Ars Nova Workshop presents the experimental trumpeter Nate Wooley and his new trio Folk Music at Solar Myth on Saturday, November 23.

Considered one of the leading lights of the American movement to redefine the physical boundaries of the horn, Nate Wooley has garnered international acclaim for his idiosyncratic trumpet language. After years of conceptual and compositional projects, Wooley put together a trio dedicated simply to free music without boundaries. Folk Music features Wooley on trumpet, voice and electronics with the multifarious drummers Chris Corsano and Ches Smith, both of whom expand their arsenals with a variety of acoustic and electronic instruments. The trio’s name stems from the idea of making some​thing from scratch using the full life-experience and creativity of the musicians, a story that changes with each re-telling, that progresses each time the musicians come together to tell it again. It is music as legend or myth. Folk songs, strange, but true.