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Thu04Jan2018
Jen Shyu's Nine Doors Jan 4
7:30 $10.00 suggested donation
Jen Shyu’s Nine Doors — a solo ritual music dramaJen Shyu: Composition, vocals, Taiwanese moon lute, Korean gayageum and soribuk drum, Japanese biwa, piano, dance, sound design, choreography, percussion{Nine Doors} was inspired by the loss of Shyu’s friend Sri Joko Raharjo “Cilik,” who died with his wife and infant son in an automobile accident at the age of 30. Raharjo was a master of the Javanese art of shadow puppetry called wayang kulit. His 6-year-old daughter, who survived the crash, is the central character in Shyu’s piece. Time stops as she encounters powerful female legends—from the Wehali Kingdom of Timor to the Korean folkloric myth of Baridegi, the mother of all shamans—who become her guides. A mysterious phone booth in a gardener’s yard in Otsuchi, Japan, which has become a comfort to the families who lost loved ones in the 2011 Tsunami, also enters into the story, with the gardener having given Shyu permission to compose a piece with his poetry titled “Phone of the Wind” (“Kaze no Denwa”). The work reflects the parallels that exist between life and death, different cultures, and the importance of empathy over destructive assumptions that divide humanity.More info on Facebook HEREReview in Theater Scene HEREFeaturing music from Song of Silver Geese which is among The New York Times’ Best Albums of 2017 HERE!Photo by Caterina di Perri -
Fri05Jan2018
Cal Folger Day // Ron Shalom and ZRL Jan 5
7:30 $10.00 suggested donation
Cal Folger Day is an American songwriter now based in Dublin. Her verbatim pop-opera The Woods & Grandma was awarded the Little Gem award at the 2017 Dublin Fringe. She will be touring solo in early 2018 with an audience-interaction version of the material. Two EPs, Adornament and Drom-d’reau, are available online. “A guitarist and chanteuse with jazz leanings, whose vocal control and stage presence command attention” (The New Yorker).Ron Shalom songs project for woodwinds and strings (featuring Alec Spiegelman, Dina Maccabee, Austin Vaughn and Michael Sachs, listenable here).ZRL is a Chicago-based trio featuring Ryan Packard, Zachary Good and Lia Kohl on percussion/electronics, clarinet, and cello, respectively. Audio and more info for their ensemble at http://www.zrlmusic.com
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Sat06Jan2018
Charming Disaster/ Aaron Frazer /Lord Youth Jan 6
7:30 $10.00 suggested donation
Brooklyn-based musical duo Charming Disaster was formed in 2012 by Ellia Bisker (of Sweet Soubrette and Funkrust Brass Band) and Jeff Morris (of Kotorino). Inspired by the gothic humor of Edward Gorey and Tim Burton, the noir storytelling of Raymond Chandler, the murder ballads of the Americana tradition, and the dramatic flair of the cabaret, they write songs that tell stories, using two voices to explore dark narratives and characters with a playful sensibility.AARON FRAZERAaron Frazer is a multi-instrumentalist living in brooklyn, known for his soul and hard gospel productions. When not singing behind the drums, Aaron also performs selections from decades of private-press country and outside folk.LORD YOUTHLord Youth is a noir folk rock band based out of Queens, NY. It began as a recording project in an old Copehagen attic once inhabited by hundreds of Danish pigeons. If you listen closely, you can hear the crunch of feathers underneath the musicians’ feet. -
Sun07Jan2018
Rachelle Garniez // Serena Jost Jan 7
7:30 $10.00 suggested donation
Serena Jost writes and performs songs that are at turns seductive, edgy, affecting, and otherworldly. A dynamic singer and cellist with a hauntingly beautiful voice, she is a unique performer whose music evokes vivid emotional landscapes. Her album, A Bird Will Sing, was produced by Anton Fier, and her forthcoming solo cello and voice album, Up To The Sky, will be released in April 2018. Tonight she is joined by her band, Julian Maile (guitar), Rob Jost (bass) and Robert DiPietro (drums).
Native New Yorker, genre-fluid multi-instrumentalist, performer and songwriter Rachelle Garniez is known as a “master of surprise” Entertainment Weekly and a “certified free spirit” The New Yorker. At once optimistic and dark, accompanied by bassist Derek Nievergelt and violist Karen Waltuch,her tragicomic story-songs intermix with sonic and lyric improvisation creating a world of sweet wreckage.
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Thu11Jan2018
Alec Spiegelman, Jeremy Udden and Anna Roberts Gevalt jan 11
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Fri12Jan2018
The Rhythm Method String Quartet and Longleash (duo) Jan 12
7:30 $10.00 suggested donationThe Rhythm Method presents:And Nobody Gets Everything RightThe Rhythm Method presents works which bend, sidestep, or shatter the classical frame of the string quartet, from Dame Elizabeth Maconchy’s concisely dramatic String Quartet No. 3 (1938) to violinist-composer Marina Kifferstein’s extraterrestrial musings in An Alien with Extraordinary Abilities (2017), from Lewis Nielsen’s anti-colonialist tour de force Le Journal de Corps (2010) to Kristin Bolstad’s disruptive And Nobody Gets Everything Right (2012).Leah Asher and Marina Kifferstein, violinsMiranda Sielaff, viola*Meaghan Burke, cello*guest artist -
Sat13Jan2018
Rupe Shearns SOLD OUT 1/13
7:30 doors $15.00 adv/$18.00 at door
A decade after releasing his first album with Earl Greyhound, singer and guitar player Matt Whyte, now known as Rupe Shearns, released his first collection of original music on 10/20/17. The album was 4 years in the making and prominently features members of Grizzly Bear and Inara George from The Bird and The Bee. A distinct departure from Earl Greyhound’s pared down and aggressive brand of rock, Rupe Shearns’ music is decidedly more layered and varied from song to song; at its most gentle paying subtle tribute to Pink Floyd’s “Meddle”, and at its loudest, drawing more overtly from Joe Jackson’s “Stepping Out”.
In the intervening years between Earl Greyhound and Rupe Shearns, Matt has been working as a composer and producer out of Greenpoint, Brooklyn and touring as multi instrumentalist and singer with Joan as Policewoman. In addition, Matt performs samba and Bossa Nova music in Portuguese every other week in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.LISTEN: -
Thu18Jan2018
Harris Eisenstadt's Poschiavo 50 // Play Jan 18
7:30 $10.00 suggested donationPoschiavo 507-8 premieres, third Thursdays at the Owl Music Parlor, from a book of fifty short compositions for small ensembles, written during an August 2017 residency in Poschiavo, CHPatricia Brennan – vibraphoneChris Dingman – MarimbaHarris Eisenstadt- drums, compositions
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Fri19Jan2018
Richard Sears Group // Michael Rocketship Jan 19
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Richard Sears Sextet – Iron YearRoman Filiu – alto saxophoneRavi Coltrane – tenor saxophoneBryan Carrott – vibraphoneRichard Sears – piano/compositionsMartin Nevin – bassGuilhem Flouzat – drumsRichard Sears is a Brooklyn based pianist and composer. His most recent recording, “Altadena”, features the legendary drummer, Albert “Tootie” Heath performing with Richard’s sextet. “Altadena” earned 4 stars in Downbeat Magazine, naming it “one of 2017’s best releases”. Over the past several years, Sears has performed with, the Muhal Richard Abrams Orchestra, the Billy Hart Quartet, Andrew Cyrille, Marc Ribot, Eric Revis, Ralph Alessi, and others. This performance will feature new music composed since the release of Altadena, previewing his forthcoming release, Iron Year. -
Sat20Jan2018
Ali Dineen and Feral Foster Jan 20
7:30 $10.00 suggested donation
New York City born-and-raised musicians Feral Foster and Ali Dineen join forces to bring you folk, blues, gospel and county that will keep the fire stoked this winter! They will perform solo sets of their original folk music, as well as a duet performance of their favorite gospel, blues and country songs.Feral has been gigging in New York, across the country and in Europe for the past 10 years, capturing the imagination and attention of listeners with his impassioned singing and powerful songwriting. Foster draws from the deep wellspring of early blues, country, and jazz to tell contemporary, human stories, making for music that feels wellworn and strikingly fresh at the same time. He has become wellknown in the roots music scene for establishing, curating, and performing at Jalopy’s weekly Wednesday “Roots n’ Ruckus” review, which has become a premiere showcase for new and established talent.Ali Dineen is a singer, multi-instrumentalist and visual artist based in New York City. She performs original music as well as songs from U.S. folk traditions, incorporating historical and sociopolitical commentary into her shows. She believes in the power of narrative to connect people to their histories, themselves and one another. Ali’s music is personal and also political, and explores the intersections of personal stories with larger histories. She has given her musical talents to various projects including the Bread and Puppet Theater. She performs regularly in New York City.
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Thu25Jan2018
Jamie Saft solo Jan 25
7:30 Doors $10.00 Admissiona record release event: JAMIE SAFT – SOLO A GENOVA
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Jamie Saft’s first solo album is an unrestrained experience, taking an eclectic mix of material – jazz, rock, pop, blues, modernist classical, and a few Saft originals – and creating an hour’s coherent listening without sacrificing any of the variety. In other words, some choices might seem odd on paper but aurally, it works, and then some.
The reasoning behind the choices goes back to the original idea for a solo concert in 2007 in Italy. Saft wanted, “…to present American music as an example of positive, forward thinking art – …art that resisted hatred and negativity, art that promoted a positive path forward…”
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Fri26Jan2018
Tenores de Aterúe // Eva Salina and Peter Stan Jan 26
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Tenores de Aterúe presents a concert of harmonic singing from Sardinia, Corsica, and Italy. Founded in 2008, the Tenores have performed in the US and Canada, and in Sardinia, where they are recognized as the world’s first non-native group to master the art of cantu a tenore, a traditional song form that involves harmonic throat singing in parts. With complex interlocking dance rhythms and ringing guttural overtones, the sound is otherworldly and infectiously downhome. Tenores de Aterúe are Avery Book (bassu), Gideon Crevoshay (mesu oche), Carl Linich (contra), and Doug Paisley (oche). A new documentary film about the quartet’s first visit to Sardinia. For a preview: https://aterue.com/LISTEN:
In their collaboration, Eva Salina & Peter Stan pick up and continue an interrupted legacy of empowered female voices in Balkan Romani (gypsy) music. Amplifying voices of past generations of Romani women musicians, Eva & Peter employ tenderness, grace, passion and a commitment to keeping these songs alive and evolving, while inspiring and teaching young people in the Balkans and the Balkan diaspora to continue to participate in living traditions. Their new album, SUDBINA, comes out 3/30/18on Vogiton Records. More info at www.evasalina.com -
Sat27Jan2018
A Jared Samuel Night with Alena Spanger, Levon Henry and more!
7:30 $10.00 suggested donationwith
Katie Von Schleicher
Invisible Familiars
Adam Brisbin
Levon Henry
Alena Spangler
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Thu01Feb2018
Scree, Joanna Sternberg & Noah Garabedian Trio Feb 1
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested DonationScree is Ryan Beckley, Carmen Rothwell, and Jason Burger
Joanna Sternberg is a singer/songwriter/visual artist/multi-instrumentalist living in New York City. Joanna makes art about the human emotional experience and the art is designed to make people feel that they are not alone.
www.joannasternberg.comNoah Garabedian Trio
Caleb Curtis – alto sax
Noah Garabedian – bass
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Fri02Feb2018
Katie Mullins / Allegra Krieger/ Caroline Davis Feb 2
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
According to John Schaefer of NPR’s Soundcheck, Katie Mullins is a Brooklyn-based “singer-songwriter — just not in the way you might think.” Author Paul Rome describes Katie’s performances as, “Clear, direct, intimate, generous–a warm, powerful voice over fluid guitar patterns. The audience leans forward drawn in by the warmth, happily alert, actively seeking wisdom yet somewhat hypnotized. One is part of a ritual that feels ancient or perhaps timeless. Storytelling. There a moment in every song that is never precisely as one expects.”On Allegra Krieger: A considered, experimental, and emotional approach to folk which sees her incorporate self-reflective lyrics, avant-garde musical flourishes, and an approach to melody that is reminiscent, but not derivative, of Joni Mitchell.There is a world-weariness and weight to her music that some musicians spend a lifetime trying to imbue into their music.” – Jamie Coughlan (of Overblown)
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Sat03Feb2018
Relatives, Fred Lyenn Jacques and Twig Twig
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
LYENN’s highly acclaimed debut ‘The Jollity Of My Boon Companion’ came out in 2009, with special guests Shazad Ismaily, Marc Ribot and Joel Hamilton.
In 2011 the beautiful EP ‘Vowels Made First’ was released as a prelude to a forthcoming new album. In the meantime Fred Lyenn Jacques has toured the world extensively as bass player for Mark Lanegan. In 2016 V2 Records released LYENN’s second album ‘Slow Healer’. The album was recorded in Iceland, the perfect canvas for his fragile music, and led to collaborations with Mum’s cellist Gyda Valtisdoter and drummer Julian Sartorius. LYENN’s music sounds pure and honest. Lucid tones are held together by a sparse use of instruments, while his remarkable voice ranges from angelic whispers to intense daemonic shouts.
Relatives – Ian Davis and Katie Vogel – met upon arrival to New York City in 2007 and have been singing and writing together since. Over the years, they have been paring down and turning inwards, exploring what can be done with less.
twig twig is a home recording project by Zubin Hensler. for this evening he’s assembled a cheerful acoustic ensemble consisting of Renata Zeiguer (violin), Michael Sachs (clarinet), Willem DeKoch (trombone) and Raphael Peterson (bass). to hear or look visit twigtwig.info
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Sun04Feb2018
Open Ground w Beekman and William Tatge Trio Feb 4
7:30 doors $10.00 Suggested DonationOpen Ground Presents:8pmBeekmanKyle Nasser – tenor saxophoneYago Vázquez – pianoPablo Menares – bassRodrigo Recabarren – drums9pm
William Tatge Trio
William Tatge – pianoPablo Menares – bassJeff Hirshfield – drumsBeekman comprises pianist Yago Vazquez (Spain), saxophonist Kyle Nasser (U.S), bassist Pablo Menares (Chile), and drummer Rodrigo Recabarren(Chile). Critics have praised this album as “vital new music” (Donald Elfman, New York City Jazz Record) and “a joyful and continued speculation flowing in almost all facets with surprising ease.” (Jazz, ese ruido). It even earned the group a nomination for “Best Jazz/Fusion Artist” in the Chilean Music Awards (Premios Pulsar).
William Tatge is a pianist, composer and improviser. Born in Umbria, Italy, of American parents, he lived in Todi and Florence until moving to New York City in 2008. Tatge is active in jazz, classical, new and improvised music. He has performed widely throughout Europe, South America, Japan, Canada and the U.S. in solo piano concerts, leading his groups or as a sideman. He has released three records to his name and collaborated on two multimedia works with artist Christine Meisner which have been shown in major art institutions throughout the world. http://www.williamtatge.com/
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Thu08Feb2018
Ana Egge and Hayley Sabella Feb 8
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Ana Egge was born in Estevan, SK Canada and grew up in North Dakota and New Mexico. She began her music career in Austin, TX at the age of 20 releasing her first album ‘River Under The Road’ in 1997, recorded with the legendary western swing band, Asleep At The Wheel. Over the following years and 8 albums she worked with producers Martin Terefe, Jason Mercer, Joel Plaskett, Steve Earle and Stewart Lerman. She is currently in the studio finishing her tenth album, ‘White Tiger’ with Alec Spiegelman in Brooklyn, NY.
New England based musician, Hayley Sabella, brings you songs with gripping melodies & intimate lyrics that explore the human condition through nature. Her voice is “honeyed, but with a mild rasp,” and dances over a finger-picked guitar, usually a 1965 hollow-body Gibson, which is a signature sound in her live performance & her new album, Forgive the Birds. Sabella will be taking this Boston-based, homegrown record on the road in the Spring of 2018.
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Fri09Feb2018
Loosie with bot and special guests Feb. 9
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation“Another Nite of Music Poetry Mvmt”
“Loosie is Fever Dream Pop from Brooklyn. Their sound is defined by major sonic and emotional contrasts; quiet space and punishing density, opiated detachment and grounded vitality. The songs, mostly written by drummer Alex Kirkpatrick and sung by Sara McDonald, deal with growing up feeling bound to endless consumption and communication but knowing no other way to live, relate, love, and know yourself or anything at all. (indie / sperimental / rock friend)
loosie.bandcamp.comb o t (/bät/) is a brooklyn-based musical collective created in early 2016. in all of its permutations, b o t is led by an unnamed character of ambiguous gender who appears to be perpetually apprehensive and cynical. being heavily influenced by the contemporary gospel of the late nineties and oughts, b o t’s sound lends itself to being off-centered, soulful pop.
facebook.com/botanistttMovement performance by Simone Johnson/Melisande Echanique/Kiera Bono: intersubjective identity formation as a never-ending collision of archives spilling out on each other and rearranging/highlighting each other’s legibility as individuals while also stewing in the blurriness between subject and object, internal and external, resistance and assimilation, consumer and consumed, etc. [movement/sound/ritual]”
Order/timing:
8:15 b o t
9:00 TBD poet into movement performance by Simone Johnson/Melisande Echanique/Kiera Bono
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Sat10Feb2018
Jake Sherman, Lau Noah, Michael Rocketship Feb 10
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
In the fall of 2012, composer and pianist Michael Coleman (Beep!, CavityFang, Chris Cohen, tUnE-yArDs) began recording himself alone in his studio in Oakland, CA. Out of this small room, filled with casio keyboards, curious synths, abandoned percussion and disreputable guitars, Michael Rocketship emerged. The name captures the uninhibited and slightly mischievous nature of Coleman’s unpredictable pop songwriting, which calls to mind the best of Deerhoof, Captain Beefheart, SMiLE-era Beach Boys, and acid-balladeer Rodd Keith. The band is ever shifting and the music changes with every new incarnation. The lineup for Jan 19th includes Michael Rocketship (synth and voice), Nick Lyons (sax), Kurt Kotheimer (upright bass) and Shahzad Ismaily (percussion).
