Kim Nucci (Chicago)
Kyra Sims (NYC)
PWYC, NOTAFLOF, $10 suggested at the door
air purifier running
BYOB
KN95s available upon request
Kyra Sims is a collaborative French Hornist, writer, and interdisciplinary performance artist residing in New York City. A lifelong lover of travel and adventure, she and her horn Otto have journeyed to five continents and will be completing her sixth and seventh continents in 2026.
As a musician, Kyra has worked with artists and ensembles such as Rosalía, Lizzo, Jon Batiste, Earth, Wind & Fire, The Roots, Carole King, Frank Ocean, and My Brightest Diamond. Kyra appeared as a backing musician in Taylor Mac’s Pulitzer finalist work A 24-Decade History of Popular Music, the critically acclaimed pop opera (and subsequent film adaptation) Now I’m Fine, and the internationally renowned podcast Welcome to Night Vale.
Kyra has worked as a musician both on Broadway and Off, originating chairs at Tony-Nominated Broadway show Illinoise, Drama Desk-Nominated shows Carmen Jones, Superhero, and Soft Power, and the Emmy-Nominated online show Ratatouille: A Tik Tok Musical.
Recording credits include Noname’s Sundial, Zola Jesus’ Taiga, Disparition’s Faite, original cast recordings for Illinoise, Superhero, and Grammy-nominated Soft Power, and films such as the well-received documentary Chèche Lavi, and Here and Now starring Sarah Jessica Parker.
Besides travel, her favorite things include cooking, birds, tattoos, and maintaining a casual obsession with dragons.
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Kim Nucci is an Oakland/Chicago-based media artist, composer, and technologist. Kim claims to be the Pope of facebook and worships dollar slice pizza as the one true god, while living in the god(pizza)less land of California.
As a musician, they perform on electronics, modular synthesizer, and saxophone. As a visual and sound artist, they create interactive installations using architectural interventions, sculpture, arduino and other microcontrollers, idiosyncratic interactive design, painting and projections. They also VJ, and create generative and audio-reactive video art for live musical performance.