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Wed30Oct2024
Charles Spearin (of Broken Social Scene), Stephen Becker (album release) WEDNESDAY Oct 30
7:30 Door 8:00 Show $15.00 admission
Charles Spearin is a founding member of two seminal Toronto-based music collectives: indie-rock powerhouse Broken Social Scene and art-rock ensemble Do Make Say Think. Beyond his work with these influential groups, Spearin ha scollaborated as a co-writer and touring musician with renowned Canadian artists such as Feist and Gord Downie.
His recent solo endeavors showcase his innovative spirit. “Music for 32 Phones Played Simultaneously” is a composition that engages audiences by synchronizing their cell phones into a captivating multitrack symphony, while “Echolocation” is a brass ensemble piece that blends physics and allegory to explore the theme of loneliness through the Doppler effect and echoes.
Stephen Becker is a songwriter who hides in the cracks between serene and strange, loud and soft, simple and complex, writing songs about love, life, happiness, unhappiness, and more. When not playing with bands like Rubblebucket, Katie Von Schleicher and Strawberry Runners, Steve can be found front and center in his own project, drawing inspiration from art song auteurs and guitar-playing luminaries like Elliot Smith, Joni Mitchell, and Luke Temple. Simultaneously sensitive, articulate, and confident, his music weaves indie-rock sensibilities with a jazz player’s touch and a compositional mind, resulting in a craft that is excitingly unique and warmly familiar. At this show, Steve will be celebrating the release of his second LP of songs, Middle Child Syndrome, out October 25h on Record Euphoria.
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Thu31Oct2024
The Corrigan Show: with host Kevin Corrigan, guests Michael Shannon and Elysian Fields Oct 31
7:30. $25.00 cash at the door
The Corrigan Show: with host Kevin Corrigan
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Fri01Nov2024
Ryan Dugre • Good Intentions • No Sailor Nov 1
7:30 Door 8:00 Show $15 suggested donation
No Sailor is American singer-songwriter Kieran Garvey and his five-piece folk band. Their fun and classical approach to folk has been described as “heartwarming and authentic” and “destined for the stages of Newport Folk Festival.” Their captivating live show has earned them comparisons to The Head And The Heart, and Gregory Alan Isakov. Garvey’s earnest songwriting, paired with a semi-classical band, has a profound way of playing on your heart strings. From the exuberance of ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors,’ to the melancholic strings on ‘Wedding Cake,’ their songs arc from euphoric folk rock to confessional orchestral ballads.
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Sat02Nov2024
Zoe Guigeno • Eureka Shoes • John Cushing Qtet Nov 2
7:30 doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Zoe Guigueno is 1) a songwriter from a Pacific island with no traffic lights 2) a freelance upright & electric bassist 3) a photographer.Eureka Shoes is a new songwriting power group of Charlie Burnham, Jean Rohe, and Skye Soto Steele, longtime friends and collaborators who have each achieved notoriety in their respective worlds of jazz, folk, and pop music, and now join forces, along with bassist Rashaan Carter, to bring you an entirely new sound. Expect delicious three-part harmonies, other-worldly twin fiddling, and lyrics that will break your heart and put it back together again better.Tonight we celebrate the release of their debut album, Beautalina, on Adhyaropa records. -
Sun03Nov2024
Astghik Martirosyan • Timo Vollbrecht Nov 3
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Astghik Martirosyan, an Armenian-born, New York City-based vocalist, composer, and pianist, stands at the intersection of diverse musical realms, drawing inspiration from classical, traditional Armenian folk music, jazz and contemporary improvisation. The album features Vardan Ovsepian on piano/co-producer, Darek Oles on bass, Christian Euman on drums, Daniel Rotem on tenor sax and Maksim Velichkin on cello. From her early beginnings performing with the Armenian State Jazz Orchestra at just 15 years old to her recent collaborations and performances with Dave Holland, Magos Herrera, Ari Hoenig and Vardan Ovsepian Astghik’s musical journey has been one of continual exploration. Exposing different chambers of her artistry Astghik collaborated with Ted Reichman infusing infusing electronic textures into classic Mingus works and served as a composer, performer and a musical director for “We Wait for Your Return” – a two-part live performance commissioned by Northeastern University in Boston which combined photography, storytelling, and live music.
