8:00 PM Andrew Jamieson - solo keyboard
8:40 PM Divine Circles
9:15 PM Elisa Faires

Andrew Jamieson is dedicated to spiritual transformation through his work as a pianist, keyboardist, composer and arranger. With a passion for black gospel music, he plays for faith communities including City of Refuge in Oakland and serves as Minister of Music at Bethel Community Presbyterian Church in San Leandro. With a passion for free improvisation and experimentation, he plays in bay area improvisational groups, including Ell3 and Nine Fingers, and he completed a Master's of Arts in music composition at Mills College. With a commitment to integrating his musical worlds and communities, he composed an avant-gospel chamber opera meditating on Jim Jones' People Temple, and performs solo keyboard music that draws on gospel melodies and rhythms, and equally on harsh dissonances and unusual sounds, and brings musical elements into dialogue with one another.

DIVINE CIRCLES is a vivid solo venture from Meghan Mulhearn, violin manipulator for Neurot Recordings artists U.S. Christmas. Known for pushing the limits of traditional string playing in an effort to explore the violin’s potential as an instrument beyond orthodox composition, Mulhearn utilizes effects and electronics, novel techniques in plucking and strumming and uses the violin as a vocal resonator. Her eccentric approach is often compared to Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Warren Ellis of Dirty Three/Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and more experimental artists such as Aidan Baker and Steve Reich. Oblivion Songs, her debut LP, was just released on UK-based Paradigms Recordings. The album is an absorbing five-track sound collage defined most succinctly as “a beautiful collection of intimate and experimental songcraft filtered through the Appalachian dusk.” The release is garnering strong critical praise, and Mulhearn is touring the Midwest and West Coast in support of this release.

"DIVINE CIRCLES keeps their sounds intimate and calm, slowly building the track in the round, with the violinist taking up the bow later on with gorgeous swells of arboreal melodies along with those slow dirgy guitars and some haunted female vocalizations." — Aquarius Records


Elisa Faires is an experimental composer/musician specializing in vocals, electronics and improvisation, creating soundscapes using voice along with various instruments including piano, synth, hand percussion, harmonium and effects.  A classically trained musician, Faires has a background in opera, electronic music and audio engineering, one of her mentors was electronic music frontiersman and inventor Dr Robert Moog.
Faires is an active member of the multimedia and music group 'Xambuca' and has performed and improvised with several other renowned musicians, including German electronic musician Hans-Joachim Rodelius (Cluster/Harmonia/Qluster etc.). She has composed and performed works for dance and performance art companies such as Asheville Butoh Legacy, Anemone Dance Theater, and Cilla Vee Life Arts. Faires has also pioneered sound installations and live performance art pieces, several of which have been featured at many events in conjunction with the Black Mountain Museum and Arts Center and the Asheville Arts Council. She has also performed internationally at the 'More ohr Less' festival in Lunz, Austria, as well as in Berlin and Budapest. Faires appears as a regular annual artist-performer participant at the historic Black Mountain College event known as "The Re:happening", a yearly curated event on the grounds of the legendary Black Mountain College.
Her new album, Photosynthesis,  soon to be released by Erototox Decodings, is a work that purely consists of her vocals as the basis of instrumentation as the music for her album, incorporating non-traditional harmonies, rhythms, unusual emanations, deep guttural breathing, bird song, the imitation of wind, the likeness of moving water, percussive elements and synthesizer mimicry.  

"On 'Midwest,' Mulhearn’s voice is pure and gentle, hinting of Appalachia. It radiates warmth, inviting the listener to lean in closer to catch every breathy syllable and heartfelt lyric while the song itself rumbles softly beneath like oncoming thunder." -Kim Kelly/ Pitchfork