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Fri03Jan2025
Hubby Jenkins • Hannah Lee Thompson • Ali Dineen Jan 3
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Hubby Jenkins is a talented multi-instrumentalist who endeavors to share his love and knowledge of old-time American music. Born and raised in Brooklyn he delved into his southern roots, following the thread of African American history that wove itself through America’s traditional music forms. As an integral member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops and later Rhiannon Giddens band, Hubby has performed at festivals and venues around the world, earning himself both Grammy and Americana award nominations. Today he spreads his knowledge and love of old-time American music through his dynamic solo performances and engaging workshops.
Hannah Lee Thompson is a musician and an organizer based in Baltimore and New York. She grew up in Brooklyn, performing frequently at the Jalopy Theatre and other local venues around New York. As a kid, she studied clawhammer banjo from Eli Smith of the Downhill Strugglers and Brooklyn Folk Festival. In 2019, she moved to Baltimore and worked doing live sound at Creative Alliance and Ottobar, while continuing to perform her own original music. In 2021, she played the lead role in the feature film Hannah Ha Ha, which went on to win Best Narrative Feature and Best Acting Performance at Slamdance 2022, and premiered in theaters as a New York Times Critic’s Pick in February of 2023.
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.
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Sat04Jan2025
sold out: Aggie Miller • Wendy Eisenberg • Tōth Jan 4
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $22.00 adv/ $25.00 door*** SOLD OUT! ***
Aggie Miller is a 4 piece band from New York. The music is kind of like Sondheim, kind of like St Vincent. Mostly she just really hopes you know what she means by all of it.
Wendy Eisenberg is an improvising guitarist, banjo player, songwriter, composer, and poet based in Western Massachusetts. Using the languages of free jazz, extreme metal, art song, and Tin Pan Alley, her music explores the questions surrounding the linguistic, representation, and technical demands placed on the body. This evening’s performance spotlights material in the language of the album she released on VDSQ, a label dedicated to the future of acoustic solo guitar music. Her guitar music has as much to do with the histories and languages of the guitar that she leaves out as it does with the languages she invents. This program of solo guitar music will integrate some of her sung material, but will primarily live in the rarefied, aesthetic world that the “Its Shape Is Your Touch” record introduces to you.
Tōth is a project of Brooklyn multi-instrumentalist songwriter Alex Toth, known for collaborating and writing with Kimbra, Rubblebucket, Cuddle Magic and others. As Tōth, he presents his most vulnerable songs and performances yet — while also adding trumpet and guitar.
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Sun05Jan2025
Martina Liviero with Kevin Hays • Asher Kurtz Jan 5
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 adv / $20.00 at door
Martina Liviero is a singer songwriter from Argentina, currently based in New York City. Her sound effortlessly blends the complexity and sophistication of South American songwriting, with contemporary chamber music, experimental folk and jazz. Liviero’s music and arrangements were performed by internationally renowned ensembles, such as the New York Philharmonic and the Army Jazz Ambassadors Big Band. She was the recipient of the 2020 and 2019 ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Awards and the 2019 JEN Young Jazz Composer Award. Martina holds a B.M in Jazz Composition from Berklee College of Music, where she was awarded the Latin American Tour Scholarship.Grammy Award-winning jazz pianist, composer, and singer/songwriter Kevin Hays’s many recordings have received critical acclaim from The New York Times, Downbeat Magazine and Jazz Times. Kevin has recorded with Chris Potter, Bill Stewart, Joshua Redman, Jeff Ballard, Nicholas Payton, and Al Foster, among many others. Notable collaborations include a piano duo project with Brad Mehldau, world tours with James Taylor, Sonny Rollins, John Scofield, Joe Henderson, and Roy Haynes. In addition, Kevin has become increasingly known as a gifted and expressive singer/songwriter. In 2015 he released the widely lauded recording New Day (Sunnyside), on which he performed his own songs.Old Feels is the solo project of guitarist and producer Asher Kurtz. Folk songs, IDM beats , cassette tape loops, and found sound sample chops create a comfy bed of nostalgic ambient texture and deep groove. His recent album “Each Day” set to be out later this year, reflects on and explores the microcosms of childhood and how those memories impact everyday life.
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Thu09Jan2025
Quartet Mirage • Caroline Kuhn • Hayden Arp and Griffin Jennings Jan 9
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Quartet Mirage is a collective that honors the classical tradition by celebrating living composers and fusing popular music with chamber music. The members of quartet mirage perform extensively together and separately across the Tri-State area both as a quartet and as featured strings for other groups spanning all genres and instrumentations.Caroline Kuhn is a New York City native. Her introspective songs on guitar and banjo become bangers for the ages when backed by her powerful rock band. Most recently, she released her debut album, Be Something, showcasing her truly singular soprano and unwavering degree of command as a songwriter.Hayden Arp and Griffin Jennings are songwriters and producers based in Vienna and New York, respectively. They are longtime collaborators who met studying composition at Oberlin college and have been working on their song cycle album, The Towers we Lived In, since then. The album, out this January, deals with childhood, family, and the inevitable loss of innocence we all face as we grow older. -
Fri10Jan2025
Alexia Avina • Kitba • Alara Jan 10
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Alexia Avina is an experimental ambient folk artist based in Queens who blends minimalism and restraint with lush sonic landscapes and ethereal melodic hooks.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.
Alara is a singer-songwriter and producer based in Brooklyn. Her debut EP, recorded in Toronto and Philadelphia, is set to be released early 2025. The past 12 months have proven to be a transformative period for Alara’s writing and artistry, bringing her back to her indie-folk and singer-songwriter roots. -
Sat11Jan2025
Ambient Pasta presents Rain Johannes & Weeze Jan 11
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Rain Johannes returns to The Owl to celebrate the 6-year anniversary of his album, “Overcome” by performing it in its entirety. Released in December 2018, Rain’s sophomore album builds upon the unique blend of introspective folk music, delicate classical guitar and hard rock first explored on his 2016 debut “Sunshine.” From the deep well dug by the likes of Joni Mitchell & Nick Drake, Johannes draws poetic lyricism and rich guitar harmony together to write his own stories of love, loss, and overcoming (naturally). Joined by multi-instrumentalist brothers Tom and Dan Criblez, you’ll be sure to hear “Overcome” at its fullest.
Weeze is a multi-sensory artist always discovering and chasing new paths in his work. In music, piano became his greatest ally, exploring nostalgic melodies and creative arrangements of his compositions. Performing in collaboration with a variety of instruments and players, Weeze sets tend to be different every time he plays. Putting effort into the sequenced experience for his band and the audience, it allows space to do something that feels current and inspiring to everyone involved. Jan 11th, Weeze will explore a piano based collage, allowing songs and ideas to blend into each other. Weeze is also the director and lead curator for Ambient Pasta, the creative community event and production company based in Brooklyn, NY.
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Sun12Jan2025
Eric Gabriel • Joy Askew Jan 12
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Eric Gabriel is an NYC born and raised songwriter, pianist, and producer. Once generously described as “somewhere between Bootsy and Willie,” Eric’s music is occasionally groovy, at times introspective, and always pulling from a wide array of folk, soul, and 70s rock as well as his experience playing with his band Melt for the past seven years. This show will be entirely unreleased music off his upcoming debut solo album. For this performance, Eric will be joined by Adam Brisbin, Julian Cubillos, and Sean Mullins.
“Joy Askew is a musician; she’s also an artist. For the former, she’s played keyboards and sang harmony with some of the biggest stars in music…”
Now, as a reinvented musical poet, Joy has been a dedicated songwriter and performer for many years. Along the way she has sung in a choir featured on an EP by Sufjan Stevens, collaborated with a British brass band and released 10 solo albums. Her music has been described as “surprisingly contemporary, or rather, timeless. As in timelessly beautiful songs, singing, and arrangements.”
With Luca Benedetti, guitar; Tony Mason, drums; and Andy Hess, bass.
https://www.joyaskew.com
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Thu16Jan2025
Tommy Economy • Worldwide Seagull • Peaceful Faces Jan 16
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
In the 8 years he has toured the US as a founding member of the band More Fatter, Tommy Economy has gotten good at a lot of things: sleeping in vans, skipping meals, telling jokes on stage. But the skill he has honed most obsessively this past year is songwriting. On his debut album, ‘Filmmaking,’ the Brooklyn based songwriter weaves carefully crafted guitar parts and melodies with tender storytelling. It is a raw and authentic listen that will pull you in deep.Worldwide Seagull is a song-art project brined in humility, solitude, and truth – a take on humanness, in an alternate verse. Look closely, and you’ll notice we both drink fresh water… She strives to provide care and healing, living off her songs amidst an abundance of candles, with a high chance of having a hot tub in her apartment one day! A native of California and based in Brooklyn, Anna Abondolo is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans music, movement, visual art, and theater. Curious about individual experience, her work investigates memory, spatial environments, and their relationship to the physical body. Anna uses a combination of traditional notation, graphic scores, and text, writing for instrumental ensembles, vocalists, electronics, song, and bodies.Peaceful Faces is a Brooklyn band that combines finger-picked guitar with vulnerable lyrics, sneaky chord progressions and warm brass arrangements. Tree Palmedo writes the songs and a crew of crack NYC instrumentalists helps make them better. Their most recent album, Sifting Through The Goo, Reaching For The Candlelight, was released in 2023, and their follow-up is due in 2025.
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Fri17Jan2025
Evangeline Young • O.0blivion • Damon Smith • Early Worm Jan 17
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Evangeline Young is a Brooklyn based singer-songwriter and actor originally from Philadelphia. Having grown up in a family of folk singers, her music moves between the softer acoustic sounds of the folk songs she was raised on, and the harder edges of her indie-rock influences. Her lyrics feature a conversational poetry aimed at personal revelation with a few laughs along the way. In 2022, Evangeline opened for Glen Hansard (The Swell Season) at the Beacon Theatre in NYC and The Anthem in Washington D.C. She is currently finishing her first full length record which will be released next year.O.0blivion is a performing name used by (guitarist-lite) Oren Bloedow, slightly known for journeyman work behind numerous ‘Name’ artists about whom you can ask him directly, if you like; more collaborative work with leaders such as Meshell Ndegeocello, Chocolate Genius, Anohni and 101 Crustaceans; and co-leading the band Elysian Fields with lifetime music partner Jennifer Charles. He will appear tonight with his own tunes, singer/ bassist Adam Minkoff and drummer Robert DiPietro.
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.Damon Smith is a NYC-based pianist, songwriter, and improviser. Born and raised in Brooklyn, he has played his original music at venues such as the Highline Ballroom, the Joe’s Pub, CBGB’s, and Webster Hall. His debut solo album, “Intimate Machinery,” came out shortly after Smith graduated from NEC 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 has a band with his brother Brendan Jacob Smith called The Brightmares, and their debut album “When The World Gets Fixed” dropped in 2022. -
Sat18Jan2025
Lena Bartels • Kelly Schenk • Purse Jan 18
7:30 doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Léna Bartels is a songwriter based in Brooklyn, NY. In December 2022, Bartels released her debut EP “Preservation,” a collection of songs that play with language and fantasy, trying on various sonic hats to explore what it means to be uncovered. She is currently working on her first full-length album, with an expected release in 2025.
Kelly Schenk is a Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter from Portland, Oregon. Her recent work fuses elements of folk storytelling with an indie-pop sensibility, creating a sound that is both intimate and colorful. Kelly released her debut album Something About You, featuring the single “Making Room,” which appeared on Spotify’s Best Vocal Jazz of 2021. Her latest release, Yellow Light, showcases three live performances with some of Miami’s top musicians, a city where she spent much of her career before relocating to NYC. Kelly’s music commonly explores themes of identity, body neutrality, and acceptance, drawing heavily on imagery from the natural world.
Purse is the brainchild of songwriter/vocalist Carrie Furniss and Priya Carlberg. The music highlights lush vocal harmonies, prog-rock elements and improvisation. They are joined by guitarist Stephe Cooper and drummer Joanna Quinn.
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Sun19Jan2025
Noah Garabedian Trio • Michael Sarian Jan 19
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
While his quartet has been described as “the work of a band that’s developed the kind of telepathy only the road can build . . . there’s a late ’70s-early ’80s feel to the music throughout, more akin to the ‘stadium jazz’ of V.S.O.P. or Milestone-era McCoy Tyner” (Philip Freeman, The NYC Jazz Record), trumpeter and composer Michael Sarian has been praised for his “unique compositional and instrumental voice” (Friedrich Kunzmann, All About Jazz) and his “endlessly renewable strain of lyric improvisation regardless of context or material.” (Peter Margasak, Downbeat Magazine).
Born in Toronto and raised in Buenos Aires, Michael relocated to NYC in 2012, and has performed at some of the most iconic international stages, including the Montreux Jazz Festival, Kennedy Center, Teatro Colón in Argentina, Blue Note Jazz Club, Jazz at Lincoln Center, BRIC JazzFest, and Central Park SummerStage. He has appeared on WNYC’s Soundcheck with John Schaefer, NPR’s World Cafe, and many more.
The Noah Garabedian Trio, featuring Vinicius Gomes on guitar and Ele Howell on drums, joins together to explore original music as well as music of Milton Nascimento, John Coltrane, and João Bosco. Their non-hierarchical approach is reflected in moments of spontaneous free improvisation and the transitions into new songs.
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Sun19Jan2025
Ann Gillespie's The Dictionary! matinee 2PM Jan 19
2:oo P M. !!!!
Ann Gillespie is a playwright and performer who lives in Brooklyn, New York. Ann’s darkly comedic and nuanced writing for theater and film emphasizes movement, ambiguous moral dilemmas, and strong female characters. Plays include The End of a Sound; Choreographing a Rape Scene to go into a Feminist Play, and Bunnies Inside of Her. Her stop motion animation work has been streamed on Broadstream.
While earning her BFA in Drama at Syracuse University, Ann was able to study performance at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London. Ann later went on to earn an MA in Text and Performance from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. The End of a Sound was a Semi-Finalist for The Relentless Award, and was workshopped at Texas Tech University.
anngillespieplaywright.com
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Thu23Jan2025
Kayla WIlliams • Vanisha Gould Jan 23
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Fri24Jan2025
Pink Must • Relatives • Nuria Graham Jan 24
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Pink Must is the collaborative project of Brooklyn-based sound artists and musicians Mari Maurice and Lynn Avery. Mari’s work, often under the moniker more eaze, ranges from ambient pop to deconstructed sound collage. Her numerous solo and collaborative releases weave mundane, everyday sounds, acoustic orchestration and instrumentation, and electronics into adventurous textural compositions. Lynn is known for a.o. Iceblink, an ever shifting instrumental collage that has recently evolved into a dynamic 6-piece ensemble. Her ambient jazz project with Cole Pulice released an album last year, while her improvisational work for Signal Quest invents new styles of synthesis and production.
Relatives – Ian McLellan Davis and Katie Vogel – met upon arrival in New York City in 2007 and have been singing and writing together since. Over the years, we have been paring down and turning inwards, exploring what can be done with less.
Núria Graham began her musical journey in Catalonia, Spain, releasing her debut album at the age of sixteen. Since then, she has released four albums and performed on stages worldwide, including festivals like Primavera Sound. Her latest album, “Cyclamen” (Verve Forecast, 2023), self-produced by Núria, is filled with dreamy textures, wind and string arrangements, from piano to classical guitar. Influenced by classical music, film scores and jazz, this album is a new approach to Núria’s oneiric world.
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Sat25Jan2025
Domestic Drafts single release w Winston C.W. & Mason Lindahl Jan 25
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Domestic Drafts is the songwriting and guitar-playing project of Andy Cush, who can otherwise be found playing bass and singing in Garcia Peoples. He likes Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Bill Callahan, the Roches, Richard Thompson, Nick Drake, the Beatles, Jimmy Webb. Other stuff too, obviously, but that list should give you a sense of the target, at least. With his aim, it’s always possible that the arrow lands somewhere else entirely: a few yards short, or even behind him sometimes, its feathers pointing slantwise toward the sky, its head buried an inch in the dirt.
Winston C.W. is the moniker of Winston Cook-Wilson, lead singer, keyboardist, and songwriter in the Brooklyn band Office Culture. (The band released their fourth album, Enough, in the fall of 2024.) Distinct from the pop-oriented, groove-based music of Office Culture, Cook-Wilson’s solo performances are spare and intimate, drawing influence from Scott Walker, Leonard Cohen, and Mark Hollis. He debuted as Winston C.W. with 2017’s Thirty, followed by his quarantine standards album Without a Sail. His emotionally unsparing and exploratory Good Guess(2020) features jazz-influenced arrangements assisted by upright bassist Carmen Quill and guitarist Ryan El-Solh of Scree.
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Sun26Jan2025
Ellie MacPhee • Kyle Morgan • Kat Wallace Jan 26
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15 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.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.Kat Wallace is a Boston-based multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter. Her affinity for original music has her touring with local bands, most notably as the fiddle player in Rachel Sumner and Traveling Light. Her debut solo album, Grand Design, set to be released early in 2025, captures Wallace’s musings on world’s endings, sailing across the western ocean, and moving on. Her timeless lyrics and virtuosic guitar playing are grounded in traditional Celtic and American folk repertoire. -
Thu30Jan2025
Carlo Costa / BlankFor.ms / Kenny Warren • Ludovica Burtone Quartet Jan 30
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15 suggested donation
Kenny Warren on trumpet
Carlo Costa on percussion
BlankFor.ms on live audio processing
Electroacoustic collaboration between Tyler Gilmore aka BlankFor.ms who makes richly textured, emotive music using degraded tapes, analog synthesizers; sonically minded trumpeter/composer Kenny Warren; and percussionist Carlo Costa, founder of Neither/Nor Records and pillar of Brooklyn’s minimalist improv community.Ludovica Burtone is celebrating the release of her second single from her upcoming album, Migration Tales (Endectomorph, April 2025). Inspired by stories of immigrant women in New York City, her music blends jazz, classical, and global influences in a heartfelt and unique way. The quartet will perform pieces from the upcoming album and other older compositions for an intimate night of music and storytelling.With Ludovica Burtone violin/composition • Marta Sanchez piano • Chris Tordini bass • Eliza Salem drums -
Fri31Jan2025
Andre Matos • The Cradle Jan 31
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Sat01Feb2025
anna rg (+band) • medium (Yaz Lancaster + gg200bpm) Feb 1
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donationOut of respect for the artist's wishes THIS IS A MASKED SHOW. Thanks for your understanding.
