Join us at the Sunday May 3, 2026 Outpost After Dark Salon Series featuring a DOUBLE HEADLINING CONCERT- the incredible musical stylings Anna Soltys & The Familiar | The Chris Greene Quartet

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm at Art Makers Outpost!

Doors open: 5:45

BYOB

Tickets $30 online each (anyone who is no longer sitting on a lap needs a ticket)

(*Tickets are $35 if purchased at the door)

Open Seating / Some standing room - first come first serve

Complimentary beer by Sketchbook & appetizers by La Principal at every concert as long as supplies last!

SPONSORED BY: Evanston Family Chiropractic, Sketchbook, La Principal, Art Makers Outpost & Our Evanston

Headliner #1 Anna Soltys & The Familiar

Anna Soltys and the Familiar is a modern Folk Rock band with an entrancing new sound. Anna spent the first part of her childhood in Poland followed by 6 years in Paris before she moved to her self-proclaimed home, Chicago. It is the cross-cultural awareness that may awaken the type of delivery that is so unique to her sound. On top of the music, her lyrical, poetic content fills the heart with an awareness of the self we could all use a little of. 

Anna’s music explores and embodies elements of pain, strength, honesty, and sorrow. From start to finish, lyrically driven simple melodies leave you with a sense of colorful melancholy.

Anna Soltys- Guitar/Vocals

Larry Beers- Drums/Percussion/Glockenspiel

David Smith- Bass/Saxophone/ Clarinet

John Pirucello -E-Guitar/Mandolin/Pedal

Headliner #2 The Chris Greene Quartet

Chris Greene - saxes
Damian Espinosa - piano
Marc Piane - bass
Steve Corley - drums
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The Chris Greene Quartet has been a highly visible part of Chicago’s jazz scene since 2005, and has maintained a stable lineup from the beginning, with the exception of Steve Corley, who has held the drum chair since 2011. Damian Espinosa on piano and keyboards and Marc Piane on acoustic and electric basses have been onboard since the beginning. Unique among Chicago bands, most of whom feature, by necessity, constantly shifting personnel, the CGQ has been able to develop a true group sound and feel, harking back to bands from the classic age of jazz when groups could stay together for long periods of time. While honoring the tradition, the CGQ incorporates elements of funk, hip-hop, rock, pop, the blues and reggae, reflecting their diverse backgrounds.

Greene's rewarding experiments on Conversance include a rendering of the jazz classic "You Don't Know What Love Is" with a Curtis Mayfield groove straight out of Superfly. The sonorous Greene original "Gentleman's Breakfast" is a "quick samba" inspired by Brazilian singers Ed Motta (with whom Greene has performed) and Elis Regina. And Piane joins the freewheeling party with "Thumper," a "crazy shit's gonna happen type of song" (in the words of the composer) that includes element of Frank Zappa and King Crimson. The title refers both to the bunny rabbit immortalized by Bambi and a baseball player's righteous pounding of home plate with his bat.

Conversance also includes Eddie Harris' "Boogie Woogie Bossa Nova," an obscure tune Greene prepared for a planned 2020 tribute to the late and legendary Chicago tenor saxophonist. (The show alas, was pre-empted by Covid.) There's also a bumptious reading of Duke Ellington's "Just Squeeze Me;" Espinosa's lyrical "Broken Glass," a great vehicle for the pianist, and Piane's romantically inclined "Inspiration.

“...a hearty tone and sharp wit...a proud descendant of such 60s soul-jazz saxophonists as Gene Ammons and Eddie Harris.”

-- DownBeat Magazine
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“Chris Greene is a Chicago jazz treasure.”
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- Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune.