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Thu12Sep2024
Tara Jane O'Neil • Little Mazarn • More Ease• Sept 12
7:30 Dooors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Tara Jane O’Neil is a multi-instrumentalist,composer,producer and visual artist. She creates melodic and experimental music under her own name and in collaboration with other artists and musicians.A founding member of Rodan and the Sonora Pine, TJO recorded her first solo album in the late 20th century on the lower east side. Her classic album The Cool Cloud Of Okayness was released April 2024 on Orindal records.
The music of Little Mazarn is a cool float a few feet from the ground through a dimly lit, almost familiar forest. It is quieter than silence, big as everything, still but always moving. If you’ve ever had flying dreams, or an amazing night time bike ride on LSD, this might be a world for you. – Thor Harrismore eaze is the project of brooklyn-based sound artist and multi-instrumentalist Mari Maurice. Ranging from ambient pop to deconstructed sound collage, her numerous solo and collaborative releases weave mundane, everyday sounds, acoustic orchestration and instrumentation, and electronics into adventurous textural compositions. Her music explores themes of intimacy, yearning, and the transformation of abstract feeling into intense living through sound design that moves seamlessly between the banal and the ethereal. She has recently released work with Longform Editions, Leaving Records, Ecstatic, and Orange Milk. Her work as a string arranger, pedal steel player, and producer has recently been featured on recordings by Martha Skye Murphy, Water Damage, Lomelda, Fashion Club, Claire Rousay, Space Afrika and Rainy Miller, and Nick Zanca amongst others. -
Fri13Sep2024
Tangie Mitchell, Chase Elodia, Kayla Williams Sept 13
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15 suggested donation
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Sat14Sep2024
Alice Cohen • Sofi & Alice • Eamon Fogarty Sept 14
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15 suggested donation
Alice Cohen is a Brooklyn-based musician, singer/songwriter and visual artist who has been actively releasing records since the late 1970s, when she cut her teeth in the Philly music scene. Based in NYC since the mid-80s, from synth-pop band the Vels to 90s grunge band Die Monster Die, she continues to write, record and perform her home-recorded outsider-pop songs and has released 7 solo albums. “Sofi performs whispered protest songs that combine voice, guitar, synthesiser and urban field recordings, while Alice’s operatic refrains weave together chamber and psych folk with her own modern experimentations.”Eamon Fogarty is a New York City-based composer, songwriter, singer, multi-instrumentalist, and audio archivist who was born in the state of 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.” This show will feature new ‘chamber’ arrangements of old and new songs.
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Sun15Sep2024
Benefit for Harris / Walz w Charlie Burnham, Aggie Miller, Emily Frembgen, The Mops, Storey Littleton, Isaac Gillespie, Natalie Simons and more TBA Sept 15
7:30 Door 8:00 Show $15.00 admission
will play and we’ll forward the donations to the Kamala Kampaign
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Thu19Sep2024
Contrapunctus • Halogen Trio Sept 19
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Halogen trio areJacob sacks — piano Jeong Lim Yang— bass Henry mermer— drumsContraPunctus are Mike McGinnis – sax/clarinet Carmen Staaf – piano Gui Duvignau – bass Hamir Atwal – drums
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Fri20Sep2024
Erika Dohi • Allan Pray Sept 20
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15.00 donation
Described as “virtuosic” (NY Times) and “barrier-defying artist” (MixMag), pianist Erika Dohi is a multi-faceted artist with an eclectic musical background. From highly polished traditional classical to bold improvisation, she is a dynamic performer whose timeless style and unidiomatic technique sets her apart in contemporary NYC avant-garde circles. I, Castorpollux, Dohi’s debut album under the label 37d03d, received “The Best Ambient Albums” (Bandcamp), and was featured on The New York Times’ Playlist and WNYC’s New Sounds/Soundcheck.
Allan Pray is a composer, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and conceptual artist. His current project “King Cuicatl” is a song cycle and live presentation based on an ancient Aztec ritual wherein a foreign war prisoner was made to impersonate the Aztec God “Tezcatlipoca” for one full year before being sacrificed. Performances of “King Cuicatl” began in Oaxaca, Mexico with a large ensemble of musicians from Oaxaca’s indigenous “Mixtec” tribe, later incorporating the Oaxaca Symphony, and most recently in Mexico City with the Mexican National Symphony. After a series of particularly successful performances and positive national press, Pray and a new 5-piece ensemble began performing “King Cuicatl” throughout the US and beyond.
