Franz Nicolay is that multi-instrumentalist and man-about-town you've seen with cabaret-punk circus World/Inferno Friendship Society, gypsy-klezmer carnies Guignol, and world's best bar band the Hold Steady. He founded the NYC composer-performer collective Anti-Social Music; published his first story collection, "Complicated Gardening Techniques" in 2009; and released his third solo record, "Luck And Courage," in 2010.