Lau Noah (Spain 1994) is a Brooklyn based storyteller. She has recently found the deepest way to express her tales in the harmonic tapestry that a guitar and a voice, intertwined, create. Through several musical influences and four languages that bring widely diverse qualities to the music, Noah travels from multi instrumentalist, film scorer, composer to writer, painter and teacher with the endeavor of using Art as a shelter where the colors of the dark and the light naturally reconcile.
Jake Sherman.
Virtuosic piano playing, introspective lyrics, sincere singing, unforgettable melodies, spot on sense of humor lol
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Sun11Feb2018
Dolunay and Sharq Attack 2/11
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
DOLUNAY plays an array of original compositions alongside renditions of Turkish and Rumeli standards. The music of Dolunay (Turkish for “full moon”) infuses classic and contemporary traditions with an urban grit that can only be found in New York City’s confluence of musical and cultural forces.SHARQ ATTACK is a Brooklyn based ensemble playing original music composed by oudist Brian Prunka, as well as traditional favorites from the Middle East. With Marandi Hostetter, 5 string violin; Brian Prunka, oud; John Murchison, double bass and Philip Mayer, percussion. -
Thu15Feb2018
Harris Eisenstadt's Poschiavo 50 // Gavagai
7:30 $10.00 suggested donationPoschiavo 507-8 premieres, third Thursdays at the Owl Music Parlor, from a book of fifty short compositions for small ensembles, written during an August 2017 residency in Poschiavo, CHSylvie Courvoisier – PianoHarris Eisenstadt- drums, compositionsThe Gavagai Poetry and Music Series returns to The Owl after a several month hiatus. -
Fri16Feb2018
Zosha Warpeha, Gaya Feldheim-Schorr & Ashni Feb 16
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Zosha WarpehaZosha is a violinist, vocalist, and songwriter whose music draws inspiration from a variety of folkloric and improvised traditions. Her collaboration with drummer Connor Parks explores space, time, and resonance through long form improvisations of hardanger fiddle, voice, and percussion, spinning together songs that are all at once meditative and energetic, contemplative and whimsical.Zosha Warpeha – hardanger fiddle and voiceConnor Parks – drumsGaya Feldheim-Schorr
Born in the heart of Tel-Aviv, jazz musician and vocalist Gaya Feldheim-Schorr was introduced to music at home. Her mother, a multi-media artist, brought her up to be highly receptive to diversity and acquainted with a multitude of musical genres and eras, all coming to form the musical fiber of her artistic palate. Drawing from her vast repertoire and wide ranging skillset, Gaya is creating her own space in the shifting and unrelenting flow of the New York jazz scene. Through her unique tastes and her deft arranging skills, Gaya creates projects that both defy classification and celebrate great musical traditions. She takes on various musical matter from pieces she has felt connected to at different points in her life, spanning classical, jazz, singer songwriter, and indie rock, and reimagines them both through new orchestration, arrangement and improvisation. Her current project presents an arch surrounding a recurring theme of Benjamin Britten’s choral work “A Ceremony of Carols”, with jazz standards, Israeli folk, and contemporary songwriter pieces interspersed.Gaya Feldheim Schorr – voiceDavy Lazar – trumpetBlake Opper – tenor saxTal Yahalom – guitarMicha Gilad – pianoEva Lawitts – bassMareike Wiening – drumsAshniAshni is a singer and songwriter. She is inspired by how individuals learn to build relationships to the self, to others, and to communities. Her relationship with the stage began with classical North Indian dance, Kathak; the sound and movement remain an inspiration. With soulful melodies, powerful lyrics and rhythmic current, heavy with jazz and R&B influence, she gracefully envelops listeners in a reflective, cathartic dimension. She is currently teaching, creating and performing in New York City. Her performance credits include Rockwood Music Hall, Music Hall of Williamsburg, The Greene Space, Rough Trade, and more. Her music has been featured on Spotify’s Women of Jazz playlist, Bitch Media’s Podcast: Growing Up Immigrant, and the acclaimed web series Brown Girls.
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Sat17Feb2018
Ed Pastorini solo // Rē Feb 17
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
“…Pastorini also completed an album of songs for solo piano and voice and is nearing completion of a recording of solo piano improvisation. If those recordings are on the same level as Train Bolt Roller, we have many hours of hard listening ahead.” – Perfect Sound Forever
Rē is:
Jake Adams – Thumps & bumps
Teerapat Parnmongkol – Screeches & scratches
Maxim Elrod – Loops & boopsCritical acclaim for Rē:
“Different enough” – Anonymous
“…non-relatable…” – Roulette Intermedium
“…an aural accompaniment to the visual spectacle.” – Hyperallergic
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Sun18Feb2018
Open Ground: Noam Wiesenberg Feb 18
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested DonationOpen Ground Presents:
Noam Wiesenberg Quintet – live video recordingft:Philip Dizack – trumpetImmanuel Wilkens – alto saxophoneShai Maestro – pianoNoam Wiesenberg – bassKush Abadey – drumsSince graduating from Berklee in 2010, Israeli Bassist and Composer Noam Wiesenberg has worked with artist such as Antonio Sanchez, Billy Hart, Jeff “Tain” Watts, Gilad Hekselman, Lage Lund, Jonathan Kreisberg, Seamus Blake, and more. This will be a filmed performance, featuring music from Noam’s debut record, “Roads Diverge”.More fine Jazz performances curated by Richard Sears.
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Thu22Feb2018
We The Gleaners / Hank Roberts Feb 22
7:30 Doors, $10.00 Suggested Donation
We The Gleaners
Dana Lyn – violin
Kyle Sanna – guitar, synth, samples
Matt Kanelos – piano, effects, samplesWe the Gleaners is a trio of our own great great friends and a lot more fun than we are playing for.
We the Gleaners was made in Brooklyn by the man who had a long history with the other two of our great friends.
We the Gleaners creates the best of the world to see what we see and blend together the same old age as the new ones.
Through improvisation, composed fragments, found sound, and the other two of those who were at home, We the Gleaners creates audio collages that are available for the next couple years to be sure that they can meet with your family.
Blurring the boundaries between sound art, chamber music, and the music on that show, We the Gleaners forges a great trip with the new world of events that transpired.
Featuring Dana Lyn on the East River, Kyle Sanna on Sunday, and Matt Kanelos on a flight to the new world, We the Gleaners are pleased to announce their plans.
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Fri23Feb2018
Taylor Ashton and Charlotte Cornfield Feb 23
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
After touring Canada for several years and releasing four albums with alt-folk outfit Fish & Bird, Taylor brought his clawhammer banjo, his guitar, and his rich baritone voice to New York City to sing songs about things that are hard to say and to make unexpected juxtapositions seem like the most natural thing in the world.
http://taylorashton.com
@taylrashtn“Her songwriting is ravenous. Even here, in uneasy happiness, [Charlotte] sounds like she will wolf down her life as fast as she is able. The windfalls, the crises, the concerts, the chance encounters – she’ll sprint through them all, collecting burs. This is work in the tradition of Dylan or Townes Van Zandt” Sean Michaels, The Globe And Mail -
Sat24Feb2018
Lacy Rose & Osso String Quartet w Triune, Colin Fullerton and Alaina J. Ferris Feb 24
7:30 doors $10 suggested donation
Join Lacy Rose, a classically trained vocalist, composer, and performer who regales listeners with tales of magic, myth, tragic, and eternal love, for a special concert at The Owl.
Osso fuses the classical sensibilities of a string quartet with the pulse of pop culture. Their rhythmically driven rep and ambitious commissioning forge new territory within the classical tradition. With an exuberant commitment to collaboration, Osso has spent the past twelve years touring, performing, and recording with artists such as JayZ, Kanye West, John Legend, The National, My Brightest Diamond, and Sufjan Stevens. Their interpretation of Stevens’ electronica album Enjoy Your Rabbit recomposes computer keystrokes into vibrant acoustic arrangements, welding the energy of indie rock and the nuance of chamber music to create explosive and enchanting new sounds.
Osso is Monica Davis, Brooke Quiggins, Kallie Ciechomski, and Maria Jeffers.
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Thu01Mar2018
Aaron Irwin /Sebastien Ammann's Color Wheel Mar 1
7:30 $10.00 suggested donation
Aaron Irwin Sextet:Aaron Irwin – clarinetQuinsin Nachoff – clarinet / tenor saxophoneMatthew McDonald – tromboneEmily Wong – french hornTerry McManus – guitarGary Wang – bass“The balance between the composed and improvised is finely wrought, making the line between them virtually invisible, with the only giveaway being larger structure which is uses the familiar recapitulation. The cumulative effect…is a quiet intensity, almost an eavesdropping of a private conversation. Emotionally complex while being aurally transparent, the music ends up feeling like an long-gone acquaintance who has been missed, but whose newly-found presence is immediately comfortable. Strange, but wonderful.”– All About Jazz (Bud Kopman)
“Active since 2012, Color Wheel creates a world of sound in the moment that is continously in movement, looking simultaneously to the past and to the future. While rooted in improvised music, jazz and classical music, the music recalls at times Ornette Coleman, John Cage, Paul Bley or Anton Webern. Color Wheel released their first record on Skirl Records in February of 2017.”————————————–Color WheelMichaël Attias – alto saxophoneSebastien Ammann – piano, compositionSean Conly – bassNathan Ellman-Bell – drums -
Fri02Mar2018
Lau Noa and Innov Gnawa - Mar 2
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested DonationLau Noah (Spain 1994) isa Brooklyn based storyteller. She has recently found the deepest way to express her tales in the harmonic tapestry that a guitar and a voice, intertwined, create. Through several musical influences and four languages that bring widely diverse qualities to the music, Noah travels from multi instrumentalist, film scorer, composer to writer, painter and teacher with the endeavor of using Art as a shelter where the colors of the dark and the light naturally reconcile.
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Sat03Mar2018
Töth w Joanna Sternberg & Clarice Jensen Mar 3
7:30 $10.00 suggested donation
Tōth is a new project of Brooklyn multi-instrumentalist songwriter Alex Toth, known for collaborating and writing with Kimbra, Alexander F, Rubblebucket, Cuddle Magic, and others. As Tōth, he presents his most vulnerable songs and performances yet, often sung in a style reminiscent of Arthur Russell, while also adding trumpet loops and guitar. Tōth is finishing his debut album now with mixer Andrew Sarlo (Big Thief, Nick Hakim).“Toth is one of the least complacent songwriters around” – Stereogum
“A talent gold mine” – Bob Boilen, NPR
Clarice Jensen is the artistic director of ACME, the American Contemporary Music Ensemble. A graduate of The Juilliard School, she studied with Joel Krosnick, Harvey Shapiro and has taken master classes with many composers such as Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter and Roger Reynolds. Recording artists she has collaborated with include Jóhann Jóhannsson, Stars of the Lid, Owen Pallett, Max Richter, Tyondai Braxton and numerous others. Her most recent performances include concerts at The Kings Theatre, Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg), Disney Hall, Benaroya Hall, The Sydney Opera House, Big Ears Festival, Duke Performances, BAM, (le) Poisson Rouge, Roulette, and the Isamu Noguchi Museum. Recording collaborations have been released on Deutsche Grammophone, Kranky, Warp, Matador, Brassland, Domino, Merge, Jagjaguwar, Domino, New World, 4AD and many others. -
Sun04Mar2018
Open Ground w Pawan Benjamin & Sam Harris Mar 4
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Open Ground presents:Pawan Benjamin Trio
Pawan Benjamin – tenor saxophone and bansuri flute
Martin Nevin – bass
Sean Mullins – drums9pm
Sam Harris Trio
Sam Harris – piano
Martin Nevin – bass
Craig Weinrib – drumsPawan Benjamin started his musical training at a young age in Madison, Wisconsin, receiving guidance and mentorship from jazz luminaries such as bassist, Richard Davis, and AACM founder Roscoe Mitchell. He has collaborated with artists such as Roscoe Mitchell, Ranjit Barot, Taufiq Qureshi, Rez Abbasi. Pawan is an active member of Brooklyn Raga Massive, a music collective which seeks to bridge the worlds of American and South Asian art of all kinds. This performance previews the release of Pawan’s debut trio recording, Tinte Baja. http://pawanbenjaminmusic.com
Sam grew up in Dallas, Texas. He studied classical piano with Janet Jones and competed regularly on the local and statewide level. While attending Booker T. Washington High School for the Arts, he discovered jazz and began taking lessons with local piano legend Bill Lohr. In 2004, he moved to New York to attend the Manhattan School of Music, and now performs in bands led by artists such as Ambrose Akinmusire, Ben Van Gelder, Logan Richardson, Roman Filiu, and Rudy Royston. He has appeared at venues and festivals in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. This spring, Sam will be recording his second album as a leader with this very trio. http://samharrispiano.com -
Wed07Mar2018
Gina Leishman 'Geography' / Joy Askew Mar 7
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
GEOGRAPHY is 12 encounters with landscapes both beloved and unknown. Her 4th “solo” album, she is once again supported by a stellar list of NY musicians including Doug Wieselman, Dana Lyn, Marika Hughes, Greg Cohen, Charlie Burnham, Matt Munisteri, Kenny Wollesen and others – as many as possible promising to show up for this evening. Ms. Leishman, a composer, multi-instrumentalist and singer, is also known for co-leading Kamikaze Ground Crew, and Mr. Wau Wa.
Joy Askew
Originally from the North of England, Joy Askew has made New York City her home for over 30 years. Although her early influences were Miles Davis, Hendrix, Peter Green and American and English blues singers, Joy eventually became a singer/songwriter and also arranges for brass. She recorded her fifth album of original songs “Queen Victoria”, with The Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band from Yorkshire England.
In the 80’s & 90’s Joy was the keyboard player with such luminary artists as Joe Jackson, Peter Gabriel, Laurie Anderson, Jack Bruce and Rodney Crowell and in 1986 appeared in Laurie Anderson’s quintessential movie “Home Of The Brave”.
At The Owl Music Parlor Askew will play songs solo, old, current and brand new.
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Thu08Mar2018
Kane Mathis & Andreas Arnold March 8
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
KANE MATHIS presents original material in ensemble format highlighting the 21-string West African Harp, Kora and the Middle-Eastern Lute, Oud. Kane has been studying kora and oud both for 20 years with some of the top performers in their respective traditions and is a recipient of the Earshot Jazz album of the year award and a Chamber Music America Award winner. www.kanemathis.comKane Mathis – kora & oudMoto Fukushima – bassRich Stein – percussionANDREAS ARNOLD expresses himself through a musical kaleidoscope that reflects his dedication to the sophisticated yet soulful art of flamenco guitar from Spain, the classical traditions of his homeland Germany and jazz from the US where he has been living for the last decade. He recorded his last album Ojos Cerrados alongside Carles Benavent, legendary and longtime bass player of Paco de Lucia and will present a new record in fall 2018. www.andreasrnold.infoAndreas Arnold – flamenco guitarJeremy Smith – cajon -
Fri09Mar2018
Gentlemen Prefer Hanes Mar 9
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
hello.
my father is a musician, and, for all intents and purposes, entirely to blame for me becoming one as well. it was he who instilled an early love of music in my, and consistently nurtured me in my quest to understand more and more about it as i grew older. over the years, we’ve ended up playing together a great deal, in many different projects – AND NOW WE”RE BRINGING THEM TO NEW YORK, BABY!
its a celebration of family, love, music, and collaboration for the ages!
IF YOU ATTEND THIS CONCERT, YOU’LL WITNESS:
A DOUBLE JAW HARP TWANG EXTRAVAGANZA! (featuring the incredible pete moffett on percussion)
A FAST PICKIN’, LOW DOWN, SURF ROCKIN’ INSTRUMENTAL DUO!
and
A MEDITATIVE SOLID STATE GROOVING TRANSCENDENTAL GROOVE ENSEMBLE!
with our tremendous compatriots:
Sam Lisabeth
Evan Allen
Maya Kronfeld
Will Green
Alec Harper
Daniel Pencer
and much, much more!
please join us for this evening of multi-generational musicality!
<3,
hanes the younger.
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Sat10Mar2018
Allegra Krieger & Noah Harley Mar 10
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested DonationOn Allegra Krieger: A considered, experimental, and emotional approach to folk which sees her incorporate self-reflective lyrics, avant-garde musical flourishes, and an approach to melody that is reminiscent, but not derivative, of Joni Mitchell.There is a world-weariness and weight to her music that some musicians spend a lifetime trying to imbue into their music.” – Jamie Coughlan (of Overblown).
Noah Harley plays traditional and original country and folk tunes, with a wee bit of surf thrown in to keep audiences in deep water. A real, live son of a children’s musician and storyteller, Harley began playing music publicly in Berlin, Germany, as the banjo player in The Cowboy Killers. Since returning to the States, Harley has toured up, down, around, back, and forth across the U.S., with numerous bandidos, including Tik Tok Laboratories, Ommie Wise, and most recently with Spirit Family Reunion. Today he forms one-half, and sometimes one third of The Horse Eyed Men.
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Thu15Mar2018
The Ives of March w Maya Bennardo 3/15
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
The Ives of March is an annual event hosted by Maya Bennardo and Karl Larson to celebrate the exhilarating and eccentric music of Charles Ives.
