Lily Finnegan is a Chicago-based drummer, composer, improviser, and organizer. She was spotlighted by The Chicago Reader as a “Chicagoan of Note” and included in The Chicago Sun Times “Next Generation of Jazz Musicians.” She leads her own quartet, Heat On, which released their debut album on Cuneiform Records. Other projects include improvisational duo with gabby fluke-mogul and playing in Ken Vandermark’s Edition Redux. Finnegan has collaborated with wide ranging artists including James Brandon Lewis, Macie Stewart, Bill Orcutt, Edward Wilkerson, Nick Dunston, Fay Victor, Patrick Shiroishi, Brandon Seabrook, and Shanta Nurullah. Lily earned a MM from Berklee College of Music and a BA in Sociology and Music from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.