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Sat21Dec2024
Elysian Fields Dec 21. SOLD OUT
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $20/adv $25 door
sorry we won’t be able to accommodate everyone – we hope to see you at the next one!
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Sun22Dec2024
Coat Drive with Scree • Ambient Bingo from ROY SPIVEY and • Simpsons Holiday Classic Episodes
7:30 Doors. Suggested donation: One coat and/or $15.00 (for coats)
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Fri27Dec2024
Freedy Johnston • Chris Maxwell Dec 27
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Freedy Johnston is one of those rare singer-songwriters who counts critics among his biggest fans — and whose heroes consider him a peer. Not bad for a self-proclaimed “geek in glasses who never left his room.” In 1994 Rolling Stone named Johnston the ‘Songwriter of the Year’, describing him as “A master storyteller, (who) sketches out full-blown tragedies in a few taut poetic lines.” Adding, “He joins that elite cadre of songwriters—Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Elvis Costello—whose brilliant pop compositions turn magical with the addition of a defiantly idiosyncratic singing voice.”His new album, Back on the Road to You, is a return to grace for this gifted songwriter. It embodies the sound of an American original, reminding us that he is still considered one of the best songwriters of his generation.Veteran singer-songwriter, acclaimed guitarist, and Clio-award-winning composer Chris Maxwell’s new album, Nothingland, illuminates a troubled, recognizable world. Nothingland marks a departure from Maxwell’s previous two releases. The lauded, autobiographical Americana pair Arkansas Summer (2016) and New Store No. 2 (2020) comprised a return to the singer-songwriter realm after nearly twenty years as one half (with drummer/DJ Phil Hernandez) of record production/composer team Elegant Too, best known for their work on multi-Emmy-winning Bob’s Burgers. (Also Inside Amy Schumer, Silver Linings Playbook, as well as writing and producing for other artists such as They Might Be Giants, Yoko Ono and The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.) It was the 2007 birth of his son that motivated Maxwell to re-assume the mantle of songwriter, harkening back to his days working with legendary producer Jim Dickinson in 80s power-pop band The Gunbunnies, and Grammy-nominated, art-damaged 90s NYC combo Skeleton Key. -
Sat28Dec2024
Annual Howliday Spectacular Dec 28
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 adv / $18.00 at door
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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
Aggie Miller • Wendy Eisenberg • Tōth Jan 4
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $22.00 adv/ $25.00 door
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
Caroline Kuhn • Quartet Mirage • 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.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.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. -
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 TBA 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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Thu23Jan2025
Kayla WIlliams • Vanisha Gould Jan 23
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Sun26Jan2025
Kyle Morgan • Ellie MacPhee • Kat Wallace Jan 26
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15 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. 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.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 (TBC)
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15 suggested donation
Kenny Warren on trumpet
Carlo Costa on percussion
BlankFor.ms on live audio processingElectroacoustic 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.
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Sat01Feb2025
medium (Yaz Lancaster + gg200bpm) + anna rg (+band) 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.
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.
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.
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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Fri07Feb2025
Dida Pelled • Dorèe Gordon Feb 7
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15 suggested donation
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Thu13Feb2025
Charlie Burnham •The Binoculars • Mamie Minch Feb 13
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 Camillia 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!
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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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Thu20Feb2025
Martina Liviero • Jesse Harris Feb 20
7:30 Doors 8:00 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, 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 • Harrison Park • Beche • Zoe Firn Feb 21
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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. -
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. -
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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Fri28Mar2025
Riley McBride • Alexia Avina • Jesse In Gray 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.
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Sat12Apr2025
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.