Hindustani classical Music. Sitar and Surbahar Artist, Jay Kishor (pronounced: "Jai Kee-Shore") approaches the meditative and mystical Art of Indian Classical Music more as a Poet than a Musician; treating the ancient Ragas with a lyricism, depth, thoughtfulness and grace.

http://magnatune.com/artists/jay_kishor

American Spiritual Avant-Garde Music. "Bells dangle from him as he shines a light that penetrates the smog and battlehaze. He proclaims the truth in a voice as serious as a heart attack and connects the line streching back into time between spirituals and free jazz. Projected forward, this line becomes our escape trail out of the world of necessity." - Gary Heidt Brooklyn, NY

Ancient New Music. Old Songs sings translations of Archaic Greek Poetry set to old-timey American folk music. Old Songs members are: Mark Jickling (from Half Japanese),Chris Mason (from The Tinklers) and Liz Downing (from Lurch and Holler and Radiant Pig). Old songs takes poems by Sappho, Alcman, Archilochus, Hipponax, and other poets from the 7th through 4th centuries BC translate them from Greek into English and set them to music with guitar, banjo, and mandolin accompaniment.

http://www.mindspring.com/~oldsongs/

Instrument Inventor and Composer. Baltimore resident Neil Feather is the most amazing instrument inventor on the East Coast, having spent the last 25 years developing an orchestra of otherworldly inventions and his own music to perform on them. He is well known for his sound sculpture, instrument design, solo music, and his groups MugWump and THUS. Hear him play his otherworldy, completely original music.

http://www.neilfeather.org

Souful Original Songs. Lizz King, born in Baltimore, Maryland and weened in the foothills of West Virginia. Picks at a banjo, a guitar, some keyboards. Member of Wham City collective in Baltimore. Commited apocalyptist and ardent idealist.

http://www.myspace.com/mabeltumbleson

Explosive Solo Rock. Shaun, 28, is primarily an artist and percussionist. He plays drums and combines his playing with live processed vocals in the Baltimore
based band, Wzt Hearts. His style of play is like that of a furious skateboard
maneuvering atop ancient granite alligator ruins. Wzt Hearts have toured a good portion of the US in support of their first album, Heat Chief, on Hoss/Hit Dat Records. Wzt Hearts are looking forward to a Fall tour of Europe and susequent US tour in support of their forthcoming record, Threads Rope Spell Making Your Bones, on Hoss/Carpark Records. Shaun exhibits his visual work in the streets and galleries throughout Baltimore, and this year he had a solo show, The Last Time It Is For All Time, at Galerie Francoise II, and also was a semi-finalist for the 2007 Sondheim Prize. His other music experience includes his previous band, Cutter/Hammer, which in 2002 played their 60 Hour Rock Show in a storefront in Times Square as the culminating performance of a 3 month festival of performing arts. Members of Cutter/Hammer were Shaun, Brian Randolph, and Nick Barna, and they really did play for 60 consecutive hours, as witnessed by a million NYC pedestrians.

New Music. After years of making music with clipped up, modulated, and over-analyzed sound samples, Samuel Burt returns to the simplicity of the sine wave. In two compositions he explores the results of joining simple sounds together in complex processes. The first, a string quartet, deals with the acoustics of tuning, taking the audience and the musicians on a journey through a beautiful expanse of vibrating chord structures. The second piece made up entirely of computer generated sine tones deals with the intricacy of masses and of individuals, composed of multiple processes that move like crashing waves at the beginning of a low tide.

Human Beat Box. Baltimore's fantastic vocal percussionist, mutable master of a thousand hypnotic beats. "Like most beatboxers, he’s self-taught, picking up everything he knows about rhythm from hip-hop. Able to emulate a staggering range of beats and instruments—including didgeridoo, bass guitar, horns, turntable scratching, and samba whistles—and maintain a steady rhythm at tempos of up to 316 beats per minute, Bouma likens his talent to that of a DJ, cutting and pasting sounds together. And like a DJ, Bouma juxtaposes sounds from several different genres, including hip-hop, techno, jazz, and soca, a Trinidadian form of dance music that combines calypso and Indian rhythms." - City Paper