Bill MacKay + Nick Mitchell

Bill MacKay is a Chicago-based composer, improvisor, guitarist and writer. He has created an extensive body of work in the experimental folk, rock, avant-garde, and jazz diasporas.MacKay’s blissful harmonic control and outside-the-box guitar mastery are one with his compelling songwriting, and his creative voyage and imaginative influences are fully displayed across his discography.His recent recordings include: Foreign Smokes (2023) with BCMC, Keys (2021) with Nathan Bowles, Scarf (2020), STIR (2019) with Katinka Kleijn, Fountain Fire (2019), SpiderBeetleBee (2017) with Ryley Walker, and Esker (2017), and were all released by Drag City.MacKay is also a poet, visual artist and polyglot, and is a member of both the avant-garde rock outfit Black Duck (with Douglas McCombs) and the experimental groove-drone project BCMC (with Cooper Crain).


Nick Mitchell is a singer-songwriter-guitar player and improviser perhaps best known as a founding member of indie jam band One Eleven Heavy, but also as the man behind the Golden Lab Records label, which ran for 15 years from 2009, and the leader of Manchester noise-rock collective DSDV.