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  • Fri
    29
    Mar
    2024

    Moby Tex, Juliet Garrett and Sweetbreads. Mar 29

    Door 7:30 Music 8:00 Suggested Donation $15.00

    Moby Tex is a folk duo comprised of Sarah (“Small Chucks”) and Jesse (“Joe Piano”). Formerly of the Kentucky-based folk band, Beady, Jesse and Sarah grew up making music together, and are very excited to be collaborating again years later! Growing up together, their bond imbues every note they play together with a shared history and deep understanding. Their earnest lyrics explore growing up and engaging with the loveliness of living while acknowledging and contending with the hardships of life.

  • Sat
    30
    Mar
    2024

    Doree • Sun V Set • Analea March 30

    7:30 Door 8:00 Show $12 suggested donation

    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. Playing with Guy Paz (drums) and Ayin Villagra-Brown (piano).

    Brooklyn-based composer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist Analea creates neo-soul jazz funk paired with introspective lyrics. Analea is crafting a new project and performing locally with their personal outfit featuring Alzena Bell Gilbert (keys) and Dandy McDowell (drums).

    Sun V Set is the musical expression of Linnea Morgan (vocals, guitar, violin) with the collaboration and co-creation of Ethan Johnstone (drums, production) and Ethan Kuhn (bass) with the recent addition of Tristan Brennis (clarinet).

  • Sun
    31
    Mar
    2024

    Lindsay Stone • Jean Rohe • Paper Wings Mar 31

    7:00 Door 7:30 Show $12.00 suggested donation

    Long-time friends and collaborators Emily Mann and Wila Frank, known together as Paper Wings, dream up warm, pastoral folk songs suited to wandering through a forest or field, quiet contemplation, and long winding journeys. Furnished with delicate banjo and spellbinding harmonies so close you often can’t tell their voices apart, Frank & Mann deliver dynamic performances emboldened by the strength of their sincere songwriting.

    Jean Rohe writes one-of-a-kind narrative songs, concerned as much with the interior lives of her narrators as with the sociopolitical forces that shape their lives. Her most recent album, “Into the Night,” with her songwriting duo Robinson & Rohe, came out on Righteous Babe this year. Current projects include a new animated single with illustrator Sakshi Jain and a performance memoir 74 Corridor, about her relationship with her father and the New Jersey cities where he lived and died. “Not only does she make astoundingly beautiful music but she is thoughtful, reflective, and courageous.” – No Depression
     
    Lyndsay Stone is an NYC-based singer/songwriter whose love for gut-punching lyricism, intricate fingerpicking, and unusual song structures keep listeners attentive and surprised. Anyone who appreciates original compositions and truth-telling will connect with her live performances, and she’ll probably share one or two anecdotes that will make you giggle.
  • Fri
    05
    Apr
    2024

    Akie Bermiss and friends Apr 5

    7:30 $15.00 suggested donation

  • Sat
    06
    Apr
    2024

    Ellie MacPhee • Angus Watt • Eliza Edens April 6

    7:30 Door 8:00 show $12 suggested donation

       

    Ellie MacPhee is a Brooklyn-based violinist and singer-songwriter. She recently released her debut EP, ‘Cardinal Creek,’ which explores themes of growing up in South Carolina, blackberry pie, old love, and strange neighbors. Her writing is inspired by the small tragedies and comedies within our day-to-day lives.

    Angus Watt is a songwriter from the west coast of Canada, currently living in Montréal. In January 2024, he recorded his debut full length album, produced by David Parry (Loving, Alice Phoebe Lou). Tracked live off the floor in 3 days in a barn nestled in the woods of Cedar on Vancouver Island, the songs are aided by musicians Austin Tufts (Braids) and Evan Cheadle.

    On Eliza Edens’ sophomore album We’ll Become the Flowers, she seeks to understand what happens after the end. Whether grappling with heartache or a loved one’s mortality, the Brooklyn-based songwriter reimagines endings not as finite events but as devotional experiences that give way to new beginnings. Edens takes inspiration from folk luminaries such as Nick Drake, Karen Dalton and Elizabeth Cotten, sowing her compositions with introspection born from her own grief. 

