Presented by Continuum Culture & Arts

Jason Kao Hwang – violin, viola, compositions
Ken Filiano – bass
Andrew Drury – drum set

With origins reaching back to the Asian Arts Movement and New York Loft scenes of the 1970s, and work in ensuing decades in Jazz, opera, film, and with artists such as Henry Threadgill, Anthony Braxton, Butch Morris, Wadada Leo Smith, Pauline Oliveros, Reggie Workman, Tomeka Reid, and many more, Jason Kao Hwang manifests a uniquely multi-faceted legacy in American music in this rare trip to Seattle. Playing together in various formations for over 20 years, Jason Kao Hwang’s Human Rites Trio moves through both freely improvised and intricately composed sonic landscapes with expansive imagination and ESP-like communication.

Bassist Ken Filiano performs around the world, fusing the rich traditions of the double bass with his own seemingly limitless imagination. A “creative virtuoso” (JazzValley), Ken has performed and recorded with a veritable who’s who in multiple genres—Anthony Braxton, Bobby Bradford, Connie Crothers, Bill Dixon, Vinny Golia, Joseph Jarman, Joelle Leandre, Warne Marsh, Hafez Modirzadeh, Roswell Rudd, ROVA, Pablo Ziegler, and many more.

Drummer Andrew Drury—a fifth generation Seattleite and mentee of Ed Blackwell for nearly a decade—has presented The Forest and his duo with DoYeon Kim at the Wayward Music Series. A pioneer of extended wind techniques for drums he has played and recorded with Myra Melford, Wadada Leo Smith, Robert Dick, JD Parran, Michael Doneda, Warren Smith, Mark Dresser, Elliott Sharp, Tomeka Reid, Kris Davis, and many more. Drury founded the innovative non-profit organization Continuum Culture & Arts in 2015.

Continuum Culture & Arts (CCA) is a multi-prong organization started by Andrew Drury that presents performances, publishes recordings and books, supports and incubates other artists’ work in a variety of media in many ways, facilitates international cultural exchange, highlights the legacies of elders, and brings world-class artists into vulnerable and historically marginalized communities. 2026 marks the fifth consecutive year in which CCA is presenting activity in partnership with Seattle’s Low Income Housing Institute. CCA is presenting Jason Kao Hwang’s Human Rites Trio at two LIHI facilities during this tour.

  “…this is heavy, profound music.” – Philip Freeman, Downbeat Magazine

Doors open 7 PM.

The Northwest Experimental Guitar Orchestra is an ensemble of musicians from diverse performative backgrounds, with members in Seattle, Bremerton, Portland, and surrounding regions. They perform new works that explore alternative methods of scoring, conducting, and technology integration, favoring methods that avoid traditional Western music notation, making participation accessible to everyone, regardless of background, training, or education. They will present three new works by Blake DeGraw, including a composition for prepared guitars and a piece conducted by a side-scrolling video score, projected onto the wall. Visuals will be provided by Maisy Gibbons.

Daniel Reyes Llinás, a Colombian-born, Portland-based guitarist and composer, will perform Electric Counterpoint, one of the most celebrated works for electric guitar. Performing live alongside a pre‑recorded backing track of layered guitars, Llinás will honor the 90th anniversary of the iconic American composer. His interpretation highlights both the rhythmic vitality and the meditative clarity that have made Electric Counterpoint a landmark of contemporary music. In the words of Steve Reich:

I am interested in perceptible processes. I want to be able to hear the process happening throughout the sounding music. Performing and listening to a gradual musical process resembles: pulling back a swing, releasing it, and observing it gradually come to rest; turning over an hour glass and watching the sand slowly run through the bottom; placing your feet in the sand by the ocean’s edge and watching, feeling, and listening to the waves gradually bury them.

Waxing Gibbous Quintet will present music for strings, woodwinds, and vibraphone. This sound is made with sustained harmonic frequencies and is inspired by the sonority of Otter Falls. John Teske (contrabass), Hanna Broback (violin), Justin Lazar (clarinet), Aaron Micheal Butler (vibraphone), Noel Kennon (viola, clarinet, composition).