Brooklyn-based Timo Vollbrecht is a shapeshifting saxophonist-composer and Brown University jazz professor. The NYC Jazz Record attests he is “blessed with fluidity and intricate twists.” Together with multi-Grammy-nominated vocalist Theo Bleckmann, sound-magician Luke Marantz, and drummer extraordinaire Jason Burger, this new band meets at the intersection of avant-jazz, indie, post-rock, and song. Their music weaves together delicate textures and creates a pastoral quartet sound that merges “acoustic resonance with otherworldy electronic sonorities of orchestral width” (Occhi Magazine). Get ready for an evening of all new music.With Theo Bleckmann – vocals • Luke Marantz – keys • Jason Burger – drums -
Thu07Nov2024
Sean Kiely Album Release with special guest Jeff Taylor Nov 7
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Sean Kiely is a Jersey City-based songwriter. His new record “Postcards of the Reckoning” is out 11/1/24. Tris McCall writes: “He brings us echoes, song after song, of dangerous things past. His music is gentle but stubbornly unusual — evocative of folk traditions, but more often redolent of the waterfront at night, the strangeness of the Hudson County post-industrial landscape, than of the woods.” He’ll mark the release at The Owl with collaborators Jared Engel (bass), Bill Campbell (drums), Chris Parker (guitar), & Bobby Hawk (fiddle).Jeff Taylor released his debut LP, ‘A Deeper Kind’ in Spring 2022. The album features drummer Matt Johnson (Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright, St. Vincent) and bassist Jesske Hume (Conor Oberst, Margaret Glaspy), and was produced by John Agnello (Sonic Youth, Kurt Vile, Waxahatchee). Together in early 2024, Taylor and Seattle producer Geoff Stanfield dropped the debut album from their new project, Farmer. Multiple tracks on ‘The Color That Suits You’ feature guest vocals from Rock and Roll HOF electee Dave Matthews, including a music video for ‘Honey,’ also featuring the South African-born songwriter. The group are currently recording a full-length followup, due out in Spring 2025.
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Fri08Nov2024
Quarterly Music rec release Nov 8
7:30 Door 8:00 Show $15.00 suggested donation
Active for over a decade in New York City and Boston, Brooklyn duo Quarterly have become known for their performances of classical and folk-influenced pieces for guitar and cello. On their adventurous third album Adonis, the two often take more equal roles—“dancing together,” as they put it—to create engaging and unusual moods. At once immediate and challenging, it is an emotionally engaging tour de force that summarizes Drymala and DiPietro’s singular voices as players and composers.
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Sat09Nov2024
Alta Quartet • Michael Bates' Acrobat Dec 22
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. -
Sun10Nov2024
Elsa Nilssen - Santiago Liebson duo • Kari van der Kloot Nov 10
8:00
Kari van der Kloot: voice/compositions, Elsa Nilsson: flutes, Jorn Swart: piano, TBA: bass, TBA: drums
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Thu14Nov2024
Mariah Houston • Hudson Freeman • bugcatcher Nov 14
7:30 doors 8:00 music $15 suggested donation
Mariah Houston is from Lawrence KS and based in Brooklyn, NY
Born to Evangelical missionaries, Hudson Freeman started writing songs upon a radical break at the age of thirteen when his family suddenly moved from the suburbs of Dallas to The Kingdom of Eswatini. Formative college years spent in Springfield, Missouri made a do-it-yourself midwesterner out of Hudson. Now based in Brooklyn, Hudson continues to record and perform songs equal-parts resonant, reflective, and poignant.