Program:Sonata No. 3 for violin and pianoPiano Trio, Op. 86 w/ special guest, Zan BerrySonata No. 4 for violin and pianoViolinist Maya Bennardo is an active performer and teacher living in Brooklyn, NY. Maya is passionate about opening the dialogue between composers and performers, and is devoted to performing music of the present. She is a founding member of the violin/viola duo andPlay, an ensemble that works to commission new works and perform lesser-known pieces for their instrumentation. She has worked with new music ensembles such as Ensemble Signal, ensemble mise-en, Nouveau Classical Project, Hotel Elefant, Contemporaneous, Mimesis Ensemble, and [Switch~ Ensemble]. She graduated from NYU with a Master of Music and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music with a Bachelor of Music. She studied with Gregory Fulkerson at both institutions.Brooklyn-based pianist Karl Larson is a specialist in the music of our time. Consistently presenting adventurous programs, Larson regularly performs across the United States. Recent performances of note include appearances at EMPAC, the Guggenheim Museum, and MoMA. Karl has collaborated with many highly regarded members of his field. He frequently performs with his trio, Bearthoven, and has also recently appeared with the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Ensemble Signal, and the American Composers Orchestra. Larson has released recordings on Cantaloupe Music, New Focus Recordings, and GALTTA Media, and he holds a DMA in Contemporary Music Performance from Bowling Green State UniversityNew England based cellist, Zan Berry, is a passionate and creative musician who weaves together diverse musical interests in his work as a performer and teacher. He tries to perform the works of living composers as much as possible. He has participated in music festivals, including Bang on a Can, New Music on the Point, and Fresh Inc and has played with members of the JACK Quartet, Bang on a Can All Stars, and Fifth House Ensemble. Zan currently holds the Urban Musical Fellowship at Community MusicWorks, a non-profit organization based in Providence, RI that builds a cohesive urban community through free musical performances and educational programs. -
Fri16Mar2018
Eliot Krimsky /The Briars of North America /Kenny Warren Trio March 16
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donationhttps://www.facebook.com/events/343008556194024/
https://kennywarren.bandcamp.com/
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Sat17Mar2018
Relatives, Jake Sherman, Dina Macabee and Ed Pastorini Mar 17
7:30 $10.00 suggested donation 
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Sun18Mar2018
Open Ground: Mariel Roberts / Theo Bleckmann & Ben Monder Mar 18
7:30 $10.00 suggested donation
Open Ground presents:
8pmMariel Roberts – cello and electronics9pmTheo Bleckmann – voiceBen Monder – guitar“Trailblazing” cellist Mariel Roberts (Feast of Music) is widely recognized as a deeply dedicated interpreter of contemporary music. Recent performances have garnered praise for her “technical flair and exquisite sensitivity” (American Composers Forum), as well as her ability to “couple youthful vision with startling maturity”. (InDigest Magazine). Roberts’ work emphasizes expanding the technical and expressive possibilities of her instrument through close relationships with innovative performers and composers of her generation. Her passion for collaboration and experimentation has led her to premiere hundreds of new works by both emerging and established artists.Roberts has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician across four continents, most notably as a member of the Mivos String Quartet, as well as Wet Ink Ensemble and Ensemble Signal. She performs regularly on major stages for new music such as the Lincoln Center Festival (NYC), Wien Modern (Austria), Lucerne Festival(Switzerland), Cervantino Festival (Mexico), Klang Festival (Denmark), Shanghai New Music Week (China), Darmstadt Internationalen Ferienkurse für Neue Musik (Germany), and Aldeburgh Music Festival (UK). Roberts has been featured as a chamber musician on recordings for Innova, Albany Records, New World Records, New Amsterdam, Carrier Records, New Focus, and Urtext Records.
GRAMMY® nominated jazz singer and new music composer Theo Bleckmann’s diverse recorded work includes albums of Las Vegas standards, Weimar art songs, and popular “bar songs” (all with pianist Fumio Yasuda); a recording of newly-arranged songs by Charles Ives (with jazz/rock collective Kneebody); and his acclaimed “Hello Earth – the Music of Kate Bush.” Bleckmann has most recently appeared as a special guest on recordings by Ambrose Akinmusire for Blue Note Records and Julia Hülsmann’s trio for ECM Records. In January 2017, ECM released Bleckmann’s recording with his new Elegy Quintet, produced by legendary label head and founder, Manfred Eicher.
A musician in the New York City area for over 30 years, Ben Monder has performed with a wide variety of artists, including Jack McDuff, Marc Johnson, Lee Konitz, George Garzone, Paul Motian, Guillermo Klein, Maria Schneider, and Marshall Crenshaw. He also contributed guitar parts to the last David Bowie album, “Blackstar”. He has appeared on over 200 CDs as a sideman, and has released 6 as a leader: Amorphae (ECM, 2015), Hydra (Sunnyside, 2013), Oceana (Sunnyside, 2005), Excavation (Arabesque, 2000), Dust (Arabesque, 1997), and Flux (Songlines,1995).
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Thu22Mar2018
Charlie Burnham & Brandon Ross' Phantom Station March 22
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested DonationCharlie is playing a rare solo set this evening, some new songs, some old, and some instrumental magic! Violin! Mandola! Special surprise? Maybe!!!???… Come and see.
He claims he will be “smokin”!!
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Fri23Mar2018
Tredici Bacci Mar 23
“Tredici Bacci, New York’s premier Italian soundtrack pop-influenced genre bending large ensemble, is deeply excited to be heading into the studio again to make another record.
To celebrate this, we’re putting on a performance at the Owl Music Parlor, one of the best freakin venues in Brooklyn, and playing ALL THE NEW MATERIAL THAT WE’LL HAVE JUST RECORDED!! YAY!
Come party with us and check out what we’ve been working on for the last million years!”
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Sat24Mar2018
Yotoco 8pm // Lovestruck Balladeers 10pm March 24
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
“Yotoco’s music defies categorization. It isn’t salsa, son, cumbia, merengue or psychedelic rock; it isn’t rumba, funk, bomba or plena. It draws from all of those traditions, transcends them, and creates something unique, trippy, and danceable. Yotoco’s music may be hard to classify- but it is very easy to party to.”
The Lovestruck Balladeers are an original take on 20s-30s era jazz, traditional Mexican fiddle music, and Ragtime classics as well as lesser known styles of music from the beginning of the 20th century. Featuring:
Jared Engel – upright bass
Aaron Jonah Lewis – violin
Dennis Lichtman – clarinet
Dalton Ridenhour – piano
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Thu29Mar2018
Clebs / Fieldings Mar 29
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Fieldings is Brooklyn-based (Australian born) producer/songwriter Lucinda Hearn, with Paul Weintrob and Alex Kirkpatrick. Fielding’s latest album Soft Tissue explores vulnerability through gauzy dream pop: imagined death, anxiety, skin, memories of being a kid, seeking oblivion to numb. Its textures wash over and pull at you, from the tense icy piano of Northern Lights, to the scatter-fuck fragility of Soft Jewels.Soft Tissue was written and recorded between fall 2015 and summer 2017, while songwriter Lucinda Hearn found a new home and new band in NYC. It’s woozy with the loneliness and uncertainty of that time, only showing its soft underbelly from around corners.“beautifully enveloping, equally endearing as what came before while offering something altogether more immersive … fog slowly swallowed by the brightness of the day” – Gold Flake Paint
“a gorgeously tasteful slice of dream pop that we haven’t been able to stop listening to all week.” – Eucalypt
“a Jazz-influenced journey, its angles are sharp, its turns unexpected and its mind open” – Autumn RosesCLEBS is the mutant brainchild of singer Emilie Weibel and producer/drummer Jason Nazary. A thorough melodicism and paranormal sonic connections make for an uncanny musical experience.
http://facebook.com/clebsmusic
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Fri30Mar2018
Hank Roberts Sextet // James Gilligan & Hugh Stuckey (and special guests!) Mar 30
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Hank Roberts (born March 24, 1954 in Terre Haute, Indiana) is an American jazz cellist and vocalist. He plays the electric cello, and his style is a mixture of rock, jazz, avant-garde, folk, and classical influences. He emerged with the downtown New York City jazz scene of the 1980s and is associated with its post-modern tendencies.
http://www.hankrobertsmusic.com
https://jgilligan.bandcamp.com/album/cocoon-e-p
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Sat31Mar2018
Mi Mi Zhi Yin / Christina Courtin March 31
7:30 $10.00 suggested donation
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Thu05Apr2018
Sara Serpa April 5
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Serpa was voted as “Musician of the Year” in 2010 by the newspaper O Público, one of the major daily publications in Portugal, and was the cover of the U.S magazine Jazziz in 2012. Serpa has been voted and included by the DownBeat Magazine Critics Poll in the “Rising Star Vocalist” list for three times: 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. She has performed her own music in Europe, Australia, North and South America, singing at international festivals such as Festa do Jazz, the Panama Jazz Festival, Festival de Jazz de Montevideo, Wangaratta Jazz Festival, Adelaide Festival, or venues like Bimhuis, Casa da Música, Village Vanguard, Jazz Standard, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Kennedy Center for the Arts, among others.Currently, Serpa leads a trio with Erik Friedlander (cello) and Ingrid Laubrock (tenor sax), with a debut album coming out in March 2018 (Close Up/ Clean Feed) , and a trio featuring Zeena Parkins (harp) and Mark Turner (tenor sax) in an interdisciplinary performance, combining film with live music entitled “Recognition“.
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Fri06Apr2018
Kim Anderson w Special guest Ryan Dugre 04/06
7:30 $10.00 suggested donation
Kim Anderson ‘Yarrow’ Album Release
Celebrate the release of Kim Anderson’s debut Album ‘Yarrow’ with a night of beautiful music-making. Kim and her band play at _pm. Featuring an opening act of the wonderful Brooklyn-based guitarist Ryan Dugre at _pm.
‘Yarrow’ is Biophilia Records’ first release of 2018. Kim has found inspiration for her songs in the beauty of overgrown, forgotten urban spaces, secret corners in New York City that she grew up wandering in. Her lyrics and orchestration aim to conjure up richly detailed landscapes and a feeling of exploration, be it a walk through the wilderness, or the experience of uncharted territory in one’s own mind and in the complexity of human relationships. Kim wrote and/or arranged all the songs on Yarrow over several years, reflecting different stages of her personal and musical development.
http://ryandugre.com/
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Sat07Apr2018
Michael Rocketship Record Release/ bot / Relatives April 7
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Sun08Apr2018
The Inbetweens / Crooked Trio April 8
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
The Inbetweens (Mike Gamble- guitar • Noah Jarrett- upright bass • Conor Elmes- drums) emerged in the summer of 2002, from the roots of improvisation, curiosity, and like minds. They collectively weave melodies and vamps into intricate spiderwebs of rhythm, circling each other like predators seeking the same prey. Before they were the tweens, they lived in Boston, where they each spent time gigging and studying jazz at the New England Conservatory of Music with gurus such as Bob Moses, George Garzone, John Lockwood, and John Abercrombie. Since then Guitarist Mike Gamble, bassist Noah Jarrett, and drummer Conor Elmes have been performing bi-monthly in NYC and subsequently touring the Northeast, Midwest, New Orleans, and Europe. As a trio, they have put out two self-released albums, and two critically acclaimed albums “Quantum Cowboy” and “Out on A Limb” on Madison WI’s Layered Music.
https://theinbetweens.bandcamp.com/
http://theinbetweensmusic.tumblr.com/
“This exploratory trio belongs to a social network of musicians who filter jazz protocols through an indie-rock lens”
Nate Chinen New York Times“The Inbetweens are dangerous in the best way. Check out their newest and mightiest salvo NOW!” -Nels Cline, guitarist (WILCO, Nels Cline Singers)
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Thu12Apr2018
Tyrone Cotton w special guests The Wild Goats April 12
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
The Wild Goats are Brian Geltner, Hilary Hawke and Sam Kulik
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Fri13Apr2018
Ron Shalom, Tōth & Scree Apr 13
Ron Shalom is a composer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist. He leads the baroque death pop ensemble Fers Yn Ri, featuring Austin Vaughn (Here We Go Magic, Sam Evian), Dina Maccabee (Julia Holter), and Alec Spiegelman (Cuddle Magic). His minimalist electropop solo project Minivan features lights, television, storytelling and instructional dance.
Scree is a collection of broken rock fragments at the base of crags, mountain cliffs, volcanoes or valley shoulders. Instrumental musings on crags, mountain cliffs, and life after the fall of the American empire. Featuring Ryan Beckley, Carmen Rothwell, and Jason Burger -
Sat14Apr2018
Trio Love Call
7:30 $10.00 suggested donationTrio Love CallisBrian Drye – TromboneHank Roberts – CelloChes Smith – Congas -
Sat14Apr2018
Ed Pastorini record release party Apr 14
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Sun15Apr2018
Open Ground w Billy Mintz and
7:30 $10.00 suggested donation
Open Ground Presents:
8pm
Curtis – Shore Quartet
Caleb Wheeler Curtis – alto saxophone
Julian Shore – piano
Luques Curtis – bass
Jochen Rueckert – drums9pm
Billy Mintz Quartet
Tony Malaby – saxophone
Adam Kolker – saxophoneHillard Greene – bass
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Thu19Apr2018
Raphael MacGregor plays Ives 4/19
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
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Thu19Apr2018
GAVAGAI April 19
9pm $10.00 Suggested Donation
GAVAGAI is a monthly performance series curated and hosted by poet Danielle Blau that brings you poetry and fiction readings scored with original live music by Matt Kanelos and Mike Brown.
Danielle Blau’s Rhyme and Reason: Poets and Philosophers on the Questions that Matter is forthcoming from W.W. Norton. She won first place for her poetry in the 2015 multi-genre Narrative 30 Below Contest, and her chapbook mere eye was selected for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Award and published in 2013 with an introduction by D.A. Powell. Blau’s poems, short stories, articles, and interviews have also appeared and are forthcoming in such publications as The Atlantic online, The Baffler, Black Clock, The Harvard Review, The Literary Review, Narrative Magazine, The New Yorker’s book blog, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Saint Ann’s Review, The Wolf, and the Argos Books poetry anthology Why I Am Not a Painter. A graduate of Brown University with an honors degree in philosophy, and of NYU with an MFA in poetry, she teaches at the City University of New York.
This Month’s Guests:
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Fri20Apr2018
Akie Bermiss // Curtis Hasselbring 4/20
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Curha is an oft-used nickname for trombonist/guitarist/composer Curtis Hasselbring. It is also his musical project involving a combination of his multi-instrumentalist skills and love of electronic music. This show is a cd release show for his new recording (Curha I) on Chant Records. His music covers a wide swath of territory from atonal techno to minimalist garage rock and joining him will be Alec Spiegelmann and Peter Hess (bass clarinets), Ari Folman Cohen (bass) and John Bollinger (drums).
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Sat21Apr2018
Ali Dineen & Oren Bloedow April 21
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Sun22Apr2018
Open Ground w Devin Gray and Choir Invisible 4/22
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Devin Grey’s Fashionable Pop MusicRyan Ferreira – guitarJonathan Goldberger – guitarChris Tordini – bassDevin Gray – drums/compositionThe Choir InvisibleCharlotte Greve – alto saxophoneChris Tordini – bassVinnie Sperrazza – drumsThe Choir Invisible is a collaboration between longtime friends/cohorts Vinnie Sperrazza, Charlotte Greve, and Chris Tordini.Together they explore the possibilities of saxophone trio through composition and improvisation, plus the occasional Joe Jackson or Ray Charles cover.They are recording their debut album later this month. -
Thu26Apr2018
PRACTITIONER play Steve Lacy's "Hocus Pocus 4/26
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
PRACTITIONER: Michael Coleman and Ben Goldberg play Steve Lacy’s “Hocus Pocus.”
Kind of a “record release” concert.
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Fri27Apr2018
Danton Boller trio / Richard Sears trio 4/27
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Danton Boller has recorded and toured internationally with an array of amazing artists, and was a member of the Roy Hargrove Quintet. Leading a trio of stellar musicians, he will perform original compositions that borrow from Beethoven and Wayne Shorter and everything in between. In a world where electronics and Artificial Intelligence are taking over, as a composer and performer Danton is reaching for the most human understanding of sonics. With an all acoustic set of music featuring the upright bass, he will be joined by his longtime cohort and stellar musical collaborator Jeremy Wilms on nylon string guitar, and the incredibly multi faceted Yusuke Yamamoto on drums and marimba.
Richard Sears TrioRichard Sears – piano/compositionsMartin Nevin – bassFabio Ragnelli – drums+ Kyle Wilson – tenor saxophoneRichard Sears is a Brooklyn based pianist and composer. His most recent recording, “Altadena”, features the legendary drummer, Albert “Tootie” Heath performing with Richard’s sextet. “Altadena” earned 4 stars in Downbeat Magazine, naming it “one of 2017’s best releases”. Over the past several years, Sears has performed with, the Muhal Richard Abrams Orchestra, the Billy Hart Quartet, Andrew Cyrille, Marc Ribot, Eric Revis, Ralph Alessi, and others. This performance will feature new music composed since the release of Altadena, previewing his forthcoming release, Iron Year. -
Sat28Apr2018
Relatives, Frankie Sunswept and Shape King April 28
7:30 $10.00 suggested donation Relatives: www.relativesmusic.com
Frankie Sunswept: https://frankiesunswept.bandcamp.com/
Shape King: https://shapeking.bandcamp.com/
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Thu03May2018
Tal and Almog play Nick Drake/ Dida Pelled May 3
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Playing together over the past 7 years in various projects, musical settings and with collective-trio KADAWA, Tal Yahalom and Almog Sharvit present a new project which follows their sudden obsession with the music of English singer-songwriter Nick Drake. Drawn to the instrumental potential of Drake’s music, with its rich melodic/harmonic vocabulary, powerful moods and engaging storytelling, the duo performs new interpretations of his music, arranged especially for this instrumentation. They seek to maximize and explore different textural, sonic and improvisational possibilities while treating these songs as open-ended compositions.Tal Yahalom – Guitar
Almog Sharvit – Double BassNew York-based Israeli guitarist and vocalist Dida has a particular talent for storytelling. Whether it be a jazz standard, a scorching blues number, an old country ballad, or a heartfelt original “Dida sings in a voice sometimes playful, warm, resonant, no frills. She sings the words, giving them their meaning, their weight, with perfect diction and charm.” (Jazz Hot, France) -
Fri04May2018
Allegra Krieger, Sam Tallmadge & Elliott Skinner May 4
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
“A considered, experimental, and emotional approach to folk which sees her incorporate self-reflective lyrics, avant-garde musical flourishes.“ Allegra Krieger is currently based in New York performing in the city with her ever rotating band of sensitive & diverse musicians. She also often travels across the country to play in tiny bar rooms & sleep in her car. Her first record Circles was released October 2017, and her follow up is in the works.
