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The Parson Sisters
September 14thNight 3 - Lauren Ruth Ward, Kevin Herig & Willajay
September 14thNight 4 - The Free Label & Zinadelphia
September 15thAlejandro Brittes
September 20thExtravaganza on Museum Hill
September 21stJoe Boyd
September 24thJoe Boyd
September 25thMaryna Krut
September 27thMaryna Krut
September 28th3 On A Match Kabarett
September 28thMaryna Krut
September 29thAl Di Meola
October 2ndThe Tannahill Weavers
October 3rdThird World
October 3rdThe Bones of JR Jones
October 10thMasters of Hawaiian Music
October 11thMasters of Hawaiian Music
October 12thBuckethead - SOLD OUT!
October 12thBuckethead - Second Night!
October 13thPeter Bradley Adams
October 16thPeter Bradley Adams
October 17thIndigenous Heritage Celebration featuring Innastate
October 19thHataałii
October 23rdKassa Overall
October 26thKassa Overall and The Boomroots Collective
October 27thCimafunk
October 30thCoco Montoya
November 2ndArkansauce
November 7thInnastate
November 9thThe Real Matt Jones
November 14thZoë Keating
November 15thKristina Jacobsen
November 17thTopHouse
November 21stCheryl Wheeler with Kenny White
December 4thCheryl Wheeler with Kenny White
December 5thIris DeMent
December 5thLaurianne Fiorentino & Michael Kott
December 11thLaurianne Fiorentino & Michael Kott
December 11thKalos
January 15thKalos
January 16thJesse Cook
February 2ndJesse Cook
February 3rdSadness, Madness, & Mayhem
March 1stAltan
March 12thLúnasa
March 18thKassa Overall
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Kassa Overall is a Grammy-nominated musician, emcee, singer, producer and drummer who melds avant-garde experimentation with hip-hop production techniques to tilt the nexus of jazz and rap in unmapped directions. He previously released four critically acclaimed projects: I THINK I'M GOOD, Go Get Ice Cream and Listen to Jazz, Shades of Flu and Shades of Flu 2.
On Animals, his Warp Records debut, Kassa pushes his kaleidoscopic, subversive vision further. He layers Roland 808s against avant-garde drumming in the vein of his mentors Elvin Jones and Billy Hart, the latter of whom he studied with at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Virtuoso musos appear alongside rap poets, including Danny Brown, Wiki, Lil B, and Shabazz Palaces. Top-flight jazz improvisation weaves in and out of orchestral string arrangements by Jherek Bischoff. The album's diverse, all-star roster of collaborators includes several of his close friends, like vocalists Nick Hakim, Laura Mvula, Francis and the Lights, and jazz stars like Theo Croker and Vijay Iyer.
Animals pushes Kassa's message further too, the title a loaded metaphor for the paradoxes of his life as an entertainer and as a black man in America. Animals is the sound of an artist aware of the cost of embodying one's natural self in the public eye, a deep reckoning with the two-sided truth that to perform one's freedom for an audience can mean succumbing to life inside a cage.