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The Blue Note
7pm Doors / 8pm Show
Reserved Table Seating Available via “We Always Swing” Jazz Series

Presented as part of the ‘‘Extended Play’’ fall mini-festival

Hailu Mergia
Ethiopian jazz-funk legend Hailu Mergia in his first ever Missouri performance! With a sound blending Ethiopian traditional melodies with American-inspired jazz and funk, Mergia is one of the most beloved and successful acts in Ethiopian history. Since returning to the stage just over a decade year ago, Mergia and his band have performed all over the world including stops at the Montreal Jazz Festival, the Kennedy Center and Radio City Music Hall, receiving stellar reviews for their ecstatic, sweat soaked, high energy performances.

Daniel Boone Regional Library (Columbia)
2pm / FREE
Presented as part of the ‘“Extended Play” fall mini-festival

“The George Washington of Video Art” ... “Cultural Terrorist” ... “Citizen Zero of the Electronic Superhighway” ... But who really was Nam June Paik, pillar of the American avant-garde in the 20th century and arguably the most famous Korean artist in modern history? Director Amanda Kim tells, for the first time, the story of Paik’s meteoric rise in the New York art scene and his Nostradamus-like visions of a future in which “everybody will have his own TV channel.” Thanks to social media, Paik’s future is now our present, and NAM JUNE PAIK: MOON IS THE OLDEST TV shows us how we got here.

Featuring an extensive archive of performance footage, original interviews from Paik’s contemporaries and collaborators, and a voiceover narration of Nam June Paik’s writings read by Executive Producer Steven Yeun (Minari, Nope), NAM JUNE PAIK: MOON IS THE OLDEST TV is a timely meditation on the contradictory ways in which technology elicits both fascist tendencies and intercultural understanding.

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Bingham Gallery (University of Missouri)
7pm Doors / 8pm Show
Presented as part of the '‘Extended Play’’ fall mini-festival.

Two solo sets and a collaborative duo improvisation from sound artists Maria Chavez and JayVe Montgomery.

Maria Chávez is best known as an abstract turntablist, sound artist and DJ. Coincidence, chance and failures are themes that unite her work across mediums, including improvised performance, sculpture, visual art, and book objects. Her approach is rooted in Deep Listening, a form of embodied listening developed by her late mentor Pauline Oliveros. Using the rare RAKE Double Needle - a device capable of reading two different segments of a single record at the same time -  Maria creates unforgettable sonic experiences from shards of broken records with each performance being truly unique.

JayVe Montgomery is a Chicago sound artist who finds home in “Outer Music City”, Tennessee. Active in improvised music since the early aughts, JayVe is an inaugural member of Theaster Gates’ Black Monks of Mississippi; an ascetic of David Boykin’s Sonic Healing Ministries; and an alum of the Pauline Oliveros Deep Listening Institute’s Intensive I. He is a 2024 National Endowment of the Arts grantee for his current compositional research project Lake Black Town, explicating the challenge of uncovering Black American stories from below floods of racism while using water and earth as a medium for sound. His electro acoustic woodwind and percussion experiments can be found everywhere music is available. 

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Cafe Berlin
7pm Doors / 8pm Show
$15 in Advance / $20 Day of Show

Wolf Eyes is a band from Michigan that was formed in 1998. They are known for their bizarre and otherworldly approach to music, creating a sound that is both disturbing and hypnotic. With their intense and bizarre live performances, Wolf Eyes has garnered a reputation as one of the most frightening and genuinely weird bands in the world. Wolf Eyes is currently John Olson and Nate Young. They have performed together for over 20 years.

MEO44 is a bike-helmet wearing band from Independence, Missouri playing an abrasive, no frills style of sassy, grindy hardcore. Their music and art covers topics including religious trauma, the acceptance of radical love, anti-authoritarianism, anti-colonialism, the slow yet constant alienation of basic human rights in the bible belt, and the art of the streetside brawl. Strap your helmet on tight. Service is about to begin.

7pm Doors / 8pm Show
$10 / PWYC

Lisa Cameron from Austin, TX uses amplified/acoustic percussion and strings, locating resonant frequencies in space to create oscillating overtones employed as sound sources for live improvisation. A Texas improv stalwart, Cameron has performed live with Rocky Erickson, Jandek, Eugene Chadbourne, Mike Watt, Faust, claire rousay and many more!

Alex Cunningham is a violinist, improviser, and visual artist based in St. Louis, MO whose prolific recorded output and visceral live performances run the gamut of modern experimental music, from free improv and minimalist composition to drone and noise. 

In his own words JJJJJerome Ellis "is a disabled Grenadian-Jamaican-American animal, artist, and person who stutters." Ellis's work incorporates contemplative soundscapes using saxophone, piano, flute, dulcimer, electronics, and vocals combining spoken word with ambient and jazz textures. With a focus on improvisation and the interrelations between speech, silence, disability, and religion Ellis’ works are invitations to healing, transcendence, and deep listening. Ellis is a current writer in residence at the Lincoln Center in New York City and has seen his work presented by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney, the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, MASS MoCA, and more.