Pray’s music has been called “majestic” by El Sol de México, “radiant” by The Cincinnati Enquirer, and “epic” by WVXU.
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Sat21Sep2024
Adam Brisbin/ Zoh Amba/ Jeremy Gustin/ Kenny Wollesen • Poppy Patica • Otracami Sept 21
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Sun22Sep2024
Bennardo-Larson Duo • Sam Decker Quartet Sept 22
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15 suggested donationProgram: dormant gardens ii. by Maya Bennardo. Worshipful Company by Anthony VineThe Bennardo-Larson Duo are. Maya Bennardo, violin, and Karl Larson, piano.Sam Decker is a Brooklyn based musician, who plays in many different bands and projects across genres. He will be playing a fully new set of quartet music along with Gregg Belisle-Chi, Tom Rainey, and John Herbert. -
Thu26Sep2024
Katy The Kyng • EJ from Noble Beast • Marji Shemanski Set 26
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Katy the Kyng, Brooklyn’s resident guitar queen, is releasing her debut album, Selfies of You, on Ryley Walker’s renowned Husky Pants label this summer. Tonight she will play rock ballads, minimalist freakouts and poetic scourges.
Noble Beast is the project of multi instrumentalist EJ Unterseher. Their debut album Absentee was released earlier this year on I’m Info Life Records. Bursting with poignant melodies, intertwining angular guitars, and boss grooves on what is ostensibly an indie rock album, these songs are soaring even in their most intimate moments.
Marji is a Brooklyn based artist and teacher . Primarily a violinist, she picked up the baritone ukulele during the pandemic and started writing as a means of therapy. Her lyrics explore themes of love, individuation, religious trauma, and the murky waters of relationships.
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Fri27Sep2024
Jordie Lane • Zoe Guigueno • Maya de Vitry w/ Sept 29
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music 15/adv 18 doorstix:
Jordie Lane and his latest offering, Tropical Depression are an important addition to the ever expanding Americana/Folk world as an Australian artist based in Nashville, Tennessee, performing major festivals in the US, and abroad. He has toured with a wide range of international acts, including Gotye, Billy Bragg, Cat Power and Old Crow Medicine Show. Lane has a lonesome sincerity in his vocal, juxtaposed with his upbeat playfulness.
Zoe Guigueno is 1) a songwriter from a tiny island with no traffic lights 2) a freelance upright & electric bassist 3) a photographer. She will be joined by Adam Brisbin for this performance.
Maya de Vitry has earned accolades from Rolling Stone Country, NPR Music, and No Depression and has attracted an organic and devoted following on the strength of her recordings and her live performances. She sings with a magnetic and hard won sense of purpose that has landed her support tours in North America and Europe for artists like The Wood Brothers and Aoife O’Donovan.. Her songwriting appears on albums by Molly Tuttle, Lindsay Lou and Bronwyn Keith Hynes, Her versatility as a multi instrumentalist and harmony singer has enriched numerous Nashville projects. Despite her seemingly vigorous creative pace, the recording process for her new album The Only Moment was unhurried. The resulting album is a refreshing testament to the generative simmering that underpins periods of reinvention and growth.
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Sat28Sep2024
Kitba • Chelsea Crabtree album release/birthdaySept 28
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15 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, Sam Weber and Luke Bergman to celebrate the release of her debut album and birthday!
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Sun29Sep2024
Sunday MATINEE! Alexis Hightower presents Singers Cantina Sept 29
3:00 doors 3:30 pm music tickets $20.00tickets:
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Sun29Sep2024
Levon Henry • Dig Nitty • Carmen Quill Sept 29
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Carmen Quill is a double bassist, composer, and singer based in Brooklyn, NY. 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. During this performance, Carmen will be joined by Kristina Teuschler, Isabel Crespo Pardo, and Mike Gebhart.