Sam Talmadge is a songwriter, fingerpicker, and occasional piano player living in Boston Massachusetts. Drawing from the guitar styles of John Hurt and Elizabeth Cotten, the compositional rigor of L.V. Beethoven, and the lyricism and narrative of a long list of writers, Sam has fused these influences together into a new kind of song; compact, sincere, and at times, hilarious. The subject matter in Sam’s songwriting ranges from unrequited love to fairy tales of climate change denial to the cathartic release of vomiting on a Sunday morning. In addition to writing and performing solo in Boston and along the east coast, Sam is a co-founder of the Boston based folk-quartet Ruthless Moon and the guitarist in the new rock band, DOGART.
Soul/folk singer and songwriter Elliott skinner is 1 third of New-York based trio Thirdstory. After years of rising with the band, their first album, Cold Heart is out now as an ode to heartbreak and growth
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Sat05May2018
David J (of Bauhaus) and Paul Wallfisch May 5
7:30 Doors $12 advance/$15.00 at door
artist: Alexis Price
For this intimate solo acoustic performance David J (Bauhaus, Love and Rockets, The Jazz Butcher) will be playing a career spanning set interwoven with stories and quite possibly the odd quip or two.
A founder member of one of the highly influential and revered BAUHAUS. Bauhaus spearheaded the post-punk Alternative music scene of the early ‘80’s with a string of innovative albums and singles, including, for many, perhaps their defining moment, a song that is ranked as a classic and feasibly the pinnacle of the entire Gothic scene and beyond, the nine minute plus epic slab of industrial dub that is ‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead’, featuring the lyrics of David J.
Two years after the demise of Bauhaus in1983, David regrouped with two of his former Bauhaus band mates, guitarist, Daniel Ash and drummer, Kevin Haskins to form the hugely successful Love And Rockets, whose debut single hit gold status in Canada, followed by a top three US single with ‘So Alive’ which the band capped with a million selling album and sold out stadium tours.
A highly acclaimed songwriter, often personal, often observational, all of these qualities are evident on his nine solo albums. David has also written and directed various stage productions. His memoir, ‘Who Killed Mister Moonlight?’ (Bauhaus, Black Magick and Benediction) was published by Jarbone Press in 2014 to critical acclaim.
‘Vagabond Songs’ is David J’s ninth studio album and features a disarmingly charming and heart felt collection of acoustic songs written on the road and inspired by people and places encountered by the artist as he ventured on his ramblin’ vagabond way and still those footsteps fall.
http://davidjonline.com
Paul Wallfisch has spent several decades staring out the windows of planes, trains and tour buses, occasionally cracking open a book. In between, he managed to produce eight albums with his band Botanica and perform and/or record with Firewater, Love & Rockets, Congo Norvell, Angela McCluskey, Syl Sylvain, Stiv Bators, Anne Pigalle and Johnny Halliday, among others. Paul‘s music can be heard on countless American TV shows and several feature films, including Dummy, (2003 Artisan), starring Adrian Brody and Milla Jovovich, which he scored and also appears in. Amorous, directed by Joanna Coates, won “Best British Feature” at the 2014 Edinburgh International Film Festival. He is the long-standing writing, production and performance partner of underground tortured soul legend Little Annie. As Music Director at Theater Dortmund, Germany, his original productions included “Republic of Wolves” based on Anne Sexton’s adaptations of Grimm’s Fairy Tales. The music, performed live by “The Ministry of Wolves”: Paul, Alexander Hacke, Mick Harvey and Danielle DePicciotto, was released on Mute Records in 2014. Paul joined Swans in 2016. (http://www.paulwallfisch.com)
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Sun06May2018
Open Ground w John Kamitsuka & David Virelles 5/6
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
John Kamitsuka performs regularly throughout the United States, South America, Europe and Japan. He has played at prominent New York City venues such as Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, the 92nd Street Y and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. This performance previews Mr. Kamitsuka’s solo recital at Carnegie Hall this June.
Mr. Kamitsuka began formal piano studies at the age of five and by twelve had performed in solo recitals and as a soloist with symphony orchestras. His recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations is included in Anna Harwell Celenza’s book about the Variations which Charlesbridge Publishing House released in February 2005. Orchestral solo appearances of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms concertos include performances with the New York Chamber Orchestra, the Bard Music Festival Ensemble, the Sao Paulo Symphony, Ensemble Musique Hamamatsu, and the China Philharmonic.
Having worked with Sophia Rosoff for over 35 years, Mr. Kamitsuka is an expert in the teaching styles of Abby Whiteside. Additionally, he has also studied with Abbey Simon, Julius Herford, Gilbert Kalish, and Richard Goode.
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Born and raised in Cuba, David Virelles grew up in a musical family, his father being a singer-songwriter and his mother a flautist in the Santiago de Cuba Symphony. He started studying classical music at age seven, as well as being exposed to the large array of musical forms on the island. Eventually, David discovered his grandfather’s Jazz collection and also became interested in that tradition.
In 2001, he left for Canada as a protégé of Canadian musician Jane Bunnett, with whom he recorded several albums (two of them Grammy nominated), toured and collaborated with on a number of projects. While in Canada, David graduated from the music program at Humber College. He studied privately with pianist Barry Harris and has also studied composition with the influential composer Henry Threadgill, which had a really deep impact in Virelles’s personal musical outlook. Over the years he has performed and/or recorded with: Steve Coleman and Five Elements, Henry Threadgill, Dewey Redman, Sam Rivers, Andrew Cyrille, Hermeto Pascoal, José Luis Quintana, Mark Turner, Paul Motian, Wadada Leo Smith, among others. As a leader, tours extensively, and has released several recordings on Pi Records and ECM
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Mon07May2018
Andy Clausen's SHUTTER and Gregory Uhlmann *Monday* May 7
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Andy Clausen’s SHUTTER Project
Riley Mulherkar – Trumpet
Mitch Lyon – Cello
Andy Clausen – Trombone
Gregg Belisle-Chi – Guitar
Gregory Uhlmann – GuitarFormed in 2012 by Andy Clausen, SHUTTER is a chamber ensemble dedicated to multi-media installations that combine composition, improvisation, and photography.
More info at andyclausen.com/shutter
Gregory Uhlmann SOLO
Gregory Uhlmann is a Los Angeles-based songwriter, guitarist, and composer. Using the unlikely instrumentation of voice, guitar, bass clarinet, viola, pump organ, among other instruments, his music combines song with minimalist textures and rhythmic layering.
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Thu10May2018
GAVAGAI May 10
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested DonationGAVAGAI is a monthly performance series curated and hosted by poet Danielle Blau that brings you poetry and fiction readings scored with original live music by Matt Kanelos and Mike Brown.
Danielle Blau’s Rhyme and Reason: Poets and Philosophers on the Questions that Matter is forthcoming from W.W. Norton. She won first place for her poetry in the 2015 multi-genre Narrative 30 Below Contest, and her chapbook mere eye was selected for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Award and published in 2013 with an introduction by D.A. Powell. Blau’s poems, short stories, articles, and interviews have also appeared and are forthcoming in such publications as The Atlantic online, The Baffler, Black Clock, The Harvard Review, The Literary Review, Narrative Magazine, The New Yorker’s book blog, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Saint Ann’s Review, The Wolf, and the Argos Books poetry anthology Why I Am Not a Painter. A graduate of Brown University with an honors degree in philosophy, and of NYU with an MFA in poetry, she teaches at the City University of New York.
This Month’s Guests:
Poet Ben Purkert, and Writer/Performer Nora Fox
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Fri11May2018
RoHass String Band // Julia Patinella 5/11
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Since its inception In early 2018, the RoHass string band, founded by award winning cellist Daniel Hass and creative music hooligan Eladio Rojas, has blown the lids off of anyone crazy enough to watch. With influences ranging from Thelonious Monk, to J.S. Bach, to John Zorn, to Robert Glasper, The RoHass String Band presents a Motley Crew of sound, which has something for everyone to enjoy.
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Sat12May2018
Trevor Vaz, Jangula, Kalia Vandever and Levon Henry May 12
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Trevor Vaz is the singer and songwriter in Dances, an artful punk rock trio from New York City. After writing exclusively on guitar for most of his life, he recently started playing piano and quickly found himself with a small collection of new songs. Though still a beginner, he’s challenged himself to practice and perform a set of original solo piano music for the first (and potentially only) time on May 12th at The Owl Music Parlor in Brooklyn.
Jangula plays gutter pocket symphonies with skeletal rhythms, lush harmonies, and Legend of Zelda Ice Cavern mystery. The musical project of best friends Johnny Campagna and Daniel Bachrach.
Kalia Vandever is a trombonist, composer, and educator living in Brooklyn, NY. She recently graduated from The Juilliard School in New York, NY as a member of the Jazz Studies — Bachelor of Music program in May of 2017. Music has taken her to Austria, Italy, and Australia as well as many cities throughout the US. She has performed in such venues as Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Preservation Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, SMOKE Jazz Club, the Blue Note, and the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Kalia moved from Los Angeles, CA to New York City in 2013 to study at the Juilliard School and has thrived and grown as a creative musician, improviser, composer, and educator since being in the city. Kalia’s current project is a trio with guitar and bass in which she and her collaborators, Nick Dunston and Lee Meadvin play original music and arrangements of jazz standards. Kalia has played with the following musicians whom she admires greatly, Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Ingrid Jensen, Herbie Hancock, Antonio Hart, Tyshawn Sorey, Justin Brown, Jason Moran, Fabian Almazan, and others.
Levon Henry is a saxophonist and songwriter from Los Angeles, CA who currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. In addition to his extensive work as a reed player for others (including Meshell Ndegeocello, Allen Toussaint, and Blake Mills to name a few), Levon records and performs his own music, which ranges from the vocal to the instrumental, all within the realm of experimental roots music.
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Mon14May2018
Zellnor Myrie Campaign Benefit Monday May 14
7-9 p.m. $50 - $100 sliding scale donatio
Zellnor Myrie is a Brooklyn native, lawyer, and longtime affordable housing advocate. Zellnor derives inspiration for his public service from his mother who moved to Brooklyn 40 years ago from Costa Rica on the promise of a mattress in a friend’s apartment and a job at a factory. His father has been a special education teacher for the past 17 years, and is a current member of The United Federation of Teachers. Zellnor was raised primarily by his mother in a rent-stabilized apartment in Prospect Lefferts Gardens allowing him to attend one of the best public schools in the borough. Zellnor’s mother never let the challenges of being a new immigrant hinder Zellnor’s education.
Zellnor is a graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School, earned his B.A. in Communications and M.A. in Urban Studies from Fordham University. After Fordham, Zellnor worked as Legislative Director for City Councilman Fernando Cabrera where, among other bills, he helped draft and pass the Tenant Bill of Rights.
After leaving the City Council, Zellnor became chair of his Neighborhood Advisory Board where, through community organizing, he helped secure nearly $400,000 in federal funding for job training, after school programming, and tenant protection. Zellnor then went to Cornell Law School where he served as student body president, an editor on the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, a constitutional law instructor in prison, and as a Pro Bono Scholar — a position that allowed him to take the New York Bar early and spend his last semester working full-time at Justice 360, a criminal justice reform organization.
As an associate at a private Manhattan law firm, Zellnor remained committed to public service. Zellnor provided over 600 hours of pro bono service to immigrants seeking asylum, victims of police brutality and illegal stop-and-frisks, special education students not receiving services from the Department of Education, and victims of domestic violence. Zellnor also remained committed to his community as a member of the Neighborhood Advisory Board, junior board for the Legal Aid Society, and president of his building’s tenant’s association.
Zellnor is committed to giving back to the Brooklyn community that raised him and is passionate about securing affordable housing for families like his own, strengthening our public education system, immigrant rights, and criminal justice reform.
featuring traditional Ghanian music by Alfred Kpedsaane and Brittany Anjou
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Thu17May2018
Todd Neufeld and Thomas Morgan w special guest Jen Shyu May 17
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Todd Neufeld / Thomas Morgan Duo : Mostly RodgersTodd Neufeld is a singular voice on the guitar. Having contributed tobands led by Tyshawn Sorey, Masabumi Kikuchi, Lee Konitz, Tony Malabyand many more, Todd has developed his improvisational and interpretivesense over years in the heart of the NYC creative music scene.Tonight he’ll appear in duo with a very long-time associate, ThomasMorgan, himself a member of bands led by Bill Frisell, Steve Coleman,Paul Motian and so many more. Their collaboration goes back over 15years. In duo they’ve tended to feature their love of the Song.Tonight will be an immersion into the songs of Richard Rodgers, and more.Todd Neufeld – electric guitarThomas Morgan – acoustic bass -
Fri18May2018
Cassandra Jenkins,Timo Andres & Grey McMurray May 18
7:30 Doors $15.00 Admission
“Timo Andres is a composer & pianist who plays new music, old music, and certain things in between.. will include works by Ann Southam”.
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Sat19May2018
Jamie Saft Quartet w special guest Rosita Kess 5/19
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Jamie Saft- piano
Bill McHenry- tenor saxophone
Bradley Jones- acoustic bass
Mike Clark- drumsThe Jamie Saft Quartet will premiere new music from their upcoming release “Blue Dream” (RareNoise Records) out in June, 2018. Tonight’s concert will feature a number of Saft’s original compositions as well as standards from the Great American Songbook. Four musicians move like ships in the night, circling one another. A tenor sax echoes over the water. That’s saxman Bill McHenry. Drummer Nasheet Waits stirs the waters beneath, splashing into the basswaves of Brad Jones while Jamie Saft slides effortlessly over the keys. It is when he lingers, teasing out perhaps the same several notes, that Blue Dream moves. Punk jazz. Like clouds in a rotation of sunlight and darkness, they’re on a chess board, trading on, trading off. Who’s got the end game? Is none. This is communal jazz, something each of them is living, a new language. A conversation full of tension that gets worked out in the end, when the 1937 classic “There’s a Lull In My Life,” blissfully stretches out the last seven minutes like a long holiday party. The torch becomes buoyant in their hands, and revels in its ache. Shouldn’t we all?- Lance Scott Walker, 2018
Rosita’s music lives at the intersection where bossa nova collides with French chanson, and old Cuban rhythms meet their Argentine counterparts. Her most recent songs are deeply influenced by her love for Haitian and West African music.
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Sun20May2018
PLG ARTS: Charlie Burnham & Joanna Sternberg / DavaMike May 20
6:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation7 pm, Blue Duet, featuring Joanna Sternberg and Charlie Burnham
Blue Duet unites Joanna Sternberg, Joanna Sternberg, a young multi-instrumentalist and singer who is equally at home in ensembles playing musical styles from bluegrass to modern jazz, with Charlie Burnham, a violinist/vocalist familiar to audiences around the world. https://pirecordings.com/artists/charles-burnham/ and https://www.joannasternberg.com/
8 pm, DavaMike, featuring Davalois Fearon and Mike McGinnis
DavaMike is a performance project created by choreographer/dancer Davalois Fearon and composer/multi-instrumentalist Mike McGinnis. The duo’s performances feature original dance and music that moves beyond stylistic limitations. http://www.davaloisfearon.com/, http://www.mikemcginnis.com/
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Thu24May2018
BAT: Enamigxo Reciprokataj / Zosha Warpeha & Hans Bilger May 24
7:30 $10.00 suggested donation
Brittan Anjou’s new Esperanto-named trio Enamigxo Reciprokataj features Attis Clopton + Mali Obomsawin.
Hans Bilger is a bassist, guitarist & songwriter originally from Brooklyn, currently based in Austin, TX. He grew up performing country and bluegrass music at local cafés and churches with his family band, the Charismatic Megafauna, and later pursued formal training in jazz and classical music alongside collaborating with artists including Cricket Tell the Weather and Odell Fox. Joined by Brooklyn-based Zosha Warpeha (violin & vocals) and Michael Beckett-Fedarko (electronics), Bilger will be performing songs off his forthcoming solo album, currently in production at Good Child Music in Brooklyn with engineer/producer Alessandra Roubini and GCM founder Lawson White. -
Fri25May2018
Kami Maltz / Ofir Ganon /Sessa (Brazil) May 25
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Brooklyn based Kami Maltz brings the resonance of her native Israel, the passion of her second home, Argentina, and a decidedly New York electronic vibe to her performance. With a smooth voice and her autoharp, Kami conjures a sensuous combination of folk and indie elements, with an added touch of cotton-candy, pop embellishments.A long-time fixture of both the American and Brazilian music scenes, either as collaborator with NY guitar legend Yonatan Gat, or as co-founder of São Paulo rockers Garotas Suecas, Sessa debuts his solo work for the first time ever in the United States. His songs are sung in Portuguese, with visceral, sexual lyrics in the vain of Caetano Veloso and melodic flourishes not unlike those of Jobim. However, the music gets a deliberate minimalist treatment rarely found in contemporary Brazilian music, more reminiscent of the understated directness of Leonard Cohen or Devendra Banhart’s early work.
