Ackerley + Wallace w/ Mark Hanslip & Nick Branton plus Adam Fairhall

Name: Ackerley + Wallace w/ Mark Hanslip & Nick Branton plus Adam Fairhall
Start: 2025-09-15T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-15T22:00:00+01:00
Location: Artefact 71 Roscoe st, L1 9DW

Schedule

Mon Sep 15 2025 at 07:30 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Artefact 71 Roscoe st, L1 9DW | Liverpool, EN

Experimental guitarist/improviser JESSICA ACKERLEY and pianist ELI WALLACE are both at the forefront of the creative music scene in the US and Canada.
For this performace they will be joined by Mark Hanslip (tenor) and Nick Branton (clarinet).
Also, Adam Fairhall will kick off the proceedings with a solo piano set.
Doors at 7.30, music starts 8pm
£10 waged / £8 unwaged (on the door or via ticket link)
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/nicholas-branton/t-dvyjmra

"JESSICA ACKERLEY is one of the most exciting guitarists to have emerged from the US free music scene in recent years" - Wire Magazine
During the past decade, Jessica Ackerley has established themselves on the Canadian and American music scenes as a unique and versatile guitarist, composer and improvisor. Born in Alberta, Canada, Jessica now resides in Honolulu after almost a decade of being located in New York City.
They have worked alongside notable musicians such as Tyshawn Sorey, Daniel Carter, Marc Edwards, Luke Stewart, and Patrick Shiroishi, to name a few. Notable performance venues include John Zorn’s The Stone, Canada Music Center, Constellation Chicago, Vortex, The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Met Breur and The Blue Note, as well as tours both as a bandleader and collaborator throughout Canada the United States and Europe.
https://www.jessicaackerley.com/

ELI WALLACE is a pianist, improviser, and composer who resides in Brooklyn, NY, leading his own projects, collaborating with other like-minded artists, and co-curating the interdisciplinary performance series Invocation with Drew Wesely. His work as a pianist displays his vast milieu of experiences from classical, jazz, free improvisation studies, and extensive piano preparation, while his compositions employ notational strategies to broaden the manner in which sounds are created and the ways in which musicians interact. Over the past decade he has appeared on dozens of albums and has performed at such esteemed venues as The Stone, New York, NY, Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago, IL, and the Outsound New Music Summit, San Francisco, CA.
https://eliwallacemusic.com/