No Trick Pony is a Washington, D.C. power-trio. Featuring Amy K Bormet (keyboard/voice), Keith Butler Jr. (drums), and Brian Settles (tenor saxophone), the group presents a unique sound that often finds Bormet constructing song, poetry, melody, and harmony above a quiet tornado of exploration from Settles and Butler underneath.

Though each member is steeped in streams of traditionally defined music—jazz, popular music, punk, and classical, to name a few—No Trick Pony tends to focus on a deconstruction of the strict barriers of jazz, exploring the transitional points between composition and improvisation. Groove abounds as a way to moor the listener in these explorations, which have the uncanny ability to present as both song and not-song.

No Trick Pony has appeared at The Arts Club of Washington, The Catalytic Sound Festival, and a featured billing at the Capital Fringe Festival.