Sessa’s concerts are already stuff of legend in Brazil, as he takes the stage accompanied solely by female background vocalists and Afro-Brazilian percussion. While the songs often deal with subjects such as the sensual body in times of digital excess, the music points to new, more subtle directions for Brazilian pop in 2018 – a deep, minimalist, understated, almost insinuated use of the endlessly rich textures and rhythms that defined the songwriting history of Brazil – one which Sessa now joins as one of the most promising new voices.
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Sat26May2018
Falsa & Innov Gnawa May 26
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Described as “the cure for alienation” and “music that’s not about means to ends but about meaning and transcendence”, Falsa is an amazing musical experience rooted in 14th century Sufi music of North India. The effect of listening to Falsa is to be transported both inwards and across centuries of joys, sorrows and longings.
https://www.falsamusic.com
www.facebook.com/falsamusic
https://www.facebook.com/frank.deis/videos/vb.629567457/10155650139177458
INNOV GNAWA IS A GRAMMY-NOMINATED MUSICAL COLLECTIVE DEDICATED TO EXPLORING MOROCCO’S VENERABLE GNAWA MUSIC TRADITION IN THE HEART OF NEW YORK CITY. FORMED IN THE SUMMER OF 2014 BY MOROCCAN EXPAT SAMIR LANGUS, THE GROUP DRAWS ON THE CONSIDERABLE TALENTS AND EXPERTISE OF HASSAN BEN JAAFER, A MAÂLEM, OR MASTER GNAWA MUSICIAN, ORIGINALLY FROM FEZ, MOROCCO. UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF BEN JAAFER, INNOV HAS DELVED DEEP INTO THE ROOTS AND RITUALS OF GNAWA MUSIC, AND MADE A BIG SPLASH IN NYC, FROM LINCOLN CENTER, TO THE STORIED BACKROOM OF BROOKLYN’S BARBÈS.
HAILED BY BROOKLYN MAGAZINE AS ONE OF THE “5 BANDS YOU NEED TO KNOW IN BROOKLYN’S ARABIC MUSIC SCENE”, INNOV GNAWA MAKE GREAT — USE OF THIS TRADITIONAL REPERTOIRE, AND ADD THEIR OWN, CONTEMPORARY SPIN WITH ADDITIONAL AFRICAN AND LATIN PERCUSSION. TAKEN AS A WHOLE, THIS EXCITING NEW OUTFIT WORKS HARD TO F– USE A CENTURIES OLD NORTH AFRICAN TRADITION WITH THE PULSE AND ATTITUDE OF NEW YORK CITY NOW.
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Thu31May2018
Brent Arnold / Jean Rohe May 31
7:30 $10.00 suggested donation
“A sure-footed young singer-songwriter,” in the words of The New York Times, Jean Rohe writes one-of-a-kind narrative songs, concerned as much with the internal world as with the external. She is perhaps best known for her aspirational alternative national anthem, National Anthem: Arise! Arise!, which has now been performed by artists across the country and was published last year in the second edition of the popular songbook Rise Up Singing. Equally at home as a solo performer and bandleader/arranger, her award-winning 2013 release Jean Rohe & The End of the World Show found her at the helm of a 7-piece+ ensemble. Her upcoming record as a bandleader, Sisterly, is a collection of songs about communication and missed connections, and tackles topics from love, lust, and longing to prisons, police violence, migration, and home. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
VIDEOS:
National Anthem: Arise! Arise!
Long Lost You (solo, live in Ljubljana)
Sisterly (full band, live in NYC)
Preorder Jean’s new record, Sisterly, at PledgeMusic.Robinson & Rohe
“We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and
prosperity for our community… Our ambitions must be broad enough to
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Fri01Jun2018
Briggan Krauss's The Need and Sarah Manning Jun 1
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
The NeedBriggan Krauss – alto saxophone and electric guitarWayne Horvitz – piano and electronicsTony Scherr – electric bassShahzad Ismaily – drums and percussion“I heard many phenomenal artists during the Texaco New York Jazz Festival in June (’98). However, no group amazed me as much as Briggan Krauss’s group .”-Parry Gettelman, The Orlando Sentinel“Briggan Krauss is the kid who brings in the electronics kit, the kind of toy they made in the ’70s that makes mechanical beeps and squawks, except he makes these noises on an alto saxophone, not an erector set.”-John Janowiak, Downbeat. Dec. 1998Sarah Manning – alto saxophoneAllison Miller – drumsSimon Jermyn – electric bassSarah Manning is a saxophonist and composer. She fights for creative sustainability by building empathy between artist and fan through performing, writing, and speaking. She has released four critically acclaimed albums including her most recent release, Harmonious Creature (Posi-Tone 2014) which received 4 stars in Down Beat Magazine and was chosen as a top ten Jazz album of 2014 by the LA Times. In addition to a Fellowship in Composition from the MacDowell Colony in 2012, she has received grants from the Northampton Arts Council and the Puffin Foundation to support performance residencies that break down the barrier between artist and audience.“Manning played her alto saxophone like a blade cutting into viscera.” – Josh Jackson for WBGO.org on the 2018 Winter Jazzfest. www.sarahmanningmusic.com -
Sat02Jun2018
Jared Samuel Jana Horn // Yotoco June 2
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation 
Jana Horn and Jared Samuel (aka Invisible Familiars) will be sharing their songs and an hour-long time slot before Yotoco this evening, from 8-9pm.
in honor of the occasion they have done decided to rewrite each other’s press biographies.
Jared, according to Jana: You may like Invisible Familiars if you take boats anywhere. Where say, in the midst of your company, conversation breaks, and you notice something has been playing all along, a melody as open and ancient as the water itself, and taking no money. You wonder where it’s been. And then a girl walks up to you from below the deck and says “How did you sleep?” And you say that you were up on the hour all night, because you slept beside her dog. She asks if you’ve ever seen such a beautiful dog and you say, “only intermittently, last night.” You have to follow her, she says. “You have to listen to this song.” She puts the needle to it and to your surprise, although you don’t think you’ve ever heard it, you’re singing along. You know all the words. She smiles because she knows. These are the songs of Invisible Familiars. Think Harry Nilsson, a little Sinatra, but with it’s own groove.Jana, according to Jared:if genres are your thing then one could call Jana Horn “stripped-down pop” and if comparisons make you feel less afraid about the mysteries of life i would recommend her music to fans of Sybille Baier, Cowboy Junkies, and Slade. the latter, mainly because Slade fans are usually open and lively people.to further expand at my own peril: if Jana Horn’s music was a fully formed person it might be a Chanel-employed contract-model who has read a lot and has been thru perhaps a lengthy “awkward phase” before eventually becoming so aesthetically pleasing to the casual observer. and by this clumsy metaphor i mean that the songs are lean, intelligent but not pretentious, and even more full of character than even the elegant, at-times-almost-avian exterior would seem to suggest.“Yotoco’s music defies categorization. It isn’t salsa, son, cumbia, merengue or psychedelic rock; it isn’t rumba, funk, bomba or plena. It draws from all of those traditions, transcends them, and creates something unique, trippy, and danceable. Yotoco’s music may be hard to classify- but it is very easy to party to.”
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Thu07Jun2018
Maraliz Campos fundraiser (see below) / April Centrone CD Release
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
April Centrone and Maraliz Campos host the evening of Thursday June 7 at the Owl Music Parlor, celebrating the release of Centrone’s debut album New Moon.
Featuring:
April Centrone oud, buzuq, percussion and drums
Maraliz Campos percussion, loops and bowls
Mariel Berger piano
And many special guests730pm doors
8pm- Maraliz Campos and friends
9:15pm- April Centrone: New Moon CD release
$20 suggested donation
50% of ticket sales fund a music therapy program for refugee youth in Lebanon this August 2018.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/147093889477668/?ti=cl
Photo by Eric Sager @ericsagerphotography
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Fri08Jun2018
101 Crustaceans / Dustin Carlson's Air Ceremony June 8
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
An unfolding journey that travels through a gorgeous landscape of shimmering trombones, ambient electronics, unsettling noises and finally welcoming fingerpicked guitar. Stitched together with Carlson’s resplendent singing, “Shakes/The Noise of Wings” is an expansive, spiritual pair of suites that in its own way wouldn’t sound out of place on an early 70’s King Crimson record, or if an imaginary gospel group ate a tub of LSD and holed up in the studio with Brian Eno.
http://dustincarlson.bandcamp.com/album/shakes-the-noise-of-wings
Composer Ed Pastorini, who leads the band 101 Crustaceans, is a New York singer/pianist with an unusual, sometimes circular, approach to the song form. His eerie ballads and more aggressive works walk the line between popular song, art song, jazz, and improvisation. He tells of being classically-trained, but he was turned to the pop side by Credence Clearwater Revival, Traffic, The Beatles and some of the Motown hits. Pastorini also draws on twisted 1950’s jazz harmonies to write piano-based songs that sound like he once sang along with saxophone solos.
https://www.newsounds.org/story/4106-pianist-and-composer-ed-pastorini-studio/
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Sat09Jun2018
Her Crooked Heart with Humbird June 9
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
HER CROOKED HEART is the new music of Rachel Ries – multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, rock & roll choir director, sideman, singer. Her Crooked Heart’s debut EP, To Gentlemen, and forthcoming album, To Love To Leave To Live, feature members of Bon Iver, Shane Leonard and string arrangements by the inimitable Rob Moose.
Along with numerous and diverse collaborators through the years (including Hadestown mastermind Anaïs Mitchell), Rachel has proven herself ever-curious to expand her sound, her scope, and sail on past the confines of ‘singer-songwriter.’ After all, sometimes what the heart wants is poetry and a syncopated horn line; a string section and a bass synth – all leaving exultation and devastation in their wake.
Combining a wintry longing with the warmth of a familiar folktale, Humbird stretches between experimental folk and environmental Americana to embrace the unexpected. This music invites a refreshing dissonance into the house, it leaves breadcrumbs along the path and reflects light back at the stars.
But one thing has remained true since RR’s first homespun release: her sly and compassionate voice, excavating the depths of an all-too-human heart, armed with levity and a pen. It’s the messy humanity that’s of interest here. The trying and failing; the loving and losing and loving again. The choosing to be brave even when you’re shaking in your tattered boots. So please, make welcome: Her Crooked Heart. She’s been here all along.
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Sun10Jun2018
Open Ground Curtis - Or Baraket / Curtis, Garabedian & Sperrazza June 10
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested DonationOpen Ground Presents:
8pm
Or Baraket Quartet
Joel Ross – vibraphone
Eden Ladin – piano
Or Baraket – bass
Kush Abadey – drums9pm
Curtis – Garabedian – Sperrazza
Caleb Wheeler Curtis – alto saxophone
Noah Garabedian – bass
Vinnie Sperrazza – drumsSent from my iPhone
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Thu14Jun2018
Emi Makabe with Vitor Gonçalves / William Tatge June 14
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
William Tatge is a pianist, composer and improviser. Born in Umbria, Italy, of American parents, he lived in Todi and Florence until moving to New York City in 2008. Tatge is active in jazz, classical, new and improvised music. He has performed widely throughout Europe, South America, Japan, Canada and the U.S. in solo piano concerts, leading his groups or as a sideman. He has released three records to his name and collaborated on two multimedia works with artist Christine Meisner which have been shown in major art institutions throughout the world. http://www.williamtatge.com/ -
Fri15Jun2018
Lytle Lyon // Seyyah June 15
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Lytle Lyon: A culmination of culture. Made by the concrete jungle, forged in brass and skin. Rhythms and rhyme from the past and future. You have never heard anything quite like it. Cuba meets America meets Africa. Made in NYC.
Combining the forces of some of city’s finest performers of Turkish and Greek music, Seyyah draws on a wide repertoire from Ottoman classical music to pop. Collectively, this large ensemble gives voice to a sound that reflects the origins and tradition of the music of Asia Minor while expressing the distinctly modern sound of music in New York City today.
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Sat16Jun2018
Christina Courtin / Kate Fenner & Tony Scherr / Puzzling Stream June 16
7:30 $10.00 suggested donation 
Christina Courtin is a violinist, composer, and singer songwriter based in New York City. She performs as a solo artist and also under the moniker Pilot Violet. She has toured and performed with an array of artists regionally and around the world, including Yo-Yo Ma, Paul McCartney, Bela Fleck, among others. Currently, Christina is working on a new solo release featuring The Knights, a chamber collective of which she is a founding member and longtime collaborator.
Kate Fenner, a singer and songwriter originally from Canada, has been playing and singing around NYC for many years, many of those with guitarist/bassist Tony Scherr. They recently completed and released her third solo album, “Middle Voice”.
Puzzling Stream’s members Modesty Blaise, Bland Scallion, Tang Dynasty and Culvert Crosser met in a graphics design class where all four member bonded over James Bond. After this they were briefly involved as the Orlando, Florida street team for the American release of French superstar Psy’s comeback record ‘I Luv It’, which was written partly about getting a free foot exam in New York’s bustling Herald Square district.
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Thu21Jun2018
Wish Wish, Sean Cronin & Julian Cubillos, June 21
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
WishWish is the band of Brooklyn-based drummer, singer, and songwriter, Rachel Housle. An active side person, Rachel’s music draws from a broad range of stylistic influences that find weird little homes in the twists and turns of song form. Her songs are self-reflective and steeped in fractured dream-like images, anchored by melodies that are at once playful and tinged with emotion.
Sean Cronin plays and sings his songs. In a stripped down version of the ever-expansive and ambitious “Very Good”, Sean opts for a simpler and less theatrical presentation of his music. This reveals the bizarre imagination of a unique and honest songwriter, who is equally moved by the work of Leonard Cohen, the Pixies, Maurice Ravel, and Eugene Ionesco. These performances somehow always have an air of spontaneity, as though the pieces are springing forth from thin air, and could collapse at any moment. Sean Cronin will be joined by Adam Brisbin on guitar etc, Katie Lee on violin etc; and Rachel Housle on drums.
If you’ve ever had a chance to see Julian Cubillos work, then you know his uncanny ability to play mastermind while embodying both warmth and calming cool. In May, the Brooklyn-via-Los Angeles singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer emerged with the follow-up to his 2015 punk rock glam party Evil in the form of a more stripped-down and direct rock record—and perhaps his most fully-realized to date—In Heaven.
With production credits spanning dozens of projects across Los Angeles and New York, it is perhaps Cubillos’ own music that best reflects his unassuming nice-guy genius sentiment. Time Out New York describes his production style as “somehow [blending] genres like garage-punk, electro-pop and jazzy lo-fi into a coherent, fresh sound.”
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Fri22Jun2018
Trouble Trouble / Lau Noa / Anthony Da Costa June 22
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Trouble Trouble are Adam Schatz and Ben Goldberg. Taking care of business, then realizing not only was it someone else’s business but we didn’t really take care of it anyway, then I forgot how the bridge goes.
Lau Noah (Spain 1994)is a Brooklyn based storyteller. She has recently found the deepest way to express her tales in the harmonic tapestry that a guitar and a voice, intertwined, create.Through several musical influences and four languages that bring widely diverse qualities to the music, Noah travels from multi instrumentalist, film scorer, composer to writer, painter and teacher with the endeavor of using Art as a shelter where the colors of the dark and the light naturally reconcile.Anthony da Costa’s songs don’t extend metaphors or spin yarns. They shoot straight. The singer-songwriter and guitarist speaks plainly, from the heart and the gut.
With his latest work, including his recent solo album DA COSTA, he adds the musical force of some of American folk and roots’ seminal cities to his forthright style. “In the past few years, since I moved from New York to Austin and then to Nashville, I’ve found my voice as a songwriter,” muses da Costa. “I’ve honed my band, made strong musical friendships. I felt like I started over and found what I needed to say.” You can hear it clearly in his songs, whether they are steeped in rock-country grit or frank folk.
A seasoned sideperson, he’s toured extensively with Grammy-winning performers (Joy Williams of The Civil Wars, Sarah Jarosz) and Americana darlings (Aoife O’Donovan). He’s shared the stage with everyone from Judy Collins to Kenny Loggins, played major festivals and late-night shows (CONAN), and written songs with hitmakers (Steve Poltz).
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Sat23Jun2018
Jonny Polonsky // Allegri Ragazzi // Julia Patinella
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Jonny Polonsky is a singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter. Originally signed at age 21 by Rick Rubin to American Recordings via a demo produced by the Pixies’ Frank Black, Jonny has released several solo records, and has also worked as a side musician with a wide array of artists, including Johnny Cash, Neil Diamond, Puscifer (feat. Maynard James Keenan), the Dixie Chicks, and many others. His most recent release, Fresh Flesh, features Mark Lanegan of Queens of the Stone Age on vocals, and Kevin Haskins of Bauhaus on percussion.
Allegri Ragazzi: The Music of Ennio Morricone
Adam Minkoff – bass, arrangements
Dan Brantigan – trumpet
Robbie Mangano – guitar
Danny Fox – keys
Yuval Lion – drumsJulia Patinella is a multilingual singer currently living between Sevilla, Spain and Brooklyn, NY. After years of immersion as a Flamenco singer in southern Spain, as well as a life-long dedication to the oral traditions of her ancestor’s native Sicily, Julia has developed several original musical projects in Spanish, Italian / Sicilian and English, that draw from her roots, her experience as a first-generation American female, and urgent socio-political themes. In her performances, she brings forth an expansive repertoire steeped in history and Mediterranean folk traditions, and a rich, guttural voice that carries the raw emotions of protest, the longing for freedom, and the uncompromising commitment to sing every note with soul.