anna rg presents new songs (with a band)
Songs for guitar voice and improvisation, chronicling small interior moments, difficult silences, letters across centuries, griefs of sick and abandoned, and what joy, the connection between sick friends. anna learned fiddle in east kentucky in her early twenties; she spent a decade touring with her ballad-singing duo Anna & Elizabeth: their record on Smithsonian Folkways was dubbed “a radical expansion of what folk songs are supposed to do” by The New Yorker. she holds a masters degree in sculpture, tends a small backyard garden, enjoys chats with her neighbors and works as a community organizer and disability activist. this body of work is supported by the nyc women’s fund.
medium. is a project by multidisciplinary artists Yaz Lancaster and gg200bpm. They perform longform compositions and improvisations with unique electroacoustic instrumentations, including buzz saws, handmade steel instruments, violin, voice(s), samplers, keyboards and octatrack. Their music considers tension/release, spiritual energies, and collective experiences; often situated in the extremes of softer ambient textures and harsh noise; or sound installation. medium. has performed at venues like Nublu, Sleepwalk, Cassette, and Hart Bar; and streamed on The Lot Radio.
access info for the show :
masks will be required in the listening room. air purifiers will be present, provided by airnyc.
the venue, and bathroom, is wheelchair accessible.
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Sun02Feb2025
Leather Dollar • The Mops Feb 2
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Thu06Feb2025
Justin Felton & Ryan El-Solh • Little Mystery • Alena Spanger Feb 6
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Justin Felton & Ryan El-Solh play guitar – at the same time!
Little Mystery is the musical project of singer-songwriter Ivy Meissner. Propelled by a rich and dynamic voice and guitar-driven compositions, Meissner crafts expansive and diverse musical landscapes, delving into corners of her past and seeking connection in a fractured world. Little Mystery’s self-titled debut record is out now via Ruination Records.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. -
Fri07Feb2025
Stefani Bondari • Little Cliff • Dorèe Feb 7
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15 suggested donation
Stefani Bondari seeks to find power in vulnerability. Her introspective anthems are fearless affirmations of how we are strongest in our most delicate states. Incorporating her classical and jazz background, Stefani creates her own genre of rock that is both tender and entropic. Performing her most intimate thoughts, Bondari opens up a space for everyone to find themselves in her songs.Little Cliff a/k/a Neil MacLeod Stiskin is a 25-year-old singer-songwriter born and raised in Rockland County, NY. The first song he ever learned to sing was “You Are My Sunshine” at age four, which finds itself reinterpreted as the closer on 2023’s full-length release “the falling part.” The moniker Little Cliff is a reference to the sloped rocky cliffs he used to admire while visiting family in Maritime Canada. Over the last ten years, Neil has experimented with songwriting and recording techniques with various collaborators, and released three albums and 2 EPs under Little Cliff. Neil continues to be inspired by personal songwriting heroes like Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Alex G, and Adrianne Lenker. Little Cliff is Dorée Gordon (Dorée) on drums and vocals, Ben Roffman on bass and vocals, and Connor Gibson (Wiring) on guitar, with Neil acting as songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist. The current iteration of Little Cliff offers an easy and fully realized sound that comes as a result of years of friendship and musical collaboration between members.Dorée is a Brooklyn based artist, songwriter and musician. A multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, they regularly play shows in venues and DIY spaces throughout NYC and have toured through states in the US, in both solo and band formation. Dorée’s songs combine folk, alternative, math, experimental and other elements to create a variety of unique sounds.
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Sat08Feb2025
Or Best Offer • Otracami • The Cradle Feb 8
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Or Best Offer is a brooklyn-based duo project made up of Brian Culligan & Grace L.s. Incorporating tactile sampling & experimental electronics to augment & reinforce their drum, guitar and vocal set-up, their music quilts together ambient, post-rock, electro-folk, soft noise & new age mysticism.Otracami is the project of Camila Ortiz, a Brooklyn-based songwriter and producer. Her songs unravel moments of the past that demand attention, seeking to convey otherwise incommunicable truths. She released her debut full-length album, touching the stove coil, in November 2023.The Cradle is the musical project of Paco Cathcart. Born and raised in Brooklyn, and having cut their teeth at seminal DIY venues such as Palisades, The Glove, Silent Barn, etc, Cathcart has been a fixture in the New York underground for a decade or so. Often the lone “singer-songwriter” on bills with noise musicians, performance artists and clowns, Cathcart’s eclectic music reflects their locality in a thriving experimental arts scene, as well as their root interests in folk music, story-telling, history and poetry. Cathcart has something like 50 releases on cassette, vinyl, CD, and digitally, through many different indie labels, notably NNA Tapes, as well as self-releasing. -
Sun09Feb2025
Paul Bedal Feb 9. (bertucci fraser canceled!)
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Pianist and composer Paul Bedal will perform a set of new compositions featuring melodic writing and free improvisation. His work spans various creative music scenes/film composition and music production. This performance will include trumpeter Kenny Warren, saxophonist Caroline Davis, bassist Dion Kerr and drummer Roberto Giaquinto. Bedal’s recent record Cerulean Stars has been described, “As the recording develops, a clear impression of his style as a writer comes into focus, with each piece grounded in melodic designs that are generally intricate and atypical – in a good way.” – Textura
Lea Bertucci / Henry Fraser are canceled due to driving conditions upstate
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Thu13Feb2025
Charlie Burnham •The Binoculars • Mamie Minch Feb 13
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Mamie Minch is a longtime staple of New York’s acoustic blues scene. Listening to her sing and play is like unpacking a time capsule of American music that’s been stored in her 1930’s National steel guitar for decades and filtered with a modern femme sensitivity. Her latest album is the EP Slow Burn, a collaboration with drummer/producer Dean Sharenow.
The Binoculars: Welcome to Chloë and K8A picnic blanket in the shade of a black walnut tree, where they’ve brought a pair of binoculars to peer at long lost tunes from around the world using fiddle, guitar, lap steel, and laser vocal harmonies.
Charlie Burnham is a local fiddler and songster who loves performing at The Owl Music Parlor. On February 13th he will be singing some songs and fiddling along in a duet with the wonderful bass maestro Fred Cash. Expect the unexpected with a garnish of the usual.
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Fri14Feb2025
special Valentine's Day show with Camellia Hartman • The Point Feb 14
7:00 Door 7:30pm Show
Camellia Hartman is a Manhattan-born, Brooklyn-based violinist, singer, and event producer working across a wide range of genres and musical stylings. Whether it be through recording, performing, arranging, or coordinating bespoke ensembles, Camellia is passionate about all sides of the creative process, collaboration, and the magic of bringing an artistic vision to life.
Over the past 10+ years as a freelance musician in NYC, Camellia has performed and recorded with hundreds of artists in the greater New York area as well as joined artists on regional and national tours such as Ghost Funk Orchestra (vocals, 2023), Skullcrusher (violin/vocals, 2022), Pom Pom Squad (violin/vocals, 2022) and Katie Martucci (violin/vocals, 2019).
The Point is a synchronized live performance of the entire Harry Nilsson opus with the charming film projected on the Owl’s theater-size screen. A perfect date!
SPECIAL EXTRA SET: after the screening, The Point mastermind Eric Burns will share Trans-Sapien Immortal Babies. TSIB is an experimental musical fable inspired directly by Harry Nilsson’s The Point! Join the Band and the Babies on a ride as they learn about growing up without getting any older and what it means to create something.
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Sat15Feb2025
Robert Wyatt birthday show with Adam Minkoff and friends Feb 15
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Sun16Feb2025
Jackie Evans • Katie Martucci • TBA Feb 16
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Jackie Evans is a singer-songwriter and pianist based in NYC. She’s a classic songwriter; her music has melodic lines and piano arrangements reminiscent of 70’s styles with a modern take. Her most recent release, ‘January’ is out now on all platforms.
Katie Martucci is a tall lady in Brooklyn, singing as much as possible and just trying to get good at music, ya know? Her latest release ‘Note to Self’ on La Reserve Records is a collection of songs about the “unspoken third thing in the room” — stories surrounding friendship, family history, imposter syndrome, her own personal journey with epilepsy and more.
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Sun16Feb2025
Martha Wainwright matinee SOLD OUT
5pm doorsorry No Tickets Left!
