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Thu05Dec2024
Michelle Willis & Chris Parker • Miles Hewitt, Jake Klar & Karlo Rueby Dec 5
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Michelle Willis returns to Brooklyn to play duo with Chris Parker, featuring songs by both.
For one night only, Jake Klar, Miles Hewitt, and Karlo Rueby will weave a special braid of their musics: three interwoven sets from three original and powerful songwriters.
Jake Klar is an artist based in Heath, MA. His songs showcase an ongoing collection of life’s lyric moments, both the eccentric and the daily. Klar rides on the Americana tradition of storytelling in his work, while bringing in the edge of modern folk/rock-inspired arrangements. Whether Jake is playing solo or with his band – you will leave his shows with his crooning voice and the poetry of his lyrics ringing through your head.
Miles Hewitt is a songwriter and poet residing in Brooklyn. His debut record, Heartfall, was named one of the 50 Best Albums of 2022 by The Boston Globe, who wrote: “Simply brilliant . . . by turns intimate and epic, lush with strings and delicate fingerpicked guitar, languid psychedelia and dreamy pedal-steel painted soundscapes.” 2025 will see the release of its follow-up, Vainglory.
Karlo Rueby’s Bye For Now is a 22-minute break-up album in 3 acts, recorded and mixed at home. Karlo also plays current and former bandmate in Western MA bands like Sun Parade, Hannah Mohan (And The Kids, Topsy), Prewn, Carinae, and is the co-founder of Cousin Moon.
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Fri06Dec2024
Emily Hope Price • Akie Bermiss Dec 6
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Emily Hope Price is a New York-based cellist, singer, songwriter, film composer, arranger, and performing artist. Before they disbanded in 2015, she was cellist and one of three singer-songwriters in the Brooklyn-based indie band Pearl and the Beard. Since returning to a solo career, she regularly performs on Broadway, composes for dance, film and television, and performs, records, and collaborates with artists around the world. Her solo work resonates withcinematic intensity and imagery – using voice, effects, and layered instrumental composition.
Akie Bermiss is affable, near-sighted, hirsute, and a nerd of the highest water. Nevertheless, he has also somehow managed to cultivate and live a double-life as cool and *very* hip musician. His favorite thing to do is write (and, subsequently, sing) songs about aliens and spaceships and falling in love.
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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.
Brooklyn-based trio Alaara (pronounced ahlah-ahrah) includes Grey McMurray on guitar, Sonya Belaya on piano, and Nicole Patrick on drums. The trio creates long form improvisations that prioritize patience, effortlessly traversing the spaces of jazz, experimental minimalism, and ambient music. In the lineage of loving friendship, the trio’s strength lies in the deepest listening, the vastness of their individual multiplicities, and an understanding that the present moment is the most precious one.
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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
Dimitris Stefanidis • Miriam Elhajli • Yacouba Sissoko Dec 19
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 adv / $18.00 at door
Miriam Elhajli is a Venezuelan-Moroccan-American composer and vocalist whose work is influenced strongly by the folkloric musics of South and North America, modern jazz, and contemporary classical music. A graduate of Berklee College of Music, she currently lives in Brooklyn where she performs (on the side of the road or otherwise), and is a researcher at The Association for Cultural Equity founded by Alan Lomax.
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Fri20Dec2024
Elizabeth Ziman • Jason Burger / Michael Coleman / Levon Henry / Carmen Quill Dec 20
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
This iteration of the Jason Burger and friends improvising quartet will meet for the first time on the evening of December 20 and will spontaneously compose a set informed by the energy of the particular time and place.
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Sat21Dec2024
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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
Ali Dineen and friends Jan 3
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Sat04Jan2025
Aggie Miller • Wendy Eisenberg • Tōth Jan 4
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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.
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Sun05Jan2025
Martina Liviero with Kevin Hays • Asher Kurtz 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.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 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
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. -
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
Worldwide Seagull • Peaceful Faces Jan 16
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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'0'Blivion • Damon Smith • Early Worm Jan 17
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Sat18Jan2025
Lena Bartels • Kelly Schenk • Priya Carlberg, Carrie Furniss & Joanna Quinn• 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.
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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. -
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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Sat22Feb2025
Chase Elodia • Eden Girma Feb 22
7:30 doors 8:00 music $15.00 suggested Donation Nov 24
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. -
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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Sat12Apr2025
Lily Talmers • Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light Apr 12
Lily Talmers is the band leader for the new age of Americana — her Midwestern-accented and poetically inclined melodies are informed by Greek, Lusophone and western classical music, taking you on a unique journey into Lily’s strange intervallic insides, bursting with lyricism coated in intimacy and refined wit. Musically, Lily 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, Haley Heynderickx, and Katy Kirby.
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.
