LATE NIGHT: Annie Hayes Trio

Sat, Jun 28

DOORS 10:15PM | SHOW 10:30PM - 11:45PM $15 cover. (Seat assignments are subject to change and availability.) Annie Hayes is a drummer and educator based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Her style of playing behind the kit is greatly influenced by her musical inspirations such as Ben Riley, Elvin Jones, and Steve Gadd. Annie is a recent graduate of The University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre, and Dance, where she studied under Michael Gould, David Alvarez III and Nate Winn, as well as accompanied various contemporary professionals such as Marion Hayden, Kris Johnson, and Ellen Rowe. Annie has a passion for education as well as performance, and has worked as a private instructor since 2016. She has been working with the Detroit Symphony's Civic Youth Ensembles as a student mentor since 2023, and has since been hired on as the director of their Civic Youth Jazz Band. Annie is grateful to her students, mentors, and musical collaborators for inspiring her every day to educate and perform. Brynn Hilliker is a bassist and composer from Woodhaven, Michigan. She has been mentored by many incredible musicians in the Detroit Jazz scene, including Marion Hayden, Vincent Chandler, Jeff Pedraz, and Michael Malis. As a composer, Brynn has premiered original music at the Detroit Jazz Festival, Michigan Jazz Festival, and other jazz venues in the Metro-Detroit area. Currently, Brynn is a sophomore at the University of Michigan studying under world-renowned bassist Robert Hurst. pink marlena is a member of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians and holds a Master of Music in Improvisation from the University of Michigan, as well as a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies from the University of Minnesota-Duluth. Most of her work centers around free improvisation, the avant garde, and connecting to Ojibwe culture. Her most recent studio EP, Primaries (2022) was recorded in Washburn, Wisconsin on Red Cliff Ceded Territory and was completely improvised. Her master’s recital, Makwa Giizis (2025) focused on the experience of being Ojibwe at an elitist institution on stolen land, where the only experience of visibility is through past-tense laden land acknowledgments, as well as her fifth great grandfather’s 1855 journey to Washington DC from La Pointe, Wisconsin via birchbark canoe, a successful attempt to protect Ojibwe lands from encroaching federal and state governments. Gichi Weshkiinh’s Journey is set to be released later this year.