Eli Kahn

ELI KAHN is a guitarist, beat-maker, & improviser from South Bend, IN. Performing for over 10 years with his original projects The B.E.A.T. & After Ours has helped him hone his craft with layers & composition. Through the use of looping, beat machines, & a custom made 7-string hybrid guitar, he is able to paint landscapes with head-nod inducing rhythms, grooving bass lines, & melodic guitar parts. Having toured across the US for the past 4 years with performances at museums, festivals, galleries, wineries, venues, living rooms, & everything in between, his music is suitable for a wide variety of settings & has taken him all over the world to perform.

ARTISTS ELI KAHN HAS PERFORMED WITH

Micki Miller, Dixon’s Violin, Heyzeus, Pink Sky, Jordan Hamilton, Cofresi, The O’Mys, Midwest Hype, The Smoking Flowers, Joe George, Limn, Lyn Rye, Ben Burden, Honey Monsoon, DR3AM CA$T, Ratboys, Midwest Hype, Palmer Squares, Rich Ruth, Ecso, hi/ker, & more….

US Performances

The Grey Eagle (Asheville, NC)

District 42 (Asheville, NC)

The Foundry (Asheville, NC)

The Lobster Trap (Asheville, NC)

One World Brewing Downtown (Asheville, NC)

Creston Brewery (Grand Rapids, MI)

LangLab (South Bend, IN)

Homebody Festival (Goshen, IN)

Pyramid Scheme (Grand Rapids, MI)

32nd Elkhart Jazz Festival (Elkhart, IN)

Creston Brewery (Grand Rapids, MI)

Bare Hands Brewery (Granger, IN)

Taproot Cider House (Traverse City, MI)

7 Monks (Grand Rapids, MI)

Potowatomi Conservatories (South Bend, IN)

B. Nektar (Ferndale, MI)

Homebody Festival (South Bend, IN)

Tricyle (Chicago, IL)

Drunken Donut (Joliet, IL)

Bootlegger’s (Iowa City, Iowa)

Fort Greene (Denver, CO)

The Modern (Boise, ID for Treefort Music Festival)

Owyhee (Boise, ID for Treefort Music Festival)

South Bend Museum of Art (South Bend, IN)

Earthworks Harvest Gathering (Lake City, MI)

Creston Brewery (Grand Rapids, MI)

Final Gravity Brewing (Kalamazoo, MI)

Potowatomi Conservatories (South Bend, IN)

Snite Museum at Notre Dame (South Bend, IN)

Homebody Festival (South Bend, IN)

LangLab (South Bend, IN)

International Performances

Reverb (Tokyo, Japan)

Yokota Air Base (Yokota, Japan)

Gattaca (Kyoto, Japan)

Vox Hall (Kyoto, Japan)

Nocosarejima (Osaka, Japan)

Magayura (Osaka, Japan)

Ruido (Osaka, Japan)

Buttobi (Asakusa, Japan)

NEPO (Kichijoji, Japan)

Waver (Tokyo, Japan)

Blue Heaven (Tokyo, Japan)

North Gate Jazz Club (Chiang Mai, Thailand)

Festivals & Residencies

AVL Fest 2023 (Asheville, NC)

Elkhart Jazz Festival (Elkhart, IN: 2013 - 2023)

South Bend Museum of Art Resident Musician (South Bend, IN: 2015 - 2023)