2 pm | JESSICA ACKERLEY
Previous New York resident, now Honolulu-based, Alberta-born, daring improvising guitarist Jessica Ackerley’s first visit to Something Else! will be a great thrill for us all.
" Jessica weaves a distinctive path between atonality & tonality, noise & notes, while bringing heart to a style that can often reside in the head." – Guitar Moderne
3 pm | RALPH ALESSI’S THIS AGAINST THAT
Bodacious New York City quartet is led by trumpeter, composer Ralph Alessi, with Andy Milne piano, John Hébert double bass, Mark Ferber drums, organically towing the line between jazz, pop and contemporary classical (sans Ravi Coltrane, sadly). The band has toured Europe and the United States since 2004 playing venues such as The Earshot Festival in Seattle, RedCat Theatre in Los Angeles, Bimhuis in Amsterdam and The New Morning in Paris. Recently they released their 3rd album, Imaginary Friends which the London Guardian called “Alessi’s best album yet for ECM.”
Ralph Alessi photo by Peter Gannushkin
4 pm | BEATINGS ARE IN THE BODY
Borrowing the project’s title from a work by Canadian poet Meaghan McAneeley, Montréal voicalist / electronicist Erika Angell (was at last year’s festival with Thus Owls), Vancouver composer & improviser Róisín Adams on wurlitzer / piano and Canadian treasure, veteran Vancouver cellist Peggy Lee (also very present at 2022 SE!) explore how memories, pain, and a spectrum of emotions are stored in and continue to be carried by our physical bodies.
$25 advance tickets (for 3 acts) via Eventbrite
$35 door
$65 festival weekend pass Eventbrite
No one is refused admission for lack of funds
