Saturday February 28 * doors at 6:30, music at 7 * $15

The Andrews are an ambient experimental country music group featuring Andrew Waege (pedal steel) and Richard Andrews (guitar). Their music brings deep elements of and reverence for the traditions of American country music, starting with but usually departing from the restrictions of the genre's songcraft; melody gives way to soundscapes which lead to experimentations that avoid honky-tonk cliche and feel-good ambient platitudes in favor of a more realistic reconciliation with our current cultural moment. Each composition is accompanied by an original video featuring impressions from the built and natural environment. These videos offer audiences the opportunity to synthesize their own connections between the visual and the musical, the traditional and the unexpected, the beautiful and the overlooked.

Jonathan Morris (Matis) has been composing and performing many types of music for some period of years that we don't need to count. His interest in combining improvisation and composition led him to conservatory training at the Hartt School of Music. Recovery from that training has included performances all over the country, from highbrow venues like The Kennedy Center (not recently) to others like CBGB’s. Jonathan led the DC Improvisers Collective and the Low End String Quartet, and is a member of the instrumental rock guitar choir, Boat Burning. His latest commercial release is Resonance: Time + Wood + Steel, a collection of ambient guitar music on Ramble Records.

AM Howard was born in DC and came of age in the New Mexico plains and West Texas Bars. His solo guitar work falls somewhere between modern American primitive fingerpicking, looping/loping ambient country, and Motorik-inspired drives into the middle distance. Call it Kosmiche Americana.