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Thu20Mar2025
Tabaret March 20
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music
The Tapestry Choir is thrilled to announce their 5th Annual Tabaret: Tapestry’s Cabaret, featuring solo and group performances by their choir members. he concert will also be live-streamed via Zoom link. To attend, please see our donation link here https://www.pledge.to/5th-annual-tabaret.The Tapestry Choir breaks the traditional mold by celebrating artistic excellence through a blend of diverse singing approaches, spotlights of contemporary composers, and wide-ranging repertoire (from classic choral works to exciting new commissions) that captures and uplifts the beauty of music across all genres, eras, and traditions. Tapestry seeks to invite everyone—of any background, culture, socioeconomic status, or identity—into the lively world of choral music. As a group, the Tapestry Choir cares deeply about fostering a sense of community both among the membership and the broader NYC arts community, and crafting an ensemble culture where members genuinely support each other. Tapestry aims to regularly collaborate with other groups, musicians, and artists of all kinds across NYC.More information at https://www.tapestrychoir.org/. -
Fri21Mar2025
tilt • Ali Dineen Mar 21
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
In a small room, the sound of tilt rings out like one big voice. Composed of vocalist Isabel Crespo Pardo, vocalist/bassist Carmen Quill, and trombonist/vocalist Kalia Vandever, the Brooklyn-based group tilt writes intricate, viscerally affecting art-pop compositions that blend carefully interwoven motifs with improvisation. Their melodies are chiseled at extremes, vacillating between the angular and the achingly lyrical. All three members are accomplished artists and composers in their own right, coming from strong backgrounds in the jazz world. Their stunning debut LP, something we once knew (out May 3, 2024 on Dear Life Records), is in its own class, stylistically distinct from each player’s solo work—a record that teaches us how to listen to it as it progresses. Recorded live in the studio without overdubs, its songs chart troubled and surreal journeys toward understanding or acceptance, passing through mystical corners of its members’ singular musical vocabularies.Ali Dineen is a songwriter, visual artist and teacher born and raised in Queens. Ali has performed at the Museum of Art and Design, the Caramoor American Roots Music Festival, the American Folk Art Museum, and the Brooklyn Folk Festival, among other wonderful venues, and was awarded the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Residency in 2020. Ali is also the music director for local puppet troupe extraordinaire The Boxcutter Collective, arranges music and sings with Reverend Billy & the Stop Shopping Choir, and is part of a duet with the inimitable Feral Foster. Ali released a third album, Hold On, in 2020, and is currently working on a new piece about Joan of Arc. -
Sat22Mar2025
Elizabeth Ziman • Emma Frank March 22
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Sun23Mar2025
Gregg Belisle-Chi Trio /James Carney quartet Mar 23
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 adv / $18.00 at door
Gregg Belisle-Chi’s band will be Stomu Takeshi, Bass and Michael W Davis, Drums.
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Thu27Mar2025
Theresa Rosas • King Klavé • Sam Weber March 27
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Pianist / Songwriter Theresa Rosas will present music by Manuel De Falla with Mariana Aslan (soprano) and Benita Beneitez (violin), Fauré with Alex Saraceno (piano), as well as her original songs with Sam Weber and Alan Grubner.
Alan Grubner + Amaury Acosta aka King Klavé join electro-acoustic forces on NS Design CR5 violin + drums & Sensory Percussion. Extraterrestrials drink free.
Bassist Sam Weber will play his own compositions with Nathan Ellman-Bell (drums), Andrew Huang (piano), and Alex Levine (guitar).
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Fri28Mar2025
Riley McBride • Alexia Avina • Jesse In Grey Mar 28
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Riley McBride is a South Georgia-raised Brooklyn-based artist who laughs uncontrollably when uncomfortable. Through meticulous surveys of the psychological and physical landscape, their folk/rock-inspired songwriting reflects on growing up in the Bible Belt, familial structures, and waves of romantic yearning and strain.