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Thu03Oct2024
Ryan Power • Lina Tullgren • Wendy Eisenberg Oct 3
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15 suggested donation
Ryan Power’s career has been one of quiet growth. The musician, who lived in Vermont for 16 years before moving to Brooklyn in 2017, 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. His ninth album, World of Wonder, is a continuation of this process and was recently released on Feeding Tube Records.
lina tullgren is an artist, improviser, performer and poet. their work explores space, duality, relationships and the divine. recent works of both song music and improvised violin have been released under astral spirits, ba da bing! and captured tracks record labels. they live in los angeles. -
Fri04Oct2024
Zosha Warpeha • Christopher Icasiano & Andy Clausen • Oct 4
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15 suggested donation
Zosha Warpeha is a composer-performer working in a meditative space at the intersection of contemporary improvisation and folk traditions. She performs primarily on Hardanger d’amore, a sympathetic-stringed instrument closely related to the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle.Christopher Icasiano and Andy Clausen started collaborating on Seattle’s vibrant improvised music scene over a decade ago, and in more recent years have toured extensively together in Fleet Foxes. For this special event, both will present sets from their recent solo projects, Icasiano’s Provinces and Clausen’s Few Ill Words: Solo Trombone at The TANK, Vol. 1, as well as new collaborative material together. -
Sat05Oct2024
Blue Yonder • Zoe Kiefl Oct 5
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Sun06Oct2024
Ester Wiesnerova • Rose Stoller Oct 6
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Ester Wiesnerova is a Slovak vocalist and composer whose music bridges contemporary jazz and poetic storytelling. Her album “Blue Journal” features original compositions in Slovak and English, performed by an unusual quintet with harp and percussion. Praised as “an artist of rare imagination and formidable arranging skills” (JazzWise, UK), Ester’s voice is described as a “warm, inviting, whispered breath” (The Whole Note, CA) and “manifesting itself quietly and with great gravity” (All About Jazz, US). Recognized by Forbes in their 30 under 30 and considered for Grammy awards in two categories, Ester’s poetic depth and distinctive artistry leave a lasting impression on all careful listeners.
Rose Stoller is a New York based multidisciplinary artist and musician. In her original music, she is a delicate songwriter who merges an influence of contemporary jazz, R&B, Laurel Canyon folk rock, Brazilian Popular Music, and ambient soundscapes into a corner of her own. Sometimes whimsical, romantic, often somber or daring, Rose crafts words like a mandala to be gently washed away. She’s releasing a live acoustic EP with Guava Records on November 7th.
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Fri11Oct2024
Gregg Belisle-Chi's HUM ~ James Carney Quartet Oct 11
7:30 Door 8:00 Show $15 suggested donation
HUM is the workings of guitarist/composer Gregg Belisle-Chi and his cohorts of friendly improvisers Sam Decker (tenor sax), Noah Garabedian (bass), and Jeff Davis (drums.) Their record was released on Joel Harrison’s guitar-forward thinking label AGS Recordings, which features a slew of today’s six-string stars including Miles Okazaki, Kurt Rosenwinkel, and Nels Cline, who wrote about HUM: “A merging of allegedly opposing forces/sensibilities. A balancing act of sorts. An eloquent evocation of intricate imagination and thoughtful improvisation. A dalliance with intensity that somehow often ends up feeling like intimacy. These are sentence fragments attempting to describe in words that which is certainly beyond words. Ah, the nagging and seemingly inescapable conundrum…So rarely does music that possesses more than a whiff of boldness also offer such graceful moments of open-ended musical conversation…”)
JCQ will feature Tony Malaby, Mark Helias & Tom Rainey
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Sat12Oct2024
John Cushing • Sam Bailey & Ellie MacPhee • Deer Scout 10/12
7:30 Door 8:00 Show $15 suggested donation
Ellie MacPhee and Sam Baily, also known as Preacher and Daisy, began their collaboration by doodling around on guitar and fiddle and singing folk songs in a waiting room. Their voices fit together in a curious way. Just a few short months later, they were writing and recording a split album in Somerville, MA.
Their album, Pegasus Sit/Pegasus Stay, explores themes such as believing in things you shouldn’t, a housemate who paints all day, jumping to conclusions, and eating cake for breakfast.
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Sun13Oct2024
Dharma Down • Brittany Anjou Oct 13
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Dharma Down presents music from across the jazz compendium as well as drawing on influences from East European and Middle Eastern music. Shows offer a genre-bending combination of ancient Arabic melodies, modern and postmodern jazz, plus new original repertoire for the middle eastern influenced jazz movement.
