CALENDAR

DOORS @ 7:30 / SHOWS @ 8PM, UNLESS POSTED OTHERWISE 

• Mon

  11

  Mar

  2019

  Nandi Rose Plunkett, anna rg, Zubin Hensler March 11

  7:00 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation

    

   

  Nandi Rose Plunkett is a singer, songwriter, and producer who leads the project Half Waif. Over the past six years, Half Waif has created a bold and unique sound that melds pop and folk songwriting styles with experimental production and arrangements rendered in electronic brushstrokes. Influenced by Nandi’s Western Massachusetts upbringing as the daughter of an Indian refugee mother and an American father of Irish/Swiss descent, Half Waif’s songs are forever searching to understand what it means to be truly “home.” The project has released two EPs and three albums, the most recent being 2018’s Lavender, released via Brooklyn-based label Cascine. Since its release in April, the album has received widespread critical acclaim, with Pitchfork calling it “A striking album of beautifully rendered and deeply layered synth-pop” and NPR commenting that “Plunkett writes songs that travel profoundly inward – asking questions about who we are and how we relate to each other – over beds of electronic instrumentation that expand and recede like ocean tides.” It’s that kind of reflection of nature that has led Nandi to relocate from Brooklyn to the Hudson Valley, where she finds inspiration in the nature around her every day. Maybe she’s found a home after all. (photo by Tonje Thilesen)

  anna rg is a multi media story oriented artist. she will share a set of new original songs, sonic experiments on the banjo, and some re workings of ancient ballads.

   

  her recent record with her longtime collaboration “anna & elizabeth” was called “a radical expansion of what folk songs are supposed to do.” she has worked with musicians of many beautiful stripes, including timo andres, ellen fullman, susan alcorn, jim white, benjamin lazar davis and glen hansard, and spent many years as the apprentice of fiddle and banjo traditions in appalachia. she has performed at carnegie hall, the big ears festival, the newport folk festival, and has played fiddle in many kitchens.

  Zubin Hensler is a composer and recordist living in Brooklyn, NY. He spends his time working on albums, designing sounds for various forms of media, and performing with his brilliant friends. For this show he’ll be sharing some new personal music for analog synthesizers, recorded samples, and his voice. (photo by Michael George)