Alexia Avina is an experimental ambient folk artist based in Queens who blends minimalism and restraint with lush sonic landscapes and ethereal melodic hooks.
Jesse in Grey is the songwriting project of Brooklyn based multi-instrumentalist Jesse Bielenberg. His recorded music contains ingredients consistent with folk, rock, chamber, emo, & shoegaze, but he likes to think of it as “comfortcore.” His raw, vulnerable songs ruminate on trees & television & loving & domesticity & growing up & the grey in-between spaces of uncertainty.
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Sat29Mar2025
Sofia Wolfson • Will Stratton • The Bird Calls Mar 29
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Sofia Wolfson is a musician and writer born and raised in Los Angeles, now based in Brooklyn. Her latest record, Imposing on a Hometown, was released in May of 2024. Wolfson is currently getting her MFA in Creative Writing at the New School and her fiction has been published in Superstition Review, Open Ceilings, Westwind, Flash Fiction Magazine, and more.
Will Stratton (b. 1987, Woodland CA) is a songwriter and guitarist living in Beacon, NY. His eighth album, the narrative-driven concept album Points of Origin, is out March 7th on Ruination Records (USA) and Bella Union (worldwide). His previous albums, 2021’s The Changing Wilderness and 2017’s Rosewood Almanac, received critical acclaim from Elton John and Alexis Petridis (The Guardian), as well as journalists at Pitchfork, Mojo, and Uncut, among others.The Bird Calls is the recording project of Sam Sodomsky, a writer and musician based in Park Slope. His latest album, Melody Trail, arrives this winter on Ruination Record Co. Paste Magazine said that its songs “cut right to the cores of feelings you only wish you could have distilled into words so precisely.”
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Sun30Mar2025
Lambskiss Debut • Nico Hedley • Strawberry Runners Mar 30
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Lambskiss Debut is a three-piece band from Brooklyn. The members are Léna Bartels, Logan Chung, and Shaughnessy “Shaughna “Trash Girl Jones” Jones” Jones. Each is a well-established songwriter and/or musical fixture in New York’s vibrant independent music scene, and together they are figuring out what happens when they make a band. They enjoy Linda Ronstadt and thinking about lyrics.
“The music Nico Hedley makes is late-at-night music, slow dancing in your socks on the hardwood in your bedroom kinda music, too wired to sleep so you read by the light of the lamp on the nightstand music, overhead lights coming on at the bar music, AM radio swinging stoplight no one else awake in town kinda music. His band can have a saxophone in it, his band can have an upright bass in it, and it always, to me, sounds like just the group of folks you want to sing “Auld Lang Syne” to you when the balloons drop.” – Ben Seretan
Emi Night, the songwriter for folk/country/pop project Strawberry Runners, is workshopping a batch of newly-written narrative folk songs to be recorded as part of a grant project for NYFA and the NYC Womens’ Fund. Sit in on a pre-studio session with Night and collaborators as they explore the new music together at The Owl on this night.
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Thu03Apr2025
Here's That Rainy Day with O. 0'blivion and friends Apr 3
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Fri04Apr2025
Natalie Simons • Dorée Apr 4
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Natalie Simons is a Brooklyn-based songwriter, originally from Northern California. Raised in a deeply musical household, she began playing piano at three years old and picked up orchestral trumpet by seven. Over the years, she has shifted her focus to songwriting, where she blends her classical foundation with introspective lyricism. Her forthcoming album is set to be released in mid-late 2025.
Dorée is a Brooklyn based artist and band. Playing solo or in band formation, they regularly gig at venues and DIY spaces in New York as well as surrounding and nearby states.
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Sat05Apr2025
Mutual Benefit • Verboten • Raybody April 5
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Mutual Benefit is a decade-long NYC-based symphonic folk pop thing with Jordan Lee and many wonderful collaborators. The newest album, Growing at the Edges, focuses on regrowth after disasters
Verboten writes charming, folky pop songs about disillusionment. Songwriter Foster Powell pairs bright, melodic hooks with poetic lyrics and a sound indebted to 90s-era alt rock. The band recently relocated to Bellingham, Washington, and released their first full-length, Life Expectancy, in 2024.
