About this Event
Lily Glick Finnegan is a Chicago-born and -based drummer, composer, improviser, and organizer who transcends musical styles. As of 2026 Lily is a New Music USA “Next Jazz Legacy” awardee. She was spotlighted by The Chicago Reader as a “Chicagoan of Note” and included in The Chicago Sun Times “Next Generation of Jazz Musicians”.
Lily leads her own quartet, Heat On, which put out their debut album in 2025 on Cuneiform Records. Described as a “love letter to Chicago” the band features Edward Wilkerson Jr., Fred Jackson Jr., and Nick Macri, and has received acclaim in Downbeat Magazine, Wire Magazine, Dusted Magazine and The Vinyl District. Other current projects include an improvisational duo with gabby fluke mogul which released Throw It In The Sink on Sonic Transmission Records, and playing in Ken Vandermark’s Edition Redux.
On top of ongoing projects, Finnegan has collaborated with wide ranging artists including James Brandon Lewis, Nicole Mitchell, Nick Dunston, Bill Orcutt, Tomeka Reid, Macie Stewart, Fay Victor, Tashi Dorji, Brandon Seabrook,Lia Kohl, Dave Rempis, Katie Ernst, Devon Gates, Jason Stein, Katinka Kleijn, Emma Dayhuff, Julia Blair, Hannah Frances, Sarah Clausen, Erez Dessel, and Shanta Nurullah,
Lily has toured extensively in the United States and Europe. She has performed at festivals including The Hyde Park Jazz Fest, Sound and Gravity Festival, Wels Music Unlimited, All Ears Festival Oslo, Vision Sound Outdoor Festival, Madrid Jazz Festival, Catalytic Sound Festival and OCT-LOFT Jazz Festival in Shenzhen, China.
In 2021, Lily completed a Masters of Music from Berklee College of Music, receiving a full scholarship to participate in the Berklee Global Jazz Institute. At Berklee, she was part of the Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice where she was mentored by Terri Lyne Carrington, Kris Davis, and Linda May Han Oh. Her work with Carrington includes contributions to “Music for Abolition” as part of the Visualizing Abolition Exhibit at the University of California Santa Cruz. Prior to attending Berklee, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Music from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her studies fueled her interest in the confluence between power structures, history, and social movements within music.
In addition to her composing and performing, Lily co-curates the Option Series, a showcase of contemporary approaches to improvisation and composition, held at Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago. She is a member of international music cooperative Catalytic Sound.
Flatways Jordan Glenn Sudhu Tewari Matt Robidoux drums electronics stringless guita. From Jordan's page:
Drummers are seriously goofy, I mean look at what they're doing. They try acting serious in hopes no one will grab away their favorite implements, and they'll use anything besides a drumstick so you can't easily know they're drummers. But they are. And having a laugh riot never more so than when the audience sits rapt and pensive. Of course, they're really insanely good at it too, but still. When there's more than one drummer, the collective noun is "a corps" and that cracks them up too, or rather, it reminds them to cement their deceptive grimace keeping the plain ridiculousness of it all to themselves. The triumvirate Jordan Glenn, Sudhu Tewari, and Matt Robidoux are virtuosi of the grim visage. Don't let them get away with it, come laugh and cheer, and point at .
gabby fluke-mogul is an improviser, composer, facilitator, organizer, and doula based in New York.
Weaving within threads of the avant garde, experimental, and free jazz continuums, fluke-mogul's playing has been described as ''embodied, visceral, and virtuosic" and "the most striking sound in improvised music in years." Rooted in an uncompromising reverence and somatic attunement, their presence is relational and devotional in any sonic context.
gabby is humbled to have collaborated with Nava Dunkelman, Joanna Mattrey, Ava Mendoza, Charles Burnham, Fred Frith, Luke Stewart, Zeena Parkins, Tcheser Holmes, Mariá Portugal, Lotte Anker, Paula Sanchez, Susana Santos Silva, Dave Rempis, Lily Finnegan, Nate Wooley, Lester St. Louis, William Parker, Anh Vo, Dimos Vryzas and Pauline Oliveros among many other musicians, poets, dancers and visual artists.
Recent performances include Cafe OTO (London), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon), Curva Minore (Palermo), Les Instants Chavirés (Paris), Nasjonal Jazzscene (Oslo), Stadtgarten (Cologne), Constellation (Chicago), Koncertkirken (Copenhagen), Schl8hof (Wels), Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Louis), Roulette (Brooklyn), The Stone (Manhattan), the Lab (San Francisco), Temescal Arts Center (Oakland), and Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (Ensenada).
The nine pieces in their debut album are cogent, focused, and dynamically varied. There's a surprising amount of blues in fluke-mogul's sound, especially when they vocalize (in the readings of the same text that open and close the album, juxtaposing a recalled intimate moment with militaristic percussion, and especially "On the Fringe." At times, their aggressively bowed double-stops and harmonics sound like an electric guitar. Finnegan, whose background is in punk rock, is an attentive and responsive accompanist whose rhythmic creations give the pieces detailed vibrancy.
One has to go all the way back to William Parker and Hamid Drake's 2001 outing, Piercing the Veil, to find a duo recording this engaging.(from Stash Dauber blog)
From the initial light spiccato bow strokes, you could tell that gabby ventures far afield from most violinists...Some of the violinist's bow strokes, using minimal arm movement, produced scorching splashes that left echo-filled chills in their wake, while longer bow pulls created walls of static-laden feedback. At times she would flip the violin over on her lap to rub the back surface and tap the wood for
percussive effects. At other moments, she held her instrument like a small guitar - plucking the strings and evoking a bluesy mood - or strummed her fingers rapidly across the strings, as you might do with a mandolin...Her visceral aesthetic will be challenging for some, but for those eager to explore the outer reaches of the violin, she is just the ticket."
- Bruce Hodges, The Strad
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Mitchell Park Community Center, 3700 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, United States
USD 20.00