bugcatcher is the bedroom project of Rochester, NY native, Jake Denning. Joined live by John Carlo Pecheone, Alyssa Zaso, Duvante Cora, & Ben Combs, bugcatcher draws from the groundwork laid by 90’s folk rock projects like Songs Ohia, Red House Painters, & Silver Jews
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Fri15Nov2024
Nora Stanley • Scree Nov 15
7:30 Door 8:00 Show $15.00 admission
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Sat16Nov2024
Zoh Amba • Eliana Glass Nov 16
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15 suggested donation
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Sat16Nov2024
AFTERNOON SHOW! Phillip Golub's 'Filters' + pickling show Nov 16
2:00-5:00
Phillip Golub presents his 3rd annual ‘Filters’ + pickling show at The Owl. Joined by Aaron Edgcomb (microtonal vibraphone), Ty Citerman (microtonal guitar), and Joe Branciforte (live electronics), Phillip (piano and midi keyboard) will play new and old loops from his Filters series. Audience members are invited to engage in their own slowly evolving works as they listen by making a jar of pickles — all ingredients and tools provided.
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Sun17Nov2024
Kyle Morgan • Rachel Housle Nov 17
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15 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 spiri
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Thu21Nov2024
Izzy Oram Brown • Kitba • Eric Gabriel Nov 21
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.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.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 Julian Cubillos, Jason Burger, Jacob Drab, and Asher Kurtz. -
Fri22Nov2024
ID:RB Rec release w Borey Shin and Maddy with a Y Nov 22
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Sat23Nov2024
Gemma Laurence • Jess Kerber • Will Orchard Nov 23
7:30 Dooors 8:00 Music $15.00 adv / $18.00 at door
Gemma Laurence is a Brooklyn-based indie folk singer-songwriter from the coast of Maine. Categorizing herself as “Sapphic folk,” Laurence has been named an “up-and-comer” in the queer music scene by NPR Music and starred on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Having grown up on the coast of Maine and the hills of Oxfordshire, Laurence’s time on both sides of the Atlantic influenced her unique sound: a fusion of foot-stomping Americana with a hint of English folk. Crafting a lush soundscape of rich acoustic textures, dreamy harmonies, and found sounds, Laurence’s timeless tracks call her listeners home to the people and places left behind for new beginnings. Her album Lavender is out now on Better Company Records.
Jess Kerber is a songwriter who hails from just outside New Orleans, LA. Picking up the guitar at age 12, she quickly learned the instrument on an atypical path. Heavily inspired by the likes of Joni Mitchell and Susan Tedeschi, she primarily gravitated towards alternate tunings, leading her playing to take on a color unlike most other musicians. Her voice grew to attain a deep purple heaviness, which enchanted her early recordings, all backed by the tasteful intricacy of her guitar playing, melodic and captivating enough to stand on its own. Before long, she found herself at Boston’s Berklee College of Music as the 2018 Berklee Lollapalooza full scholarship recipient. The environment challenged her tastes and songwriting style, leading her to take on a more subdued and lyric-driven approach, influenced by the indie-folk of artists like Andy Shauf and Adrianne Lenker. Having embarked on two self-booked European tours and releasing her debut record (May 2022), Jess has since relocated to Nashville, TN – where she lives with her two cats, Tahini and Archie.
Will Orchard has released four EPs and LPs as, both independently and with Brooklyn-based label, Better Company Records. He has been praised by PopNews, Glide Magazine, The Wild Honey Pie, Atwood, and more as a unique emerging voice in folk music. Now based in Nashville, he is currently back in his natural environment of self-production, with an in progress-LP slated to release in 2025.