Born into music royalty, the daughter of folk legends Kate McGarrigle and Loudon
Wainwright III and sister to the highly acclaimed, genre defying singer Rufus
Wainwright, Martha Wainwright grew up in a world filled with incomparable musical legends Anna McGarrigle, Leonard Cohen, Suzzy Roche, Richard and Linda Thompson, and Emmylou Harris and struggled to find her voice in a milieu in which every drama was refracted through song. Then, in 2005, she released her critically acclaimed debut album,
Martha Wainwright, which containing the blistering hit, “Bloody Mother F*cking Asshole,”
which the Sunday Times called one of the best songs of the year. That release, and the albums that followed, such as Come Home to Mama and I Know You’re Married But I’ve Got Feelings Too, showcased Martha’s searing songwriting style and established her as a
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Wed19Feb2025
John Roseboro• Zoh Amba WEDNESDAY Feb 19
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Thu20Feb2025
Martina Liviero • Jesse Harris Feb 20
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 adv / $20.00 at doorTICKETS:
https://tickets.venuepilot.com/e/martina-jesse-2025-02-20-the-owl-brooklyn-6c02e5
Martina Liviero is a singer songwriter from Argentina, currently based in New York City. Her sound effortlessly blends the complexity and sophistication of South American songwriting, with contemporary chamber music, experimental folk and jazz. Liviero’s music and arrangements were performed by internationally renowned ensembles, such as the New York Philharmonic and the Army Jazz Ambassadors Big Band. She was the recipient of the 2020 and 2019 ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Awards and the 2019 JEN Young Jazz Composer Award. Martina holds a B.M in Jazz Composition from Berklee College of Music, where she was awarded the Latin American Tour Scholarship.
Jesse Harris is a Grammy Award-winning songwriter, singer, guitarist, and producer of artists from all over the world. Originally from New York City, he began making records in the mid ’90s. Since then he has released more than 20 albums under his own name, as well as many others with various projects. His latest album is Paper Flower, a collection of new songs, recorded in Paris with his old friends Kenny Wollesen and Tony Scherr, who will perform with Jesse at The Owl.
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Fri21Feb2025
Lilith • Mert Spalty • Footwork • Beche • Zoe Firn Feb 21
7:30 doors 8:00 music $15 suggested donation
Lilith Phillips is a songwriter from Brooklyn. Her work weaves themes of queer identity, vulnerability, and anti-capitalism together against a backdrop of classic folk fingerpicking techniques and contemporary indie rock influences. Her background as a drummer (for Zoe Firn and others) can be heard in her percussive fingerpicking rhythms.Footwork is a Brooklyn-based band performing songs written by producer and songwriter Harrison Park. The band features multi-instrumentalists Carl Michnovicz and James Myer. Their dynamic sound combines elements of lo-fi, indie, folk and experimental music. Their debut EP, Reverse Human Pyramid, will be released in March 2025.Mert Spalty is a songwriter living in Queens and raised in New Jersey. This night he’ll be playing original songs on an acoustic guitar and singing with his eyes closed. His songs are joyous, even the ones about heartbreak and crossroads and dissatisfaction.Zoe Firn writes intuitive and honest songs with lyrics that might make you cry and melodies that linger long after the first listen. For this show, she celebrates the release of a new song “Memorial Day” and shares work from her upcoming 2025 album “Atomic Force” – music described as “earthy alt-rock.”Brooklyn-based indie freakfolk project, Beche is, at its core, a duo between guitarist/singer songwriter Vincent Randazzo and saxophonist/clarinetist Betty Kean. A revolving cast of additional band members makes each performance uniquely impactful, enhancing the intricate dance between woodwind and voice that has become their calling card.
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Sat22Feb2025
poet Nora Rose Tomas, and Chase Elodia • Eden Girma• Feb 22
7:30 doors 8:00 music $15.00 suggested Donation Nov 24
Nora Rose Tomas is a queer interdisciplinary writer. She lives in Brooklyn and works in independent publishing. She holds an MFA from Columbia University. Her work has been longlisted for the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize and the Pink Poetry Prize, as well as nominated for the Best of the Net and Best Small Fictions anthologies. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Salt Hill Journal, ANMLY, Peach Mag, Lavender Review, Dream Pop and Mantis, among others. Last year, she was named a Brooklyn Poets Fellow for study in Cindy Tran’s “Bad Behavior” workshop.
Chase Elodia’s quartet is a Brooklyn-based ensemble. Founded in 2020, the group released their debut album, Portrait Imperfect, on Biophilia Records in May 2022. Hailed as an “artful” and “ambitious” ensemble by Downbeat Magazine, the band combines a collaborative and improvisational sensibility with an aesthetic orientation that has been nourished by singer-songwriters and electronic artists like Meshell Ndegeocello, Norma Winstone, and Becca Stevens. The group frequently performs at venues around Brooklyn; in the past few years, they have performed at Scholes St. Studio, Pete’s Candy Store, and the Owl. They toured across the USA in 2022, with performances at Lakehouse Jazz (San Francisco), The Muse (Boulder, CO), Oberlin College and Conservatory, Rudy’s Jazz Room, Fulton St. Collective, and Rockwood Music Hall. Chase is a 2021 ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award Winner as well as a 2022 MacDowell Residency Fellow.
Eden Girma is a multi-instrumental musician hailing from Madison, WI. Having grown up at the nexus of widely varying and vibrant musical traditions, Eden creates through a variety of audio-visual-technological media — bridging realms such as popular music, improvisatory collaboration, expressionism, and experimental electronics. Through a genre-bending compositional ear and a poetic lyricism, Eden aspires to create art that not only resonates with individual hearts, but brings people closer together in a spirit of intimacy and empathy. As a student in the Boston area, Eden has worked with and studied under Vijay Iyer, Yosvany Terry, Hans Tutschku, Dominique Eade, Frank Carlberg, and Ran Blake. Eden graduated from Harvard College in 2018 with a bachelor’s degree in astrophysics and math, and in 2019 completed a Masters in Music in Creative Practice at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Currently, Eden is a graduate student in Princeton University’s Astrophysics department. If you are interested in learning more about Eden’s scientific work, click here. -
Sun23Feb2025
Spring Onion • Emma Munger • Hannah Lee Thompson Feb 23
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Spring Onion is the recording project of Philadelphia based musician Catherine Dwyer. Dwyer has played in numerous projects over a decade long music career, including Remember Sports, 2nd Grade, and 22 Degree Halo. Her debut LP, Seated Figure, is out March 14th via Anything Bagel Records.
Emma Munger is a songwriter and guitarist based in Brooklyn. Her debut LP, Pattern, came out in January 2025. When she’s not working on her own music, she’s a mix engineer, composer, and sound designer for podcasts and film.Hannah Lee Thompson is a musician and an organizer based in Baltimore and New York. She grew up in Brooklyn, performing frequently at the Jalopy Theatre and other local venues around New York. As a kid, she studied clawhammer banjo from Eli Smith of the Downhill Strugglers and Brooklyn Folk Festival. In 2019, she moved to Baltimore and worked doing live sound at Creative Alliance and Ottobar, while continuing to perform her own original music. In 2021, she played the lead role in the feature film Hannah Ha Ha, which went on to win Best Narrative Feature and Best Acting Performance at Slamdance 2022, and premiered in theaters as a New York Times Critic’s Pick in February of 2023. -
Thu27Feb2025
Dana Lyn's keyboard trio • Domino Kirke Feb 27
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15 suggested donation
Composer-violinist Dana Lyn inhabits a musical world somewhere in the Venn diagram of 70’s art rock, classical, traditional Irish and improvised music. She has written music for Brooklyn Rider, Palaver Strings, A Far Cry and the National Orchestra of Washington and performs regularly with Taylor Mac, Stew, Hank Roberts, and guitarist Kyle Sanna.
Initially captivated listeners at the helm of the band Domino, Domino Kirke has toured with everyone from Lily Allen to Gang Of Four. She has evolved across solo releases such as Everyone Else Is Boring EP [2006], The Guard EP [2012], and the unanimously applauded Beyond Waves [2017]. Domino Kirke’s music sounds a lot like reuniting with your oldest and most important friend—yourself. The UK-born and New York-based singer, songwriter, producer, doula, and mother encodes feelings of nostalgia, longing, regret, anxiety, acceptance, and love within the threads of a tender sonic pastiche colored by soft piano, lilting orchestration, electronic warmth, and intimate vocal delivery. She now returns with new music to give you all of the feels in an intimate setting.
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Fri28Feb2025
Rocketsnail Feb 28
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15 Suggested Donation
ROCKETSNAIL LIVE #5, hosted by MICHAEL ROCKETSHIP & SNEAL, is a multimedia variety series featuring music, video & all manner of variegated miscellany. this edition features the legendary needs-no-introduction KENNY WOLLESON, backed of course by the resident rocketsnail house band, plus the banjo stylings of ELI SMITH, along with video submissions from two authors, JESSE MICHAELS and
DAVID CONNOR—and WALTER RIMLER reads some more tweets from his woebegone firstborn son. Plus new SNEAL songs and lots lots more ! -
Sat01Mar2025
Infinite Jess • Claire Ozmun • florid Mar 1
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Infinite Jess is the new place where jesse french’s songs go. for the last five years, jesse has been exclusively in collaborator mode, playing with a number of bands and artists, engineering and producing, touring the US and Europe — focusing on bringing other people’s songs to life. this is the first time they’ve performed their own music since March 2020, and will be sharing a new set of songs that have never been played live, backed by an exceptional band.Claire Ozmun is a songwriter from Ohio and is now based in Brooklyn, NY. Her debut EP, Dying in the Wool, came out last summer. She is currently recording her first full-length album and is looking forward to making it both very quiet and very loud.
florid is a NY-based independent musician. Drawing inspiration from eclectic sources, florid’s music addresses the human experience while disregarding traditional genre constraints.
