free! Doors at 6:30, music at 7.

community/peace/motion is a concert of new music for solo piano, performed by pianist and composer patrick flannery, connected by themes of collective memory, remembrance, and continuous motion towards a strong, equitable community here in baltimore. this program is deeply inspired by and indebted to the work done by the baltimore peace movement. the program will consist of works from judah adashi and aaron reising, alongside world premieres from phil thompson and patrick flannery.

Prehistoric Percussion is a new Baltimore city-based performing collective unified by the primal human drive for rhythm. We are inspired by the drum beat that connects all of humanity, and seek out music with rhythmic drive and personality. We hope to connect audiences to their childlike love of rhythm and drumming and share the visual, visceral thrill of virtuosic percussion performance, as we share music across the traditions we play.

Join us for our first-ever contemporary percussion performance, with energetic percussion duets, lyrical marimba solos, and groove! This performance will feature Ailee Morrison, Braeden Devnew, Brett Sellers, and Sage Nielson.

Program excerpts

Plato’s Cave by Casey Cangelosi

Etude in E Minor by Pius Cheung

As One by Gene Koshinski

Time by Minoru Miki

Renfro by Mark Ford and Paul Rennick

Skeleton Key by Brian Nozny

photo by Heike Liss

Multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser Fred Frith has been making noise of one kind or another for more than 50 years, starting with the rock collective Henry Cow, which he co-founded with Tim Hodgkinson in 1968. 

Fred is best known as a pioneering electric guitarist and improviser, song-writer, and composer for film, dance and theater. Through bands like Art Bears, Massacre, Skeleton Crew, the Fred Frith Guitar Quartet, Cosa Brava, and now Fremakajo he has stayed close to his roots in rock and folk music while branching out in many other directions. 

His compositions have been performed by ensembles ranging from Eclipse Quartet and the Bang on a Can All Stars to Concerto Köln and Galax Quartet, from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra to the ROVA and Arte Sax Quartets, from Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and Ground Zero to the Glasgow Improvisers’ Orchestra. 

Film music credits include the acclaimed documentaries Rivers and Tides, Leaning into the Wind, and Tracing Light, directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer; The Tango Lesson, Yes and The Party by Sally Potter; Middle of the Moment by Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel; as well as Penzel’s Zen for Nothing, Peter Mettler’s Gods, Gambling and LSD, and the award-winning (and Oscar-nominated) Last Day of Freedom, by Nomi Talisman and Dee Hibbert-Jones. 

Composing for dance throughout his long career, Fred has worked with Rosalind Newman and Bebe Miller in New York, François Verret and Catherine Diverrès in France, and Amanda Miller and the Pretty Ugly Dance Company over the course of many years in Germany, as well as composing for two documentary films on the work of Anna Halprin. 

Theater credits include François Chat’s Setaccio and François-Michel Pesenti’s Théâtre du Point Aveugle in Marseille, where he spent six months in 1990 working with “jeunes rockers en chômage des quartiers défavorisés” on the opera Helter Skelter. 

Fred has performed works by and sometimes alongside composers John Luther Adams, Gavin Bryars, Sylvie Courvoisier, Alvin Curran, George Lewis, Annea Lockwood, René Lussier, Jose Maceda, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, and Christian Wolff; improvised with Lotte Anker, Derek Bailey, Han Bennink, Peter Brötzmann, Lol Coxhill, Janet Feder, gabby fluke-mogul, Tim Hodgkinson, Joëlle Léandre, Phil Minton, Ikue Mori, Butch Morris, Bob Ostertag, Evan Parker, Zeena Parkins, Paula Sanchez, Susana Santos Silva and Camel Zekri, to name a few; collaborated with classical virtuosi Evelyn Glennie, Katia Labèque, Viktoria Mullova, and Werner Bärtschi; and—as session musician—recorded on albums by, for example, Brian Eno, The Residents, Robert Wyatt, The Swans, Violent Femmes, Material, Negativland, John Zorn, Matthew and the Unfortunates, and Half Japanese. 

He is currently performing solo and with Normal (home-made instrument duo with Sudhu Tewari), Frelonia (with Lotte Anker and Núria Andorrà), Fremakajo (with Marie Abe, Kasey Knudsen and Jordan Glenn)as well as in countless combinations of his favorite co-conspirators. 