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Thu28Jun2018
Damon I Smith, Allegra Krieger and Immanuel Wilkins June 28
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation 
https://www.damonisaacsmith.com/
Immanuel Wilkins is an American Saxophonist, Composer, Arranger, and Band Leader. While growing up in the Philadelphia area, he played in his church and programs dedicated to teaching jazz music such as the Clef Club of Jazz and Performing Arts. Immanuel has had the opportunity to play in Japan, Europe, South America, The United Arab Emirates, and the United States, working and/or recording with Jason Moran, the Count Basie Orchestra, Delfeayo Marsalis, Aaron Parks, Gerald Clayton, Gretchen Parlato, Lalah Hathaway, Solange Knowles, Bob Dylan, and Wynton Marsalis. He currently attends The Juilliard School where he studied with saxophonists Bruce Williams and the late Joe Temperley. By being emerged in the scene at a young age around various masters, he continues to pursue his goals of being a force in music and society today. His mission is to create a sound that has a profound spiritual and emotional impact and to become a great leader in the lineage of jazz musicians throughout history. Through studying the human pathos of the music and the culture of jazz, he aspires to bring people together through the commonality of love and belief in this music.
w/ Micah Thomas on Piano, Daryl Johns on Bass and Kweku Sumbry on Drums, Alyssa McDoom on Vocals
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Fri29Jun2018
Alexis Hightower // The Flamingo Trio June 29
7:30 Doorshttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/alexis-hightower-live-at-the-owl-music-parlor-tickets-46074019633
R&B singer/songwriter Alexis Hightower brings her band to The Owl Music Parlor for an evening of live music at Brooklyn’s most exciting new venue. Described as “creative and imaginative” by Ebony.com, Alexis will play a set of original material with her four-piece band in this fresh and intimate setting. The line-up include Richie Goods (Chris Botti, Jean Baylor Project) on bass and Gintas Janusonis (Matt Garrison, Ghostface Killah) on drums.
After the Alexis Hightower gig the door will be open to all comers on a donation basis for drummer Hayden Hawkins’s Flamingo Trio.
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Sat30Jun2018
Are Skwaird and Jeffrey Lewis June 30
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Rebecca Tilles and Rachel Swaner are Are Skwaird, a duo that reimagines old folk tunes and outsider classics through sweet harmonies, curious instrumentation, and an appropriate mix of wistfulness, humor, and charm. https://areskwaird.bandcamp.com/
Native New Yorker Jeffrey Lewis is a comic book writer/artist and a musician. Jeffrey has had albums on Rough Trade since 2001, his comic Fuff has been running since 2004, and he’s been featured by NPR, The History Channel, The NY Times and more. http://www.thejeffreylewissite.com
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Thu05Jul2018
Emma Frank / Jim Black Jul 5
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Fri06Jul2018
Max Detritus // Olivia Hally's Fully Human Jul 6
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Max Detritus inspects the leavings of the past to produce a sound that ranges from the celebratory to the melancholic. The music originated from the drummer’s chair and the grooves range from the driving to the mysterious. Simple song structures and rich guitars hold it all together.Olivia Hally (Liv) is an Australian-born musician, currently residing in NYC. She has a degree in Classical Guitar performance and has spent her adult life as writer and performer of internationally-touring pop project, Oh Pep!. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, on NPR’s Tiny Desk and in Rolling Stone and has seen her tour and collaborate with the likes of the Mountain Goats, Billy Bragg, Valerie June, Ron Sexsmith and Martha Wainwright. In 2017, Liv began a community driven project called FUN with Oh Pep!, facilitating collaborative songwriting opportunities for like-minded people. More recently, she began performing under the moniker Fully Human, a project that shares the stories of the audience through song. She is currently a writer for Sony ATV, speaking at universities, working on music for a play, reading a lot about addiction to technology, and falling in love.
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Sat07Jul2018
Renata Zeiguer / Ian Davis / Potted Plant Jul 7
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Renata Zeiguer’s debut album Old Ghost is the sound of someone finding and losing herself in the endless dance of fear and forgiveness. With secretly wise melodic constructions, she tempts the listener toward forbidden insights, resurrecting her childhood fascination with classical and jazz music. The ghosts of Ravel, Debussy, and Gershwin run through her veins, whirling with Billie Holiday, Os Mutantes, The Pixies, Yo La Tengo and The Beatles. Her music is stained with the brutality of battling oneself, and yet the pulse of love echoes throughout like a mystical wind. -
Sun08Jul2018
Bram Kincheloe, Chris van Voorst's Two Trios, Ryan Power Jul 8
7:00 Doors, $10.00 Suggested Donation
7:45pm Bram Kincheloe Band JJ Byars – alto Greg Paulus – trumpet Dov Manski – piano/keyboard Jesse Lewis – guitar Adam Chilenski – bass Bram Kincheloe – drums/vocals
9pm Chris van Voorst’s Two Trios
w/ Tara Hanish, cello, Jeremy Viner, clarinet, Zach Lapidus, piano, Kyle Wilson, saxophone, Allan Mednard, drums, Me, bass and compositions
A program of chamber works and improvised responses. On stage at the same time, two trios perform original chamber works (clarinet, cello, piano), each followed with an improvised response (saxophone, bass, drums). visit chrisvanvoorst.com
10pm Ryan Power’s new band consisting of Noga Shefi, Jason Nazary and Evan Allen.
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Thu12Jul2018
Ana Egge & Taylor Ashton Jul 12
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Ana Egge was born in Estevan, SK Canada and grew up in North Dakota and New Mexico. She began her music career in Austin, TX at the age of 20 releasing her first album ‘River Under The Road’ in 1997, recorded with the legendary western swing band, Asleep At The Wheel. Over the following years and 8 albums she worked with producers Martin Terefe, Jason Mercer, Joel Plaskett, Steve Earle and Stewart Lerman. “White Tiger”, Ana Egge’s tenth album, has nine originals and one cover (John Hartford), and so amply displays her singularly articulate and affecting honesty and sensitivity as to once again deserve USA Today’s accolade, “[Ana] can write and sing rings around” her contemporaries. The CD features wind, string, and vocal arrangements by multi-instrumentalist/producer Alec Spiegelman (Cuddle Magic) and guest appearances by Anais Mitchell, Billy Strings, Alex Hargreaves, and Buck Meek (Big Thief). Like the tiger in the title song, Egge, herself, is near-miraculous, rare but real, and, as Lucinda Williams once told some friends, “Listen to her lyrics. Ana is the folk Nina Simone.”
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Fri13Jul2018
Kenny and the Eggplants / Life in a Blender Jul 13
7:30 Doors, $10.00 Suggested Donation
Life in a Blender
Called “an American Robyn Hitchcock” by The Big Takeover, Life in a Blender has been the canvas for singer and songwriter Don Rauf’s blackly comic landscapes for more than three decades. The group has released nine albums ranging from screaming punk to orchestrated chamber pop, and has brought the theatrics of its live act to stages from Berlin to Austin to Toronto to Brooklyn and Seattle. The band’s latest album Happy Enough is out on Fang Records, and features the twisted clarinet of old friend Ralph Carney, who we miss like crazy. Jersey Beat called Happy Enough “an utterly engaging blend of joy and verve while the dynamic and harmonic arrangements keep things lively and stirring from start to finish.”
Kenny and the Eggplants say that the prevailing mood at their shows is ‘cheerful chaos.’ But it’s always good to hear what others think. Reviewing a show in Edinburgh, the Sunday Mail said: ‘They don’t come much zanier than this New York trio. They sang goofy songs about partying worms with artistic temperaments and Rambo going on shopping sprees . . . But behind the surreal antics were technically proficient musicians who know how to write a good pop tune and work an audience. Alien Love Song had a chorus so infectious I was humming it all the way home. There is genius among the Eggplants . . . Energetic, unpredictable and fun . . . if its surreal entertainment you are after then they’re your boys.’
http://www.kennyyoungandtheeggplants.com
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Sat14Jul2018
Very Be Careful (from LA) newly added show Jul 14
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
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Sun15Jul2018
Open Ground Jul 15
7:30 Doors $15.00 Admission
Open Ground Presents:
8pm
Trot A Mouse9pm
Desmond White####
Trot A Mouse performs the compositions of Simon Jermyn. Seamlessly moving between the written and the improvised, this is music comprised of a multitude of influences and inspirations, defined only by an open approach, with spontaneity at it’s core. Simon Jermyn – bass / compositions, Charlotte Greve – alto sax, Anna Webber – tenor sax, Mark Ferber – drums.
Australian bassist Desmond White brings his group Open Ground to perform music from a new suite of songs that continues his work of integrating jazz and singer/songwriter lexicons. Having released two albums of such material for Biophilia Records, Short Stories in 2013 and Glace in 2017, this new material attempts to further shirk the often personal or perceived genre-based constraints that all musicians encounter; the marriage of improvisational freedom to cohesive lyrical storytelling often being the perennial challenge. Joining him for the evening are three musicians already known for their versatility and adventurous spirits, Jorn Swart on Piano/Keys, Hugh Stuckey on Guitar and Allan Mednard on drums, with Desmond on Bass/Guitar/Vox.
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Thu19Jul2018
Daniel Meron Jul 19
Ian Hafiz Turner of Rubycon will be performing a paired down acoustic electric set of original music. His songs invite a playful dance as the span topics ranging from underwater love affairs, to creatures of night, to distopic revolution. Daniel Meron will also join him for some of his set on Piano.
Pianist composer Daniel Meron and his band will play a special show just before going in the studio to record a new album.Influenced by jazz, folk and world music, Meron’s songs communicate vivid stories and emotions to the listener, and shift between intimate moments and energetic improvisation. Joined by Pablo Menares (bass), Felix Lecaros (drums) and Kéren Or Tayar (voice), Daniel will share the music that will be recorded on the following day. -
Fri20Jul2018
Dia Luna, b o t & Blythe Gruda Jul 20
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
DIA LUNA
Somewhere between Bjork’s visionary expressiveness, Saint Vincent’s soulful, quirky pop music, and Joni Mitchell’s poetic lyricism, lives the music of DIA LUNA. Her debut EP, Camellia, produced by Tomas Deltoro-Diaz, sifts through her personal mythologies, history and ancestral lineage. Between the deserts of Mexico, the golden hills of California, and the concrete streets of New York City, DIA LUNA pushes and pulls at the roots of the family tree. Camellia explores the possibility of looking backwards and forwards at once, holding the self and the other with equal presence, and finding sovereignty somehow through it all.
Blythe Gruda
Her voice acts as a puppeteer, casting strings across an audience and capturing auras, making them dance like marionettes.
Each of her songs lilts and bleeds effortless from one number to the next telling stories of heartbreak, lessons learned, renaissance and reconstruction.
Effortless melodies combined with a foray of experimental sound and instruments, and the conjuring of every fiber of her physical and spiritual being astral project through the dark universe into the hearts of many through clandestine siren song.
Insta: proudestmary
b o t
bio: b o t (/bät/) is a brooklyn-based musical collective created in early 2016. in all of its permutations, b o t is led by an unnamed character of ambiguous gender who appears to be perpetually apprehensive and cynical. being heavily influenced by the contemporary gospel of the late nineties and oughts, b o t’s sound lends itself to being off-centered, soulful pop.facebook : https://www.facebook.com/botanisttt/ instagram : @bot_speaksInsta: proudestmary
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Sat21Jul2018
A Benefit for New Sanctuary /QDEP with Savannah Gordon and friends Jul 21
7:00 Doors, $10.00 Suggested Donationhttp://www.newsanctuarynyc.org
Featured Artists
Savannah and Nina Gordon
Alayisha and Langston
Sera Selin
Eman el-Saied
Joe Martin
Mary Spencer Knapp
and more TBA!
Alayisha and Langston are a R&B, soul, funk, and blues band from New York City. They play original songs from their debut album “Cheap Love.”
All donations will go to the following worthy organizations
And the New Sanctuary Coalition. http://www.newsanctuarynyc.org
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Thu26Jul2018
closed for a private event
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Fri27Jul2018
Max Kennedy Rec Release /Lau Noah /Jake Sherman Jul 27
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
5/24/2018 – photo by Ben Stas
Max Kennedy is a musical sorcerer, able to conjure up serene landscapes and scenes of beguiling discordance with his subtle arrangements and delicate, plaintive voice. Carving out a space between folk, jazz, and the avant-garde, his new release, On That Great Selection Day, will seduce you with its homespun, heartfelt glow and blow you away with startling shifts in melody and vocal harmony (the latter courtesy of his partner Anneke Reich– they gel like Gram and Emmylou). It’s an album that defies genre, forging new musical paths with every labyrinthine twist and turn. On That Great Selection Day is a wondrous and perfectly idiosyncratic tour de force. If you don’t give this one a spin, you’re seriously missing out.Lau NoahLau Noah (Spain 1994)is a Brooklyn based storyteller. She has recently found the deepest way to express her tales in the harmonic tapestry that a guitar and a voice, intertwined, create.Through several musical influences and four languages that bring widely diverse qualities to the music, Noah travels from multi instrumentalist, film scorer, composer to writer, painter and teacher with the endeavor of using Art as a shelter where the colors of the dark and the light naturally reconcile.Jake Sherman premieres the his one man band. There will be hihat, there will be bass drum, there will be keybass, there will be piano, there will be singing, there will not be other band members. Sherman honed his sound by playing gospel organ at Baptist churches in Brooklyn, as well as performing and recording as a sideman with such artists as Bilal, Meshell Ndegeoello, Chance the Rapper, Nick Hakim, Gabriel Garzon-Montano, and Benny Sings. Exhibiting a wide scope and endearing humor, Sherman’s music is a synthesis of popular and esoteric elements, combining glimmering orchestral spacescapes with lo-fi drum machines, and vintage keyboards. But make no mistake – this is pop music, cemented as such by Jake’s lyrical charm and strong penchant for melody. -
Sat28Jul2018
Charlie Burnham, Ben Goldberg and Oren Bloedow //Yotoco Jul 28
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Thu02Aug2018
Alexa Barchini and Jackson // Julia Patinella Andreas Arnold & Kenny Warren Aug 2
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Alexa Barchini and Jackson are a Brooklyn based guitar and voice duo, performing originals alongside covers spanning the jazz, singer songwriter, and Brazilian realms.
Alexa and Jackson lend credence to the notion that the the whole can exceed the sum of its parts. Alexa’s controlled and smokey beyond her yearsvoice, and Jack’s excursions around the fretboard which beg the question “what’s next?”, are splendid in their own right, but when the two are combined, something special happens. Original music which immediately plants ear worms, and coverage of tunes never covered, display a palpable chemistry between the two musicians which is unforgettable. -
Fri03Aug2018
Melodie Stancato / Clebs / Secret Sibling Aug 3
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Secret Sibling is an experimental pop band featuring the music of Michael Sachs. Its got synths, saxes, clarinets, vocals, and drums. Lyrics range from sentimental emo to cold and absurd. Personnel includes Kim Mayo(voc), Tomas Cruz (voc), Michael Sachs (synths, winds), Sam Decker (synth, winds), Pete Moffett
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Sat04Aug2018
The Floodlight review: Levon Henry and Friends Aug 4
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation -
Thu09Aug2018
Jamie Saft's 'Haxan' 7pm /Gabby Sherba / Rev Sun y Moon Aug 9
6:30 door
Jamie Saft performs a live improvised score to the classic Danish silent film “Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages” (1922).
Gabby Sherba is a creator and performer of music and theater. Member of bands, The Furies, Rowan, The LoveHowl; and sometime collaborator/backup singer with others, including Amy Helm, Doyle Bramhall II, Adam Minkoff, and Bright Brown. Currently finishing up a production of The Winter’s Tale with South Brooklyn Shakespeare and developing a new script with a company called The Living Room.
Some of her solo work is internettable here: Gabbyess.bandcamp.comThe Sun Moon band features Adam Minkoff, Oren Bloedow, Sean Dixon and special guests -
Fri10Aug2018
Ali Dineen and Jackson Lynch Aug 10
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Ali Dineen has been performing her original music and songs from the American folk tradition in New York and across the United States for the past several years, drawing upon music ranging from 1920s American jazz to Eastern European polyphony. Her lyrics are poetic and deeply personal, using narrative to draw connections between personal experience and larger histories. Audiences across the country have been captivated by her breathtaking voice and the power of her songs’ messages. When not performing her original music, Ali also works with various projects including the Crimson Ragdolls and Bread and Puppet Theater, and works as a music educator. She is based in New York City.
More on Jackson Lynch can be learned at:
https://jacksonlynch.bandcamp.com
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Sat11Aug2018
Sam Amidon with Grey McMurray & Friends Aug 11
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Sam Amidon and friends- an evening of songs and stories and tunes and possibilities. Your price of suggested admission will also include a set of music from the incomparable Grey McMurray. In the words of Jimi Hendrix: “Who knows?”
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Mon13Aug2018Wed05Sep2018
The regular Owl programming resumes after Labor Day Aug 13- Sept 5
We’re closing up and getting outdoors some. 🙂
See you in the new School Year! Enjoy your summers <3
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Thu06Sep2018
Brandon Ross / Michael Coleman's Resort Music Sept 6
7:30 Doors, $10.00 Suggested Donation
Photo via Petra Cvelbar
As a performing and recording artist, guitarist and composer Brandon Ross has worked and collaborated with several innovative voices in modern music such as Henry Threadgill, Wadada Leo Smith, Cassandra Wilson, Jewel, Tony Williams, Lizz Wright, Arto Lindsay, The Lounge Lizards, Leroy Jenkins, Oliver Lake, Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris, Bill Frisell, Me’Shell N’degeocello, Arrested Development, Archie Shepp, Muhal Richard Abrams, Don Byron, Ron Miles and many others.
