SWELL Art Cafe presents an evening of outstanding performances from Eve Maret (Nashville), Zachary James Watkins (Oakland), and Pomme Pom. Ride the @talklowfest high with life-affirming, boundary pushing music.

@evemaret is a Nashville & St. Louis-based experimental artist and composer who employs a wide array of electronic media and techniques in her various disciplines, exploring the possibilities of personal and communal healing through creative action. 

@zacharyjameswatkins studied composition at Cornish College and received an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College in 2006. Zachary has received commissions from The Empyrean Ensemble, Splinter Reeds, The Switch Ensemble, Density512, sfsound, The Living Earth Show, Kronos Quartet and the Seattle Chamber Players among others. Zachary has performed in numerous festivals across the United States, Canada, Mexico and Europe and his band Black Spirituals opened for pioneering Minimal Metal band Earth during their 2015 European tour. Zachary completed “Documentado /Undocumentado” a multimedia interactive book in collaboration with Guillermo Gómez Peña, Gustavo Vasquez, Jennifer Gonzalez and Felicia Rice. In 2025, Zachary received a NEA grant to compose and premiere the new work “Exciting Sites of Opposition III” for the site specific resonant frequencies of The LAB SF featuring multidisciplinary artist Lisa E. Harris and bassoonist Jamael Smith. Zachary has been an artist-in-resident at the Espy Foundation, Djerassi, the Headlands Center for The Arts and the Amant Foundation Siena, Italy.

If you don't get the chance to see Cinci's own @pommepomooo on 9/26 at @talklowfest, fear not! The Queen City duo deliver vocal and synth based compositions that soothe and lull the spirit.

$5-10 PWYC. Doors 7:30PM, music at 8PM. See you there!