Raybody (fka Katy Rea) writes “classic singer-songwriter shit that gets weird.” Her singular vocal is intense, melodic, and endlessly dynamic. Paired with a band that deeply understands her songwriting, Raybody capture’s audiences in her current home of Brooklyn, and across the US; past bills with: Little Wings, Babehoven, Allegra Krieger, Sadurn, Florry, and more.
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Sun06Apr2025
Toby Goodshank • Trail Papa • Noah B. Harley & Windfellow Apr 6
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Trail Papa don’t look like your dad. Sometimes their songs are quite sad, sometimes they’re happy, sometimes hand-clappy, and playing them all makes us glad. Trail Papa don’t look like a man; some might loosely call them a band. Hear what you like? Come for a hike! We’ll turn this slog to a dance!
Noah B. Harley scribbles wholly heartfelt, slightly sinister songs out of an old (former) chicken farm in the Hudson Valley. He mines the rich veins of the spaghetti western soundtrack, Scotch-Irish ballad, American primitive tradition and Weimar cabaret to frighten and inspire everyone he has the good fortune to encounter. He has toured all over the map, from larger stages like Newport Folk and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass with Spirit Family Reunion to multiple tours across Europe and a brief stint at a circus in Jakarta, Indonesia. His latest record, Beloved Stranger, comes out April Fools Day, 2025.
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Thu10Apr2025
Leila Adu • Steph Richards Apr 10
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15 suggested donation
Leila Adu is an astonishing force in the space where electropop, avant-classical and singer-songwriter meet. Exploring her roots in New Zealand, Britain and Ghana, Adu is an international artist who has performed at festivals and venues across the world. Compared to Nina Simone and Joanna Newsome by WNYC, Adu has released five acclaimed albums, and has given visionary solo BBC and WQXR performances. Adu’s credits include Ojai Music Festival, Bang on a Can, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Late Night with David Letterman, and composing for a Billboard charted album. Adu holds a Princeton University music composition PhD. In 2022, Leila Adu–Gilmore was awarded a Charles Ives Composer Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Talk Show is a new project between drummer/analogue synth composer Qasim Naqvi and trumpeter Steph Richards exploring resonant frequencies and physic juju. Their first record “Miss America” comes out next fall 2025 (weJazz records).
“A rising force in avant-garde jazz” (Jazz Times), Steph Richards is known for her innovative approach to the trumpet and intermedia experimentation. She has collaborated with visionaries ranging from Henry Threadgill, Anthony Braxton and John Zorn to art pop luminaries Yoko Ono, David Byrne and Laurie Anderson. Her records have garnered worldwide acclaim including Record of the Year by the New York Times Playlist and Downbeat and span interactions with film, poetry, electronics, choreography and scent. She is founding member of Bang on A Can’s Asphalt Orchestra, and has worked with brilliant artists in jazz and creative music including Ravi Coltrane, Jason Moran and Jeff Parker. Steph is a Yamaha artist
Pakistani-American drummer/composer Qasim Naqvi is perhaps best known as a founding member of acoustic trio Dawn of Midi. Outside of his work in D.O.M., Naqvi is an accomplished solo artist and maker of film scores with a passion for analogue and modular synthesizer systems. His concert music has been performed/commissioned by The BBC Concert Orchestra, Jennifer Koh, The London Contemporary Orchestra, Stargaze, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Crash Ensemble, The Now Ensemble and countless more.