The Trillium String Quartet strives to program works that reflect the breadth of the artistic communities we have had the privilege to be a part of and influenced by. Using an educator’s lens to demystify the act of musical performance, we curate accessible concert experiences where we share our personal connection to the music that we play. 

Crossing Paths is our program containing works written by composers who have crossed paths with us either in meeting or asynchronously. It demonstrates how music written for the living, by the living, can highlight our common ground and give us reasons to connect and understand each other. It features works for string quartet by Caroline Shaw and Jesse Montgomery, who both attended the Kinhaven School where we are now faculty, as well as works by composers with ties to Seattle like Aidan Gold and Gabriella Smith.

Coen Rios presents a set of original compositions and freely improvised music, as a final showcase for his graduate degree at the University of Washington.

Coen Rios is a saxophonist and composer, specializing in jazz and improvised music. Pacific Tribute is an intentional homage to the geography and people that Coen grew up around, going through original compositions, while blending in electronics and visuals to the performance. The group is composed of musicians that he has shared the last few years with musically.

Coen Rios – Saxophone
Rory Somers – Trumpet
Jai Kobi Kaleo’okalani Lasker – Guitar
Cole McKittrick – Guitar
Natalie Song – Piano
Riley Tobin – Bass
Ethan Horn – Drums

Doors open 7 PM.

This trio concert celebrates the return of free jazz saxophonist Booker T. Williams Jr., a legend of Seattle late-night jam sessions in the 1960s, who has come back to Seattle after forty years in NYC jamming with the giants of the jazz avant garde, including Archie Shepp, Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins, and Henry Threadgill. Booker joins Greg Campbell on drums and bassist Pete Leinonen, who frequently accompanied Booker T. in those late night sessions at The Llahngaelhyn and The Vault, and is proud to be reunited with Booker T.  Seattle music lovers may know Greg from his work in straight-ahead jazz and free improvisation, classical and jazz French horn playing, or traditional West African drumming. Anything can and probably will happen.

Partners is a new suite of music for septet composed by Michael Owcharuk (piano), featuring Kate Olson (saxophones), Alex Guy (violin), Heather Bentley (viola), Maria Scherer Wilson (violoncello), Abbey Blackwell (bass), and Kyle Doran (drums). The piece explores different aspects of partnership: a spouse, friend, parent, child, co-worker, fellow commuter, shopkeeper, all the great and small partnerships we form short- and long-term through our lives. The music is based on themes from Ukrainian folk, tango, Berber folk, and Americana, and are treated in combined classical and jazz forms to highlight individual musician’s expression on the topic through improvisation and orchestration.

Composition and performance of this project is funded largely by an award from the Seattle Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture’s City Artist Grant.

Michael Owcharuk is a composer, pianist, and dance accompanist working in jazz, classical, Ukrainian folk, rock/pop, and music for theater and dance. He has create pieces for many local and regional ensembles, theater companies, dance companies, and is an accompanist for the Pacific Northwest Ballet School and Mark Morris’ Dance for Parkinsons. He and his music have been featured by NPR and KEXP and he has been granted multiple awards from The Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture, 4Culture, and Jack Straw Productions. Michael is proud to have written and to keep writing for the Lviv Virtuoso Orchestra in Ukraine, a stalwart and brave group of musicians defiantly presenting music for their people during the ongoing war.  

Stone and Sky is the improvisational musical project of Trevor Eulau and Tara, centered around exploring friendship and connection through music. Tara and Trevor have been playing together for five years, and have become close musically and creatively. Before Trevor moves to Pittsburgh in June, Tara and Trevor wanted to perform under Stone and Sky to explore their dear friendship, and welcome listeners into their warm musical space. The concert will feature a simple set up — Trevor playing the acoustic guitar and Tara with their tenor saxophone. They will be glad to welcome you, and celebrate together the energies of connectivity and mutual trust.

Doors open 7 PM, music starts at 8 PM.

