For over 40 years, Craig Burk has been presenting his uncompromising brand of music in New York City, Europe, and Portland. In his always adventurous works, Burk successfully blends elements of rock, free jazz, Broadway show tunes, folk, industrial noise, Bollywood, and French pop, as well as classical music: ranging from Mozart’s operas to the art lieder of Schoenberg to the aleatory tendencies of John Cage.

Burk’s show at KEX will be the world premiere of Cherry-picking the Romantics, where he combines the poetry of Keats, Coleridge, Blake and others with his own texts and his freewheeling approach to electric guitar.

Timmy Barnett is a musician, teacher, and FLO (Free/Libre/Open) software/hardware developer. He studied violin with Anna Vayman at Ball State University, where he received his BM and MM. He has played violin and viola for many orchestras including the Danville Symphony Orchestra, Muncie Symphony Orchestra, Kokomo Symphony Orchestra, and has served as concertmaster for the Hendricks Symphony Orchestra and Fishers Chamber Orchestra. He performs on many instruments and in many genres. He teaches and performs on string instruments bowed and plucked, fretted and unfretted, as well as piano and organ. His fascination with composition and improvisation has led him to baroque figured bass realization, jazz, Irish (Indianapolis Ceili Band), and rock (!mindparade).

Timmy has always been curious about non-Western tunings. Stephen Weigel introduced him to microtonality while they were both students at Ball State University. Soon after moving to Portland, OR, he met Kite Giedraitis who introduced him to the Kite guitar. He has been playing Kite guitar and helping promote it since late 2019. This instrument has lead him to play 41-edo and 19-limit Just Intonation on violin.

website: timmybarnett.com