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Fri11Apr2025
Sarah Galdes • Ian Davis: Rock Band • The Blump Band • Apr 11
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 adv / $18.00 at door
The Blump Band is Michael Coleman – Keys Ivan Arteaga – bass clarinet. Sara Schoenbeck – bassoon. Sam Kulik – bass trombone Sarah Galdes -drumsIan Davis: Rock Band is an outlet for composer/guitarist/singer Ian Davis. The music is part carefully constructed, part free with sections of intricate counterpoint devolving into playful, noodly noise. The set features songs about Star Trek, debt, and love. ID:RB released their first album *Passing Phase* in January 2020. ID:RB will feature Jason Burger, Michael Coleman, Julian Cubillos, and Dandy McDowell. -
Sat12Apr2025
Lily Talmers • Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light Apr 12
7:30 Doors $15.00 suggested donation
Robin Bienemann is a singer & songwriter from Chicago. His wickedly funny and poignant original songs mix contemporary themes with old musical styles. He combines dry humor and sophisticated songwriting with a deep sense of history. At his musical core is a reverence for the guitar as an instrument to accompany songs and as a vessel to express the American psyche in all its strange beauty and complexity.
The now Brooklyn-based Lily Talmers hails from Michigan and writes of the innate divinity in humanity from a palpably Midwestern vantage. Her lyrics are spiritual and strange—vivid images that range from sludge-covered and dismal to childlike and wondrous. Musically, Talmers calls to mind heady 60’s folk revivalists like Leonard Cohen and Judee Sill, at times expanding into the experimental bigness of Paul Simon, and fitting cozily amidst the emotional delicateness contemporary songwriters like Adrianne Lenker or Haley Heynderickx.Fresh off their 2023 win at the Thomas Point Bluegrass Festival band competition, Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light are shaking up the bluegrass world with their fresh take on traditional music. Led by John Lennon Award-winning songwriter Sumner, the string band’s dynamic sound showcases bold chord progressions, unforgettable stories, and mesmerizing musicianship from fiddler Kat Wallace and bassist Mike Siegel. With their grassy roots, Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light create a sound that’s both timeless and utterly unique, captivating audiences with every note they play.
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Sun13Apr2025
Arthur Lewis + Joél Leon • Akie Bermiss Apr 13
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Thu17Apr2025
Joe Henry and Scree featuring Levon Apr 17
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $27 adv/ $30 doortickets here for THURSDAY'S SHOW
In his decades-spanning career, three-time Grammy winning songwriter and producer Joe Henry has left an indelible and unique imprint on American popular music. Known for his exploration of the human experience, Henry is a hyper-literate storyteller, by turns dark, devastating, and hopeful. He has recorded 16 albums of his own, and his artist collaborations cross a variety of genres including T Bone Burnett, Ornette Coleman, Meshell Ndegeocello, and Billy Bragg. (photo by David McClister)
Scree – Ryan El-Solh (guitar), Carmen Quill (bass), and Jason Burger (drums) – have developed a distinctive group sound over their 7 years as a band, delivering song-like free improvisations and improvisational interpretations of El-Solh’s compositions. (photo by Zosha Warpeha)
Levon (Henry) is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, singer, theorist, and teacher based in New York City. While primarily associated with saxophones & clarinets (whether for Julian Lage, Paula Cole, or Jib Kidder), Levon has always made his own music in the margins on a variety of other instruments. His solo project has gradually shifted focus from instrumental to vocal music –self-accompanied on guitar and keyboards– which he has finally begun performing live. (photo by Joe Henry)
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Fri18Apr2025
Joe Henry and Scree featuring Levon Apr 18
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $27 adv/ $30 door In his decades-spanning career, three-time Grammy winning songwriter and producer Joe Henry has left an indelible and unique imprint on American popular music. Known for his exploration of the human experience, Henry is a hyper-literate storyteller, by turns dark, devastating, and hopeful. He has recorded 16 albums of his own, and his artist collaborations cross a variety of genres including T Bone Burnett, Ornette Coleman, Meshell Ndegeocello, and Billy Bragg. (photo by David McClister)
Scree – Ryan El-Solh (guitar), Carmen Quill (bass), and Jason Burger (drums) – have developed a distinctive group sound over their 7 years as a band, delivering song-like free improvisations and improvisational interpretations of El-Solh’s compositions. (photo by Zosha Warpeha)
Levon (Henry) is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, singer, theorist, and teacher based in New York City. While primarily associated with saxophones & clarinets (whether for Julian Lage, Paula Cole, or Jib Kidder), Levon has always made his own music in the margins on a variety of other instruments. His solo project has gradually shifted focus from instrumental to vocal music –self-accompanied on guitar and keyboards– which he has finally begun performing live. (photo by Joe Henry)
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Sat19Apr2025
Kyle Morgan• Ellie MacPhee Apr 19
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Kyle Morgan is a Brooklyn-based songwriter originally from Dillsburg, Pennsylvania, where he grew up singing with his family at church and home. With influences ranging from the classic roots music of the Carter Family and Hank Williams to more modern artists like Thom Yorke and Rufus Wainwright, Kyle sings songs of spiritual longing, struggle and redemption in an earnest tenor voice. He released three albums in the twenty-teens under the name Starcrossed Losers. In 2022, his latest record, Younger at Most Everything, came out on Team Love Records under his own name.