The recipient of Italy’s Demetrio Stratos Prize for his life’s work in experimental music and an honorary doctorate from the University of Huddersfield in his home county of Yorkshire, Fred taught for twenty years at the legendary epicenter of American experimental music, Mills College in Oakland, California; as well as co-directing (with Alfred Zimmerlin) the improvisation master’s program at the Musik Akademie in Basel, Switzerland. He is the subject of Nicolas Humbert and Werner Penzel’s much loved Step Across the Border, cited by Cahiers du Cinéma as one of the 20th century’s hundred most influential films. 

Opening sets from local luminaries Bonnie Lander & John Dierker and Liz Meredith & Timothy Wisniewski!

This concert will take place in the Sunday Room at 2640 Space, therefore seating will be limited so get your tickets in advance here:

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$22 in advance

$30 at the door

Kyle Flens presents percussion works by Chicago composers. The program features a new composition for snare drum and shadow movements by Darlene Castro.

$10 at the door

Program:
Bloom Balloon by Ayanna Woods
Songs from the Barstool by Adam D. O'Dell
Eeltwo by Roscoe Mitchell, arr. by Kyle Flens
Hearing Lips, Seeing Voices by Darlene Castro
Parkland by Marc Mellits

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This concert will feature music by Baltimore composer Will Redman, performed by twelve of this city’s most creative improvising chamber musicians. Although Will’s music does not necessarily involve free improvisation, his hand-drawn graphic scores are well suited to musicians who think like improvisers. The composer is presenting this concert partly as a 20th birthday celebration of his 98-page graphic score Book, but also as a way to bring together a group of musical friends who have been meaningful to his life and work in Baltimore.

Will Redman is a composer, percussionist, and educator based in Baltimore, MD. He is a minimal maximalist who embraces functional mistakes in both his notated and improvised music. Much of Will’s music features hand-drawn unsystematic notation that invites the performer to solve their own questions of interpretation. His music has appeared in books on modern music, such as Notations 21 (cover image), Music After the Fall, and A Semiotic Approach to Open Notations, as well as music and poetry journals, doctoral theses, and grade school arts textbooks in Brazil and Lithuania. Will’s notation has been used for t-shirts, posters, album covers, synthesizer faceplates, tattoos, and as public art on the facade of the Conservatoire à rayonnement départemental Paris-Saclay. He plays in Microkingdom, The Compositions, and Umbilicus, and teaches music technology and composition at Towson University.

www.willredman.com

willredman.bandcamp.com

sensitivedocuments.bandcamp.com

The program:

Scar Not, O Crises (2019)

Ruth Lacey - piano

Ian Hoke - guitar/flute

Scroll (2010)

Sam Burt - clarinets

Rose Burt - baritone sax

Sarah Manley - trombone

Five Pieces for John Dierker (2013)

John Dierker - bass clarinet

Ida Dierker - piano

One Thousand One Plateaus (2026)

Shelly Purdy -  vibraphone/percussion

-Intermission-

Compound Model Groups (2017)

Ruby Fulton - violin

Liz Meredith - viola

Daniel Lin - cello

Robin Rhodes - bass

Lee (2026)

full ensemble

Book (2006)

full ensemble

Lead Mask (Zack Rowden, Rex Morris) (CT)

Midnight Sun

Obie Feldi

$15 at the door

Doors at 7, music at 8

Learn about current conditions on the island from recent May Day Brigade member Barae Hirsch and La Red Afrocubana Trans (Black Trans Support Network in Cuba)

Hear directly from local anti-imperilaist groups!

tickets @ door $10-25

Draft X S.1 is the first iteration of a recurring series that hosts performance opportunities for dance and movement artists in Baltimore. Artists from across the city submit works that they are resurrecting, currently developing, or that have just been ideated and present them in front of an audience (for the first or nth time). After the performances there is opportunity to talk with the artists and be in discussion about the works, their processes, and what might be next. This is a community centered performance that seeks to build more engagement and opportunity for dance and movement artists living and working in Baltimore. Come be part of the process (and maybe dance a little too)!

