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Multi-reedist Ned Rothenberg composes and performs about saxophones, flutes — including shakuhachi — and bass clarinet. Energetic as a single designer and avant-garde jazz performer since (a minimum of) the ’70s, Rothenberg performed in Anthony Braxton’s Innovative Orchestra task in 1978. He relocated to N.Con.C. in 1978, and continued to …

Folk vocalist/songwriter and guitarist Rachel Bissex was raised in Newton, Massachusetts. When she was 13, and displaying a continuing curiosity about music, she got her initial guitar. It had been a utilized one her mom bought from an area music store for under 40 dollars. When Bissex transformed 19, she …