Fresh off an October appearance on KSPS PBS’s Inland Sessions, vocalist Edda Glass and guitarist/composer Max Hatt bring their singular musical world to The Listening Room at Hamilton Studio on Sunday, November 22, at 6:00 PM. Their music stretches effortlessly from award-winning originals to reinventions ranging from “Wichita Lineman” to “Take Five,” alongside bossa nova sung in the original Portuguese.

Their performance thrives on a striking contrast: Edda’s intimate, unmistakable voice floats in conversation across the vast, western expanse of Max’s immersive guitar textures. Together, they create a cinematic soundscape that resonates like folk, harmonizes like jazz, and grooves like bossa nova.

Hailing from Montana, Glass and Hatt draw from the landscape, including its snow geese and wheat fields, stark ridgelines and towering weather fronts. 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 dialogue 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 toured since 2013, appearing on NPR and PBS stations from Seattle to New York City, with performances at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Sundance Film Festival, and Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival. They won the Grand Prize of the NPR/Mountain Stage New Song Contest in 2013 and received a Jazz Road Grant in 2022, funded by the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation. Their latest album, Gray May Day (2023), was co-produced by frequent collaborator Patrick Sansone (Wilco, Autumn Defense).

Doors: 5:00 PM | Show: 6:00 PM
All ages. First-come, first-served seating.
General admission: $34.86 including fees. Student tickets: $20.
Tickets: https://maxhatteddaglass.com/tickets?show=spokane