  • Sun
    07
    Apr
    2024

    Matt Munisteri & Jake Eddy duo • Charlie Burnham & Joanna Sternberg Apr 7

    7:00 Door 7:30 Show $12 suggested donation

    Jake Eddy is a native of West Virginia, a true phenom on most things with strings, but most acclaimed for his staggering bluegrass guitar playing, which has turned heads and propelled him to the top echelon of his craft in only a few short years. Matt Munisteri is a native of Brooklyn New York, ostensibly a jazz guitarist, but with a bluegrass boyhood he wears on his sleeve, and an improvising sense that betrays enough of a checkered musical past to keep ‘em guessing. Matt and Jake first crossed paths in 2023 when they were both teaching at Bryan’s Sutton’s Blue Ridge Guitar Camp, and each thrilled at suddenly finding himself in hot water when first playing together. With chops and passion, Jake and Matt go straight to the deep end of a long tradition of American acoustic guitar duets – one formed of Bluegrass and Stardust in equal measure. 

    Charlie Burnham is descended from a long line of musicians, Apollo, Nero, Stuff Smith, Leroy Jenkins, etc.  He will be joined on this night by fabulous collaborators, playing material Charlie has either written himself or personally stolen from people he admires…should be fun!

    Singer, songwriter, visual artist and multi-instrumentalist Joanna Sternberg released their debut full-length album, Then I Try Some More, on Team Love Records, later picked up on Fat Possum Records.[3][4]. Sternberg went on their first tour opening for Conor Oberst in North America in July 2018.[5]  Sternberg’s second album, I’ve Got Me, was released in 2023, on Fat Possum Records; it was produced by Matt Sweeney.[6] 

     

  • Thu
    11
    Apr
    2024

    Selba • Jolie • Paraphrase April 11

    7:30 Door 8:00 show $12 suggested donation

    SELBA (Hannah Selin and Concetta Abbate) ties together tentacles of strings and voice as a unified superstructure of sound. Like the radical nature of Pi, they intertwine in intricate shapes but never quite meet between. Violists and vocalists, authors of song, arrangers of sonic resolution and improvisers alike, they are excited to join together in this unique collaboration of live musical performance.

    The soundscape-jazz band known as JOLIE first began in Chicago in 2015 as a spur-of-the-moment home recording session. Over the years, it has taken on vastly different forms, adding and subtracting collaborators for performances in bars, music clubs, and festivals. Now, with all four core members living in NYC, JOLIE has returned to its roots as a tight-knit ensemble committed to exploring surreal sonic spaces through improvisation.
     
    Dan Pierson – keyboards / Paul Bedal – keyboards  /Greg Tuohey – guitar / Mike Harmon – bass /Peter Manheim – drums
     
    Paraphrase (Michael Eaton, Nicki Adams) integrates divergent musical languages in a conversational style, integrating virtuosity, timbre and swing. Using modal and bebop vocabulary as a template, their arrangements draw on Ravel’s piano suites, Bartók’s piano etudes as well as Iranian Khush Rank rhythmic cycles. Their second album, The Transcendental portrays a thoughtful and musical duo rife with originals, imagining still closer integrations of jazz and classical music to come. 
  • Fri
    12
    Apr
    2024

    Carmen Quill • Panther Hollow • The Cradle • Apr 12

    7:30 Door 8:00 Music $12 suggested donation

    Carmen Quill (formerly Carmen Q. Rothwell) is a double bassist, composer, singer and interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She is recognized for her sound and versatility on the double bass, her captivating performances as a solo artist, and her intuitive sensitivity as an improviser. Her debut solo recording, Don’t Get Comfy / Nowhere (2020), “thrives on the meeting of reservation and vulnerability, and its songs feel as emotional and virtuosic as a power ballad yet are sparse and withholding as a Rembrandt” (Pitchfork). 

  • Sat
    13
    Apr
    2024

    Hour 'Ease The Work' release show with more eaze • Justin Felton + Ryan El-Solh

    7:30 Door 8:00 Show $12 suggested donation
     
    Conceived by composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Michael Cormier-O’Leary (Friendship, 2nd Grade, Dear Life Records) and delivered live by nine musicians in early 2023, Ease the Work is where breathy timbre and cinematic swoon factor meet in communion. Atmosphere and old school melody shake hands. Nice seeing you again. Formed in the flourishing underground of West Philadelphia in the latter half of the 2010s, Hour has fluctuated in size and scope around Cormier-O’Leary’s clear yet open-ended harmonic framework and ambitious ear. Cormier-O’Leary has contributed notably across the landscape of independent music, and Hour is living, breathing, deep listening proof of his community-minded ethos.
     
    more eaze is the project of brooklyn-based sound artist and multi-instrumentalist Mari Maurice. Ranging from ambient pop to deconstructed sound collage, her numerous solo and collaborative releases weave mundane, everyday sounds into adventurous textural compositions. Her music explores themes of intimacy, yearning, and the transformation of abstract feeling into intense living through sound design that moves seamlessly between the banal and the ethereal. She has recently released work with Longform Editions, Leaving Records, Ecstatic, and Orange Milk.
     
