Brickside Music Festival 2022

Presented by WXDU & DUU Coffeehouse

Saturday, April 09 | 2:30 PM

General Admission

Duke Coffeehouse

TICKETS: RSVP (Limit 2)
$20 Full Price (Cash only at the Door)
Free Duke Students (Duke ID required)

ABOUT

WXDU & DUKE COFFEEHOUSE PRESENT: BRICKSIDE MUSIC FESTIVAL 2022
*Masks and proof of vaccination required for entry.*

The annual Brickside Music Festival returns on Saturday, April 9th at Duke Coffeehouse! Presented by Duke Coffeehouse and WXDU in collaboration with the duArts Arts Fest, Brickside will feature performances by Hailu Mergia, National Information Society, Armand Hammer, Glenn Jones, and more! Doors open at 2:30 pm, and there will be FREE food trucks and art-making activities in addition to the killer lineup.

Food and activities:
2:30-5:30 pm SUN PRINTING and SCREEN PRINTING!
3-6 pm Locopops
5-8 pm Sister Liu's and Island Coconut Kitchen

Festival schedule:
2:30pm DOORS
3:00pm Glenn Jones
4:00pm Ouri
5:00pm Libby Rodenbough
6:00pm BREAK
7:30pm DOORS REOPEN
8:00pm Fennesz
9:00pm KMRU
10:00pm Natural Information Society
11:00pm Hailu Mergia
12:00am Armand Hammer

SETS FROM:
Hailu Mergia
https://hailumergia.bandcamp.com/
Master accordionist and veteran bandleader, arranger and keyboardist, originally from Ethiopia. After he emigrated from Ethiopia and built a life in Washington, D.C. around 1981—where he worked as an airport taxi driver until recently—keyboard and accordion player Hailu Mergia’s career followed a humble trajectory. Following a series of reissues of his classic works by Awesome Tapes From Africa, he now plays in a DC-based trio. They’ve burned a path across three continents playing this hard-to-categorize approach to jazz, funk, and a rainbow of Ethiopian styles at more than 40 shows last year.

Armand Hammer
https://armandhammer.bandcamp.com/
The combination of art rap pioneers billy woods and ELUCID, duo Armand Hammer carved their way into rap’s underground with thought-driven lyricism and experimental production styles. The duo teamed up with producer The Alchemist for their 2021 release, Haram. With their unmatched penchant for stirring imagery and incisive storytelling, the two rappers dive into an ocean of Alchemist’s creation: warmly inviting on the surface, black and bonecrushingly cold at depth. Haram is a collection of the profane and the pure; a reminder that that which is forbidden is also sacrosanct.

Natural Information Society
https://naturalinformationsociety.com/
Joshua Abrams formed Natural Information Society (NIS) in 2010. With Abrams' orchestration of traditional & contemporary instrumentation, NIS creates long-form psychedelic environments informed by jazz, minimalism & traditional musics.

Current & former band members include Lisa Alvarado, Jason Adasiewicz, Mikel Avery, Ben Boye, Hamid Drake, Ben Lamar Gay, Emmett Kelly, Norberto Lobo, Artur Majewski, Nick Mazzarella, Jeff Parker, Frank Rosaly, Jason Stein, Kuba Suchar, Nori Tanaka & Chad Taylor. In 2015, Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas collaborated on Automaginary (Drag City).

FENNESZ
https://www.fennesz.com/
Using a filtered and treated electric guitar as the starting point for his lush soundscapes, Fennesz has created a personal and groundbreaking discourse throughout his career. Perhaps sculpting the last truly unique vision for the guitar, his luminant compositions are anything but sterile experiments. Fennesz’s world of sound unfolds and resembles sensitive, telescopic recordings of rainforest insect life or natural atmospheric occurrences, an inherent naturalism permeating each piece.

Ouri
https://ourimusic.bandcamp.com/
Ouri is both a producer and a performing artist, a DJ, a cello & harp player, a vocalist, songwriter and composer. Heralded in the electronic music space for a breadth of sound that reaches into the variety of her abilities, Ouri grows beyond its confines for the next phase of her career as a solo artist.

KMRU
https://kmru.bandcamp.com/
Currently studying sonic arts in Berlin, Joseph Kamaru aka KMRU is a Nairobi-born, Berlin-based sound artist whose work is grounded on the discourse of field recording, noise, and improvisation. His work posits expanded listening cultures of sonic thoughts and sound practices, a proposition to consider and reflect on auditory cultures beyond the norms, an awareness of surroundings through creative compositions and installations.

Libby Rodenbough
https://www.sleepycatrec.com/libby-rodenbough
Most widely known by music fans as one-fourth of the indie Americana band Mipso, Libby Rodenbough's disctinctive fiddle tones and ethereal, lilting vocals are well-accustomed to sonic setting sthat push the boundaries of traditional genres into new territory.

Glenn Jones
https://thrilljockey.com/artists/glenn-jones
Glenn Jones is an instrumentalist of unparalleled skill and creativity. As a masterful raconteur Jones’ guitar work is both complex and sublime, intricate and emotional. His deep knowledge of the world of American Primitive music and his abilities on the fretboard have made Jones a pillar in his community. With each album Jones chronicles his experience, looking to the past or capturing the present with limber melodies that potently communicate the underlying emotions of the songs.