Calendar

Oct. 24, 7 p.m.
Rimon Artist Salon: Lisa Gutkin

Oct. 25-28
Zeitgeist Halloween Festival: "Things that go bump in the night"

Nov. 2, 7:30 p.m.
Strains New Music Ensemble

Nov. 4, 4 p.m.
Matthew Bengtson: New Piano Works & Debussy Preludes

Nov. 7, 6 p.m.
Lowertown Listening Session: Mary Jane Leach on Julius Eastman

Nov. 11, 7 p.m.
Ian Ethan Case, Double-Neck Guitarist

Nov. 13, 7 p.m.
The New Ruckus Composer Night

Nov. 17
Jazz at Studio Z

Nov. 18
Twin Cities Jazz Composers' Workshop

Nov. 25
113 Composers Collective

Dec. 5, 7 p.m.
The New Ruckus Composer Night

Dec. 7, 8 p.m.
Jenny Klukken & guests: Marimba Songs

Dec. 15
Jazz at Studio Z

Dec. 16, 4 p.m.
Rhythm's Mama and Le Voyage

Jan. 19
Jazz at Studio Z

Feb. 8-9, 7:30 p.m.
Zeitgeist: Playing it Close to Home

Feb. 16
Jazz at Studio Z

March 9, 7:30 p.m.
The Dream Songs Project

March 15
113 Composers Collective

March 16
Jazz at Studio Z

April 4-7.
Zeitgeist Early Music Festival: Pauline Oliveros

April 20
Jazz at Studio Z

April 27-28
Spitting Image Collective

May 11
Jazz at Studio Z

May 17-19, 7:30 p.m.
Zeitgeist with 113 Collective



PAST EVENTS

Jan. 19, 7:30 p.m.
The Dream Songs Project: Promises & Interludes

Jan. 21, 2 p.m.
Rimon Artist Salon: Turn It & Turn It Again

Jan. 30, 6 p.m.
Lowertown Listening Session: Dead King Mother

Feb. 11, 7 p.m.
10th Wave: Conflict | Perseverance

Feb. 17, 7:30 p.m.
Camilla Hoitenga & Taavi Kerikmäe: POLES

Feb. 23-24
Zeitgeist: Playing it Close to Home

March 2 & 4
113 Contemporary Music Festival

March 3, 7 p.m.
Athena Kildegaard Book Launch, featuring Ann DuHamel, Maria Jette, Linda Kachelmeier

March 10, 7:30 p.m.
Scott Miller: Raba CD/DVD Release Show

March 15, 6 p.m.
Lowertown Listening Session: Music & Activism of Julius Eastman

March 21, 6 p.m.
Lowertown Listening Session: Mary Jane Leach on Julius Eastman **CANCELLED**

March 22-25
Zeitgeist Early Music Festival: Julius Eastman

March 27, 7 p.m.
The New Ruckus Composer Night

March 31, 7 p.m.
Caprice Saxophone Quartet & Graydon Peterson Quintet

April 6-7
RenegadeEnsemble: New Mediations

April 13, 7 p.m.
Skål Chamber Collective

April 15, 1 p.m.
The Celtic Collective: The Boy Patrick Audiobook Release

April 18, 7 p.m.
The New Ruckus Composer Night

April 21, 8 p.m.
Linesmasher 8: Pancake7 feat. Talonie Starr & Jorge Cuascut

April 22, 2 p.m.
Matthew Coley, marimba and cimbalom

April 23, 7:30 p.m.
trad/mod: Lubo Denev

April 27-28
Inn-fest 2018: innova Recordings Showcase

April 30, 6 p.m.
Lowertown Listening Session: Seen/Heard Trio

May 1, 7:30 p.m.
Spitting Image Collective presents Seen/Heard Trio

May 4-6
Zeitgeist 40th Anniversary Celebration

May 14, 7 p.m.
The New Ruckus Composer Night

May 19, 7:30 p.m.
ANCIA Saxophone Quartet

May 20, 1 p.m.
The Celtic Collective: The Boy Patrick Audiobook Release

May 27, 8 p.m.
Brazilian Music Night

June 2, 7:30 p.m.
113 Collective: Face Wails in Mouth!

