Venice Gas House Trolley is a Madison, WI "Beat Freak" music driven poetry ensemble inspired by the "Holy Barbarians" of the Venice West CA Beat Scene. However simply to label what they do as traditional 'Beat'- would be to miss the mark. The band initially hearkens back to the time when hipsters and cool-cats would chill out in jazzy coffeehouses digging ecstatic poets and musicians and then explodes through the present and into the future with vocal effects, driving bass, and tight rhythms. The group's sound and content runs the gamut from ambient chill groovy funk to aggressive garage to high and lonesome country to avant-garde jazz. to ambient chill. This is the next step in the spoken word revolution happening right now.

The line-up for this intimate Mother Fool's performance will feature two-time Madison Area Music Award Best Artist finalist Adam Gregory Pergament [voice, vocal effects, loops] and Kevin Arthur Knapp, who holds a degree in Music Composition from UW-Madison and plays with Jazz legend Richard Davis' Black Music Ensemble on electric bass and loops.

Enemy Lines Music Ensemble is a group of Madison-based musicians interested in exploring the interaction between composition, improvisation and everything else.