$12 ADVANCE // $15 DAY OF SHOW
6PM DOORS // 8PM SHOWTIME

What’s that Sound? is the first edition of a Twin Cities music series (Mondays in November) co-curated by Ivan and Chris Cunningham. It is a multi-generational, multi-genre musical feast provided by some of our community’s most fearless, accomplished, and non-traditional improvisers, composers, and musicians. Icehouse has been the most progressive and important area music venue for many years— and players, listeners, eaters, and revelers all know why. Come listen.

1st Set: 

Freaque: What's that Smell?

2nd Set:

Duo w/ Tarek Abdelqader: drums, keyboards, electronics // Joe Strachan: keyboards

CHRIS & IVAN CUNNINGHAM are our Monday Night Jazz Residents and Guest Curators for the month of November!

Over a career stretching all the way from the Pleistocene era, Chris Cunningham has collaborated on stages and in studios with Marianne Faithfull, The Contortions, John Lurie, Jeff Buckley, Haiti’s Boukman Eksperyans, Turkey’s Omar Farouk, Ireland’s Katell Keineg and Gavin Friday, Anton Fier, John Zorn, Marshall Crenshaw, Joan Osborne, John Medeski, Richie Havens, and many others. He has released two critically acclaimed solo albums, and his Twin Cities groups include Superbus Maximus (currently), Fall of the House of Usher, Mississippi Peace, Coloring Time, Improvestra, Improvised Explosive Device, to name just a few. His main repository of recorded musical content is at fothou.com, and he dutifully serves the people as a professor and confessor of Sound Arts at Minneapolis College.

Ivan Cunningham is Minneapolis based composer, performer, and band-leader. Ivan performs with Mr Zipp, Freaque, the Charlie Lincoln Quartet, and Superbus Maximus. Ivan leads the Ivan Cunningham Quintet, and will soon be releasing and album of his own compositions featuring musicians from many different corners of the Twin Cities music scene. You may find him in a corner himself, sulking, waiting for something to happen. Usually nothing does, but he waits anyway. Time is running out, however.

Tarek Abdelqader is a Saint Paul-based multi-instrumentalist and composer. He performs and records with artists local, national, and international. Abdelqader works as an accompanist at schools and dance companies throughout the Metro, including the Barbara Barker Center for Dance, Ananya Dance Theater, and Limón Dance Company.

Freaque comes together in a brand new iteration to experiment with some Tom Waits songs and some Boggy stories that Freaque is finding as it pushes further into the Muck of old. With Ivan Cunningham on sax, Marvelous Leonardoon keys, Tarek Abdelqader on drums and other special guests, they invite you to join them in the search for what hides in the Muck.