Equal parts ambient and virtuosic, melancholic and playful, CJ Boyd's bass playing melts glaciers, creating a sea of low, flowing rhythms, while also supplying melodies that soar over the ocean to melt the sun itself. Waves of bass loops are garnished with harmonica drones and constant improvisational exploration. This is deep-sea-diving for the hungry and alone.Local folk singer Liv Carrow will return from a performance hiatus to perform some of her solo material, including new songs and cover/traditional arrangements.

Solo guitarists Alexander Turnquist and Eric Carbonara will be showcasing material from the recently released Imaginational Anthem Vol. 5 compilation series - (Tompkins Square Records), as well as their respective solo albums. While these two VHF Record label mates are very different guitarists from one another, their combination on an evening's bill represents a wide-breadth of possibilities for the guitar. Over the years, Turnquist has released several critically acclaimed records for VHF. His contribution to the latest imaginational anthem garnered this quote in Pitchfork "It's easy to imagine John Fahey chuckling at the phrase 'solo acoustic doom'; here, Turnquist creates it."Carbonara, who has been called "a composer who happens to play what he writes" (Bill Meyer - Dusted Magazine) has recently come off a sabbatical of gigging to focus on writing and composing new material, as well as for film, and interdisciplinary art.

From Montreal, Blood and Glass is the work of Lisa Iwanycki, who recorded an EP at Hudson's Dioramaland studios. ‘Blood And Glass' gets its name from the juxtaposition of warm, organic blood-like sounds (strings, voice, live meaty drums) and cold, breakable man-made glassy sonics (arpeggiators, vocoders, crispy man-made beats).

"Well" opens Fred Thomas' solo album Kuma much in the way "Out on the Weekend" kicked off Neil Young's Harvest — it ambles out of the gate at a pace that might be best called deliberate, with a loose but implacable groove that's half Levon Helm and half Laurel Canyon, but it moves with a very real sense of purpose, and the tune reveals a richly textured beauty that's leavened by the occasional squeal of a harmonica and the graceful peal of Thomas' electric guitar.

Micah Smaldone is a guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter originally from Kennebunkport, Maine. A founding member of the political punk band The Pinkerton Thugs, Smaldone is now mostly known for his solo releases as Micah Blue Smaldone which incorporate a wide variety of influences from country blues to neo-traditional folk music.Caethua builds a majestic framework of rural poetics and darkly colored orchestration that manages to cross the aesthetics of Harry Smith and This Mortal Coil.The Lord Dog Bird is the solo recording project of Colin McCann, guitarist for Jagjaguwar artists, Wilderness.