Mike Effenberger – Piano, Duncan Hardy – Alto Sax, Qanun, Scott Kiefner – Acoustic Bass, John Mettam – Percussion
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Thu17Oct2024
Lea Thomas • Adelyn Strei • gushes Oct 17
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Lea Thomas’ album “Cosmos Forever” unfurls in a moment of exquisitely gentle suggestion: “Let’s go for a walk/Don’t talk.” Hers is a voice that is at peace with itself, that is trusting of its own ability to convey the truths of her experience and her personal philosophy, and to express her enduring love for the natural world. These truths, inspired by growing up on Maui, are embroidered with elegantly simple imagery. Fragments and fine details of a myriad different landscapes–a spray of leaves, a winding river, a bracing trade wind–seem to weave themselves together into a blanket of sound that is warm and wholly enveloping. Lushness without drama, honesty without sharpness–rare and fine qualities that suffuse every song. Like a friendly hand resting on the shoulder, this music encourages the listener to become more at ease with the unanswered questions they might contain within themselves. It suggests that to forgive oneself for being uncertain, to allow oneself to experience pure and simple goodness, is to feel more at home in the world, and to better feel the embrace of the all-encompassing universe itself.
gushes makes performance art-rock spanning lovesong, chamber prog, movement cycle, drone mythos, and earth body ritual, led by Jennae Santos. A tapestry of interlocking, polyrhythmic, ambient, angular, and languid guitar loops form the foundation of gushes music, from which countless performance and band arrangements emerge. This solo iteration invites tactile prayer drones for land and sea. -
Fri18Oct2024
Elijah Barlow • Captain Tallen • Sachi Oct 18
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Elijah Berlow is a Chicago-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist folk musician. Originating from pastoral roots in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, Berlow is a playful story-teller with a narrative style grounded in the traditions of Americana music. As a vocalist, he emanates a sincere warmth through his thoughtful phrasing; and his diligent fingerpicking guitar-style leads steadily through the pulsing catharsis of any song. Berlow creates music that is complex, soulful and in conversation with a rich rhythmic history. His music can currently be found on all streaming platforms including the newly self-released EP “Put Out Fires”(2022).
Captain Tallen & the Benevolent Entities are tender storytellers, weaving lyrics that sing of nostalgia and yearning with delicate and thoughtful instrumentation. They are based in Brooklyn and helm a pirate ship called The Mirage.
Sachi is a multi-instrumentalist hailing from Las Vegas, NV. A longtime student of classical music, Sachi grew up playing the violin and piano, and eventually earned her degree in Percussion Performance at the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University. Since moving to Brooklyn in 2022, Sachi has turned her attention to writing and singing songs of her own.
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Sat19Oct2024
Hayley Rose Harrington • Trail Papa • Horse Radish • Lily Too Oct 19
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15 suggested donation
After breaking off her engagement—losing her band and apartment in the process – Hayley Rose Harrington spent the last two years rebuilding her life in small increments and songs. Her debut album Starting Over is a deeply intimate record about healing, learning, and acceptance. Harrington draws on traditional folk songwriting to explore themes of queer identity, love, and heartbreak, writing songs that feel simultaneously familiar and new.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!Horse Radish is a musical project spearheaded by singer-songwriter Melanie Berkowitz blending melodic folk with alt-country sounds. Horse Radish released their debut record Snake Charmer in 2021 and will be recording their second album this fall. The band Dylan Sandler (keys, songwriter, vocals), Eric Sturm (bass, vocals), Dylan Awalt-Conley (drums), and Ray Henninger (pedal steel, mandolin, guitar) will be playing songs from the upcoming second record.Lily Too is the project of Lily Goldberg, a NYC native who found her sound at Western Massachusetts song circles. Acoustic, atmospheric, intimate and ever-changing, her music is a blossoming offer of wonder and whimsy inspired by natural and preternatural worlds alike. She’s performed at MASS MoCA, Pete’s Candy Store, Shrine, Brooklyn Music Kitchen, and The Dreamaway Lounge among other venues, and she’s currently at work on her debut EP. -
Sun20Oct2024
John Sims Trio • Grant Richards Sextet, Oct 20
7:30 $15.00 suggested donation
John Sims is a highly accomplished and versatile bass player whose rich musical journey has taken him from his early professional days in Arizona to a prominent position in the vibrant jazz scenes of Chicago and New York. After seven years immersed in Chicago’s thriving scene, John became a top-call bassist before venturing to New York to pursue additional musical growth and challenge. He has performed with many renowned musicians including Victor Goines, Steve Cardenas, Makaya McCraven, Bria Skonberg, Rich Perry, E.J. Strickland, Marquis Hill, Bruce Barth, and Adam Birnbaum. Currently residing in Brooklyn’s Prospect Lefferts Gardens neighborhood, John has quickly become one of the most in-demand bassists in the New York jazz scene, showcasing his versatility across various styles on both upright and electric bass.
