CALENDAR

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

• Fri

  08

  Jul

  2022

  Hermona / / Chris Conti / Grey McMurray Jul 8

  7:30 Doors 8:00 Show

  $12.00 suggested donation

       

   

  Hermona is an Ethiopian-American musician and songwriter from Washington, D.C., now based in Brooklyn NY. A classically trained pianist and multi-instrumentalist, her songwriting and performance is based in R&B but equally and seamlessly floats to folk, pop, funk, and alternative. She has performed in New York City at The Bitter End, DROM, and The Delancey.

  Hermona’s current and forthcoming work is instrumental rooted in variations and syncopated layering. Her work explores through the act of composition and improvisation the belief that (creative) expression is a necessity to the self-actualization of one’s humanity. She will be an artist in residence this September at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

   

  After several albums of acoustic based songs produced in a stark/lo-fi slant, Chris Conti’s growing explorations with tape loops led to his latest releases comprised of songs framed and inspired by this textural aesthetic. Tonight, he will be performing with a more improvisational approach to further dig into the existing material.

  Guitarist, singer and producer Grey Mcmurray has been called “sublimely odd” (New York Magazine) and “the world’s least obtrusive guitarist” (The Guardian). He will release his first solo album on Figureight Records in summer 2019. He has performed/recorded with Gil-Scott Heron, Meshell Ndegeocello, Tyondai Braxton, Alarm Will Sound, Olga Bell, Skuli Sverrissonn, Ali Sethi, Theo Bleckmann, Beth Orton, ACME, Colin Stetson, So Percussion, Shahzad Ismaily, Sam Amidon and John Cale, among others. He is a co-leader of the trio Tongues in Trees with Samita Sinha and Sunny Jain, and of the duo itsnotyouitsme with Caleb Burhans, with four releases on New Amsterdam Records.  He hopes everyday to provoke joyful tears in strangers’ eyes.