Rent Romus' Actual/Actual with the Hay/Gruda Duo

Rent Romus' Actual/Actual showcases improvised music with a blues music orientation. The band is a featured guest stopping in Asheville on their southern USA tour. Rent is based in San Francisco where he runs the renowned long-running collective Outsound Presents, a fixture of the experimental music community. 

Opening is the Emily Hay/Kris Gruda duo, playing free-jazz-based experimental music. Joining Actual/Actual are dance and movement artists A. Eithne Hamilton, Bobbi Rose and CillaVee.

Actual/Actual showcases improvised music with a blues music orientation at the core while keeping to a broad outlook towards “spontaneous composition”. Their wide swath takes in swing, Latin music, fusion, doom rock, reggae, punk, and many other musical elements. It's all “grist for the mill” as they create a new context for these elements where improbable connections are made and things happen when you least expect them to. Romus originally hails from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and has made it a point to engage and collaborate with musicians from the region. This band represents recent “talent reconnaissance” and is truly a multi-generational affair.

Ensemble: 

Rent Romus: alto saxophone 

Gerard Cox: keyboards 

Josh Strange: vibraphone, trumpet

Troy Kunkler: drums

Links: Band website // Soundcloud

Emily Hay/Kris Gruda Duo

Emily Hay is a  flutist/vocalist who has recently relocated to western NC from southern  CA.  She performs improvised, experimental, abstract music based on free  jazz, augmented by electronics and unusual vocals.  Hay's quartet,  HayFever, featuring musicians from Los Angeles, New York and Holland,  recently toured throughout the southeast, playing gigs in Orlando,  Atlanta, Birmingham, Knoxville, Roanoke & D.C.  She has recently  collaborated with Asheville based electric guitarist Kris Gruda,  performing at the Asheville Noise Fest, the Center for Connection and  Creativity and other local NC venues.  Gruda is a guitarist, improvisor,  composer, songwriter, sound-artist who plays free-jazz, funk and  psychedelic tunes and is known for upbeat original music performed  by his large ensemble The GrudaTree.

Links: Emily Hay // Kris Gruda // The duo's Bandcamp

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