    Brooklyn-based improvised guitar duo featuring Ryan El-Solh (Scree, Office Culture) and Justin Felton (L’Rain)
  • Sun
    14
    Apr
    2024

    Levon Sings • Yasmine Seale • Derek Weaving April 14

    7:00 Door 7:30 Show $12.00 suggested donation

     

    Levon sings for feeling disembodied across instruments. Levon sings for music having language and language having music, the voice as the bridge, in embodied relativity. Levon sings to join other voices, as ones attention is a line the voice alone can reproduce. Levon sings because memory is interpretative, and that too is creative practice. Levon sings because everything is collaborative, ownership is isolating, and nothing is original. Levon sings because they always have.
     
    Yasmine Seale is a poet, critic, artist, and translator. Among her books are Agitated Air: Poems After Ibn Arabi, written with Robin Moger, and The Annotated Arabian Nights, described by the New Yorker as “an electric new translation”. She is currently a fellow of the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library.

    Songs about love written by bassist/multi-instrumentalist Derek Weaving, brought to life by a trio featuring long time friends and collaborators Alena Spanger and Ivy Meissner.

  • Thu
    18
    Apr
    2024

    Oropendola • Rocketship • Abe Hollow Apr 18

    7:30 door 8:00 show $12 suggested donation

        

    Joanna Schubert, the Brooklyn-based musician behind Oropendola, creates eclectic alt-pop and winding piano-based singer-songwriter compositions. Her debut full-length album – Waiting for the Sky to Speak, released in March 2023 – is a kaleidoscopic ride partly influenced by Kate Bush, Alice in Wonderland, and deep limbo states. Her music has been called “at the meeting point between arms in the air pop perfection and something altogether more jarring and intriguing”. Joanna also sings and plays with a handful of NYC peers, including Beccs, Nicomo, Stephen Becker, and Samir Langus. She has also been a touring member of Half Waif and Barrie.

    Michael Rocketship is a Brooklyn native who works in a variety of musical settings, as an improvisor/composer and recording engineer/producer. He’s worked with a wide array of artists from Chris Cohen to Kenny Wollesen and enjoys finding himself in surprising musical situations.

    Abe Hollow is the solo songwriting project of Los Angeles-based composer and recording engineer Adam Hirsch. By turns esoteric, serene, cerebral and simple, Abe Hollow songs wrestle with the irresolvable contradictions between having a mind and being alive. adamhirsch.site

  • Fri
    19
    Apr
    2024

    Here's That Rainy Day with Oren 0'Blivion Apr 19

    7:30 Dooors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation

    Songs of the season.  Raffle drawing with free lost and found umbrellas to the first twenty, probably, or maybe even thirty people.  

    Special Guests including Evan Tyor, Camelia Hartmann and…

     

  • Sat
    20
    Apr
    2024

    Slowspin • Rivulet • Grey McMurray Apr 20

    7:30 Door 8:00 Show $12 suggested donation

       

    US-based Pakistani artist Zeerak Ahmed, also known as Slowspin, produces voice-based sculptures, sound installations and uniquely fragile sound collages. Slowspin has a distinct sound practice grounded in North Indian classical vocal traditions, dream-folk, ambient and experimental-electronic music. Her recent collaborative album, TALISMAN, opens a world of uncanny and heart-wrenching refrains. Songs of love, loss and longing are performed with her band, which includes Grey Mcmurray, Marlon Patton and Shahzad Ismaily. 

    Rivulet are Claire Dickson, Maya Keren, Henry Fraser and Henry Mermer.

