High Noon Saloon presents

Atlas Improv's Anniversary Party
Atlas Improv Co.
Daredevil Christopher Wright
Little Red Wolf

9:30PM / $12 cover / $10 advance / 18 and up

**TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR NIGHT OF SHOW**

Over the past six years, Atlas Improv Company has totally revitalized and reshaped Madison's improv scene through experimentation, character-based storytelling, and community outreach. Their best-known shows include TheatreSports, a no-holds-barred competition between teams of improvisers, and The Showcase, a collection of cutting-edge performances ranging from one-person shows to improvised Shakespeare.

When Atlas isn’t onstage, it teaches improv workshops, performs at private functions, and conducts corporate training. For more information, check out www.atlasimprov.com

Daredevil Christopher Wright is an Eau Claire band who has garnered the attention of such magazines as Paste, who featured them as band of the week in May of 2009. Paste writes: "There's a track on The Daredevil Christopher Wright's debut LP that shares a name with the band and tells the story of a man who literally dedicates his life to performing death-defying stunts. The Wisconsin trio has taken similar leaps—not of he motorcycle-jumping variety, but nearly as risky and contingent on vulnerability. Their debut, In Deference to a Broken Back (out now on Amble Down Records), owes as much to the band's musical open-mindedness as two of its members classical training; its reference points are far-flung, from Chopin-does-acoustic-folk etudes, circus waltzes, string quartets, whistling, post-punk rock-out—even one of those plastic recorders you might recognize from elementary school music class.

Like any good escape artist, the band’s refusal to surrender to presumed restrictions seems to be the key to their success. “Whenever I hear music that gets me excited, I just want to play that music, you know?” says guitarist/vocalist Jon Sunde. “And so the idea of having no kind of boundary or no formula to what could happen is just really appealing to me.” Sunde and his older brother Jason were exposed to endless options as music students at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where they both earned vocal degrees. “I think we were both influenced pretty strongly by these things that were sort of harmonically dense and more ambitious,” he says. “You get chained sometimes into these self-imposed rules, but it’s really freeing when you can access these other directions.”

The music of Daredevil Christopher Wright will be appreciated by fans of Sufjan Stevens, Bon Iver, and Shearwater.

Combining elements of rock, bluegrass, alt-country, and the harmony-heavy vocals of swing-era ensembles, Little Red Wolf offers something entirely new and unique without forgetting their roots. Their music has been described as “distinctive and melodic,” and “really ambitious, especially in the vocal department, and they pull it off beautifully.”

Little Red Wolf plays everything from up-tempo foot-stompers and straight-up rock, to soulful ballads and genre-bending tunes. Using vintage guitars, accordion, piano, percussion, and even the glockenspiel, they’ve managed to write an impressive set of original music that appeals to people across the usual boundaries.