The Out of Your Head Collective is a Baltimore-based improvised music collective co-founded by bassist Adam Hopkins and guitarist Matt Frazao in early 2009. Hopkins and Frazao curate weekly performances by the collective on Tuesday nights at The Windup Space. Out of Your Head is an attempt to broaden the local improvised music scene in Baltimore by forming groups of musicians in performance that have never previously played together. Out of Your Head was chosen (critic's pick) as Baltimore's "Best Band" in the 2010 issue of City Paper's Best of Baltimore, which read "After well more than a year of existence, OOYH has turned into one of Baltimoreâ??s most consistent ground-zeroes for musical revolutionâ??and thatâ??s in a city of musical revolution."

There are approximately 50 musicians currently involved in the collective, and the number grows with each scheduling cycle. Every Tuesday night Hopkins and Frazao draw from this pool of musicians and create ensembles that perform two sets of improvised music. Performances are scheduled in two month cycles, during which each member of the collective is likely to perform once, sometimes twice. Each week a completely different group is brought to The Windup Space to perform, and the band is likely to never be repeated. Some collective members are already in bands together, and some have never met, but the results of the new pairings are always exciting and fresh. The pool of musicians associated with Out of Your Head continues to grow and we are slowly but steadily building a new audience for improvised music in Baltimore. We've had guest performers come from Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, and Boston, and local musicians such as Michael Formanek, Dave Ballou, Susan Alcorn, John Dierker, and Will Redman participate.

On Tuesday March 1, 2011 we will celebrate the two-year anniversary of Out of Your Head with special guest and world-renowned improviser Andrew D'Angelo (http://andrewdangelo.com/) from NY. This will be the second event in our Guest Artist Series, the first being our one-year anniversary on March 2, 2010 for which we brought Baltimore-native saxophonist Ellery Eskelin (http://home.earthlink.net/~eskelin/) to perform with the collective. We are currently raising money via Kickstarter to fund more performances like these, where we bring artists of international stature in the improvised music community to come to Baltimore and perform on OOYH. More info is available at http://kickstarter.com/profile/outofyourhead.

Performances occur every Tuesday night at The Windup Space from 9:30p-midnight. Out of Your Head is always free of charge. The Windup Space is located at 12 W North Avenue, Baltimore MD, 21201.

http://outofyourhead.org