05/22 @ 8:00pm - Nat Baldwin + peace, loving + Woody Sullender

Nat Baldwin

New Hampshire-native Nat Baldwin is an experimental upright bassist and singer-songwriter who cut his teeth studying with free jazz legend Anthony Braxton. In addition to his three critically-acclaimed solo releases, Nat has collaborated on works with Extra Life, Vampire Weekend and is a long-time member of The Dirty Projectors.

“Nat Baldwin’s upright bass is Joanna Newsom’s harp, Andrew Bird’s violin – a partner so indispensable, it’s a personal trait. Over a gorgeous bull-fiddle hum, he belts out these melismatic flourishes… This delivery is terrifically earnest, terrifyingly intimate, and terribly special.” – The Boston Phoenix

“His musical imagination is expansive, while his lack of pretense is admirable” – Pitchfork

“The New Hampshire-native (and Anthony Braxton disciple) rains hyper-melodic chamber fire in melismatic, cinematic glory.” – RCRD LBL

peace, loving

peace, loving has been a force of new music around new england and beyond the past three years, performing compositions for aromatics and tape (w/ 3 professional chefs), dances for handheld tape recorders, working as set designers, video artists, performance poets, instrument builders, and becoming infamous for having a major rotating cast of performers doing all these things at once. peace, loving was formed out of the whitehaus family record, a community based label/venue in the jamaica plain neighborhood of boston.

Woody Sullender
Woody Sullender is an artist currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Over the past few years, Sullender has been emerging as a pre-eminent experimental banjo performer, playing with and against the cultural baggage of the instrument. While alluding to the “traditional” musics of his home states of Virginia and North Carolina, he explores a diverse plane of plucked string music from around the world as well as incorporating punk, noise, free jazz, etc..

“Not too many musicians have redefined what the banjo is about the way Woody Sullender has.”
- Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader

“If he keeps it up, and there seems to be no doubt that he will, he has the potential to become one of the most innovative and historically important players of [the banjo]“
- Tiny Mix Tapes