Name: SETTING – Album Release show – co-presented by Haw River Ballroom and Cat's Cradle
Start: 2026-05-17T20:00:00-04:00
Location: The Haw River Ballroom

$SETTING \u2013 Album Release show \u2013 co-presented by Haw River Ballroom and Cat's Cradle$

SETTING – Album Release show
with Walt McClements
Sunday May 17
Haw River Ballroom
Co-presented by Cat's Cradle
TICKET LINK: https://tickets.venuepilot.com/e/setting-2026-05-17-haw-river-ballroom-saxapahaw-0141f0
The North Carolina Piedmont-based trio of Setting bring together their substantial collective skills as musicians and their collaborative, explorative mindsets from groups such as Mind Over Mirrors, Califone, Black Twig Pickers, Pelt, Peeesseye, Sylvan Esso, and Jake Xerxes Fussell to bear in their inventive and rich improvisations. Multi- instrumentalists Jaime Fennelly, Nathan Bowles and Joe Westerlund subvert expectations while creating a sense of ease and wonderment. Their intricate interplay of synthesizers, cassette loops, banjo, keyboards, electronics, zithers, and a litany of percussive instruments form a tactile amalgam of celestial transcendence and terrestrial rhythm, a loamy pulse fluidly guiding every minute fluctuation in feel. Dedicated improvisers with years working together, the band has developed their own idiosyncratic vernacular and sense of flow. Setting’s self-titled album (Thrill Jockey) is a definitive statement of their improvisational acumen meeting compositional rigor, a robust wellspring of hypnagogic grooves and mosaiced textures. Setting harnesses the euphoria of communal creation.