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Sun02Mar2025
Mika Akim • Freddy and Sally Mar 2
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
In Swedish multidimensional musician Mika Akim’s solo project, she works in a song-based direction, while still giving plenty of space for her viola and viola d’amore. She has been described as a musical sister to artists such as Sam Amidon, Adrienne Lenker and Joni Mitchell, and writes songs rich with both melancholy and defiant hope. Her minimalistic music consists of ostinatos, textural sounds on stringed instruments and simple melodies, with texts about the body, memory and time. Since her debut in 2020, Mika Akim has released two albums “Till Kroppen” and “Tillsammans” and played concerts in Denmark, Sweden, Czech Republic, Germany, France and Chile.
Freddy and Sally is the chamber–folk duo of composer/instrumentalists Eli Greenhoe and Ledah Finck. Based in a shared reverence for the Appalachian and Irish folk music they grew up steeped in, the duo works collaboratively to layer and weave together intricate arrangements of original and traditional songs with a preference towards unconventional sounds and structures.
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Thu06Mar2025
O0o'Blivion • Madeleine McQueen March 6
7:30 Doors 8:00 music $15 suggested donation
O0o’Blivion is exactly what the doctor ordered, if the doctor ordered you to look at a sixty year-old ethnic (but not religious) Jew for 40 minutes. His rhythms are as advanced as his rhymes which themselves are as advanced as Victorian dentistry. This is a rare chance to take, as poet Robert Frost wrote, ‘the path less traveled’, getting you home later than if you had not stopped here.
Madeleine McQueen is a songstress with a quietly captivating presence. With memorable melodies and deeply personal lyrics- her songs create a world of their own for the audience to settle into.
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Fri07Mar2025
Kitba with writer Jenn Pelly and Joan Kelsey March 7
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Joan Kelsey is a musician and writer living in Manhattan.
Jenn Pelly is a music critic, journalist, and the author of The Raincoats. Her writing appears in Pitchfork, The New York Times, The Guardian, and NPR, and her liner notes, zines and poetry are out there somewhere.
Kitba is the eponymous musical project of Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter and harpist Rebecca Kitba Bryson El-Saleh. They are joined for this show by Talk Bazaar, Bernardo Ochoa, and Matti Dunietz.
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Sat08Mar2025
Steve Long • Kim Anderson March 8
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15 Suggested Donation
Steve Long, a lifelong New Yorker from Canarsie, Brooklyn, is an artist and organizer working with sound, language, and space. For him, creative work, as a composer or curator, is an act of facilitation. To this end, he constructs situations that allow collaborators to push out into corners and luxuriate in both physical and metaphysical space. His work organizes collective imagined futures unencumbered by incessant categorization.Recordings of his solo and collaborative work have been released on NotArt Records, Biophilia Records, and Tripticks Tapes, among others.
Kim Anderson is a singer, songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist based in upstate NY. Her songs bend genres and walk the line between folk, jazz, pop and chamber music styles, with special attention to poetic lyrics and warm, lush timbres. Her debut album ‘Yarrow’ was released in 2018 on Biophilia Records, and her sophomore album ‘Asphodel’ was released in 2023 on Sempervirens Studios. -
Sun09Mar2025
Evangeline Young • Eamon Fogarty • Alex Dupree Mar 9
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation 
Evangeline Young is a Brooklyn based singer-songwriter and actor originally from Philadelphia. Having grown up in a family of folk singers, her music moves between the softer acoustic sounds of the folk songs she was raised on, and the harder edges of her indie-rock influences. Her lyrics feature a conversational poetry aimed at personal revelation with a few laughs along the way. In 2022, Evangeline opened for Glen Hansard (The Swell Season) at the Beacon Theatre in NYC and The Anthem in Washington D.C. She is currently finishing her first full length record which will be released next year.
Eamon Fogarty is a New York City-based singer-songwriter, multi-disciplinary artist, and audio archivist who was born in New Hampshire. Aquarium Drunkard described his 2019 record Blue Values as “a remarkable piece of art-pop, exhibiting the low slung ease of Tim Buckley’s jazz-rock, the shambolic grace of Beck, the progressive grandeur of Scott Walker, and the mystic yearning of Talk Talk.” He has written for, recorded, and performed in a broad range of capacities and contexts, including folk and rock bands, (Alex Dupree, Psychic Temple, Specific Thing) choral groups, free improvisatory ensembles, and puppet theater productions. Last year he released his third LP “I’m an animal now” via Orphean Kiosk Recordings.
Alex Dupree is a published poet and songwriter from Austin, Texas. He has been making lyric-driven folk music for over 20 years. Most recently, his 2017 album, “You Winsome, You Lonesome”, was reissued following the success of his 2022 album “Thieves”. These are sturdy, songwriter’s records in the tradition of Willie Nelson or Bill Callahan. Sounds unfold in ways that are timeless, as if they’ve always existed. Dupree just needed to discover them and dust them off.
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Thu13Mar2025
Wendy Eisenberg salutes Morton Feldman • Eisnberg/O0oblivion salute Marty Feldman March 13
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation 
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Fri14Mar2025
Ryan Dugre • Chelsea Crabtree • Market March 14
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Chelsea Crabtree is a Brooklyn based singer-songwriter originally from Seattle, WA. Growing up in a very musical family, she has been singing with her 8 siblings from a very young age. After studying jazz voice in college, she has now been inspired to write her own songs. Her music draws from elements of folk, pop, soul and 90’s rock music. She will be joined at The Owl by Gregg Belisle-Chi, Sam Decker, Chris Parker and Sam Weber.
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Sat15Mar2025
Anne Malin • Miles Hewitt • whait March 15
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Sun16Mar2025
Izzy Oram Brown • Kristin Daelyn • Adeline Hotel March 16
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Izzy Oram Brown is a Brooklyn based guitarist and songwriter who released her debut record Mess in 2022. Created with a host of collaborators in various spaces around New York, Mess finds Oram Brown drawing on her work as a guitar player and her love of the folk song tradition to create her first project as a songwriter. She pairs introspective lyrics and winding melodies with layered guitars, synthesizers, and percussion to create an ethereal and moving body of work. Grounded in precise songwriting and embellished with experimental production, Mess is Oram Brown stepping out from a supporting role and sharing an assured album of naked honesty.
Beyond the Break, the second full-length album by Kristin Daelyn, is a statement of rare tranquility and wisdom, atmosphere and grace. In these eight compositions, the Philadelphia songwriter takes influence from solo guitarists like Leo Kottke and John Fahey as well as writers like Mary Oliver, whose poem “Patience” inspired the early single “Patience Comes to the Bones.” Through instrumental pieces that highlight her virtuosity as a player and elegant folk songs that showcase her gifts for tender pop melodies and emotionally incisive lyrics, Daelyn’s voice feels both urgent and timeless. Like a well-loved paperback passed between friends, her songs are open to reflection and personal annotation, designed to be of use.
Adeline Hotel is led by guitarist Dan Knishkowy, whose latest collection, Hot Fruit, is characterized by the push-pull interplay between composition and improvisation. Swirls of flutes seem to follow the intuitive timing of the band jamming in the room. Acoustic guitar figurations arrive in joyous unison with pizzicato violins. The contemplative tone feels like an extension of Good Timing, but the music’s sense of journey sets it apart from that album’s deliberate stasis. Each player’s personality is apparent even as they work diligently to support the whole. This is especially true of Knishkowy himself. Though Hot Fruit may be his most lushly orchestrated album, it is also the best showcase yet of his delicacy and subtle expressiveness as an acoustic guitarist. Each fingerpicked note glows with intention and feeling. -
Sun16Mar2025
Martha Wainwright matinee Mar 16
tix $25 adv/ $30 door. Doors at 5PM Sharp!Sorry we're SOLD OUT! watch this space for more MW appearances in 2025
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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 • Alan Grubner • 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 • The Bird Calls • Will Stratton 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.
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.”
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.
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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
Songs of Rain and Spring, Whale of an Umbrella Giveaway, Film Screening SINGING IN THE RAINwith Evan Tyor and Camellia Hartman, Tony Jarvis, Sean Dixon, Joy Elysse and Paul Wilson, Nic Neves and possibly others!
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Fri04Apr2025
Wiring (solo)Natalie Simons • Dorée Apr 4
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Wiring is a New York based band. Led by Connor Gibson, Wiring is a collaborative band whose music combines rock, alternative, and math elements, with a strong base in songwriting. Tonight at the Owl, Connor Gibson will be performing some Wiring songs solo guitar and voice.
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
Leslie Graves and Toby Goodshank • Trail Papa • Noah B. Harley & Windfellow Apr 6
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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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.
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!