  • Sun
    21
    Apr
    2024

    Emma Frank • Kelly Schenk Apr 21

    7:00 Door 7:30 Show $12 suggested donation
     
    Emma Frank is a singer songwriter. Originally from a town outside of boston, she lived in Montreal for ten years, attending McGill for a literature degree and then staying on to write songs and have cheap rent. She moved to New York eight years ago and has much more expensive rent.  She has five albums of original songs.  Her most recent album, Interiors, uses the framework of being home all the time to explore lots of feelings.  She hopes you enjoy it.
  • Fri
    26
    Apr
    2024

    Julian Cubillos solo • Katie Vogel • Scree April 26

    7:30 Door 8:00 Show $12.00 suggested donation

     

    Katie Vogel is a NYC-based songwriter who released her first solo EP, Make Space, in 2020. Many of her songs are a combination of dulcet melodies sung in a clear tone over crunchy chords and unusual song structures. Katie Vogel is a member of the bands Relatives and Mushfoot. (Photo by Sasha Arutyunova)

  • Sat
    27
    Apr
    2024

    Katie Von Schleicher • Thanya Iyer Apr 27

    7:30 door 8:00 show $12 suggested donation

     

    Brooklyn based songwriter Katie von Schleicher layers lush instrumentation and wry lyrics on her third album A Little Touch of Schleicher in the Night

    Thanya Iyer is an enigmatic songwriter who crafts sparkling experimental pop music. Her live band, with Pompey, Shaina Hayes, Emilie Kahn, and Daniel Gélinas, wields acoustic and electronic instruments to flesh out these serene, spiritual compositions. Thanya and the band’s arrangements empower listeners to embrace mindfulness, aesthetic beauty and the interconnectedness of all things. After their 2020 Polaris long-listed, sophomore visual album “Kind”, they recently released their new EP, rest in the summer of 2022 (Topshelf Records).

    “…a lovely set of expansive, exploratory, earthy pop that’s characterized by spacious jazz and ethereal folk tendencies as well as a subtle experimental and improvisatory streak.” -KEXP, on KIND

    “The Montreal-based singer-songwriter and violinist’s music feels like an invitation to reflect. Each song recounts not just stumbling and uncertainty, but a sense of motivation.” -Pitchfork 

    Iyer writes songs that flow seamlessly across textures and styles, never staying in one place too long.” -NPR

     

  • Sun
    28
    Apr
    2024

    Worldwide Seagull • Isaac Gillespie • Jesse In Grey Apr 28

    7:00 Door 7:30 Music $12 suggested donation
     
    Worldwide Seagull is a songart project brined in humility, solitude, and truth. A take on humanness, in an alternate verse. If you looked closely, you know we both drink fresh water. As an international pop star, she provides care and healing…living off her songs in an abundance of candles… with a high chance of having a hot tub in her apartment one day. 
  • Thu
    02
    May
    2024

    Danny Fox • Mike LaValle May 2

    7:30 Door 8:00 show $12 suggested donation

  • Fri
    03
    May
    2024

    otracami • Kitba • The Bird Calls May 3

    7:30 Dooors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation

     

    otracami is the project of Brooklyn-based songwriter Camila Ortiz, whose intricate art pop combines shimmering arrangements, vivid storytelling, and sharp imagery. She released her debut full-length album touching the stove coil in November 2023. 
     
    kitba, the eponymous musical project of singer-songwriter and harpist Rebecca Kitba Bryson El-Saleh, is the culmination of a lifetime of musical and artistic development. Based in Brooklyn, El-Saleh makes exhilarating, deeply personal music that explores the nuances of interiority, self-acceptance, communication, mental health, and love. Kitba’s debut self-titled album, produced by El-Saleh and Zubin Hensler, was released in July 2023 via Ruination Record Co.
     
    the bird calls is the recording project of Sam Sodomsky, a songwriter and music journalist based in New York. Since 2022, he has released his music through Ruination Record Co. His latest album, Old Faithful, arrives this spring.
  • Sun
    05
    May
    2024

    Grace Bergere • Ric Royer • Joseph Keckler May 5

    7:30 Door 8:00 Music $12.00 suggested donation

     

    Grace Bergere sings of love, loss, and redemption. Having cut her teeth on the streets and in the open mics of the East Village, this native New Yorker delivers songs that are atmospheric and dark, complimented by her floating ethereal voice. Eugene Hutz’s new label, Casa Gogol Records is set to begin releasing Bergere’s music this spring, and Bergere will open for Gogol Bordello on tour in May. For this show she’ll be joined by Vern Woodhead on harmonium. 
     
    Ric Royer is a writer of performance and a performer of writing.  He spins stories mordant and morbid, stages plays of absurd wonder, and sings songs of hope and disaster. His latest book, Niagara Falls, NY was published by Pig Roast Publishing
    in 2023. He currently lives in the Catskills where he runs Model City Books.
     