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Sun24Nov2024
Will Graefe • Weinrib/Nevin/Harris Nov 24
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Craig Weinrib presents a collaborative trio featuring Martin Nevin and Sam Harris, performing compositions for trap drums, double bass, and piano by all three ensemble members. Their music toggles between blueviolet reflections on the natural world and a poignant urbanism, and skews gentle. Weinrib, Nevin, and Harris have played together for over a decade while working with some of the most progressive artists in musical sound.Will Graefe will open the evening with a collection of compositions for solo guitar. -
Sat30Nov2024
Adam Minkoff • Danton Boller Nov 30
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15 suggested donation
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Thu05Dec2024
Michelle Willis •Jake Klar • Miles Hewitt Dec 5
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Sat07Dec2024
Carmen Quill • R&D • Andy Clausen Dec 7
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15 suggested donation
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Sun08Dec2024
Talie Schlanger • Lily Talmers Dec 8
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15 suggested donation
Talia Schlanger is a songwriter, musician and broadcaster whose intimate and explosive debut album “Grace for the Going” was named one of Exclaim!’s Most Anticipated Canadian Albums of 2024. With a warm, inviting sound that sits somewhere between folk, jazz and rock, NPR Music writes “Schlanger is an empathetic ear for someone’s wounded heart; her voice sure in its love, gently cradling ours.” She sings about compassion, hope, survival, mental health, love gone bad and sometimes extinct species of frogs. As former host of the NPR-distributed radio show World Cafe and frequent guest host on CBC’s Q with Tom Power, Schlanger has also interviewed hundreds of artists. She began her professional performance career at age 14 and her various theatre credits including performing in the original Canadian cast of Queen’s We Will Rock You and the first US tour of Green Day’s American Idiot. Her new live EP, coming out Oct 25 via Latent Recordings, is produced by Cowboy Junkies’ Mike Timmins.
Lily Talmers is a Michigan-born, Brooklyn based songwriter. Her music hopes to elicit deep sorrow and joy, both, and wonders about their connection.
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Thu12Dec2024
Sammy Weisberg • Matt Bachmann • Iceblink Dec 12
7:30 Doors 8:00 music $15 suggested donation
Sammy Weissberg is a composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist based out of Brooklyn, New York. He’s scored numerous films including “What Doesn’t Float” (Prod. Pauline Chalamet) and has four releases of chamber music under his own name. Sammy has also contributed string and wind arrangements for artists such as Caroline Rose, June McDoom, Kristine Leschper, Allegra Krieger, The Cradle, Girlpool, and more.
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 shot– it’s playful and dramatic, building upon a sonic pallet that’s 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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Fri13Dec2024
Charlotte Greve • Sarah Rossy • Domino Kirke Dec 13
7:30 Door 8:00 Show $15 suggested donation
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Sat14Dec2024
Claire Dickson (solo) • Eliot Krimsky • Tommy Crane’s Dance Music Music For All Occasions Dec 14
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Sun15Dec2024
ave.noelle • Dorée and Jolee
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15..00 suggested donation
ave. like avenue. ave.noelle is an LA-based musician & songwriter. they came out with their first album, titled “once,” in February 2024.
Dorée and Jolee Gordon are artists, musicians, and siblings who learned what music is by playing together since childhood. They are both born and raised in NYC, but have been living on opposite coasts for the past 3 years. When they return to the same place, the music flows with all the new experiences and inspiration they have absorbed from their surroundings. Both multi-instrumentalists and songwriters, they will be playing a set of both of their original songs, playing with longtime friends and bandmates: Inés Hidalgo (bass) and Izzy DeFonseca (drums) This is a special show!
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Thu19Dec2024
Miriam Elhajli Dec 19
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 adv / $18.00 at door
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Fri20Dec2024
Elizabeth Ziman • Jason Burger improvising quartet w Dec 20
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Fri03Jan2025
Ali Dineen and friends Jan 3
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Sun05Jan2025
Martina Liviero with Kevin Hays • TBA Jan 5
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 adv / $18.00 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. -
Fri10Jan2025
Alexia Avina • Kitba • Alara Jan 10
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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. -
Thu16Jan2025
Peaceful Faces Jan 16
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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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Sun26Jan2025
Kyle Morgan • Ellie MacPhee • Kat Wallace Jan 26
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15 suggested donation 
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Fri07Feb2025
Dida Pelled • Dorèe Gordon Feb 7
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15 suggested donation
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