Ellie MacPhee is a Brooklyn-based violinist and singer-songwriter. Her debut album, ‘All I Want Is A Trampoline’, explores themes of growing older, the beauty of children (inspired by the little ones she teaches), effortless love, and pit-in-your-stomach grief—Y’know, all the easy stuff.
Drawing from many musical traditions, Almost Olive explores heartfelt themes through their catalog of original music balancing groove and heart. Fresh off the release of their debut EP, award winning fiddler and multi-instrumentalist Jacqui Armbruster and multi-style cellist Karl Henry create a dynamic and lush tapestry of sound and voice any listener will enjoy. -
Sun20Apr2025
Sam Decker Quartet • TBA Apr 20
Saxophonist Sam Decker will appear with quartet members Gregg Belisle Chi, guitar; Chris Tordini, bass; and Tom Rainey, drums.
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Wed23Apr2025
Martina Liviero • Phillip Golub listening party Feb 20
7:00 Dooors 7:30 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Thu24Apr2025
Will Shore • Sonic Mud Apr 24
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Will Shore presents a new set of compositions for electric vibraphone, clarinet, and bass clarinet—featuring Stuart Bogie and Doug Wieselman. Will Shore is a composer, producer, and vibraphonist. He has released his solo-vibraphone focused productions on Mister Saturday Night Records and Pique-nique Recordings. He DJ’s a monthly show on the Lot Radio, and has played vibraphone for Nels Cline’s LOVERS, Arto Lindsay’s Noise Quartet, The Dave Harrington Group, and the Nublu Orchestra conducted by Butch Morris. He’s written and produced music for shows on NBC, History Channel, and Netflix, and he has won 4 ASCAP Awards.Julia Elsas‘s SONIC MUD is a band that showcases her hand-built ceramic instruments – flutes, drums, natural trumpets, shakers, clayrimbas, rain machines and more. SONIC MUD recorded their first album, Above Ground in 2023. SONIC MUD has performed at The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pasaquan, The Bo Bartlett Center, The Jewish Museum of Maryland, Cooler Gallery, Printed Matter, The Drawing Center, The New School, NARS Foundation, Ortega y Gasset and Pratt.Joining Julia on April 24th at The Owl is Kenny Wollesen, Mauro Refosco, Tim Keiper, Mike Irwin and Eléonore Weill
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Fri25Apr2025
Jane Bruce • Bold Forbes Apr 25
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Sun27Apr2025
Closed for a private event
thanks – catch you at the next show!
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Thu01May2025
Miwa Gemini • Early Worm • Graham Lampe May 1
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Miwa and Rebekah have been making music for a long time. They met through the Main Squeeze Orchestra, an all female accordion orchestra, but for Miwa Gemini, neither of them play the accordion. Their harmony is unique and tight honed through years of singing together. They are excited to release their first collaborative album with Jennie Muoio as a 3rd vocalist recorded by Rich Lamb at the Alley Cat Studio. They are also very happy to celebrate this at their favorite venue, the Owl Music Parlor.
