Strange Brew & Music To Come present... Angel Bat Dawid LIVE \+ Vanessa Bedoret LIVE 7pm - 10pm Angel Bat Dawid Angel Bat Dawid (she/her) is a Chicago-based composer, conductor, clarinetist, pianist, vocalist, DJ, and recording engineer with over 35 years of professional experience. A 2025 United States Artist Fellow and current Artist in Residence at Northwestern University’s Black Arts Consortium, Dawid is recognized as an Afrofuturist artist. Her practice utilizes speculative aesthetics and technology to bridge historical scholarship with contemporary production, documenting and advancing Black musical lineages. As a classical composer and conductor, Dawid specializes in large-scale works utilizing formal orchestration. Her 14-movement composition, The Souls of Black Folk Suite, premiered at the Harris Theater in 2026. This followed Blk Metropolis Apocalypse, a work commissioned by the string ensemble D-Composed and premiered at Theaster Gates’ Land School. Her expertise as a conductor is rooted in spontaneous composition, directing ensembles through complex arrangements that merge formal scores with improvisational rigor. Vanessa Bedoret Vanessa Bedoret is a London-based French violinist, vocalist and composer. She integrates her classical background to experimental production, as a means to shape intimate and cinematic compositions. Treating songwriting as an instinctive process, Vanessa transforms her deeply personal experiences into pure emotion.