This night’s offering, Immortal Obsolescence, features drummer JT Lewis, bassist Stomu Takeishi and a special guest.
Michael Coleman‘s Resort Music is the strange radio station that was playing in the elevator at that vacation destination you visited last Winter. You didn’t really notice it but there was something both relaxing and unsettling about it as you stepped into the lobby on your way down to the beach. Like a vague memory of a dream you recall years later. “Was that a song I knew?”, you ask yourself as you slip into the waves. Questions like, “What am I doing here?” and “Is this my life now?” begin to force their way into your mind as you float out into the sea.The Resort Music Suite will be performed by Michael Coleman (keyboards), Rob Adkins (bass) and Austin Vaughn (drums). -
Fri07Sep2018
Kate Olson // Kami Maltz & Josh Turner play Joni / Joanna Sternberg Sept 7
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
K.O. SOLO (Kate Olson) is a Seattle-based electro-acoustic improvised meditation, featuring soprano saxophone, loops, beats, and synthesizers.
www.kateplayssax.com
[K.O. SOLO has a] keen ability to evoke intimately vast space with just her horn, vox, effects, and a computer. Steeped in post-bop jazz and minimalism, Olson summons methodical, tranquil improvisations that conjure profoundly spiritual feelings that should please fans of Pharoah Sanders, Don Cherry, and Terry Riley….Olson really maximizes the emotional power of her melancholy, mellifluous sax and sparse beats, creating an eerie desolation that recalls Deep Listening Band’s recordings in the Fort Worden Cistern. –Dave Segal, The StrangerSinger-songwriter Kami Maltz and fingerstyle guitarist Josh Turner join forces on stage for the first time in an homage to the great Joni Mitchell. They got the idea after their rendition of Mitchell’s “Carey” amassed over 50,000 views on YouTube in just a few months, and have since been working together to meticulously create the sound of Joni’s earlier work while bringing their own fresh perspectives to it.Joanna Sternberg is a singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist and visual artist living in New York City. They make art about their emotions with the hope that it will help the viewer/listener/audience feel less alone. Joanna plays all styles and genres of music, but does not like to categorize art in any way. Their art is just a form of love designed to help people feel and heal. Joanna’s work can be found on www.joannasternberg.com. Thanks for reading this! I tried to write in the third person… Sincerely,Joanna
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Sat08Sep2018
Tomoko Ozawa Trio // Innov Gnawa September 8
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Raised in Japan and international settings, a pianist and composer, Tomoko Ozawa combines lyricism with European contemporary classical music and rhythmic elements of Jazz in her music. Her premier album Gentian frames, and accentuates the insightful words of Emily Dickinson with instrumental compositions and playful improvisation. She continues to perform with her group, originally founded in Boston in 2013, featuring Yoav Eshed on guitar and Rob Taylor on bass, while pursuing her PhD degree in Integrated Composition and Technology at the University of California, Irvine.
Yoav Eshed – guitarRob Taylor – bassTomoko Ozawa – pn/voxInnov Gnawa is a young musical collective dedicated to exploring Morocco’s venerable gnawa music tradition in the heart of New York City. Formed in the summer of 2014 by Moroccan expat Samir LanGus, the group draws on the considerable talents and expertise of Hassan Ben Jaafer, a Maâlem, or master gnawa musician, originally from Fes, Morocco. Under the guidance of Ben Jaafer, Innov has delved deep into the roots and rituals of gnawa music, and made a big splash in NYC, playing some of the city’s most prestigious rooms including Lincoln Center, Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn Bowl and the storied backroom of Brooklyn’s Barbès.
For the uninitiated, gnawa music is the ritual trance music of Morocco’s black communities, originally descended from slaves and soldiers once brought to Morocco from Northern Mali and Mauritania. Often called “The Moroccan Blues”, gnawa music has a raw, hypnotic power that’s fascinated outsiders as diverse as writer/composer Paul Bowles, jazz giant Randy Weston and rock god Jimi Hendrix. The music is utterly singular, played on an array of unique instruments — from the lute-like sintir that the Maâlem uses to call the tune, to the metal qarqaba (castinets) with which the kouyos (chorus) keep time and pound out clattering, hypnotic rhythms.
Hailed by Brooklyn Magazine as one of the “5 Bands You Need to Know in Brooklyn’s Arabic Music Scene”, Innov Gnawa make great use of this traditional repertoire, and add their own, contemporary spin with additional African and Latin percussion. Taken as a whole, this exciting new outfit works hard to fuse a centuries old North African tradition with the pulse and attitude of New York City.
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Sun09Sep2018
Sound Underground / Feral Children Sept 9
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
8pm
Sound Underground
Sound Underground is a compact trio with an expansive imagination. Their inquisitive approach is guided by words of wisdom from jazz legend Wayne Shorter: “You’ve got to go down in the basement and visit every note.” Based in New York City, saxophonist David Leon, trumpeter Alec Aldred and guitarist Jonah Udall draw on a broad array of influences from Cool Jazz to 20th century chamber music, to Americana and Balkan folklore and to distill a unique and deeply personal voice.
9pm
Feral Children
Feral Children is a Brooklyn-based band consisting of saxophonist Noah Becker, bassist Nick Dunston, and drummer Lesley Mok. Playing exclusively original music by all members of the trio, Feral Children explores playful counterpoint and role-obscuring instrumentation, all while diving further into its roots of jazz and freely improvised music. -
Thu13Sep2018
Dida Pelled, Jake Sherman Julia Easterlin Sept 13
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation 
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Fri14Sep2018
Robinson & Rohe w Charlie Burnham and Joanna Sternberg Sept 14
7:30 doors /8pm $10 Donation Suggested
Jean Rohe and Liam Robinson met a decade ago through their love of participatory music-making and American folk song. Their cowritten songs are inspired by the traditions they hold dear and shine with elegant vocal harmonies and detailed arrangements for guitar, banjo, and accordion.
Whether in small clubs or on festival stages, Robinson & Rohe’s performances are intimate gatherings in which listeners are invited to share in the music-making. Acclaimed songwriters and performers in their own rights, Jean and Liam bring with them a wealth of creative experience: Liam was a cast member in the Tony Award-winning play, “Warhorse” and recently music directed the hit Off-Broadway folk opera “Hadestown” by songwriter Anaïs Mitchell. He routinely tours with the Becca Stevens Band. Jean’s songwriting has won accolades from the Independent Music Awards, ASCAP, and the Montreux Jazz Festival vocal contest. This year, her song “National Anthem: Arise! Arise!” was published in the latest edition of the popular songbook Rise Up Singing and she was a Troubadour finalist at the 2016 Telluride Bluegrass Festival.
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Sat15Sep2018
Pat Irwin & Jon Cowherd, Eszter Balint Sept 15
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Music for Electric Guitar and Piano are compositions by Pat Irwin. Jon Cowherd is on piano. (Please link to www.patirwinmusic.com for more info)
Eszter is a singer-songwriter with three critically acclaimed solo albums, Flicker, Mud and last year’s widely praised Airless Midnight. Eszter has appeared as a violinist and/or vocalist on numerous projects including albums by Michael Gira’s Angels of Light and Swans, John Lurie’s Marvin Pontiac’s Greatest Hits, various projects by Marc Ribot, several film soundtracks, and has contributed tracks to two tribute albums by John Zorn. Eszter grew up as a member of the avant-garde theater company Squat Theatre, and she has appeared in starring and featured roles in films by Jim Jarmusch, Woody Allen, Steve Buscemi, alongside David Bowie, and in Season 4 of Louis CK’s FX TV show Louie and in A Woman A Part by Elisabeth Subrin.Eszter is currently at work on a new musical collaboration with Stew (Passing Strange, The Total Bent, Songs of a Native Son, The Negro Problem and more.) -
Tue18Sep2018
Humbird & Asher Kurtz † Tuesday † Sept 18
Combining a wintry longing with the warmth of a familiar folktale, Humbird stretches between experimental folk and environmental Americana to embrace the unexpected. This music invites a refreshing dissonance into the house, it leaves breadcrumbs along the path and reflects light back at the stars.LINKSVIDEODecember – official videoKansas City, MO – live session -
Thu20Sep2018
GAVAGAI // Guy Mintus Trio feat Special guest Roopa Mahadevan Sept 20
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation 
GAVAGAI is a monthly performance series curated and hosted by poet Danielle Blau that brings you poetry and fiction readings scored with original live music by composer-improviser-bassist Mike Brown, with other skilled improvisers (horn-players, cellists, violinists, vocalists, who knows?) often dropping in onstage as surprise guest-musicians. Danielle Blau’s Rhyme or Reason: Poets, Philosophers, and the Problem of Being Here Now is forthcoming from W.W. Norton. She won first place for her poetry in the 2015 multi-genre Narrative 30 Below Contest, and her chapbook mere eye was selected for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Award and published in 2013 with an introduction by D.A. Powell. Blau’s poems, short stories, articles, and interviews have also appeared and are forthcoming in such publications as The Atlantic online, The Baffler, Black Clock, The Harvard Review, The Literary Review, Narrative Magazine, The New Yorker’s book blog, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Saint Ann’s Review, The Wolf, and the Argos Books poetry anthology Why I Am Not a Painter. A graduate of Brown University with an honors degree in philosophy, and of NYU with an MFA in poetry, she teaches at the City University of New York.
This Month’s Guests:
About Guy Mintus
“An artist of prodigious talent and boundless ambition” (Brian Zimerman, DownBeat Magazine)Following recent debuts in Paris and at the Montreal jazz Festival, the Guy Mintus trio will arrive to the Owl for a concert in an intimate setting. Featured guest would be the carnatic extraordinairy vocalist Roopa Mahadevan. Music worlds spanning spanning Jazz, south indian classical music, jewish music, middle eastern makam and R&B will be explored in a spontaneous and open approach.Roopa Mahadevan – vocalsGuy Mintus – piano, vocalsDan Pappalrdo – bassZack O’Farrill – drums -
Fri21Sep2018
Danton Boller Trio / Jim Black Trio w Nels Cline and Chris Lightcap Sept 21
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
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Sat22Sep2018
MOTHER OCTOPUS with special guests BABA BIBI (featuring Stew of The Negro Problem) Sept 22
6:30 door $10.00 suggested donation
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Sun23Sep2018
Open Ground Presents: Steve Cardenas Trio | Gregg Belisle-Chi Trio (Ensō). Sept 23
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Open Ground Presents:
Steve Cardenas Trio | Gregg Belisle-Chi Trio (Ensō)8pmEnsōGregg Belisle-Chi – guitarMatt Aronoff – bassJason Burger – drums9pmSteve Cardenas – guitarBen Allison – bassAllan Mednard – drumsSteve has performed and recorded with many well-known and highly esteemed musicians. Notably, he was a longstanding member of the Paul Motian Electric Bebop Band (which later became the Paul Motian Octet), and the Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra. Steve is currently a member of the Steve Swallow Quintet, Ben Allison Band, Jon Cowherd‘s Mercy Project and John Patitucci‘s Electric Guitar Quartet. He has toured extensively throughout Europe, North and South America and Asia, performing at countless international music festivals, theaters, opera houses and clubs. His most recent album, Melody in a Dream, was released on Sunnyside Records last year. Steve is co-author, along with editor Don Sickler, of the Thelonious Monk Fakebook, Hal Leonard Publishing. The Thelonious Monk Fakebook marks the first time all of Monk’s compositions have appeared in one volume, many of them appearing for the first time.
Gregg Belisle-Chi is a guitarist and composer living in Brooklyn, New York. Throughout his career, he has performed with Bill Frisell, Cuong Vu, Steve Swallow, Reid Anderson, Ted Poor, Eyvind Kang, Wayne Horvitz, and Jessica Dobson (Deep Sea Diver, Beck, The Shins).
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Thu27Sep2018
Julia Patinella, Ali Dineen & Miriam Elhajli Sept 27
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation Ali Dineen is a singer, multi-instrumentalist and visual artist based in New York City. She performs original music as well as songs from U.S. folk traditions, incorporating historical and sociopolitical commentary into her shows. She believes in the power of narrative to connect people to their histories, themselves and one another. Ali’s music is personal and also political, and explores the intersections of personal stories with larger histories. She has given her musical talents to various projects including the Bread and Puppet Theater. She performs regularly in New York City.
Julia Patinella is a multilingual singer currently living between Sevilla, Spain and Brooklyn, NY. After years of immersion as a Flamenco singer in southern Spain, as well as a life-long dedication to the oral traditions of her ancestor’s native Sicily, Julia has developed several original musical projects in Spanish, Italian / Sicilian and English, that draw from her roots, her experience as a first-generation American female, and urgent socio-political themes. In her performances, she brings forth an expansive repertoire steeped in history and Mediterranean folk traditions, and a rich, guttural voice that carries the raw emotions of protest, the longing for freedom, and the uncompromising commitment to sing every note with soul.
Miriam Elhajli is a Venezuelan-Moroccan-American composer and vocalist whose work is influenced strongly by Latin American folk, modern jazz, and contemporary classical music. A graduate of Berklee College of Music, she currently lives in a canoe near Brooklyn. Elhajli is set to release her debut LP “Observations” in November.
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Fri28Sep2018
Lau Noah // Yotoco Sept 28
7:30 Doors, $10.00 Suggested Donation 
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Sat29Sep2018
Timo Vollbrecht's Fly Magic / Oscar Noriega’s Boss Tenor Sept 29
7:30 Doors, $10.00 Suggested Donation
Timo Vollbrecht’s FLY MAGICTimo Vollbrecht – sax / Keisuke Matsuno – guitar / Chris Tordini – bass / Jason Burger – drumsWeb: www.fly-magic.comListen: SpotifyFaces in Places.FLY MAGIC performs music from their new album “Faces in Places”, where each song is inspired by a human encounter that took place in different countries all over the world. Through a confluence of influences, this ensemble tells a story that transcends the limitation of musical genre. Combining elements from jazz, post-rock, experimental and folk, their music is as visual as it is sonically beautiful.Oscar Noriega’s BOSS TENORChris Speed – sax / Nate Radley – guitar / Oscar Noriega – drums / Jesse Quattro – vocalsPlaying jazz standards and country songs.Multi-instrumentalist Oscar Noriega pairs Jesse Quattro’s spellbinding voice with Chris Speed’s lyrical tenor playing. Together with Nate Radley, they perform songs with the most beautiful melodies, delicately orchestrated, with a feeling of coziness and with a tinge of melancholy. -
Sun30Sep2018
Serena Jost / Matt Kanelos & Ben Gallina (w/ Marie Lewis) Sun Sept 30
6:30 door $10.00 suggested donation
7 pmSerena Jost w/Julian Maile, Rob Jost & Robert DiPietroNew songs, a few surprises and favorites by singer/cellist/songwriter Serena Jost. Jost’s new album, Up To the Sky, has been getting great reviews, “the Elizabeth Barrett Browning of avant-classical folk” Stereo Embers MagazineSerena Jost – vocals/cello/guitarJulian Maile – guitarRob Jost – bassRobert DiPietro – drums8 pmMatt Kanelos & Ben Gallina (w/ Marie Lewis)Description:Matt Kanelos – pianoBen Gallina – bassMarie Lewis – vocalsThree old friends come together for some music making.Some improvisation, some covers, some standards. -
Thu04Oct2018
The Rhythm Method // Gaya Feldheim Schorr & Kat Lee Oct 4
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
The Hidden Mothers Project is an initiative by The Rhythm Method to bring the music of historical women composers into the public consciousness. This inaugural Hidden Mothers performance will present little-known works by Florence Price, Amanda Maier-Röntgen, Amy Beach, and Elizabeth Maconchy, as well as a premiere performance of The Rhythm Method’s “Suffragette Songs,” which reset song texts from the early 20th century women’s movement.
With “stunning displays of fearsome extended technique and fearless programming” (New York Music Daily) and “uncompromising and unreserved . . . intense, and sensuously gestural” performances (examiner.com), The Rhythm Method strives to reimagine the string quartet in a contemporary, feminist context. The four performer-composers of The Rhythm Method continually expand their sonic and expressive palette through the use of graphic notation, vocalization, improvisation, and performance. They are slated to release its debut album, featuring new works by Leah Asher and Marina Kifferstein, on SCRIPTS Records in 2019.
I Have Considered The Lilies – Gaya Sings Connie:Disappearing in 1974, folk musician and songwriter Connie Converse left behind a unique, wistful and haunting body of work that for many years remained unheard. Gaya found Connie earlier this year, and sat with her songs as they delicately unfolded. Amidst stories and melodies beautifully interwoven, it is an immense pleasure to relive Connie’s enigma through Gaya’s blooming reimagination. Born in the heart of Tel Aviv, New York based musician and vocalist Gaya Feldheim Schorr creates and performs jazz and creative contemporary music, deconstructing her wide array of musical influences to conjure up her enchanting original voice.“Kat Lee writes transportive songs that penetrate and linger. Otherwise found fronting the Brooklyn rock band Tiny Gun, here she conversely performs a batch of songs in their stripped down and raw forms, adding to the imbedded intimacy of their compositions. She is joined by multi-instrumentalist Jesse Bielenberg on semi-baritone guitar and vocals.” -
Fri05Oct2018
Sami Stevens & Bobby Spellman // Mikayla McVey Oct 5
7:30 Doors, $10.00 Suggested Donation
Mikayla McVey writes acid cowgirl music from the beating, blistered, blissed out heart of the West. Born in Virginia and raised up in the holy golden Northern California hills, McVey has made homes in rural South America, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and the 35ft cavern of a 1986 International School bus named Splendor. Music is always home and probably her best hope for giving beauty back to the world.