Early Worm is a Brooklyn based alternative folk trio consisting of Liam Hastings, Henry Nelson, and Will Curry. They released their debut EP, EW.EP1, in May 2024, and are currently working on their debut full-length album.Graham Lampe is a singer songwriter based out of Brooklyn, New York, originally from Portland, Oregon. They moved to New York in 2020 to attend The New School as a jazz composition major. Their love for lyrics and songwriting grew. Graham officially embarked on a solo career in 2022, Graham’s first solo record self titled GRAHAM•LAMPE was released January 2024. -
Fri02May2025
A night with Lau Noah May 2
7:30 doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Sat03May2025
Talk Bazaar • Eliza Edens • Alex Harwood May 3
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Talk Bazaar will dance the night away with you, sing and cry the whole car ride home, and tuck you gently into bed. Their 2024 album “WHATSPACE?” is the frenetic feeling of both isolation and community, of always trying to slow down and not knowing how to stop.
Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Eliza Edens weaves together disparate influences of people and places into her work to create mesmerizing sonic tapestries with guitar and voice. Edens’ songs build a kaleidoscopic world that documents the parallels between hope and heartbreak. The resulting sound is a diverse palette of guitar-based, experimental folk-rock centered around Eden’s gently-cradled voice and brimming at the edges with pockets of sonic whimsy.
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Thu08May2025
Damon Smith • Joshua Lee Turner May 8
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $25 adv/ $30 doorshttps://tickets.venuepilot.com/e/damon-smith-joshua-lee-turner-2025-05-08-the-owl-brooklyn-893de2
Joshua Lee Turner is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer based in Brooklyn. Josh is widely known for his YouTube channel Josh Turner Guitar, where he’s been posting original music, covers, and instructional videos since 2007, amassing hundreds of millions of views. Josh has toured extensively in the U.S. and abroad with original artist projects The Other Favorites and The Bygones, as well as with tribute shows A Celebration of Paul Simon’s Graceland and The Simon and Garfunkel Story. His most recent collaboration, The Bygones, released a self-titled album of original music in 2024, which took the band on tour across the U.S., U.K., and Europe, performing nearly 100 shows in one year. Josh is currently working on his first solo album of original music since his 2020 album, Public Life. This will be his first solo performance in three years.Damon Smith is a New York City-based pianist, songwriter, and improviser. Born and raised in Brooklyn, he started his career performing and touring with artists such as Jon Anderson of Yes, Napoleon Murphy Brock of Frank Zappa’s band, and Andrew W.K. Since then, he’s toured as a pianist with artists such as T.3 and Burlap to Cashmere, played his original music at venues such as the Highline Ballroom, the Joe’s Pub, CBGB’s, and Webster Hall, and performed as a sideman in festivals such as Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, and Zappanale. His debut solo album, “Intimate Machinery,” came out shortly after Smith Graduated from New England Conservatory in December 2017. His second album “God of the Grid” dropped in March 2019, which prompted NPR’s Here and Now to state: “Excited for what he has next.” He currently has a band with his brother Brendan Jacob Smith called The Brightmares, and their debut album “When The World Gets Fixed” dropped in 2022. -
Fri09May2025
Katie Martucci • Cloudbelly • Stefan Weiner May 9
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Hailing from the rich musical history of the Catskill Mountains in New York State, Katie Martucci grew up singing, and playing fiddle and guitar. The daughter of a jazz pianist, she began performing with her father at a young age. By the first grade, she was writing her own songs and playing for tips. Her musical journeys led her to the Ashokan Western and Swing Week, vocal lessons with Laurel Masse of Manhattan Transfer, a brief stint of collegiate acappella at Skidmore College and ultimately, to the New England Conservatory. Since graduating NEC, Katie has toured the country with her trio The Ladles, founded the Tucci Swing Orchestra (a 9 piece jazz band playing Boswell Sister inspired arrangements of classic swing rep) and begun recording and performing under her own name. Visit KatieMartucci.com for more details on upcoming projects.
