Announcing the 2025 Improv Spaces Music Festival Lineup!

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2025 Improv Spaces Music Festival

We are thrilled to announce the lineup for the 2025 Improv Spaces Music Festival taking place at the Round Lake Auditorium on Saturday, June 7th, 2025 with festival highlights featuring new work from the Human Rites Trio 
with renown musicians Jason Kao Hwang (composer, violin, viola), Andrew Drury (drum set), Ken Filiano (string bass); the premier of Sonic Explorations in Troy, an incubator project with the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall with the Rock City Falls Trio and Manuel J. Perez Jr.; and the debut of the Improv Spaces Ensemble; along with an additional impressive roster of talented improvisers hailing from the Capital Region and beyond!

Joseph Bruchac, native flute

Jonathan Fuller, pipe organ
Nicholas Kopp aka djdrummernk, percussion and electronics

Special Creek
Sam Katz
, mandolinist and vocalist
Deena Chappell, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and songwriter 
Andy Roth, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist
Tim Barker, guitarist and vocalist
Bob Zink, bass player and vocalist
Adam Forman, percussionist 

Shiloh Wilson, steel pan
Jake Hart, guitar
Lee Gnau, bass
Stephen Struss, drums

Ethan Cohn, bass
MAYSUN, percussion

Improv Spaces Ensemble
Jess Bowen
, violin
Sabrina Trueheart, nylon guitar
Justin Holden, guitar
Alex Chang, electric harp
Christian Thomas, bass and synthesizer
Adam Elabd, winds, bass
Adam Tinkle, woodwinds/electronics
Cousin Angus, brass, vocals and electronics
Karen Dazzler, sax
Adam Forman, drums
Nicholas Kopp aka djdrummernk, percussion and electronics
Matt Weston, percussion

Human Rites Trio
Jason Kao Hwang, composer, violin, viola
Ken Filiano, string bass
Andrew Drury, drum set

Rock City Falls Trio
Alex Chang
, electric harp
Jason Handron, bass
Adam Forman, drums
in collaboration with
artist and multi-instrumentalist Manuel J. Perez III

Electronic Cinema
Joe Fee
Ed Fritz
Mike Sojkowski

on a fusion of synthesizers from across the decades

Swan Ferraro, interdisciplinary artist working in installation, performance, and photo/video

Thanks to Our Sponsors for the 2025 Improv Spaces Music Festival

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We look forward to seeing you at the festival!

Alex and Adam
Co-Directors, Improv Spaces
http://www.improvspaces.org