Nick Millevoi

Sat., July 10, 8 p.m., $5, with Adam Caine and Bonnie Lander, Highwire Gallery, 2040 Frankford Ave., museumfire.com/events.htm.

by Shaun Brady

Anthony Dean

SHREDfest is the name of Nick Millevoi's ongoing series of schematic improv-based compositions for an ever-changing ensemble, but it could just as easily be used as an overview of the Philly guitarist's prolific output. He also employs his contortionist fretwork in the prog-jazz-metal trio Many Arms, the alt-country-jazz-rock group Circles, the avant-funk quartet Racketshop and the latest incarnation of art-rock ensemble Make a Rising. Millevoi has been squirreled away of late working on a new set of solo compositions for 12-string guitar and will be taking the stage alone this weekend as part of a lineup hosted by Fire Museum Records, but don't expect the result to be any less intense. Despite the folksy connotations of the 12-string, Millevoi is constitutionally unable not to force his axe into brutal, complex configurations, and he promises plenty of distortion, noise and, naturally, shredding.