Come celebrate the release of How Lucky You Are, Stefan Weiner’s first full-length album, out in May on Better Company Records. Stefan is an NYC-based queer indie folk singer-songwriter. A recent Top Shelf finalist in NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest 2024, he creates a musical space for people to access a deeper vulnerability. He is open and honest about his experiences with chronic pain, love, loss and his queer journey. How Lucky You Are is sure to bring both a tear to your eye and a smile to your face.
Cloudbelly is an indie-folk trio from Western Massachusetts, led by songwriter Corey Laitman. Known for their lyrical, confessional songwriting, the band blends quirky, psychedelic undertones with rich, emotive storytelling. With intricate arrangements featuring lush harmonies and evocative lead guitar hooks, Cloudbelly creates a sound that’s both atmospheric and grounded. Their stage presence is equally captivating—goofy, warm, and inviting, offering a genuine connection with their audiences. Drawing on diverse influences, their music captures a sense of the uncanny, where the personal feels both otherworldly and deeply real.
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Sat10May2025
Oren 0'Blivion • Camila Ortiz • Charlie Kaplan May 10
Doors 7:30 Music 8:00 Suggested Donation $15.00
Charlie Kaplan is a Brooklyn-based songwriter who runs the independent label Glamour Gowns. On Monday 5/12 and Tuesday 5/13, he and his bandmates – Winston Cook-Wilson, Andrew Daly Frank, Julian Cubillos, and Jason Burger – will be recording Charlie’s fifth album. Just days before, on 5/10, they will be playing it in its entirety to rev up and get the juices flowing. It will be a loose and fun set, chock-full of songs you haven’t heard but will likely like.
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Sun11May2025
Jana Horn • Ryan Power • Matt Bachmann May 11
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15 suggested donation
Jana Horn is a musician and writer from Texas. She has an MFA in fiction writing from the University of VA, and releases music on the album No Quarter.Ryan Power’s career has been one of quiet growth. He has been releasing music under his own name since 2002, all of it boasting a sensitive, skewed, delirious take on pop music. He has embarked on a quest to write song-based music full of color, melody and shifting harmonic puzzles. Ryan will be performing solo. -
Fri16May2025
Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn • Maia Macdonald May 16
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $TBA
Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn lives in Brooklyn where she works as a song writer, performer, producer and mom. In a constant dedication to expanding her tender repertoire of American folk songs into a larger context, her recordings seek to find the magical amity between explorative percussion, orchestral sounds and elements of rock and popular music. Since starting out in the late 1990’s, she has released over a dozen solo and collaborative recordings on various independent labels including K Records, Kill Rock Stars, Absolute Magnitude Recordings, Double Double Whammy and 7e.p., and toured solo and with countless iterations of her own band in concert halls, music clubs and punk basements all across North America, Japan and Europe.
Mirah is currently in the thick of finishing a new record and will play some of the new songs at The Owl, accompanied by the always magnificent Aviva Jaye.
Mirah sees her creative process as a dedication to investigating the complicated intersections within communities large and small, believing that with deeper understanding of each other, the seeds of a more generous and less violent world are planted.
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Thu22May2025
Amir El Saffar • dream brigade May 22
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Amir ElSaffar presents a captivating solo set for Trumpet, Santur, Voice, and Modular Synths.
dream brigade is the duo of Phillip Golub (piano) and Lesley Mok (drums). Fresh off the heels of their debut self-titled release on Infrequent Seams, they present a set of original compositions, standards, and improvisations.
