Thursday, April 17
Calicchia Gallery Studio, 1433 E 33rd St Cleveland
Doors 7:30, Music 8PM
Admission: $15 suggested donation
No one will be turned away for lack of funds

Horizon Trio
Album Release Show

Garrett Folger - Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Anthony Fuoco - Piano
Carmen Castaldi - Percussion

Horizons often imply a limit, either to our visual perception or, more abstractly, to our individual understanding and experience. From this boundary we generate our knowledge, what we know and what we can know, deducing that which lies beyond our perception, aware of what we cannot fathom. As the azimuth centers us from the horizon to the celestial body, the human miracle of creativity grounds us in the ever constant unknown of our intellect and reason, a limitless pact between humanity and our physical and mental boundaries.

Garrett Folger is a freelance composer, educator, and performer based in Cleveland, Ohio. A graduate of the conservatory of music at Baldwin-Wallace University, he has performed across the country including at the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall, as well as internationally in Canada, Europe, and in numerous festivals across Cuba in 2023. Notable musical collaborations at home include performances with Sammy DeLeon y su Orquesta, the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, Jazzworks and his own group co-led by Carmen Castaldi and Anthony Fuoco where many of his own compositions are interpreted. Garrett’s large ensemble compositions have been performed by groups such as the Third Law Collective and the Skatch Andersson Orchestra.

Anthony Fuoco is a lecturer at Baldwin Wallace University and is the coordinator of secondary piano. He currently teaches courses in piano, pedagogy and jazz. His musical interests include improvisation, composition and classical piano repertoire. As a pianist, Fuoco frequently performs as a member of groups such as the Pulse Quartet (with Brad Wagner, Aidan Plank, and Dustin May), the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra and the Wedmedyk/Fuoco duo.

A gifted jazz drummer, Cleveland's Carmen Castaldi emerged in the 1970s, and spent decades as a highly sought-after sideman, working on the West Coast with artists like longtime associate Joe Lovano, Frank Strazzeri, and Keely Smith. In 2019, he paired with Lovano and pianist Marilyn Crispell for Trio Tapestry.

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CHIMI + Halfway Cottages

CHIMI is a multi-hyphenate interdisciplinary artist hailing from the areas of Warri, Delta State, Nigeria. She merges music, performance art, and visual art with her gaze to the cosmos, in turn conjuring up divinity and truthful expression. As a resident of Northeast Ohio for the past 17 years, the artist finds parallels between her Igbo roots and the black experience in America to confront exploitation and grief through autonomy, yearning, and spirituality. CHIMI embodies and surrenders to divine inspiration/expression/improvisation, which allow for soul-bending performances void of cultural boundaries/expectations.

Halfway Cottages is the collaboration between Steve Lull and Andy Auten which has taken on different forms over the 10+ years of existence. For musical performance, Halfway Cottages is a vehicle for both their free improvisation and song writing, with differing line-ups for free-music and psych-rock modes. For musical programming, Halfway Cottages has been the moniker for Steve and Andy’s long running radio show that has aired on Cleveland State University’s radio station WCSB, since the pandemic lock-down of 2020. Halfway Cottages is a long and deep dialog between close friends that traverses dichotomies of comfort/unease, familiar/abstract, form/dissolution, and repetition/unraveling. These themes return consistently in the duo’s playing, song writing, and programming.

For this show, CHIMI joins Steve and Andy in a trio exploring improvisation, free association, spoken word, lullabys conjured from the ether, sound texture, noise and soul expression.