Novel Folly (EP Release) // WURK // KSM at Gamma Ray

Join us at Gamma Ray bar to celebrate the release of Novel Folly's debut EP "(a)Live at the Cheese Cooler"! Featuring Madison's favorite funky freaksters WURK and certified rippers KSM (Kowalski-Skryagin Maneuver), we're in for a heck of party!

Doors - 6:30pm
KSM - 7:30pm
Novel Folly - 8:30pm
WURK - 10:15pm

Tix - $12adv/$20dos

Novel Folly is a five-piece, independent, genre-fluid group based in Madison, WI. Drawing from eclectic backgrounds in jazz, funk, Afro-Cuban, and classical/contemporary music, Novel Folly explores the liminal space between genres and packages it with catchy pop vocals and danceable anthems. Luna Pluer (vox), Mark Goodden, (keys - BA UW Madison), Jordan Kowalski (drums - MM University of Miami), Grant Blaschka (bass - MM Hartt School), and Peter Mathistead (winds - BA Luther College) makeup the quintet. For their debut EP, (a)Live at the Cheesecooler, Novel Folly brought in guitar and extra horns to form a whopping nine-piece band, experimenting with recording all together in the same room. It’s a collection of tunes originally written for previous group, CoMingle, brought to life by Novel Folly with the assistance of Joshua Alley at Second Street Soundworks, and producer Will Bailey. Interested in connecting deeply with their audience, Novel Folly brings a certain approachability for listeners to enjoy styles they might haven’t heard before by combining them with more widely familiar traditions. The group arranges collaboratively (yes, in a basement) with the use of various effects and electronic sounds in complement to traditional acoustic sounds.

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