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Fri23May2025
Cam Knowler • Adeline Hotel • Nuria Graham May 23
7:30 doors 8:00 music $15 suggested donation
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Sat24May2025
Nora Stanley • Nicomo • Little Cliff May 24
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Sun25May2025
Adelyn Strei and friends May 25
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
… a 6 piece experimental cohort made of members of ice blink, more eaze, Jeff Tobias, Adelyn Strei
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Fri30May2025
TJ Douglas • Mutual Benefit May 30
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Sat31May2025
Kyle Morgan • Katy Pinke May 31
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation 
In the past decade, Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Kyle Morgan has released 4 records. Each features his earnest tenor voice, evocative lyricism and distinctive conglomeration of Americana – from stripped-down acoustic ballads and love-lorn parlor laments to roaring alt-country and throwback 60’s rock’n’roll. His latest release and label debut, Younger at Most Everything, came out on Team Love Records in 2022. In addition to his solo efforts, Kyle performs throughout NYC with a number of collaborators including Isaac Gillespie (Kyle & Isaac), Rachel Housle (WishWish), and Tamar Korn.
Katy Pinke’s songs are self-examinations—cerebral and unsparing, but reaching toward a more promising future. The Manhattan-based singer-songwriter, painter, and theater-maker’s nimble soprano evokes the precision, humor, and melancholy of forbearers like The Roches and Connie Converse. Sentences pour across verses, disrupting the symmetry of the expected verse-chorus form. Pinke released her stripped-down debut self-titled album in the spring of 2024, which PopMatters describes as “somehow dreamlike but rooted in authentic, basic principles of songwriting and performance.
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Sun01Jun2025
Danny Fox Trio • Sweet World June 1
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Mon02Jun2025
June something or even later..?
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
The Curhachestra is Curtis Hasselbring (trombone/guitar), Raphael McGregor (lap steel), Adam Minkoff (electric bass) and Dan Rieser (drums). The group has played together since 2021 and will be releasing their first eponymous recording in March of 2025. In addition to the core quartet, special guests on the album include Nels Cline and Lisa Parrott.
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Wed04Jun2025
.michael. WEDNESDAY! June 14
7:30 Dooors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
.michael. is a clarinet/guitar duo that writes songs, often with words, often weird and playful and sad. Most songs are less than 2 minutes. This show will be a complete performance of their new album: The Puddle. -
Fri06Jun2025
James Carney • TBA June 6
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Sat07Jun2025
Sweetbreads • Natalie Carol • Brittany Ann Tranbaugh June 7
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Natalie Carol is front-woman and songwriter of LA-based band, Valley Queen. Cited as “one of the great cosmic belters from the school of Grace Slick and Delores O’Riordan” by Rolling Stone Magazine, Carol has shared tours with the likes of Laura Marling, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Social Distortion and featured on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert, Linda Perry’s Dodger Stadium Covid Concert Series, and Willie Nelson’s Luck Reunion Festival.
Brittany Ann Tranbaugh (pronounced TRAN-baw) is a Philadelphia-based songwriter whose queer Americana heartbreaker “Kiss You” won Song of the Year in the 2021 John Lennon Songwriting Contest.
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Sun08Jun2025
Key Hutch •Worldwide Seagull • iisa (isabel crespo pardo) Jun 8
7:30 Door 8:00 music $15.00 suggested donation
Key Hutch is a versatile guitarist, multi instrumentalist, composer, and producer from Brooklyn, NY. The “Key Hutch” experience is a dance between Black tradition and progression. With the use of loop stations, effects pedals, ableton and just pure imagination, Key Hutch is an artist that honors their natural ability to shape-shift through form and sound. She often finds new ground to break through the guitar as it serves as an integral tool in channeling her curiosity and her gifts.
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Wed18Jun2025
Jenifer Jackson and friends June 18 (WEDNESDAY!)
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Jenifer Jackson says, “Morning Star” is inspired by the desert and flight. The album was sponsored in part by a grant awarded me by the City of Austin Live Music Fund. I’ve lived in Austin TX for the past 17 years and although I perform a couple times a year in NY’s Hudson Valley, this show at The Owl Brooklyn will be my first in the city for many years. I’m over the moon about reuniting with bandmates Oren Bloedow, Greg Wiecsorek and with dear city friends. Join us, along with some other musical guest stars, for a celebration of music and friendship.
official website: http://www.jeniferjackson.com
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Fri18Jul2025
Alena Spanger • TBA. Jul 18
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Fri10Oct2025
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