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Iron Giant in Montevallo

Tonight! Iron Giant Free Association plays the Parnell Memorial Library Theatre in Montevallo, Alabama. The group will perform a set of modular pieces for which they’ve developed their own, unique arrangements. My work, 2 out of 3, will be one of the pieces performed.

Also on the concert are improviser LaDonna Smith and vocalist Melanie Williams.

Friday, August 8, 2025 7pm
Iron Giant Free Association
Parnell Memorial Library Theatre
277 Park Dr.
Montevallo AL

This concert is supported in part by the Alabama State Council on the Arts.

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Field Song at Flyover Fest

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Field Song, a docu-poem short film featuring the poetry of Hannah Drake with the (Un)Known Project will be screened Saturday as part of the 2025 Flyover Film Festival in Louisville, Kentucky. I composed the score to the film along with vocalist Jamilah Cooper. A great group of collaborators led this project: Barbara Jane Brickman, John Haley and Catherine Roach.

Saturday, July 26, 2025 3pm
Flyover Film Festival
Speed Art Museum
South 3rd Street
Louisville KY

Field Song is in excellent company for the rest of Saturday’s program: Appalshop, Freeman Vines, Berea College, and more. I wish I could be there in person!

By the way, Field Song was a finalist at the International Poetry Film Festival in Los Angeles.

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Guitar Fest

The East Village Guitar Festival kicks off this weekend. The event will feature over 20 local and regional guitarists. On Friday I’ll be bringing my banjo/electric guitar hybrid to perform a set of improvisations similar to the pieces on my 2021 Tell A Gossip recording from Tape Drift Records. Also playing Friday will be Killick & Klimchak. Saturday’s event will feature Taylor Hollingsworth and Jupiter.

Friday and Saturday April 4-5 2025
East Village Guitar Festival
East Village Arts
7611 1st Ave N
Birmingham AL 35206

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This event was originally scheduled for mid-March but had to be postponed due to weather. Read more at Bham Now and Birmingham365.

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Worldlines

Excerpt of the Worldlines score showing black music notation on a white background

The Vuorovesi Trio will perform my piece Worldlines in a free concert tonight at the Hoover Public Library.

Monday, March 24, 2025 7pm
Live on the Plaza: Vuorovesi Trio
Hoover Public Library
200 Municipal Drive
Hoover AL 35216

The Vuorovesi Trio is made up of University of Alabama School of Music faculty members Diane Boyd Schultz, Mary Lindsey Bailey, Osiris J. Molina. All the pieces on tonight’s concert are by Alabama-based composers: Michael Coleman, Monroe Golden, Gavin Green, Holland Hopson, Joseph Landers, and William Price.

Worldlines was premiered in 2017 at the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Abroms-Engel Institute for Visual Arts. It was written in response to Jessica Angel‘s installation Facing the Hyperstructure.

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Gravity Clocks

Close up of an electric guitar with a hand resting on top of it. The image has a shallow depth of field so the body of the guitar and the hand are the only elements in focus.

I’m looking forward to performing tomorrow on a concert highlighting free improvisation and electronic music. The show will include Sam Herman, Aaron Johnson, and LaDonna Smith.

Tuesday, March 18, 2025 7pm
An Evening of Free Improvisation and Electronic Music
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Hulsey Recital Hall
950 13th Street South
Birmingham AL

I’ll be performing material similar to the pieces on my 2021 Tell A Gossip recording from Tape Drift Records.