featuring performance & work by Baltimore Artists:

Jade Mong & Jesse J

Zoë Brielle Payne

Julia Beros

Nalani Brown

Ray Phillips

Bao Nguyen

Nicolette Le Faye

Ellie Wong

Keveda

Live dance performance & post show talkback with the artists

$15 at the door

Caroline Jesalva

My work concentrates on sound, composition, installation art, experimental and poetic forms. I love bringing music to unconventional spaces and collaborating across disciplines and artistic mediums. I have been very fortunate to have an amazing community of collaborators that includes composers, dancers, film-makers, visual artists, activists, poets, rappers, and puppeteers. I like to write poetry and plays about self-identification, anger, heritage, surrealism, and ritual.

Bearduo

Bearduo is a saxophone duo consisting of Aaron Kaufman-Levine on Alto Saxophone and Garrett Frees on Tenor Saxophone. Dear friends and collaborators since 2015, Aaron and Garrett started improvising together as a duo in their first semester together at New England Conservatory (Fall 2019). What began as a fun practice routine became a daily rehearsing group that vowed to push each other and themselves to find their own way to approach improvised music on the saxophone. Bearduo brings a unique and spontaneous creation to each performance that reflects their shared musical language and deep connection. Their first self-titled record Bearduo released in July 2025 with a focus on long form improvisation, scale and interaction between the two performers.

Charlie Reichert Powell & New River

Charlie Reichert Powell, based in Baltimore, is an artist interested in sound and structure; the guitar and computer; the spectrum between improvisation and composition; tactility, connections, movement, and spaces. His first album with his group New River, I Am Return To Where, explores recontextualization and repetition and came out on Shinyboy Press in 2024. This iteration of New River features Sam Pluta on electronics, Nico Wohl on guitar, and Mike Kuhl on drums.  

Tickets at door – $25

Bill Chamberlain (aka Bill Pist) passed away in July 2025. He was a relentless force behind countless political punk bands, including The Pist, Mankind?, React, Caustic Christ, Behind Enemy Lines, The Dissidents, The Brood, and many more. Beginning in the early 90s, Bill’s uncompromising activism, DIY ethic, and anti-authoritarian message helped shape Baltimore’s punk scene. We come together to honor his life, his legacy, and the lasting impact he had on generations of punks who were inspired by his message that punk is not just music - its a movement, a community, and a unifying force against oppression.

For more info contact blackenedchaos@gmail.com.

$10-15 at the door.

Nx10 is a music concert where a number of artists perform for around ten minutes each.

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Screening followed by Q&A with the director Alissa Figueroa, Tawanda Jones and Jill Carter. Donations support the West Coalition’s exhibit at The Peale.

Tickets - $20-35

An innovative choral concert where classical, jazz, and electronic music unite in a collaboration between DUALIS and composer Nasir Scott.

AS IF WE MEAN IT

Words carry great power, along with our choice of how and when to use them. This concert explores the ideas of expression, authenticity, and honesty in a musical context. We will be joined by pianist and composer Nasir Scott, who writes Romantic-inspired music with a twenty-first century spin. The concert will feature two world premieres, one by Kevin Crouch and another by Nasir Scott, along with a variety of classical, jazz, and electronic works. We are happy to return to the amazing 2640 Space for this concert. The concert starts at 7pm preceded by a pre-concert talk with artistic director Kevin Crouch at 6:30pm. Doors open at 6:15pm.

A free concert by violinist Keith Colon, Jr. with accompaniment by Junghoon Park and Jordan Colquitt, featuring the music of Amy Beach, Arthur Foote, Florence Price, and more.

Violinist Keith Colon began studies at age 12 in the Maryland public school system and continued violin studies with Cleveland Chandler.  He performed for four years with the Drexel University Symphony Orchestra and Drexel University chamber strings.   He has attended the Summertrios chamber music festival for several seasons and been invited to perform at the festival as an intern, and now serves as Assistant Artistic Director.

Sam Pluta, feedback televisions

Robert Karpay, cello

Shelly Purdy, vibraphone

Sam Pluta will be performing his feedback televisions, a neural net controlled system which amplifies the internal electronics of vintage tube televisions and feeds them back into the televisions as visuals. Robert Karpay will perform amplified/distorted cello and Shelly Purdy vibraphone with various junk.

