Born in Ypsilanti, Michigan, Fred has been consistently active in the indie rock scene in Michigan and worldwide since the early 1990s. One of his best-known projects was the celebrated indie pop band Saturday Looks Good to Me, but the remarkably prolific musician, songwriter, and producer has been involved in many groups before and since, as well as recording several albums as a solo artist. Currently, he works as a music journalist and freelance writer, plays in projects like the experimental large ensemble rock band Winged Wheel, and is often found sitting in with various up-and-coming younger artists, playing on their albums or working in a production and mentorship role.

Shelley Salant is a multi-instrumentalist and community presence with nearly 20 years of international experience in hosting and playing diy shows. In addition to organizing countless events, playing in dozens of bands, and guiding the course of Michigan underground music, Salant has recently opened her own record shop, Detroit’s Ginkgo Records. As Shells, Salant creates dreamy and meditative solo pieces for electric guitar, simultaneously conveying both the rough-edged energy of punk and the thoughtful flow of her own spiritual practice.

Alvin Hill is a technology based artist whose work combines projection, light and modular synthesis. He has performed as a DJ, electronic music composer, and multimedia artist for over thirty years, in addition to extensive work in arts education and youth development, both in Ann Arbor and Detroit. Alvin has composed and performed with dance companies such as Arachne Aerial Arts, Brown Dance Project, Chavassse Dance and Performance, and Koichi Tamano & Harupin-Ha, including performances at the Alvin Ailey Theater, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. His installations have been featured at the Smithsonian, Tübingen’s Kultur Nacht festival, and UMMA

Emily Roll is a multi-disciplinary artist who blurs spoken word, theater, performance art, and sound collage in their often shockingly vulnerable writing and sound-based pieces. In addition to experimenting with the boundaries of music and expression in projects like XV, Tyvek, and Roll’s sample-based solo project Daphne Orion, they also participate in readings of their poetry, prose, and other written ruminations. Earlier this year, they performed on a bill with Anne Carson.

Detroit based band Dick Texas is based around the songwriting and vision of bandleader Valerie Salerno, stretching traditional guitar-based rock sounds into new forms that exist in strange, arid landscapes. Salerno experiments with unusual instrumentation and arrangements, with songs that can come on as suspiciously straightforward, but almost always veer into wildly unforseen territory. Dick Texas tours often, and recently released their first full-length album, All That Fall.

Pure Energy meets hardware soul, OMO bridges sounds from past lives & future selves, creating frequencies designed to make you move.