Side Yard Sounds presents: Sharon Udoh & Ben Willis with guests Vincent Davis & Paige Naylor
6pm to 8pm
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Sharon Udoh is a Nigerian-American pianist, composer, arranger, curator, and vocalist based in Chicago. Their performances have been described as a warm bowl of soup, a tornado, a jalapeño pepper, a Jackson Pollock painting, a bulldozer, and magnetic. Her collaborators have included clipping., Tune-Yards, Ben Lamar Gay, Angel Bat Dawid, and on this particular night, Ben Willis, Bill Harris, Allen Moore, Vincent Davis, and Paige Naylor.

Ben Willis is a musician and artist from the midwest United States. He plays bass and writes music with saajtak, Lovely Socialite, and Throwaway. Using improvisation as a path into interdisciplinary collaboration, he has spent much of his career making work with dancers, visual artists, writers. He has been able to work with many inspiring artists, from the legendary dancer Sally Gross, to Guggenheim Fellow Pope.L, to transgressive novelist Kathe Koja, with whom, over the 7 years he lived in Detroit, he worked on numerous immersive theatre works. He also teaches workshops on improvisation, and advises artists in the creation of new work. He's produced recordings with Teiku (577 Records) and Michael Malis with Virago (Made Now Music). His solo project subatlantic songs is a theatrical performance for solo amplified double bass and voice. It has been in performative development since 2015, taking shape through gradual distillation of improvised material and staging limitations, including an imposing egret mask sculpted by Ann Arbor artist Mary Perrin. Performances include Cleveland's Re:Sound Festival, and Detroit's Strange Beautiful Music.

Vincent Davis is a legendary Chicago drummer. He has a long musical journey, but he really got serious about music at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music. It is in Wisconsin that he met Roscoe Mitchell. Less than a year after meeting Roscoe Mitchell for the first time, Vincent Davis was playing drums with Mitchell’s band in Pompeii Italy in the Colosseum. Upon returning to Chicago, Vincent Davis has been the center for the development of seven movements of Chicago Jazz musicians. In addition to his many contributions to music as a recording artist, he finds immense joy and fulfillment mentoring musicians in some of the most complex music concepts.

Paige Naylor is a Chicago-based experimental vocalist, sound artist and educator. Through sound-making and performance, she investigates time, perception, the breakdown of language, and themes of death. Her direct and interpersonal approach creates live sonic environments which feel vulnerable and intimate. She has performed at Rewire Festival (NL), Variations Festival (FR), Public Records (NYC), The Lab (SF), amongst others. Her work has been featured in The Wire, NPR, Longform Editions, NewCity Art, Chicago Reader, and others.