$10 Cover @ the Door / Start 10:30pm / Doors 10pm / Seated Show
Steve Fell, guitar
I'm fortunate to play with a lot of great players/people across a wide spectrum of expressions. I play improvisational music - jazz, experimental, funk, rock, electronic, reggae, hip-hop, noise, etc. Simply put, I play music. Music is personal. My music is a result of all that I have been exposed to and that which has resonated with me. I lead my own trio, play solo, co-lead the bands CLEAR AUDIENCE and ASTRONOMICO, have an improv band with Jesse Gallagher and Luther Gray (Nightime Sunshine), and collaborate with a number of groups and individuals.
Luther Grey, drums
“It’s not unusual for jazz musicians of Gray’s generation to pull music from the rock and pop world into their universe. But Gray is especially adept at drawing from multiple influences in a single gig and making it part of a unified whole.” — Jon Garelick, The Boston Globe
Drummer Luther Gray, though largely self-taught, his musical training involved drum lessons from Kim Martin, Larry Bright, Steve Bagby, and Mickey Newman. In 1995 he graduated the University of Miami with a Bachelor of Music, after which he taught privately and performed in the Washington , D.C. area with, among others, Butch Warren, Cecil Payne, Webster Young, Tsunami, Liquorice, Peter Edelman, Jenny Toomey, Bob Butta, and Buck Hill. Since moving to Boston he has resumed teaching private drum lessons and has played with Joe Morris, Jay Hoggard, Joe McPhee, Timo Shanko, Cameron Brown, Allan Chase, Joseph Daley, Sabir Mateen, Roy Campbell, Ida, Geoff Farina, Andrew White, Rob Brown, Bill Lowe, Greg Abate, Raqib Hassan, Bill Pierce, Mitch Seidman, Steve Swell, Joe Beck, Fred Anderson, Ken Vandermark and many others. In addition to his performing schedule Luther teaches art and music at an after-school program for elementary school children.
Jesse Gallagher, bass
Jesse Gallagher is the Director of Programming at The Lilypad performance and event space. He has been a professional touring musician since 2001, and a music producer and recording engineer since 2008. He toured extensively as a member of Apollo Sunshine from 2001-2010, and now composes and performs with a variety of projects, including Nightime Sunshine. Gallagher has practiced Kundalini yoga and meditation since 2000. In 2016 he was certified to teach Integral Hotha yoga, which he teaches in the lineage of Swami Satchitananda.