Molten Plains Fest
December 9 @ 5:30 pm - 2:00 am
🌋DECEMBER 8 & 9 🌋
Molten Plains Fest is back for its second year!
Fostering the spirit of adventurous music and further sounds, the Molten Plains monthly series expands into a two days festival on the second weekend of December: Friday 8 and Saturday 9.
14 sets of more than 30 artists coming from 10 cities, a convergence of inestimable music nourishment from Joe McPhee, Wendy Eisenberg, Sean Meehan, Zoh Amba, Patrick Shiroishi, Carmina Escobar, Moncho, Sandy Ewen, Colin Andrew Sheffield, Damon Smith, Dave Dove, Spirit Plate, Water Damage, Tamarisk, Aaron Gonzalez, Stefan Gonzalez, Mattie, Louise Fristensky, Kory Reeder, Melanie Little Smith, Sarah Ruth Alexander, and Ernesto Montiel.
Nestled in Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios, Molten Plains consistently hosts an unique aural experience in North Texas. From sublime expressions to raw manifestations, across a scope of legendary ideas and sprouting concepts, always towards the ever expanding horizon of forward thinking creativity.
DAY TWO (doors 5:30pm)
• Mattie + Melanie Little Smith
• Colin Andrew Sheffield
• Patrick Shiroishi + Aaron Gonzalez + Damon Smith
• Sandy Ewen + Sarah Ruth Alexander + Wendy Eisenberg
• Sean Meehan
• Joe McPhee + Carmina Escobar + Dave Dove
• Trio Glossia
• Water Damage
$35 SPECIAL PRESALE 2-DAY PASS
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DAVE DOVE (Houston, TX)
Trombone player, composer, improviser, and worship-facilitator. Low-end explorer
WENDY EISENBERG (New York, NY)
From avant-rock to delicate songs; guitar, pedals, the tenor banjo, voice
CARMINA ESCOBAR (Mexico / Los Angeles, CA)
Extreme vocalist, intermedia artist, in search of the otherness
SANDY EWEN (New York, NY)
Extended guitar techniques by a sound artist, visual artist, and architect
AARON GONZALEZ (Dallas, TX)
Eloquent and erudite double-bass
MATTIE (Dallas, TX)
A mirror, an oracle of the SOL. Lyrical self-inquiry, experimental instrumentation
JOE McPHEE (Poughkeepsie, NY)
Legendary multi-instrumentalist with more than five decades in the music
SEAN MEEHAN (New York, NY)
Unique percussion approach, multi-disciplinary expansions
SARAH RUTH (Denton, TX)
Cultivated voice, harmonium, hammered dulcimer, skateboard guitar
COLIN ANDREW SHEFFIELD (Austin, TX)
Audio collages of hidden melodies deconstructed loops. Elevator Bath
PATRICK SHIROISHI (Los Angeles, CA)
Intense and extensive saxophone leaning multi-instrumentalist
DAMON SMITH (St. Louis, MO)
Fierce, brainy, and masterful double-bassist. Lots of free jazz and Fluxus reverence
MELANIE LITTLE SMITH (Denton, TX)
Land focused ancestral channeling
TRIO GLOSSIA (Denton / Dallas, TX)
Matthew Frerck, Stefan Gonzalez, Joshua Miller. North Texas fieriest trio nowadays!
WATER DAMAGE (Austin, TX)
Loudly droning octet, “maximal repetition minimal deviation”
U.S. Department of Treasury American Rescue Plan Act Funding through the City of Denton has contributed to make this project possible
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