Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Kicks OFf Music SPACE Fall 2014 Series at SPACE Gallery

The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announces the Music SPACE fall concert series, featuring all-ages shows inviting audience members to experience a wide variety of musical talent based in the Pittsburgh area at SPACE gallery. These performances showcase downtown Pittsburgh and its Cultural District through inviting community members to experience the area after hours. Tickets are $5 at the door, and doors open at 8 p.m., with music beginning at 8:30 p.m., unless otherwise noted.

Concerts take place tonight, September 26, during the Trust's quarterly and 10th anniversary Gallery Crawl throughout the Cultural District, and Friday, October 24. Performances will not take place during November and December.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

This concert takes place after the Gallery Crawl, during CrawlAfterDark. Doors open at 10 p.m., and music begins at 10:30 p.m.

Pittsburgh-based group YXU describes itself as an "anonymous collective working between anarchism, music/performance, and Buddhism." Nx Gxds Nx Masters. Nx Hxpe Nx Fear Nx Self., the group's latest release, combines ambient soundscape work and chill electronic beats, creating a trance-like atmosphere.

Ennui is Pittsburgh-based musician Jim Doutrich. First established in 2004, Ennui has transitioned through the years to its now solo-act status. Doutrich's synth-wave style mixing both vintage and modern synths resulted in the upcoming album Telepathic Beat, which is described as sounding "at the same time effortless and pristinely constructed."

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24

Pittsburgh native and singer-songwriter Brooke Annibale combines earthy vocals and acoustic pop folk sounds. Her lyrics tell tales of love, loss, faith, and finding oneself, at once both deeply personal and universal. Her new EP Words in Your Eyes showcases a performer in transition, "featuring less of the acoustic folk pop sound that has appeared on her previous releases" and focusing "instead on an electric sound mixed with ambient sensibilities and lots of orchestration."

Performing with Brooke Annibale will be Pittsburgh born and raised, Shani Banerjee, who is no stranger to the road less traveled. Sourcing experiences from folk and outlaw country to heavy metal and rock & roll, Shani weaves together tales of unkept women, vengeful lovers, and conversations with death for her first solo performance in four years. She is currently recording her debut album in which she emphasizes vices and loss in a world gone mad.

PITTSBURGH BIENNIAL: PUBLIC RECORD

On view during the fall concerts is Public Record-a nine-person multimedia exhibition in celebration of Pittsburgh artists-that explores love, absurdity, surveillance, gaming, and identity. Artists include Rafael Abreu-Canedo, Matthew Biederman (with Aljosa Abrahamsberg, Marko Peljhan, and Brian Springer), Carolina Loyola-Garcia, Paolo Pedercini, Caroline Record, Paul Rosenblatt, Martha Rial, Susanne Slavick, and Two Girls Working. The Pittsburgh Biennial started at the Center for the Arts as a way to celebrate artists in the region. Twenty years later it continues to grow in scope and location, becoming the largest survey of regional contemporary art in Western Pennsylvania. As a platform for established and emerging artists, the Pittsburgh Biennial speaks to the rich texture of our city and its increasing momentum as a dynamic incubator and catalyst for artists. The 2014 partner venues are The Andy Warhol Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art, Mattress Factory, The Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, and SPACE.

SPACE - SPACE is located at 812 Liberty Avenue. Gallery Hours: Wed & Thurs: 11 a.m.-6 p.m.; Fri & Sat: 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. The gallery is free and open to the public. SPACE is a project of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. For more information about all gallery exhibitions featured in the Cultural District, visit TrustArts.org.

Pittsburgh Cultural Trust - The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has overseen one of Pittsburgh's most historic transformations: turning a seedy red-light district into a magnet destination for arts lovers, residents, visitors, and business owners. Founded in 1984, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a non-profit arts organization whose mission is the cultural and economic revitalization of a 14-block arts and entertainment/residential neighborhood called the Cultural District. The District is one of the country's largest landmasses curated by a single nonprofit arts organization. A major catalytic force in the city, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust is a unique model of how public-private partnerships can reinvent a city with authenticity, innovation and creativity. Using the arts as an economic catalyst, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has holistically created a world-renowned Cultural District that is revitalizing the city, improving the regional economy and enhancing Pittsburgh's quality of life. Thanks to the support of foundations, corporations, government agencies and thousands of private citizens, the Cultural Trust stands as a national model of urban redevelopment through the arts. For more information, visit TrustArts.org. Follow us on Twitter @CulturalTrust, and like us on Facebook.