6PM DOORS — FULL FOOD & BEVERAGE MENU AVAILABLE AT YOUR TABLE

8PM SHOWTIME
$12 ADVANCE // $15 DAY OF SHOW

1st Set: 

PRIME MINISTER

2nd Set:

OMAR ABDULKARIM

Minneapolis native Omar Abdulkarim has been playing trumpet since he was 14 months old, learning from his father, Ahmed Abdulkarim.  He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Performance from the renowned New School for Jazz and Contempory Music. He has performed around the world with various groups at the Haitian Jazz Festival, Switzerland at Marian’s Jazz Room, at the top clubs in New York including the Blue Note, Smalls, and Birdland. He has performed and worked with Roy Hargrove, Redman, Method Man, KRS-ONE, Talib Kweli, Lauren Hill, Nicholas Payton’s television studio orchestra, Jose James, and Valerie Ponomarev Big Band to name a few. His quintet held a year-long residency performing at New York’s prestigious Standard Hotel playing 5 nights a week in the Boom Boom Room. He has also performed in the orchestra and jazz quartet on the largest cruise ship in the world “The Oasis of the Seas”. He is currently leading his group in the Twin Cities area.

Prime Minister is the coming together of Kavyesh Kaviraj, Theodore Harris and Kenneth Watson Jr to create a modern, futuristic jazz fusion project. Prime Minister blends jazz, gospel, funk and neo-soul seamlessly, and collectively they bring to the table every influence that they derive their musical creativity from. Prime Minister has been described as “Thundercat meets Snarky Puppy”, and draws influences from acts like Robert Glasper, Justin Brown and Nyeusi, and Marcus Miller. They met at the McNally Smith College of Music in 2016, as fledgling artists, and as they have individually gone on to individual musical success, they each hold this project dear as a representation of their musical worlds colliding, and a dream of manifesting a new sound. Between the three of them, Prime Minister covers a vast range of musical style and genre, and are excited to be part of the Twin Cities music scene.

KAVYESH KAVIRAJ is our Monday Night Jazz Resident and Guest Curator for the month of February!

Kavyesh Kaviraj is a Minneapolis- based pianist, composer and arranger from India. His versatility and experience working in various styles and genres of music makes him a valuable addition to any band. Kavyesh is a skilled and sought-after composer who brings every musical influence in his life to his original music; rooted in jazz, yet encompassing not-so closely related worlds in a unique, and boundary-breaking, magnetic persona.