On his first two releases as a leader, bassist/composer Shawn Lovato revealed the wide-lens ambition of his compositional voice. His 2017 debut, Cycles of Animation (Skirl), featured an invigorating set of music for quintet that blurred the lines between jazz, chamber music and punk rock. He followed that in 2022 with the even more intricate Microcosms, a suite commissioned by new music ensemble Hotel Elefant that paired that group’s members with a slate of intrepid improvisers.

Lovato scales down his ensemble but not his imaginative scope for his third album, Biotic. Set for release on February 13, 2026 via Endectomorph, Biotic debuts a new trio with Lovato, tenor saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock and drummer Henry Mermer. While the pared-down context intersects with the legacy of the chordless tenor trio, Lovato reimagines the group as a vehicle for spacious yet rigorous compositions, laser-focused improvisation, and a visceral romanticism born of his formative love of the impassioned fervor of punk rock.

$15-25 at the door – no one turned away for lack of funds

Based in Philadelphia, Noa Even (saxophone) and Anika Kildegaard (voice) are AUDRA, a new duo exploring the dynamic interplay and sonic intersections between soprano voice and saxophone. This will be their first show in Baltimore.

WACO MAMMOTH is a trio of sweet shadows who play very low, semi-composed sounds. Rohan Pathare (electric bass and video), Robin Rhodes (upright bass), and James Young (electric bassoon) enjoy making music that ghosts yearn to hear and that lonely frigates play while sailing the arctic circle.

joined by VELVET ZOMBIE

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Featuring:

JB Aris - host, poet, musician, sorceress  

Dan Klingsberg + Jonathan Vocke - old time music duo on fiddle & banjo

Sylvia Jones - poet

Valeska Populoh + Marian McLaughlin - crankie storytelling  

Daoure Diongue - saxophonist, composer & multi‑instrumentalist

Albert Bagman -  diy freak folk pop musician

A++ comedy

Mind on Fire partners with Pique Collective to premiere a new work by Jeremy Lyons: PROCEDURES (for flute, guitar, cello, and video)

Procedures is a composition in three movements. Procedures change subtly over time through aural processes. Procedures create an environment that can feel calming or even hypnotic. But only after time do you realize how the Procedures have changed.

Video artists Sara Dittrich and SV Randall have created a video to accompany the Procedures.

Black Cherry Puppet Theatre supports Procedures with mysterious processes of their own devising.

featuring new experimental films by Baltimore locals

Doors 7:30 / Show 8:30 PM

GREG HATEM

TIM SHEARER

SYDNEY SMITH

BRAN WINKLER

‘ALFIE MARSLAND

BRENTON LIM

JIMMY JOE ROCHE

WILL SCHORRE

LUS QUERAL

ALLEN MOORE

CAT MORRIS JONES

MATT SULLIVAN

AMY ODEN

MATT BARRY

CHARLIE KNOTT

Presented by Baltimore Faerie Festival!

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Come to dance, come to laugh, come to mingle with those of other races: Elves, Mermaids, Faeries, Gnomes... Goblins, Orcs and Trolls are all invited... to dance into the night. Shop our craft vendors!

Dance on the original wooden floors, to THREE live dance bands! 2 Fairy Courts. We have just added a few Family Tickets at a GREATLY reduced price, good from 6-830pm, so you can bring your kids out to meet the faeries and then get them into bed before we can take them back to faerieland at the end of the evening....

a night of percussion ensemble music

Matchstick Percussion is a Maryland-based percussion quartet dedicated to new music, equity, and expanding the percussion repertoire. Through performance and education, they advocate for underrepresented artists and greater accessibility in the field.

Over the past seven years, Matchstick Percussion has presented more than 40 concerts at venues such as the Phillips Collection, the Kennedy Center, the Hirschhorn Museum, numerous universities across the east coast, and internationally at the Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival in Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Matchstick has collaborated with groups including 21st Century Consort, Sō Percussion, Open Music, and Folx Percussion. Dedicated to commissioning and recording new works, they have commissioned, premiered, and recorded over a dozen new pieces for percussion quartet.

