Dashiel and Av

Date and Time

• Saturday, Jan 17, 2026  7:30pm

Location

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Av is a multi-faceted instrumentalist, composer, and producer from Northern Kentucky, drawing on roots in rudimentary percussion, jazz, rock, and electronic music. He began making music at age 11, learning drums while experimenting with programming dance tracks on freeware software. After high school, he found deep inspiration in drummers such as Ben Bratton, Zach Hill, Elvin Jones, Chris Dave, Tony Williams, and Max Roach. With a church-organist grandmother and a grandfather who, after serving in the Air Force marching band, spent his free time building and coding computers, keyboards were nearly inescapable in Avery’s musical life. As an adult, Avery became fascinated by jazz piano and composition - an enchantment that propelled years of studying and transcribing greats such as Wayne Shorter, John Coltrane, and Herbie Hancock. Guided by the wisdom of many prominent Cincinnati-based musicians, Avery has worked to blend these influences into a personal fusion of jazz harmony, electronic/ambient textures, and an experimental approach to rhythm.

Dashiel is a genre-bending multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer shaped by a deeply musical family. He started playing drums by ear at the age of two, playing along to Beatles records and sitting in with his dad and LA blues greats like Lucky Lloyd. He soon discovered the piano, turning out original classical compositions at an early age. By middle school, he fell deeply into hip-hop production, spending nights in the basement experimenting with remixes and learning the basics of beatmaking. By high school, that curiosity had sharpened into a serious practice—writing verses in class, producing nightly, and developing a voice that expanded into jazz, indie, R&B, and electronic sounds through his college years. After finishing school in New Orleans and spending a brief stint in Los Angeles working in TV post-production, he settled in Brooklyn, focusing on political organizing by day and recording by night. His influences include Billie Holiday, Sam Cooke, Bob Marley, John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Amy Winehouse, Aretha Franklin, Jorge Ben Jor, Mulatu Astatke, Hailu Mergia, Jay-Z, Lupe Fiasco, Mac Miller, and Smino.

For this performance, the two will move fluidly across instruments from song to song—keys, vocals, drums, guitar, and synths—sometimes trading roles, sometimes blending them, and occasionally weaving live track elements into the set. The music will span jazz-inflected experimental rap, electronic and ambient explorations, soulful ballads, and high-energy percussive pieces. Some moments will be sparse and intimate; others explosive, improvised, and rhythmically adventurous.

The show represents the culmination of their overlapping yet distinct musical sensibilities—an evening that reframes their individual catalogs through collaboration, spontaneity, and a shared commitment to boundary-pushing performance.