Edda Glass and her long-time collaborator Max Hatt have “forged a unique sound,” says NPR’s Larry Groce. Drawing from jazz, bossa nova, and folk, their work stretches effortlessly from award-winning original compositions to radical reinventions ranging from “Wichita Lineman” to “Take Five” to ”Falling Grace.” But striking material is only half the alchemy— Glass’s hauntingly intimate voice is “one of a kind…you cannot confuse her with another artist,” according to the New York Theatre Guide.

Likewise, Hatt’s guitar and pedal work is a swoon-inducing soundscape that “creates a vastness within its quiet” (Yes! Weekly). Together they are “subtly poignant, elegantly funky, and haunting without trying to be” (Nels Cline; Blue Note, Wilco), making one feel “both lost and found, all at once” (New York Theatre Guide).

Based in Montana, their original music draws from the Northwestern landscape, featuring, on occasion, snow geese and wheat fields; pioneers and native peoples. But the sense of place runs deeper than mere iconography— the harsh aridity, frigid winds, and spacious grandeur have musical equivalents, carried out as a dialog between intimate instrumentation and lush layering, yearning dissonance and resonant homecoming.

“You remember how small and fragile you are, when you drive around out here, ” says Glass, “You take your life in your hands. But everyone does, everywhere. We’re all little people on great plains.”

Glass and Hatt have been touring since 2013, appearing on NPR and PBS stations from Seattle to New York City, with tour stops including Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, the Sundance Film Festival, and Solid Sound Festival. In 2022 they received a Jazz Road Grant, funded by the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation, and in 2013 they won the Grand Prize of the NPR/Mountain Stage New Song Contest. Their latest album, Gray May Day (2023), was co-produced by their frequent collaborator, Patrick Sansone (Wilco, Autumn Defense).

Presented in the Bailey Family Studio Series, this performance offers an intimate setting well suited to the duo’s nuanced dynamics and immersive atmosphere.