Matchstick Percussion’s newest project is a series of commissions titled Strike Anywhere. This initiative aims to expand the accessibility of the percussion repertoire by restricting composers to write for portable, common instruments and found objects. Through this new repertoire, they hope to reach new audiences by removing the limiting factors in choice of venue, as well as inspire audiences and expand their idea of what percussion music can be.

In addition to performing, Matchstick Percussion regularly provides masterclasses to students of all ages from elementary schools to universities. These events are intended to expose students to a wide variety of percussion chamber music and provide them an opportunity to learn more about music entrepreneurship, chamber music skills, and transitioning to the professional world

Matchstick Percussion proudly endorses Yamaha, Zildjian, Vic Firth, and Black Swamp

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An evening of contemporary Indian classical music

Piano + mrudangam

Utsav Lal, often known as ‘Raga Pianist’ has set a precedent with his innovative handling of Indian Classical music.  the world with his innovative handling of Indian Classical Music on a Western instrument, The Irish Times describes Utsav Lal as “a fleet-fingered performer whose best moments can be both highly evocative and dazzling.” Lal’s ground-breaking work has garnered an impressive career spanning two decades, with solo performances at world famous venues like Carnegie Hall (New York), Southbank Centre (London), Kennedy Center (Washington DC), Steinway Hall (New York), Asia Society (Hong Kong),  Arts Center (Melbourne).

Treading the careful line between an ancient tradition and the innate desire for innovation with utmost respect, Lal’s music is acclaimed for its sincerity, depth and powerful intensity. With unfailing clarity of technique and  rhythmic virtuosity, his work is deeply influenced by Dhrupad and  gains inspiration from a vast array of sources such as The Necks, Thelonious Monk, Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou and Cecil Taylor. Lal has challenged commonly understood ways of improvisation to develop his own unique voice for the piano, taking stage at leading festivals including Novara Jazz (Italy), San Francisco Silent Film (USA) AsiaTopa Festival (Australia), Masters of Tradition (Ireland).

Endorsed as Young Steinway Artist, TiE Aspire Young Indian Achiever,, Yamaha Jazz Scholar, Lal has been recognized for his extensive collaborative work with Irish, Scottish, Jazz and Experimental artists including leading names like  Martin Hayes, Dennis Cahill, Winifred Horan, Australian Contemporary Circus Theatre CIRCA, Talvin Singh, George Brooks, Rajna Swaminathan. Lal has 7 solo record releases which include a historic world’s first album on the microtonal “Fluid Piano” (2016). Lal holds a Masters in Contemporary Improvisation (New England Conservatory of Music), Bachelor’s in Jazz (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)  and is a disciple of  Dhrupad vocalist Ustad F. Wasifuddin Dagar.

Rajna Swaminathan is an acclaimed mrudangam artist, composer, and scholar. Rajna has been described as “a vital new voice” (Pop Matters), creating “music of gravity and rigor… yet its overall effect is accessible and uplifting” (Wall Street Journal). In her music and research, she explores the undercurrents of rhythmic experience and emergent textures in collective improvisation.

One of only a few women who play the mrudangam professionally, Rajna received her creative foundation on the instrument from her father, P.K. Swaminathan, and mrudangam legend Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman. Through extensive experience performing in the Karnatik music and bharatanatyam scenes, an affinity for various streams of South Asian film/popular music, and deep collaborative work in New York's jazz and creative music scene, Rajna developed experimental approaches to improvising on the mrudangam, piano, and voice. 

Rajna’s orientation as an improviser-composer blossomed through a search for resonance and fluidity among musical forms and aesthetic worlds. Her ensemble RAJAS has been a prominent medium for her expansive compositions, which involve a lattice of rhythmic, textural, and modal approaches. The ensemble's sound has been described as “unlike any other on the scene” (New York Times), and their debut album, Of Agency and Abstraction (Biophilia Records, 2019), received much critical acclaim. 

Free!

Moving with community – ambient music – family-friendly

Imagine you’re making laps around a mall.

But instead you’re in 2640 Space (both rooms open).

Come be in community and shake off the Winter blues.

Interested in 2640 Space for your event? Come to our open house for snacks and a chance to chat with our collective members.