Brooklyn-based artists Leslie Graves (Gold, Endless Arrows) and Toby Goodshank (The Moldy Peaches, The Pizza Underground) have joined creative forces on their forthcoming album Between Worlds (BB*Island). Acoustic guitar and vocal harmonies make up the core of their music, which draws from a variety of folk-rock influences including Sybil Baer, Judee Sill, REM, Linda Perhacs, and Jessica Pratt. Their lyrics are dreamlike stories that speak to the resilience of humanity, and offer a meditation on love, nature and growth. -
Thu10Apr2025
Leila Adu • Talk Show featuring Steph Richards, Qasim Naqvi and Brandon Ross Apr 10
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15 suggested donation
Photo via Petra Cvelbar
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 suggested donation
Sarah Galdes is a drummer, composer, and music producer. She has toured and performed extensively with artists including Julien Baker, Anna Wise, TEEN, Akwaeke Emezi, River Ramirez, Bartees Strange, Overcoats, Efterklang, L’Rain, Lauren Mayberry (CHVRCHES) and many more. In addition to the drum kit, Sarah studied traditional Korean percussion instruments and North Indian music, embarking on intensive study tours in South Korea, New York, Australia, and Canada. Sarah was born in Melbourne, Australia, and is currently based in NYC where she co-runs, produces and records at Synthia Studio in Greenwich Village. She performs as a soloist using Sensory Percussion and is an endorsed artist by Sunhouse, Evans / D’Addario, and C&C drums. Sarah holds a B.A. in Music Improvisation with Honors in Tabla.
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
Robin Bienemann • 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 $30 Admission limited availability!ONLINE SALES have ended.
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
SOLD OUT: Joe Henry and Scree featuring Levon Apr 18
7:30 Door 8:00 MusicThere are no tickets left for tonight's performance. See you next time!
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 • Almost Olive 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
Andy Clausen solo • Sam Decker Quartet • Alex Lore Apr 20
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Andy Clausen is a New York-based trombonist, composer, producer, and educator. A graduate of The Juilliard School, Andy served as principal conductor and Artistic Director for Jazz at New York Youth Symphony from 2016-2023, and in 2021 joined the faculty of The New School as an Artist in Residence and professor of trombone and composition. His credits span a breathtaking range of styles and feature such luminaries as Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, Common, Big Thief, Feist, A$AP Ferg, Anaïs Mitchell, Aoife O’Donovan
Saxophonist Sam Decker will appear with quartet members Gregg Belisle Chi, guitar; Chris Tordini, bass; and Tom Rainey, drums.
Praised by The New York Times as a saxophonist who is “…making the connections among about 70 years’ worth of contemplative, articulate and light–toned players,” Alex LoRe will be introducing new music with Anna Webber (sax), Matt Mitchell (pno), Des White (bs) and JK Kim (drms).
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Wed23Apr2025
Martina Liviero • Phillip Golub listening party Apr 23
7:00 Dooors 7:30 Music $15.00 suggested donation 
Martina Liviero is a singer songwriter from Argentina, currently based in New York City. Her sound effortlessly blends the complexity and sophistication of South American songwriting with contemporary chamber music and experimental folk. Liviero’s music and arrangements were performed by internationally renowned ensembles, such as the New York Philharmonic and the Army Jazz Ambassadors Big Band. She was the recipient of the 2020 and 2019 ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Awards and the 2019 JEN Young Jazz Composer Award.
Martina holds a B.M in Jazz Composition from Berklee College of Music, where she was awarded the Latin American Tour Scholarship.Loop 7 is the second release by Phillip Golub in an ongoing series of loops-based compositions for New York-based label Greyfade. To celebrate the release of Loop 7, the piece will be played back on The Owl’s sound system. About Loop 7: Pianist and composer Phillip Golub continues his acoustic loops project with Loop 7, a microtonal composition that dramatically expands the project’s scope harmonically, technologically, and orchestrationally, while maintaining the emphasis on microscopic variation within tightly controlled repetition. Golub is joined by a small ensemble to create an absorbing realization of the piece, uncannily situated between chamber performance and imaginary studio creation.
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Thu24Apr2025
Will Shore • Kenny Wollesen 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.Kenny Wollesen is an American drummer and percussionist. He has recorded and toured with Tom Waits, Sean Lennon, Ron Sexsmith, Bill Frisell, Norah Jones, John Lurie, Myra Melford, Steven Bernstein, and John Zorn. He is a founding member of the New Klezmer Trio and of Sex Mob. Wollesen utilizes the Burton grip when playing vibraphone.
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Fri25Apr2025
Jane Bruce • Bold Forbes Apr 25
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Jane Bruce is a singer-songwriter and actress, most recently seen on Broadway in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. Her debut album, My Bed (2022), was praised by Holler Country for its introspective lyrics and folk guitar style, drawing comparisons to artists like Joni Mitchell and Shawn Colvin. The album delves into themes of personal growth and emotional complexity, showcasing Bruce’s ability to convey vulnerability and strength through her music. With a background in theater and a passion for storytelling, she continues to captivate audiences both on stage and through her songwriting. @janeybrucey
Bold Forbes is an acoustic New York City- and Boston-based trio made up of Nick Bloom, Reid Jenkins, and David Halpern. Their songs blend the structures of folk and country songwriting with imagistic lyrics and genre-busting arrangements for strings and voice. The New York Times, has described their songs as “bouncy and earnest…taking palate-cleansing detours into both lyrical abstraction and dissonant instrumental noise, making for a result that resists cliches as much as it embraces tradition.” Bold Forbes released their first full-length album High Time in 2018, and they are releasing new singles, “Make Away” and “Arroyo Seco,” in Spring 2025. Their first single, “Make Away,” came out in April, and has been favorably reviewed by the Bluegrass Situation, among other outlets. Their music is available on Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music, Amazon, YouTube, and bandcamp. They have toured the Northeast extensively, and have shared the stage with such acts as Morningsiders, Maeve Gilchrist, Jefferson Hamer, Sweet Petunia, Lily Henley, Cricket Blue, and Gillian Grogan
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Sat26Apr2025
Classical Piano with Charlotte from The Mops • Peter Stampfel and the Atomic Meta Pagans April 26
6:30 Doors, Charlotte at 7, Stampfel, etc 8pm $15.00 suggested Donation
Charlotte from The Mops has spent a lot of her life practicing classical piano. She is currently completing her doctorate in piano performance at SUNY Stony Brook, where she studies with 89-year old legend Gilbert Kalish (one more year than keys) and teaches undergraduate piano students. This solo piano program at the Owl will focus on fantastical imagination, with selections from Bach’s Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, Beethoven’s Sonata quasi fantasia, and Scriabin’s Sonata-Fantasy. When not at the piano or in band practice with the Mops, Charlotte works with her mom to run Music at Port Milford, a summer chamber music festival and school in Ontario. She welcomes all challenges to her unusually developed knowledge of string quartet trivia.
Peter Stampfel first came to prominence in 1964, as the singing, banjoist-fiddler co-founder of the Holy Modal Rounders, who were in turn the backing band of the Fugs at the time of their 1965 debut. These alone would have secured his place in history as a founder of Freak Folk. But Peter has never stopped playing or innovating. This show will feature a largely new repertoire, including a batch of recent “soul jingles” featuring the wisdom of the Stoics.The Atomic Meta-Pagans on this date may be: Peter Stampfel (electric uke, fiddle, banjo, lead vocals), Steve Espinola (piano), Heather Wagner (drums), Eli Hekto (banjo, mandolin), Sam Werbalowsky (lap steel), Dok Gregory (general “kirking”), Paul Nowinski (bass). -
Sun27Apr2025
movie night w Jennifer and Oren Apr 27
7:00 door 7:30 screening
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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 and friends: Adam Neely, Slowspin and more! May 2
7:30 doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Lau Noah has been praised by distinguished musicians, from Phoebe Bridgers to Jackson Browne for her poetic compositions and the masterful guitar-voice counterpoint on her music. Noah performed a Tiny Desk Concert in February 2019, making her the first Catalan to perform in the prestigious series. She has been sought after by Ivy League universities and music conservatories around the world to teach workshops and master classes due to her unique approach to guitar playing and composition. Lau has scored multiple award-winning films and has performed with musicians such as Jacob Collier, Gavin Degraw and Chris Thile, with whom she toured Europe and the UK as the opening act. In the fall of 2023 she opened for Ben Folds on his UK tour, playing solo at the Royal Albert Hall and other historic theaters.
Lau released her first LP “A Dos” on January 12, 2024 featuring some of the most influential musicians of our time: Jorge Drexler, Sílvia Pérez Cruz, Jacob Collier, Gaby Moreno and Cécile Mclorin Salvant among others. Lau will support Jacob Collier on his 2024 European fall tour.
Adam Neely describes himself as a ‘bassist, youtuber, and general enjoyer of things’. His brilliantly made YouTube channel is followed by millions worldwide.
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.
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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.
Alex Harwood’s music is a seamless blend of soulful indie twang and nuanced jazz harmonies that will sound at home soundtracking any road trip or late-night hang session. He’s currently taking 300mg of bupropion and a multi vitamin daily.
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Sun04May2025
Andre Matos • Alexa Barchini May 4
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15 suggested donation
Guitarist Andre Matos will appear withNathan Blehar – tenor saxophoneEivind Opsvik – bassBilly Mintz – drumsAlexa Barchini is a jazz vocalist and songwriter based in Brooklyn. Her music blends elements of Americana, Blues, and Jazz, creating songs that are both grounded and unexpected. She will be joined by guitarist, Jackson FitzGerald, and fiddle player, Bobby Hawk, for a night of her original songs.
