$12 ADVANCE // $15 DAY OF SHOW
5PM DOORS // 8PM SHOWTIME
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Week #3 featuring:

Set 1 - Mirrorlands

Set 2 - Bryan Nichols, Bryan Murray, Abinnet Berhanu, Charlie Lincoln, Peter Goggin

BRYAN NICHOLS is our Monday Night Jazz Resident and Guest Curator for the month of September!

Bryan Nichols is a pianist, composer, and educator based in Minneapolis. Often found playing jazz and improvised music, but at home in a variety of musical worlds, he leads and composes for his own trio, quintet, and nonet in addition to performing, recording, and touring with forward-thinking artists like Nicole Mitchell, Ron Miles, and Donna Grantis, and groups like Dead Man Winter, Halloween, Alaska, and the Minnesota Orchestra. He is a recipient of a McKnight Fellowship for Performing Artists and a residency at the Kennedy Center for Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead program. Bryan has released two albums as a leader, an original solo piano work, Looking North, and a suite of originals for his quintet, Bright Places.

(( Set 2 )) : Bryan Nichols, Bryan Murray, Abinnet Berhanu, Charlie Lincoln, Peter Goggin

(( Set 1 )) : Mirrorlands:

Aida Shahghasemi - vocals, instruments
Davu Seru - drums, percussion
Jacqueline Ultan - cellos
Jeremy Ylvisaker - guitars

Mirrorlands is a collaboration between Aida Shahghasemi, Jacqueline Ultan, Jeremy Ylvisaker and Davu Seru as a frequent guest drummer. Jacqueline and Jeremy first performed together in the early ’90’s band Barb Cohen and Little Lizard, and the three came together creatively when Aida Shahghasemi, an Iranian singer-songwriter based in Minneapolis, was working on her debut album, Wind Between the Horse’s Ears, at the Terrarium recording studio in 2014. They have continued to create together since then. The music can be labeled “Persian Fusion” though the songs really take on a life of their own and don’t necessitate a pull in any national direction. So far, members have taken turns in anchoring the sound in some way while others find new ways of approaching the old. The sounds are easy, contemplative, spacious, and minimal but they also hit deep, dark, loud, and multi-layered states depending on the setting.