Events

Welcome back to the Six Foot Love series at The Wild Detectives. A series of live performances with social distance and special safety precautions to comply with CDC guidelines while enjoying live music, performances and discussions.

See special considerations below concerning this event:

-Tickets are $25 and are valid for TWO PEOPLE. Find them here

-All tickets are numbered and associated with a specific location

-All tables and benches are set 6′ apart from each other

-Access to this show will be made through the side of our house, not through the main door.

-Full service too all seats, no need to access the bar or the indoor area

-Find tickets here

-Doors at 7p

-Show at 7.30pm

Amy Annelle is a modern day songwriter, performer and recording artist whose work—as a soloist, and with small folk, jazz and experimental ensembles—balances curiosity and exploration with a reverence for America’s restless, divergent musical past.

As an itinerant, she lived rough, working odd jobs and immersing herself in the people, places, music and history around her. Annelle’s songs, photographs and essays bear witness to these lucid, heartworn journeys—ranging freely from the wilderness of Oklahoma’s High Plains to America’s crumbling concrete interiors, from subway busking to the stage of New York’s Town Hall and even Hollywood’s big screen—and serve as an ephemeral map of our collective emotional core.

At The Wild Detectives, she will be joined for her first set by John Alan Kennedy, a Houston musician fluent in a vast swath of innovative and progressive music.

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Please join us for a very special evening with Kevin Saunderson, where he will discuss the recent relationships of his music with social justice activism and black fueled movements in Detroit. Kevin Saunderson, considered one of the originators of Detroit Techno, will be in conversation with local techno hero Wanz Dover.

This event is presented by Inspired Works, it’s free and RSVP is required, you can RSVP here

After this conversation, Kevin Saunderson will have an exclusive performance at It’ll Do Club

Easily the most dexterous in the stable of Detroit techno pioneers, Kevin Saunderson recorded some of the hardest and most mechanistic techno to come out of the Motor City, but routinely hit the mainstream dance charts as well with productions for his techno-pop act Inner City. From his very first production, Saunderson forged an energetic, groundbreaking style for techno — a dense rhythmic assault of sound samples and heavy percussion, often with a repetitive chanted chorus forming the only vocals. His Inner City productions however, consisted of much slicker, house-inspired tracks underpinning the vocal workouts by Paris Grey — and later, his wife Ann. The group hit Great Britain’s Top 40 eight times, and earned four number one club hits on the American dance chart as well. After Inner City’s initial success in 1988, the group remained his primary concern until the mid-’90s, but Saunderson never deserted his hard-hitting production style; throughout the ’80s and ’90s, Saunderson recorded as Tronik House, the Reese Project, E-Dancer, Inter-City, Essaray, and Reese & Santonio (the latter as a duo), and also developed a roster (including Blake Baxter and Chez Damier) for his own label, KMS Records.

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Welcome back to the Six Foot Love series at The Wild Detectives. A series of live performances with social distance and special safety precautions to comply with CDC guidelines while enjoying live music, performances and discussions.

See special considerations below concerning this event:

-Tickets are $15 and are valid for TWO PEOPLE. Find them here

-All tickets are numbered and associated with a specific location

-All tables and benches are set 6′ apart from each other

-Access to this show will be made through the side of our house, not through the main door.

-Full service too all seats, no need to access the bar or the indoor area

-Find tickets here

-Doors at 7p

-Show at 7.30pm

On the heels of their first duo release, God Made My Soul an Ornament, we are honored to have North Texas multi instrumentalist and vocalist Sarah Ruth Alexander, and St.Louis based bassist Damon Smith, to perform in our backyard.

Sarah Ruth is a diverse musician and artist – a multi-instrumentalist, she employs hammered dulcimer, harmonium, electroacoustic sound art, and extended vocal techniques. She performs frequently both solo and with multiple bands and improvisational ensembles in the North Texas area.

Damon Smith is world travelling bassist and relentless collaborator who studied double bass with Lisle Ellis and has had lessons with Joëlle Leandré, John Lindberg, Mark Dresser and others. Damon’s explorations into the sonic palette of the double bass have resulted in a personal, flexible improvisational language based in the American jazz avant-garde movement and European non-idiomatic free improvisation.

“Sarah and Damon both come from rather different playing backgrounds. Damon is known to the world almost purely as an improviser. Notwithstanding a few such things as Ayler tunes or Fluxus-tangential scores, both of which serve as springboards or orientation points for more improvisation yet still, Damon has devoted his life and art to discovering, in real time and practice, instant composition, both solo and with other musicians from all over the world. His other passions, from poetry, to modern art, to (perhaps most infamously) world cuisine all reflect his uncompromising and ever-searching aesthetics and praxis.

Sarah, depending on what night you catch her on, can be found playing doom metal, ambient drones, pop music, electronic noise, 20th century composition (from names familiar to obscure), or performing her own literary works, comedy, or socially challenging performance art; all in addition to her pure improv wanderings with musicians of many different backgrounds, disciplines and genres.”

Aaron Gonzalez, liner notes of God Made My Soul an Ornament

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In honor of poetry month, join us in the backyard for a celebration of Deep Vellum’s newest chapbooks! Featuring live readings by poets Sherrie “Candy” Zantea (Oak Cliff-Hangers) and Leah Tieger (Circle Back) accompanied by a virtual reading from Melania Luisa Marte (Plantains & Our Becoming)*. Poets will be in conversation with Fatima-Ayan Malika Hirsi, author of Everything Good is Dying (Deep Vellum, 2019).

This will be an in person event, RSVP is free and required. You can do it here

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Our friends Dan Bowman and Tarun Krishnan will take over our backyard stage to present their beautiful debut EP Pendulum.

Pendulum contains three stories each with a different take on how we all deal with the balance between wanting love and actually discovering it. Drifting from delusion to clear-eyed reflection to an encounter with the divine, these songs are both deeply autobiographical and still revel in opaque metaphor.

This event is presented by Chasquis Group

Formed in the middle of the Coronavirus Pandemic, with songs composed mostly on phones, Telephone House reflects the introspective and lonely nature of our uncertain era. They have a penchant for sweeping strings and brass that seamlessly trade off with vocals, blending elements of Classical, Jazz, and Folk with hooky pop sensibilities

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Meet the authors of Forces of Nature a new book that sets the record straight and charts the fascinating history of women’s discoveries in science. In this thoroughly researched, authoritative work, Anna Reser and Leila McNeill uncover how women have navigated a male-dominated scientific culture – showing themselves to be pioneers and trailblazers, often without any recognition at all.

In the ancient and medieval world, women served as royal physicians and nurses, taught mathematics, studied the stars, and practiced midwifery. As natural philosophers, physicists, anatomists, and botanists, they were central to the great intellectual flourishing of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment. More recently women have been crucially involved in the Manhattan Project, pioneering space missions and much more. Despite their record of illustrious achievements, even today very few women win Nobel Prizes in science.

Anna Reser is an American artist, writer, editor, and historian of science. She holds a Master’s Degree in the history of science from the University of Oklahoma, where she is currently pursuing doctoral studies in the history of technology. She is the editor and co-founder of Lady Science, an independent magazine about women in the history of science.

Leila A. McNeill is an American writer, editor, and historian of science. She studied literature at the University of Texas at Dallas where she graduated with a Master’s Degree in Literary Studies. She then shifted focus to the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, in which she earned another Master’s Degree at the University of Oklahoma. She is now an editor-in-chief of the online magazine, Lady Science, and an independent researcher and a freelance writer with a focus on women and gender in the history of science, technology and medicine.

This will be an in-person event in our backyard. Social distance and mask wearing will be enforced.

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