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Thu08May2025
SOLD OUT: Damon Smith • Joshua Lee Turner May 8
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $25 adv/ $30 doorsSorry we're full, please follow these artists for more opportunities to listen live!
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.
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.
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.
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Sat10May2025
Oren 0'Blivion • Otracami • Charlie Kaplan May 10
Doors 7:30 Music 8:00 Suggested Donation $15.00 
Oren 0’Blivion is a person of rueful experience: making messes, finding himself in messes that weren’t obviously his doing (but who knows) or just feeling like a mess during the interstitial moments between the major mess episodes. This pattern of living could make for some great songs and it’s a shame someone with talent won’t be able to help with that.
Otracami is the project of Camila Ortiz, a Brooklyn-based songwriter, vocalist, and producer. She released her debut full-length album, touching the stove coil, in November 2023.
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.Matt Bachmann (b. 1988, Chicago) is a musician/social worker whose sound is a marriage of long form repetitive instrumental music and songwriting. The combination feels like a soundtrack to a film that has yet to have been created– it’s playful and dramatic; part breathy ballad, part DIY chamber music, and part 80’s Japanese synthwork. Bachmann has released three records on Owen Ashworth’s (Advance Base) tight knit Chicago based label, Orindal Records, including Dream Logic which was released in 2021.
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Thu15May2025
Levon Sings! with Brandon Lopez and Carmen Quill May 15
7:30 doors 8:00 Show $15.00 suggested donation 
Brandon Lopez is a bassist and composer living in New York City. His work deals with improvisation, finding new sonic possibilities on the double bass. Collaborations with the likes Fred Moten, Gerald Cleaver, John Zorn, The Mat Maneri Quartet, Nate Wooley’s “knknighgh”, Satoko Fuji, Zeena Parkins, Ingrid Laubrock and Tom Rainey, Standing On The Corner, Cecilia Lopez, Ash Fure, Joe Morris, Tyshawn Sorey, and many others. His collaborative work with Fred Moten and Gerald Cleaver was critically acclaimed by publications of note and won Best of Jazz 2022 in the NYTimes. His most recent solo recording won best of 2023 in the NYC Jazz record.Carmen Quill (formerly Carmen Q. Rothwell) is a double bassist, composer, and singer 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). In addition to producing and performing her solo music she performs and releases music as part of the bands tilt, Scree, and a host of other projects and collaborations.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.
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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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Sat17May2025
Jonahp • Doreé • or best offer • May 17
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15 suggested donation
The experimental rock duo Or Best Offer is made up of primary songwriter, vocalist and guitarist Grace Schmidhauser and drummer /synthesist Brian Culligan. They work with a sense of ceaseless wonder and invention, moving between instruments and technique with fluidity and intuition. Based between Brooklyn, Providence, and Chicago, the duo has found increasing notoriety for their arresting live performances, which project immersive electronics against muscular, cathartic performance.
Dorée is an artist and band from New York. Rhythmic guitar parts with drums, their music is best described as alternative math-folk. They regularly play home base gigs around NYC as well as tour multiple times a year. -
Sun18May2025
Ike Ufomadu • Lurchiana • The Cradle May 18
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Emmy-nominated Ike Ufomadu (JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH, JOE PERA TALKS WITH YOU) is an actor, comedian and entertainer, named a “Comic to Watch” by Time Out New York. His series of shorts WORDS WITH IKE appeared as part of CAKE on FX. Think a hilarious Mr. Rogers, but still alive.
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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 Núria Graham began her musical journey in Catalonia, Spain, releasing her debut album at the age of sixteen. Since then, she has released four albums and performed on stages worldwide, including festivals like Primavera Sound. Her latest album, “Cyclamen” (Verve Forecast, 2023), self-produced by Núria, is filled with dreamy textures, wind and string arrangements, from piano to classical guitar. Influenced by classical music, film scores and jazz, this album is a new approach to Núria’s oneiric world.
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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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Thu29May2025
Elijah Barlow • Molly Parden Alayne May May 27
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. Pulling influence from greats such as Townes Van Zandt, Tom Waits, Roseanne Cash and Missispi John Hurt, Berlow creates music that is complex, soulful and in conversation with a rich rhythmic history. He also derives inspiration from solitude in nature, perambulations in the neighborhood and the conversations that arise when cooking a meal to share. Berlow’s music can currently be found on Bandcamp, including the self-released albums Under the Weather [2016 and] Live at VCR [2019]. The single Roadkill [2019] can also be heard on Spotify. Berlow can be found performing with his band locally in Chicago, as well as around the Midwest and North East.
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Fri30May2025
Lily Talmers * TJ Douglas • Mutual Benefit May 30
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation 
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Sat31May2025
Henry Grant • Kyle Morgan • Katy Pinke May 31
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Henry Grant is a producer/songwriter living in New York City. Henry’s passion is bringing together scenes and sounds to discover new connections and combinations. Throughout the 2010s, Henry played hundreds of shows in his native NYC and nationally with his band Zula, a psych-pop project co-fronted with his cousin Nate Terepka. Zula released three albums and several EPs, winning praise from Jon Pareles in The New York Times for “pointillistic structures with a mainspring of minimalism.” Henry continues to play out regularly as a singer-songwriter. He has fronted his own band since 2022, integrating the hypnotic soundscapes that have become the basis and fountain of his inspiration into continued collaborative work as a musician, performer, engineer and producer.
Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Kyle Morgan grew up in central Pennsylvania, where he spent countless Sunday mornings amidst the broken strains and coffee breath of his church congregation. His first record, Starcrossed Losers, became the alias under which he would go on to release two more, Bind Us Anew and Strange Hesitations, each featuring his distinctive conglomeration of Americana styles, from stripped-down acoustic ballads and love-lorn parlor laments to roaring alt-country and throwback 60’s rock’n’roll. In 2022, Morgan released his label debut, Younger At Most Everything, on Team Love Records. His newest record, Ghost of a Problem, will be out June, 2025..
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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Wed04Jun2025
Christian Li • Maddy + Erin Duo • .michael. WEDNESDAY! June 14
7:30 Dooors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Maddy + Erin Duo is Maddy Baltor (Maddy with a Y) and Erin McGrath (Dig Nitty )in this one-time fun-time duo set. Songs by each of them, performed together..michael. is Michael Sachs and Mikey Buishas. Michael plays clarinet and then puts it down and sings and then picks it up again. Mikey plays guitar pretty much the whole time and also sings sometimes. Michael lives in LA and is coming to town just to play this show. There will be at least half an album of new songs plus some old for good measure. Mikey usually makes cupcakes for these events so leave room after dinner. -
Thu05Jun2025
Frances Chang • Wilks Group • Talk Bazaar • Chuck Roth June 5
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Frances Chang is a musician and multimedia artist living and performing in New York. Combining use of conventional instrumentation, playful electronics, and poetry, her unique strain of experimental songwriting deals with disrupting accepted reality. Her songs are an exercise in communication, probing the tension between idiosyncratic personal experience and the drive to understand and be understood through a collective language. She regularly performs in NYC with Andrea Schiavelli (Eyes of Love) on bass and Liza Winter (Birthing Hips) on drums, forming an elastic trio that excels in psychic communication and subverting expectations.
Wilks Group is an entity oriented around songs written by Zack Wilks. It’s currently a seven-piece band consisting of Erinn Buyhoff (saxophone), Ethan Cohn (bass), Alex Fels (drums and percussion), Tom McCaffrey (guitar), Divya Menzes (keys and vocals), Isaac Silber (drums and percussion), and Wilks (guitar and vocals).
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.
Chuck Roth is a guitarist based in Brooklyn. He has written songs under the name watergh0st since 2015.
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Fri06Jun2025
James Carney • Joy Elysse 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 Adv/ $20 Door
Sweetbreads is the musical project of singer-songwriter Melody Stolpp, based in Ridgewood, Queens. With a powerful voice and an ear for infectious melodies, Sweetbreads draws inspiration from ’90s country icons like The Chicks and the modern indie twang movement. Her music captures the heightened emotions and contradictions of being alive, weaving together tender storytelling and fearless honesty.
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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Thu12Jun2025
Chris van Voorst van Beest • Sam Weber Jun 12
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Hailed as “a double bassist with an exceptional ability to improvise” (Erminio Garotta – Sound and Vision), Chris van Voorst van Beest has emerged as a unique voice within New York’s improvised music community. Chris will play his original music joined by Jacob Sacks on piano and Hamir Atwal on drums.Bassist Sam Weber will play his own compositions with Nathan Ellman-Bell (drums), Andrew Haug (piano), and Alex Levine (guitar). -
Fri13Jun2025
Michael Rocketship and friends Jun 13
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15 suggested donation
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Sat14Jun2025
Gory Dove• WishWish • Panther Hollow June 14
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
WishWish features the songs of drummer and vocalist Rachel Housle. Reaching into the space between the abstract and the familiar, pop melodies mingle with country-inflected slide guitar and a punk spirit.
