Hackensack

Hackensack is a double bill night dedicated to the fresh and the new and occurs on the first Thursday of every month during the students' term times.

First set: Tom Ollendorff / Will Barry Duo

RWCMD graduate Tom Ollendorff is a guitarist and composer based in London. He was awarded the Yamaha scholarship for 2015. "A highly talented, imaginative player"

Will Barry is a London-based pianist who recently graduated from the Royal Academy of Music. He has appeared as part of many different projects and has performed with Mark Lockheart, Stan Sulzmann, Clark Tracey, Jean Toussaint, The National Youth Jazz Orchestra. Chucho Valdés (Irakere) described his playing as "sensitive and fluid - a beautiful sound”.

The duo will play a mixture of original music and standards.

Tom Ollendorff (guitar), Will Barry (piano)

tomollendorff.com/about/
www.willbarry.co.uk/

Second set: Big Bad Wolf

Big Bad Wolf is a London based band featuring washy guitars, ambient vocals, brassy hooks and deep grooves. This distinctive sound arises largely from the band’s consistently egalitarian process of group composition, where all 4 members are present from conception to completion of each song. Starting each writing session by recording an open-ended group improvisation, they then listen back, pick out the best ideas and then develop them into intricate and concise pieces of music.

Owen Dawson (trombone), Rob Luft (guitar), Michael De Souza (guitar), Jay Davis (drums)

www.bigbadwolf.london/about/

--Choose which you pay--
Big Price - £10 - for the arts supporter who would like to chip in that bit extra towards
Hackensack's longevity

Medium Price - £7 - for the awesome audient, supporting the Hackensack without quite
The glamour and philanthropy associated with the big price

Little Price - £5 - for the music lover who's thinking "that's all well and good but I'm on a
budget here and I come to bloody everything anyway so stop pestering me for cash"