You’ve seen them in bands and behind vocal mics. Tonight, it’s just them and their guitars. Courtney Hartman, Jeremy Ylvisaker, and FPA will each perform a solo instrumental set on guitar.

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Courtney Hartman, a Wisconsin-based guitarist, singer, writer and producer, has spent 15 years knitting together music communities across the bluegrass, folk, and indie scenes. She turned early acclaim—including a 2014 Grammy nomination for her work with folk quintet Della Mae—into true partnerships, writing and recording with an ever-growing family of fellow artists. Popmatters calls Hartman “a real-life folk troubadour and scholar, informed by her travels and the relationships that she’s built through them.” Acoustic Guitar Magazine says she is “a songwriter that delights and disturbs.” Her first two albums, Ready Reckoner and Glade, featured collaborations with Gregory Alan Isakov, Anaïs Mitchell, Bill Frisell, and Sam Amidon. Her most recent release, With You, is a richly collaborative album centered around the themes of care and motherhood and includes performances by Watchhouse, Tift Merritt, and Phil Cook.

Jeremy Ylvisaker is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, teacher, and visual artist whose music and images are influenced by decades of wildly disparate collaborations with artists both popular (e.g., Laufey, Bon Iver, Suki Waterhouse, Sara Bareilles, Andrew Bird, Bruce Hornsby) and, more often, underground. These friendships are reflected in many solo recordings; with his trio Alpha Consumer; in his multimedia series Nights for All Time; in his contributions to soundtracks such as Aggregate States of Matters (MoMA), Reframed: Forgotten Film Remembered (Walker Art Center), and Macbeth on Broadway; and in an improvised score alongside Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Some of his favorite art is collaborations between taggers, the people who paint over their tag, and the people who mark where utilities are.

FPA is Minneapolis-based songwriter, composer, and guitarist Frances Priya Anczarski. She co-produced her 2021 album Princess Wiko—which was born from her love of film scores and jazz ballads—with Andrew Broder. The Nigerian-Polish musician is now working on an EP to be released later this year.