June 8, 8 p.m.
Nada presents: An Evening of Audiovisual Performance

June 12, 7 p.m.
The New Ruckus Composer Night

June 15-16, 7 p.m.
Davu Seru: Two Nights of Improvised Music

June 30, 4:30 p.m.
The Intangible

July 1, 5 p.m.
Dean Magraw & Mark Perry: Return to Rasbo

July 8, 6 p.m.
Davu Seru: Impromptu Improv Night

July 14, 8 p.m.
Chartreuse String Trio

July 15, 7:30 p.m.
Twin Cities Jazz Composers' Workshop Inaugural Showcase Concert

Aug. 2, 8 p.m.
All Originals Jazz Series: Will Kjeer Quintet

Aug. 4, 5 p.m.
The Devil's Advocate Podcast

Aug. 11, 6 p.m.
Lowertown Listening Session: Zeitgeist Composer Workshop

Aug. 20, 7 p.m.
The New Ruckus Composer Night

Aug. 23, 8 p.m.
All Originals Jazz Series: Rhythm's Mama

Sept. 6, 6 p.m.
Lowertown Listening Session: Zeitgeist Halloween Commissions

Sept. 15, 7 p.m.
Jazz at Studio Z: Pete Whitman's Urban Nature

Sept. 18, 7 p.m.
The New Ruckus Composer Night

Sept. 20-21, 7:30 p.m.
Clocks in Motion Percussion

Sept. 28, 7 p.m.
Smashing Carp

Oct. 6, 7 p.m.
Jazz at Studio Z: Doug Little Quartet

Oct. 11, 6 p.m.
Lowertown Listening Session: Music of Alexis Lamb

Oct. 12-14
Zeitgeist: Here & There with No Exit Ensemble

Oct. 15, 7 p.m.
The New Ruckus Composer Night

Oct. 18, 7:30 p.m.
Todd Harper & Jun Miyake: Musical Ecology - Ending the war on trees

Oct. 19-21
113 Composers Collective: Twin Cities New Music Festival


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ZEITGEIST HALLOWEEN FESTIVAL 2018
"THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT"

Oct. 25-28  •  $15 / $10 students & seniors ​/ $40 festival pass
Details
Zeitgeist’s Halloween Festival takes over Studio Z for four days of haunting sounds, bone-chilling new commissions, spine-tingling storytelling, and the return of Crocus Hill Ghost Story, a macabre tale of a house possessed created by composer/flutist Julie Johnson, writer Cheri Johnson, and filmmaker/actor D.J. Mendel.  
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​SCHEDULE: 
(times approximate) 
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Thursday, October 25
7:00 Storyteller Loren Niemi 
7:30 Zeitgeist premieres new works by Dameun Strange, Dan Nass, and Doug Opel. Plus electronic realizations by composer Mike Olson of FUNGI from Yuggoth by H.P. Lovecraft. 
8:30 Electronic music set by Queen Drea

Friday, October 26
7:00 Storyteller Loren Niemi
7:20 Saxophonist Benjamin Cold performs She Sings She Screams by Mark Engebretson
7:40 Storyteller Debra Ting
8:00 RenegadeEnsemble premieres new work by Alyssa Anderson inspired by Edgar Allen Poe’s THE BELLS
9:00 Festival musicians perform improvised score to a silent horror film

Saturday, October 27
7:00 Storyteller Loren Niemi
7:20 Electronic music by DeVon Russell Gray
7:40 Storyteller Laura Packer
8:00 Crocus Hill Ghost Story
9:00 Electronic set by Eric Gonzalez

Sunday, October 28
6:00 Electronic music set by Dameun Strange
6:20 Storyteller Loren Niemi
6:40 Hexantanz by Carlisle Evans Peck
7:00 Crocus Hill Ghost Story

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