liz has performed in an astonishing array of musical genres and ensembles, from jazz and classical to folk, metal, improvisational, experimental, Balkan, and chamber strings. Liz holds a Bachelor of Music in Double Bass Performance from the University of Minnesota and has studied at The School For Improvised Music in Brooklyn, New York. She was awarded a 2019 fellowship through Giant Steps Music Action Women, a partnership with the University of San Francisco.
Cody McKinney:
Cody McKinney is a composer, bassist, and sound artist living in Minneapolis. For the past 4 years, along with electronicmusician John Keston, McKinney has performed and curated sound/simulacra, a monthly experimental music series promoting free improvisation and collaboration between artists of differing disciplines
Chris Bates:
Chris Bates is a bassist of formidable talent. Having worked professionally for 25 years across all spectrums of the musical landscape he continues to be a driving force in the Minnesota music scene.
Broken Caterpillar: Dan Rein (Iranian Dutar &Setar) Chris Gray (percussion)
Broken Caterpillar: Improvisations for Iranian setar and percussion. A collaboration with Dan Rein and Chris Gray.
Dan has been playing solo traditional Iranian music for many years. Much of the music has no meter.
Chris has played percussion with numerous groups throughout the region.
Through playing together monthly at Ganhdi Mahal Restaurant, they found a way of connecting.
Chris has a way playing the silences, the spaces, whether there was rhythm or not.
Dan threw out the traditional Iranian rule book.
They plugged in.
Broken Caterpillar was born.
We listen, and respond.
Transformations take place.
Who knows what will metamorphosize...