    Joseph Keckler is a singer writer who creates otherworldly ballads, epic arias, short films and stories. His work has been presented by NPR Tiny Desk, Lincoln Center, and many other venues, and his story collection, Dragon at the Edge of a Flat World was published in 2018. He’s currently touring the U.S. and Australia with Lydia Lunch and is working on new recordings. 
  • Thu
    09
    May
    2024

    Miles Hewitt • Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light May 9

    7:30 Door 8:00 Show

     

    Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light are shaking up the bluegrass world with their fresh take on traditional music. Led by Lennon Award-winning songwriter Sumner, the string band’s dynamic sound showcases bold chord progressions, unforgettable stories, and mesmerizing harmonies 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.

  • Fri
    10
    May
    2024

    Captain Tallen • Camille Schmidt • Elijah Berlow May 10

    7:30 door 8:00 show $12 suggested donation

    Camille Schmidt is a Brooklyn-based songwriter. 

    Elijah Berlow is a Chicago-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist folk musician. Originating from pastoral roots in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, Berlow is a playful story-teller with a narrative style grounded in the traditions of Americana music. As a vocalist, he emanates a sincere warmth through his thoughtful phrasing; and his diligent fingerpicking guitar-style leads steadily through the pulsing catharsis of any song. Berlow creates music that is complex, soulful and in conversation with a rich rhythmic history. His music can currently be found on all streaming platforms including the newly self-released EP “Put Out Fires”(2022).

     

  • Sat
    11
    May
    2024
  • Sun
    02
    Jun
    2024

    Andy Clausen Album Release Show with Arena Spanger and Ray Larsen's 'Wish' Jun 2

    7:00 Door 7:30 Show $12 suggested donation
     
     
     

    Marking the release of his new album, “Few Ill Words: Solo Trombone at The Tank, Vol. 1” on this night, Andy Clausen is a Brooklyn-based trombonist, composer, arranger, and educator. He is a founding member of genre-bending brass quartet The Westerlies, a frequent collaborator with artists including Fleet Foxes, Aoife O’Donovan, Haley Heynderickx, Conrad Tao, and Nico Muhly, and a prolific composer for visual media, audio storytelling, and concert music. 2024 marks the debut of Andy’s solo trombone project, a two-volume set recorded in the profound reverberation of a converted railroad water silo in rural Colorado. More info at: andyclausen.com

    Alena Spanger is a singer/keyboardist/songwriter based in Brooklyn. Weaving together angular art-pop songcraft, unorthodox vocalizations, and intricate arrangements, Spanger’s songs construct their own elaborate and immersive worlds. 
     
    Introducing “Wish”, a new band led by trumpeter Ray Larsen. The group premiered at the Owl Music Parlor last fall as a part of the 2023 Festival of New Trumpet Music. Featuring Sara Schoenbeck (bassoon), Andy Clausen (trombone) and Ryan El-Solh (guitar). This music is bicoastal: written with love in Seattle and brought to life in New York. 
  • Sat
    08
    Jun
    2024

    Withe• Nicomo • Pip The Band June 8

    7:30 Door 8:00 Show $12 suggested donation

    Withe is the musical moniker for Brooklyn based singer/songwriter, Rubén Alvarado. His debut album, There Is Less Sun, is a psychedelic folk, art rock fever dream swirling with visions of sun lessons, whispering willows, and lightning storms that form where they don’t belong…hazy, emotive reflections on love, identity, and riding the winds of change.”

    Nicomo is a shot in the dark parallel park, a hole-in-one-in-a-million, needle in a full-stack flapjack of syrupy vocal lines and buttery fingerpicky guitar. Songs on your shoulder, impressionistic folk and strolling waves, shadows and conversations misunderstood. Nicomo is the songwriting project of Nico Osborne, Brooklyn-based musician and sound artist. Antiquated Future Records calls their first EP Views “An early-morning hangout album meets complex after-dark mood music.” Nicomo is working on an LP now, exploring brighter colors and tighter turns. 
  • Thu
    13
    Jun
    2024

    Michael Bates’ Northern Spy • TBA June 13

    7:30 Door 8:00 Show

    Take one listen to the joy and energy of Northern Spy and try not to get caught up in the excitement.   This unpredictable band’s rough-and-tumble interplay makes everything an option.  They veer happily between wide open jazz, the swing tradition and heavy grooves.  An organic and soulful quintet of long time New Yorkers who play with intensity and fire; they take the blues and manhandle it into unexpected musical shapes.  
    Led by bassist Michael Bates, with Michael Blake-saxophone, Josh Deutsch-trumpet , Santiago Leibson-piano, and Michael Sarin-drums
     


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