Panther Hollow is the name under which Colombian-American singer-songwriter, composer & multi-instrumentalist Bernardo Ochoa (he/him) creates. Moving semi-frequently throughout his childhood, Nardo’s work consciously & subconsciously interrogates notions of belonging and grapples with self-love & identity in an ocean of seemingly opposing perspectives. Nardo currently tours with Daisy the Great and Charlotte Rose Benjamin and frequently plays in a slew of other bands in the Lenape land known as Queens NY, where he currently lives and works. -
Sun15Jun2025
Out Of Sight Of Land • Sav • Dirty Churches June 15
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Variously called “beautiful, hypnotic” (Weird Canada), and “highly intriguing” (Birds of Canada), the music of New York-raised, Montreal-matured composer Damon Hankoff treads lines between minimalist textures, ancient choral sonorities, and folk sensibilities. Hankoff performs under the name Out of Sight of Land.
Sav Griffin is an emerging indie folk musician hailing from South Carolina, known for her soulful melodies and introspective lyrics. Drawing from the rich traditions of folk music, Griffin’s sound blends heartfelt storytelling with evocative acoustic arrangements. Sav is currently working on her debut EP, collaborating with her good friend and producer Lorenzo Wolff.
Dirty Churches founder and composer Jesse Gelaznik specializes in film soundtracks, as well as music for art performances and dance. His Dirty Churches opera ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS was performed in 2019 at La MaMa Gelleria, and his music was used in the feature film Initials S.G., which premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. He has been nominated for “Best Score” by the American Independent Film Awards.
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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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Fri20Jun2025
Deidamoth (FKA Jae Soto) • Charlotte Greve • Charlotte Jacobs June 20
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Brooklyn singer and producer, Deidamoth (FKA Jae Soto) writes ethereal, electronic pop songs equally inspired by a crossover of experimental sounds and traditional songwriting.
Her last album “Leave the Light On” was released under the moniker Jae Soto via Switch Hit Records, a cooperative artist-run label.
Charlotte Greve is an award-winning composer, saxophonist, and vocalist whose work bridges the worlds of jazz, contemporary classical, and experimental music. Originally from Germany and now based in Brooklyn, she is known for her emotionally resonant compositions and innovative ensemble writing. Greve has released critically acclaimed albums with her projects Lisbeth Quartett and Wood River, and her large-scale choral work Sediments We Move, was named one of The New York Times‘ Best Classical Tracks of 2021. Her music is rooted in improvisation but constantly seeks new forms and sonic possibilities.
Charlotte Jacobs is a Brooklyn-based vocalist, composer, and producer crafting jazz-flecked avant-pop that merges electronic textures, spoken word, and bilingual (Dutch-English) vocals. Her debut album a t l a s (New Amsterdam Records) blends mythic storytelling with experimental minimalism. She has also released music on the Belgian label Stroom, known for its boundary-pushing electronic catalog.
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Sat21Jun2025
Ed Pastprini solo • Life In A Blender Jun 21
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Sun22Jun2025
Greenhoe and Bilger • Ali Dineen Jun 22
7:30 Doors 8:00 music $15 suggested donation
Greenhoe and Bilger features NYC natives Hans Bilger and Eli Greenhoe, two vibrant young voices at the intersection of acoustic pop music and the avant-garde. Clothing delicate songcraft in gorgeous arrangements showcasing their backgrounds in classical, New Music, and jazz, the pair’s songs burst with instrumental and vocal color to enchant, delight, and challenge listeners.
Ali Dineen is a songwriter and composer from Queens, NY. Known for her deeply introspective and emotionally-driven songs, Ali’s music transcends pop trends, prioritizing authenticity and vulnerability. With compassion and joy, she creates a space where powerful emotional experiences can unfold, fostering connection and community in every song. 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. Ali worked as Musician in Residence for Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir from 2022-2024, including on their recent stint opening for Neil Young on his Love Earth Tour. They are also the Music Director for local puppet troupe extraordinaire The Boxcutter Collective, and are currently working on an opera about Joan of Arc. In addition to writing and performing, Ali teaches vocal harmony and guitar workshops at the Jalopy Theatre and School of Music, as well as several youth choruses at public schools in NYC.
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Wed25Jun2025
Faun Fables Jun 25 WEDNESDAY
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
FAUN FABLES have been trailblazers of avant-folk/original music since the turn of the century; known for exquisite, visceral songs & live shows and the occasional theater piece. Their work became internationally widespread by 2004 with the DRAG CITY RECORDS debut FAMILY ALBUM; they will release their eighth record with Drag City on May 30th 2025, ‘COUNTERCLOCKWISE’, the first video single being EMBER BELL .
DAWN McCARTHY’s voice (which THE NEW YORKER described as “one of the more compelling instruments in contemporary music”) opens hearts and minds from a whisper to a rallying battle cry into her mythical world, animated by the adventurous musicality and vocals of partner NILS FRYKDAHL (Sleepytime Gorilla Museum). Their daughters, growing up alongside the writing, recording and touring since babies, now join them with additional vocals, percussion, keyboards and theatrical dance. FAUN FABLES has shared stages with Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, John Paul Jones, Joanna Newsom, Devotchka, Old Time Relijun, Dresden Dolls, Jah Wobble, Devendra Banhart, Regina Spekter, Anohni & the Johnsons, Baby Dee . Dawn is also known for her collaborations with BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY on the albums ‘THE LETTING GO’ (Drag City, 2006 ) and the Nashville record ‘WHAT THE BROTHERS SANG’ (Drag City, 2013 ) . FAUN FABLES currently hang their hats in Nevada County, California.
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Thu26Jun2025
Ian Davis and friends June 26
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Fri27Jun2025
R&D • TBA June 27
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15 suggested donation
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Thu10Jul2025
Ressonnance • Lila Bloom Jul 10
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Ressonnance offers a sanctuary for reducing tension, alleviating anxiety, and nurturing spiritual well-being. Stéphane Clement & Nicolaus Gelin bring a wealth of experience and accolades to Ressonnance, having performed at prestigious venues and collaborated with renowned artists around the world. Their combined expertise in music and art, alongside their shared vision, has led to innovative art experiences that have captivated audiences and fostered meaningful connections with esteemed establishments in the art and wellness space.
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Fri11Jul2025
tba• Chase Elodia • Chris Morrisey July 11
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Chase Elodia is a composer, drummer, and writer living in Brooklyn.His his band will perform songs inspired by fruit, fluttering eyelids, the textuality of grief, and roommate relations.
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Sun13Jul2025
Martin Nevin • Trevor Dunn's PROOF Readers Jul 13
7:30
Trevor Dunn put PROOF Readers together with the sole purpose of playing the beautiful & often neglected song book of Ornette Coleman. In 1993 the release of the complete Atlantic recordings “Beauty Is A Rare Thing” served as a catalyst for me in transcribing over 50 Ornette tunes. That endeavor in itself was a learning experience that informed my own writing in terms of form, variation, melody, and improvisation and led me towards an understanding of his harmolodic approach. The name PROOF Readers came from an unreleased song of the same name. Both Ornette’s musical & verbal language toy with syntax in their inimitable variation of normal harmony/grammar.
tha band is: Trevor Dunn (bass), Darius Jones (alto), Nate Wooley (trumpet), Ryan Sawyer (drums)
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Fri18Jul2025
Alena Spanger • TBA. Jul 18
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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. -
Sat19Jul2025
SNOCKORAMA with Erin McGrath and friends Jul 19
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Sun20Jul2025
Sex Mob Jul 20
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Fri25Jul2025
Little Mystery • Office Culture • More Ease Jul 25
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Sun27Jul2025
RocketSnail #6. Jul 27
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Fri08Aug2025
Felicia Douglass • Mina Walker Aug 8
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Sat06Sep2025
Lazing On A Sunny Afternoon Sept 6
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15 suggested donation
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Fri12Sep2025
Ali Dineen and friends Sept 12
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Sun14Sep2025
Alta Quartet • Michael Bates' Acrobat Sept 14
7:30 Door 8:00 Show $12 suggested donation
Michael Bates’ Acrobat and the ALTA String Quartet present radically different explorations of two dissident composers: Dmitri Shostakovich and Witold Lutoslawski.Acrobat are:Marty Ehrlich-clarinet • Fung Chern Hwei-violin • Sara Schoenbeck-bassoon • Michael Bates-bass •Michael Sarin-drums. The quintet, led by bassist/composer Michael Bates, features five fearless voices exploring one of music’s most mysterious personalities, Dmitri Shostakovich. With literal themes by Shostakovich or themes composed with his spirit, “Acrobat” is full of music that is playful yet dark and swinging. And while Shostakovich is clearly being channeled, the voices of these five fantastic improvisers will be on full display: Beautiful and vicious, elegant and dissonant, and humor laced with serene sarcasm.
Alta are: Gabryel Smith-violin • Rachel Hauser-violin •Emily Bookwalter-viola • Ken Hashimoto-cello, a collaboration of four committed and curious musicians based in Brooklyn, NY who perform and premiere a wide range of music for string quartet. Founded in 2021, the group has been praised for their “fiery” and “faithful” performances (New York City Jazz Record) of contemporary repertoire, and regularly performs music both old and new. On this evening, The ALTA String Quartet performs Shostakovich and Prokofiev. -
Fri10Oct2025
Kissing Other PPL with Rachel Baiman & Viv and Riley Oct 10
7:30 Doors $15/adv $20/door
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Sat11Oct2025
closed for a special event Oct 11
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15 suggested donation