Schedule
THURSDAY, August 8, 2024 at 9:00 pm (Patron Opening Concert | TBA)
Friday, August 9, 2024 from 3:10-4:10 pm (Main Stage)
Sexmob is slide trumpeter and founder Steven Bernstein, saxophonist Briggan Krauss, bassist Tony Scherr and acoustic/electric drummer Kenny Wollesen. This experimental jazz band defies easy classification and with good reason. Their music is intentionally exploratory, much in the vein of the Miles Davis era that gave us the urgent and arresting On The Corner. Words like “visionary” and “reinvention” are thrown around when discussing Sexmob. They are all that and more. For as boundary-pushing as Sexmob goes, the musicians’ roots in jazz and their dedication to American song (early records celebrate the music of Duke Ellington and John Berry) is apparent in every conversation they have on wax. This is deeply engaging music that Bernstein hopes will resonate with the adventurous listener. "I wanted to turn people on the way the Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra record turned me on. It was real listenable, but there was all this slightly scary stuff going on there. It's not background music. And neither is this," he said in reference to Sexmob’s 2004’s release, Dime Grind Palace. Their latest is The Hard Way, a fascinating collection of compositions that are, at once, listenable and yeah, slightly scary.