In celebration of the cassette release of new cascades, the 2024 album from Portland-based producer Alvin Fenner (neat beats), TOKO TAPE is proud to present an evening of woodwinds and electronics. Fenner will be joined by local Seattle saxophonist Morgan O. and multi-instrumental sound artist sous chef. In addition to the music, Portland-based tea pop-up Apa Kabar will be serving a curated selection of loose-leaf teas. 

Established in 2005 neat beats (Portland), combines the soundscapes of new age plunderphonics, field recordings, and 90s boom bap to create a soundtrack to your weirdest dreams. His independently released debut album, Cosmic Surgery, released in 2011, gained unexpected notoriety and a cult following in the experimental beat scene, establishing a unique sound, subsequently built on by Sleep Cycles and new cascades.

Morgan O. is a saxophonist from Seattle. Her music weaves electronic textures, drones, and waves of sound with saxophone melodies that emerge out of a practice of improvisation, deep listening, and collaboration with performance artists, dancers, and visual artists.

A culinary master of audio food, sous chef is always cookin’ up new recipes. He sleeps & works out of La Cuisine, the studio he built just south of Seattle, performing locally, producing, composing & exploring new flavors, courses & musical meals to delight your eardrums. From ambient to epic, electronic to acoustic, his latest forays have led him down paths of site-specificity, traveling around the world, combining ancient & cutting edge sounds, with an ever-growing list of collaborators. He’s also a founding member of the band sunking & high pulp.

TOKO TAPE is a tape label based out of Portland started by DJ & producer Joshua Limanjaya. The label believes in the importance of physical media and distributes its music exclusively through the release of limited edition cassette tapes (with digital files on Bandcamp available to own only through the purchase of a tape). Since its start in December of 2025, the label has put out a diverse catalog of sounds that range from ambient, shoegaze, instrumental hip-hop, and more. Beyond just putting out music, TOKO TAPE aims to archive and preserve the sounds of a region, the artists that shape their local culture, and the moments in time that bring these things together. 

Marble takes its name from the way life actually moves — not in straight lines, but in swirls. People enter and leave. Moments press into each other. Different textures, colors, and temperatures share the same glass. Edelmar and Achil Obenza invite you into that swirl — through music, image, and word — as a reminder that even in the marbling, there is pattern. Even in the chaos, there is beauty. And even as people come and go, community remains the thing that holds us.

Edelmar is a Seattle-based musician, photographer, and storyteller whose work lives at the intersection of sound and image. Whether he’s at the piano or behind a lens, he is drawn to the moments that don’t announce themselves — the quiet weight of a person in their element, the breath before a note lands. Rooted in the Filipino value of Kapwa — the understanding that the self is never separate from the other — his creative practice is less about self-expression and more about shared recognition. In Marble, Edelmar brings both music and visual work, weaving together two languages that have always, for him, been saying the same thing.

Achil grew up in a café — a place where people passed through daily, carrying their stories and experiences from all seasons of life. From childhood to adulthood she watched how things shifted monumentally over time, how people came and went, how the world was infinitely shifting, marbling into something new. She has lived many lifetimes in one: a creative childhood rooted in song, art, and composition, a young woman finding her voice, and then a mother learning an entirely new voice. Poetry came in the stolen moments. The quiet in-between times. A way to synthesize the existential pains of grief and loss for what has been with the perpetual process of renewal that takes place on every level. Through Marble, Achil brings her compositions, her voice, and her poetry to the stage as testimony: that life doesn’t move in lines, it swirls — and every ending is also, somehow, a beginning.

Curated by Gretchen Yanover for Nonsequitur’s NonSeq series.

Seattle electronic musician Brad Loving makes his improvisational debut with a custom-built sequencer, weaving live-sampled textures into evolving polymetric and polyrhythmic frameworks.

Brad Loving has spent three decades working with electroacoustic sound — from Chicago’s experimental music community to a decade at New York’s avant-garde venue The Kitchen. His band Reunion Island has released two albums recorded with John McEntire of Tortoise. He has also recorded and released music by Malian musicians Jah Youssouf and Bintou Coulibaly.

For this performance, he debuts a custom-built sequencer shaped by those accumulated experiences — an instrument that captures and mutates audio in real time, allowing structure and variation to emerge through live interaction.