Two esteemed jazz luminaries and four emerging NYC improvisers converge in the Grant Richards Sextet, striving to push the boundaries of this tradiAonal small group format with ambiAous composiAons and unbridled improvisaAons. Assembled by pianist Grant Richards, the core members include Italian alto saxophonist Daniele Germani, Chilean bassist Simón Willson, and Canadian drummer Adam Arruda, a quartet brimming with creaAve momentum on the heels of their 2022 release, “One and Done”. With the addiAon of tenor saxophonist Dayna Stephens (Kenny Barron, Ambrose Akinmusire) and trumpeter ScoS Wendholt (Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Vincent Herring) to the front line, the group produces a powerful, cohesive sound that takes full advantage of each individual’s unique v
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Thu24Oct2024
Chris and Morley • TBA Oct 24
7:30 Door 8:00 Show $15.00 admission
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Fri25Oct2024
Katie Martucci • Cilla Bonnie Oct 25
7:30 Door 8:00 Show $15.00 admission
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Sat26Oct2024
Rocketsnail #4 Oct 26
7:30 Dooors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
ROCKETSNAIL LIVE #4, hosted by MICHAEL ROCKETSHIP & SNEAL, is a multimedia variety series featuring music, video & all manner of miscellany. this edition features legendary Oakland composer/conductor/percussionist JORDAN GLENN backed by the resident rocketsnail house band, plus a video premiere from SNEAL, soaring poetry from ALIZA PENELOPE ROOD, and WALTER RIMLER reads some more tweets from his wayward son. Plus a whole new slew of SNEAL songs and mucho more !
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Sun27Oct2024
Alec Spiegelman • Lyle De Vitry Oct 27
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15 suggested donation
Much like life itself, the music of Lyle de Vitry comes in cycles. With his intricate, ambient fingerpicking guitar style and suede-soft baritone voice, de Vitry mesmerizes audiences into meditative serenity. Immersed in rich and nuanced harmonic composition, listeners are gently drawn into the here and now. Effortlessly moving between unity and dissonance, voice and instrumentation, rhythm and melody, de Vitry seamlessly integrates the comfort of folk music with the spine-shivering emotional release and intentionality of classical compositions. In so doing, he manages to create a sound as dynamic and honest as the ocean’s eternally flowing tides or the planet’s ever-changing seasons. His debut album, Door Within a Dream, is set to be released in August 2024.
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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
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. $225.00 cash at the door
The Corrigan Show: with host Kevin Corrigan
Special guest: Michael Shannon
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Thu31Oct2024
The Corrigan Show: with host Kevin Corrigan, guests Michael Shannon and Elysian Fields Oct 31
7:30. $225.00 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 • Drinking Bird 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.Combining intimate improvisation with cinematic melodies and rock-and-roll verve, Drinking Bird is a Brooklyn trio that draws from a liberally defined American Songbook to build a sound of its own. Comprising New Yorker Eladio Rojas on the drums, Norway-bred guitarist Jacob Drab, and Pacific Northwest native Tree Palmedo on trumpet, the members of Drinking Bird have spent the past decade performing with Broadway shows, acclaimed indie bands, and a host of jazz greats. The trio takes a nothing-off-limits approach to its own music, with forays into drum-and-bass, melodic synthpop, avant-garde noise, and Elliott Smith covers.
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Sun03Nov2024
Timo Vollbrecht • TBA Nov 3
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Thu07Nov2024
Sean Kiely • TBA 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).
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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. -
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
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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Sun17Nov2024
Kyle Morgan • Rachel Housle Nov 17
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15 suggested donation
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Thu21Nov2024
Kitba Nov 21
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Fri22Nov2024
ID:RB Rec release 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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