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Sat06Oct2018
Lacy Rose & Alaina Ferris Oct 6
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
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Sun07Oct2018
Open Ground Presents: Christopher Hoffman and Melvis Santa Oct 7
7:30 $10.00 suggested donation
8pmChristopher Hoffman QuartetChristopher Hoffman – celloBryan Carrott – vibesRashaan Carter – bassCraig Weinrib – drums9pmMelvis Santa – AshedíMelvis Santa – piano and voiceRomán Díaz – percussionRafael Monteagudo – percussionAnier Alonso – percussion2018 Grammy nominee Melvis Santa and her group Ashedí bring this powerful, ecstatic tradition to new spaces. Melvis leads on piano and vocals while fronting a full percussion section of sacred batá drums. With its multilayered polyrhythms and hypnotic chants, Ashedí invoking the spirits of the Afro-Cuban pantheon of orishas.Christopher Hoffman is best known as a cellist & composer. He writes for his ensembles Multifariam, the Silver Cord Quintetand Company of Selves. He currently performs in Henry Threadgill’s Zooid (recipient of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize), Double-up Ensemble, and 14 or 15 Kestra: Agg, Tony Malaby’s Tubacello Quartetand Jeremiah Cymerman’s Pale Horse. Christopher has had the honor of working with Martin Scorsese, Yoko Ono,bleachers, Marianne Faithfull, Iron & Wine, Ryan Adams, Marc Ribot, Michael Pitt, Anthony Coleman and many more.
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Thu11Oct2018
Allegra Krieger // John Elliott Oct 11
7:30 Doors, $10.00 Suggested Donation 
http://thehereafterishere.com
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Fri12Oct2018
Peter Stampfel's Atomic Meta-Pagans / Ether Frolic Mob Oct 12
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Peter Stampfel’s Atomic Meta-Pagans Eat the Ether Frolic Mob.“We stick our hands up the ass of American music, grab it by the throat, and pull it inside-out. It’s 21st century 19th century American music played in a vast variety of 20th century styles.” –Peter StampfelPeter Stampfel first came to prominence in 1964, as the singing, banjoist-fiddler co-founder of the Holy Modal Rounders, who were in turn the backing band of the Fugs at the time of their 1965 debut. These alone would have secured his place in history as a founder of Freak Folk. But Peter has never stopped playing or innovating, and currently leads two bands, exuberance undimmed.
The Ether Frolic Mob is Peter Stampfel (fiddle, banjo, lead vocals), Sam Werbalowsky (banjo, guitar), Eli Hekto (banjo, mandolin), Steve Espinola (piano), Heather Wagner (drums), and the Stampfel Sisters (Lily and Zoe Stampfel, vocals and percussion).When improvisatory vocalist-composer Shelley Hirsch joins the Ether Frolic Mob, they become the Atomic Meta-Pagans. They have recently completed their second album, soon to be released on Don Giovanni Records, with a third album already in progress. Peter and Shelley will duet their way through an unconventional take on standards of the 1930’s and 40’s. http://www.shelleyhirsch.com/s
helley/ The other members of the Ether Frolic Mob will be spotlighted in short sets featuring their other music projects, rounding out an eclectic revue. -
Sat13Oct2018
Lily Henley, Hannah Read & Taylor Ashton Oct 13
7:30 Doors, $10.00 Suggested Donation
Hailing from Scotland and now based in Brooklyn, Hannah Read is a versatile multi-instrumentalist widely recognized on the International stage. She’s best known for her fiddle playing, songwriting and was recently described as one of “the finest singers of the day” in the UK’s MOJO Magazine. Hannah leads her own band and is an in-demand collaborator on both sides of the Atlantic, including one part of the critically acclaimed British folk super-group ‘Songs of Separation’, winners of ‘Album of the Year’ at the 2017 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Her original songs are largely influenced by the people, places and landscapes she has encountered along the way, as well as musings of home, travel, love and loss – as can be heard on her critically acclaimed new album Way Out I’’ll Wander (Hudson Records) which is compiled of “nine gorgeous originals” (The Guardian). -
Thu18Oct2018
GAVAGAI // Dolunay Oct 18
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation 
GAVAGAI is a monthly performance series curated and hosted by poet Danielle Blau that brings you poetry and fiction readings scored with original live music by composer-improviser-bassist Mike Brown, with other skilled improvisers (horn-players, cellists, violinists, vocalists, who knows?) often dropping in onstage as surprise guest-musicians. Danielle Blau’s Rhyme or Reason: Poets, Philosophers, and the Problem of Being Here Now is forthcoming from W.W. Norton. She won first place for her poetry in the 2015 multi-genre Narrative 30 Below Contest, and her chapbook mere eye was selected for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Award and published in 2013 with an introduction by D.A. Powell. Blau’s poems, short stories, articles, and interviews have also appeared and are forthcoming in such publications as The Atlantic online, The Baffler, Black Clock, The Harvard Review, The Literary Review, Narrative Magazine, The New Yorker’s book blog, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Saint Ann’s Review, The Wolf, and the Argos Books poetry anthology Why I Am Not a Painter. A graduate of Brown University with an honors degree in philosophy, and of NYU with an MFA in poetry, she teaches at the City University of New York.
This Month’s Guests:
Jenny Luna – voice, percussionAdam Good – ud
Eylem Basaldi – violin
Special guest:
Paul Brown – bass
With a musical vision that is at once ethereal and grounded, Dolunay flirts with the soundscape of the ancient Ottomans, tracing its migration through Balkan villages, coaxing it across seas and oceans, and grafting it onto a Brooklyn-based backdrop. The trio infuses classic and contemporary traditions with an urban grit that can only be found in New York City’s confluence of musical and cultural forces. With an array of original compositions offered alongside renditions of Turkish and Rumeli standards, the music of Dolunay (Turkish for “full moon”) offers listeners an escape from the press of city life.
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Fri19Oct2018
Damon Isaac Smith , Elise Leavy & Caroline Kuhn Oct 19
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Damon Isaac Smith is a Northeast based pianist, songwriter, improviser. He’s a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music and performs as a sideman and performer with the legendary “Losers Lounge” series at Joe’s Pub (2014 onward). He started his career performing and touring with artists such as Jon Anderson of Yes and Napoleon Murphy Brock of Frank Zappa’s band. He’s played his original music at the Stone, Highline Ballroom, the Knitting Factory, CBGB’s, and the Bitter End, and as a sideman in festivals such as Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, and Zappanale. Damon is a founding member of two bands: The Jacobins and Cricket. His debut solo album, “Intimate Machinery,” came out on ERASED! tapes in December 2017.
Caroline Kuhn is a New York native who began singing at age four, recording for jingles and television. Her songwriting focuses on interesting harmonization and rhythmic fingerpicking on guitar and tenor banjo. This is strongly influenced by her extensive choral training and appreciation for a wide range of music styles, such as pop, folk, and contemporary vocal music. Since entering the New England Conservatory, she helped to form two bands: The Ladles and Ruthless Moon. Both perform regularly throughout the New England area.
Elise Leavy is a singer and songwriter from northern California. Coming from a background of largely Beatles, she began writing songs at the age of 8 and has since begun her endeavor to bring the accordion and the tenor guitar back into the folk world through her own songs, pulling from the likes of Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen and other such songwriters. She is also a core member and songwriter in the group Ruthless Moon, an up and coming folk band begun in Boston, MA, by students of the New England Conservatory, made up of accordion (Elise Leavy), guitar (Sam Talmadge), tenor banjo (Caroline Kuhn), bass (Dan Klingsberg), and vocals by all.
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Sat20Oct2018
Relatives (with strings), b o t & Suhail Yusuf Khan Oct 20
7:30 Doors, $10.00 Suggested Donation Relatives – Ian Davis and Katie Vogel – met upon arrival to New York City in 2007 and have been singing and writing together since. Over the years, we have been paring down and turning inwards, exploring what can be done with less. Our new album, Strange We Fall, was released on Figure & Ground Records in August 2018.
b o t (/bät/) is a brooklyn-based musical collective created in early 2016. in all of its permutations, b o t is led by an unnamed character of ambiguous gender who appears to be perpetually apprehensive and cynical. being heavily influenced by the contemporary gospel of the late nineties and oughts, b o t’s sound lends itself to being off-centered, soulful pop.facebook : https://www.facebook.com/botanisttt/ instagram : @bot_speaksfor information on SYK:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suhail_Yusuf_Khan -
Sun21Oct2018
Open Ground: Tobias Meinhart & Eden Baraket Oct 21
7:30 $10.00 suggested donation
Open Ground Presents:
– Double Album Release –
Tobias Meinhart | Eden Baraket8pm
Tobias Meinhart Quartet
Tobias Meinhart – tenor saxophone
Yago Vazquez – piano
Matt Aronoff – bass
Jesse Simpson – drums9pm
Eden Bareket Trio
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Thu25Oct2018
Closed for this one night 10/25
We usually have shows on Thursdays but tonight there is nothing.
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Fri26Oct2018
Out of Sight of Land / Threeds OCt 26
7:00 Doors, $10.00 Suggested Donation
Variously called “beautiful, hypnotic” (Weird Canada), and “highly intriguing” (Birds of Canada), the music of New York-raised, Montreal-matured composer Damon Hankoff treads lines between minimalist textures, ancient choral sonorities, and folk sensibilities. Damon, a.k.a. Out of Sight of Land, will be performing a set of all-new music.THREEDS OBOE TRIO 10th Anniversary Show
Kathy Halvorson, oboe. Mark Snyder, oboe. Katie Scheele, English horn
with special guests. Christof Knoche, bass clarinet Sara Parr & Seth Gilman, voices & Mirna Lekic, piano
THREEDS is a New York City based oboe trio. Formed in 2008, the trio enjoys creating new paths for the oboe and English horn, playing arrangements of pop, rock, jazz, folk and world music while using improvisational techniques. The members of Threeds have also arranged music to accompany several local singer-songwriters, including Paul Brill, Amber Rubarth, Andrew Vladeck, Jamie Leonhart, and Adam Levy.
Their 10th anniversary show will feature debut performances of new compositions written for the trio by Gene Pritsker, Dean Rosenthal, and Daniel Blake.
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Sat27Oct2018
Scree, Dida Pelled and Katie the Kyng Oct 27
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
New York-based Israeli guitarist and vocalist Dida has a particular talent for storytelling. Whether it be a jazz standard, a scorching blues number, an old country ballad, or a heartfelt original “Dida sings in a voice sometimes playful, warm, resonant, no frills. She sings the words, giving them their meaning, their weight, with perfect diction and charm.” (Jazz Hot, France)
Scree plays instrumental musings on crags, cliffs, and life after the fall of the American empire.
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Thu01Nov2018
Lau Noah / Daniel Rotem Nov 1
7:30 $10.00 suggested donation 
Lau Noah (Spain 1994) is a Brooklyn based storyteller. She has recently found the deepest way to express her tales in the harmonic tapestry that a guitar and a voice, intertwined, create.
Through several musical influences and four languages that bring widely diverse qualities to the music, Noah travels from multi instrumentalist, film scorer, composer to writer, painter and teacher with the endeavor of using Art as a shelter where the colors of the dark and the light naturally reconcile.Saxophonist, composer, and educator Daniel Rotem fell in love with music at an early age and started playing tenor saxophone when he was 13. Now at age 27, Daniel is a graduate of Berklee College of Music in Boston and the world-renowned Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance at UCLA. He has performed on four continents and has had the honor to share the stage with legendary artists from Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Billy Childs, and Dave Liebman, to Stevie Wonder, Usher, and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson.
Daniel went on a U.S. State Department Tour to Morocco, and had the privilege of leading and narrating a jazz history masterclass and performance at the White House hosted by the First Lady, Mrs. Michelle Obama, as part of International Jazz Day in 2016. Daniel has performed at acclaimed festivals including the Monterey Jazz Festival, the Playboy Jazz Festival, the Red Sea Jazz Festival, the Montalcino Jazz Festival, and at famed venues such as The Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, the Hollywood Bowl, the Microsoft Theater in LA, and many more.
Daniel has taught at the Stanford Jazz Summer Camp and Jazz Institute, and is currently on faculty at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA), and teaches the LAUSD All-City Jazz Band. His debut album “Be Nice” was released independently in February 2017. His second double album ‘Serenading the Future’ will be released on September 28, 2018.
For more information please visit www.danielrotem.com.
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Fri02Nov2018
.michael, Joanna Sternberg, Zach Onett & James Gentile Nov 2
7:30 $10.00 suggested donation
.michael is a clarinet/guitar duo that plays sometimes instrumental love songs and sometimes non-instrumental love songs, often about or told from the perspective of a person named Michael, no relation to the band or its members.
Joanna Sternberg lives in New York City and plays instruments, writes songs, sings and draws. Joanna writes songs about the span of human emotions with the hope that it will make someone feel less alone. This is the reason Joanna creates all of their art. Joanna does not like to think of music in terms of style or genre, and thinks that everyone can draw.
Pianist Zach Onett and guitarist James Gentile are a duo exploring melodic narrative through instrumental music. Their compositions tinker with the traditional aesthetics of their instruments by blending genre and creating theatrical soundscapes. Onett is a composition graduate of CalArts and resides in Haverhill, MA. Gentile holds his BFA in photography from Pratt and resides in Brooklyn. They are currently working towards releasing their first collection of music. -
Sat03Nov2018
Lohai, Mike Green& Miranda Di Perno Nov 3
7:30 Doors, $10.00 Suggested Donation
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Sun04Nov2018
Open Ground: AYA Trio & Trees Take Ease Nov 4
7:30 $10.00 suggested donationOpen Ground Presents:
8pmAYA TrioAlexa Barchini – voiceYago Vasquez – pianoAndre Matos – guitar
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Thu08Nov2018
GAVAGAI // DPCD Nov 8
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation 
GAVAGAI is a monthly performance series curated and hosted by poet Danielle Blau that brings you poetry and fiction readings scored with original live music by composer-improviser-bassist Mike Brown, with other skilled improvisers (horn-players, cellists, violinists, vocalists, who knows?) often dropping in onstage as surprise guest-musicians. Danielle Blau’s Rhyme or Reason: Poets, Philosophers, and the Problem of Being Here Now is forthcoming from W.W. Norton. She won first place for her poetry in the 2015 multi-genre Narrative 30 Below Contest, and her chapbook mere eye was selected for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Award and published in 2013 with an introduction by D.A. Powell. Blau’s poems, short stories, articles, and interviews have also appeared and are forthcoming in such publications as The Atlantic online, The Baffler, Black Clock, The Harvard Review, The Literary Review, Narrative Magazine, The New Yorker’s book blog, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Saint Ann’s Review, The Wolf, and the Argos Books poetry anthology Why I Am Not a Painter. A graduate of Brown University with an honors degree in philosophy, and of NYU with an MFA in poetry, she teaches at the City University of New York.
This Month’s Guests: TBD
DPCD is the work of Illinois-based musician Alec Watson. The music embraces the American song tradition with quiet intensity, offering warm repetitions on daily routine, memory, family history, and grey areas of belief and doubt.DPCD released their first album, “Good Visions,” in 2017.hear: http://bit.ly/2yrx5O7 -
Fri09Nov2018
Allegra Krieger, Chris Merritt & The Mommyheads Nov 9
7:30 $10.00 suggested donation 
About Allegra Krieger: A contemporary folk singer, songwriter, tree planter, art model, waitress, and cave dweller inspired by a life lived transiently and freely; with songs regarding her travels and the relations that have come and gone within them.
Chris Merritt is a songwriter, producer, performer, and piano tuner. His thousands of original songs have been labeled Prog Pop, Piano Rock, and Jazz. In a culture where mainstream music lacks originality and individuality, Merritt’s independent albums have accrued tens of thousands of plays online, and a dedicated, snowballing fan base. Some of Chris’ music featured in mainstream film and advertising have even seen millions of plays online. He’s toured the US and Japan, put out 7 full records under his own name (and several others: from his early days with Paperface to his newer collaboration with Cruise Elroy).
The depth of songwriting on Chris’s latest album “Time is Real” has been praised by Fountains Of Wayne, Bruce Hornsby, and The Zombies. Ye Olde Machine Piano is the upcoming album from Chris Merritt. As usual, Merritt’s lyrics hit on topics from the cycles of civilization, to quantum physics, to love and loss. Catch him now as creative, deep, piano-driven rock music makes its comeback.
The Mommyheads were formed in Brooklyn in 1988 and have been producing creative, melodic, and experimental indie-pop ever since. Their new, eleventh album, Soundtrack to the World’s End offers a blend of groovy songs, progressive art-rock, and bracing messages for a world teetering on the brink of social, economic, and ecological catastrophe.“The Mommyheads are back, which is good news” – NY POST“The Mommyheads are a true indie rock national treasure.” – FUN FUN FUN“Look no more for the untouchable pop indie band” – INSIGHT“When encountering this outpouring of melodic sophistication and creativity – both in the actual instruments and what is done with them, it’s near revelatory” – CMJ“The Mommyheads specialize in winsomely low-key, perfectly cut gems of avant-pop.“ – NEW YORK MAGAZINE“Incorporating delicately picked, Television-like Fender guitar chiming, ultra-catchy power pop infused tenor vocal melodies, and a snap-tight rhythm section, the group has fully realized a record of astounding ambition and scope.” – ALLMUSIC“Man, they rock like motherfuckers onstage”- MAGNET -
Sat10Nov2018
Hayley Sabella and Keenan O'Meara Nov 10
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation 
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Thu15Nov2018
Closed/ no show Nov 15
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Fri16Nov2018
Closed/ no show Nov 16
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Sat17Nov2018
Alena Spanger / Alec Spiegelman & Andrew Dimola Nov 17
7:30 $10.00 suggested donation
Alena Spanger (previously of Tiny Hazard), is a singer/pianist/songwriter from Maine, now based in Brooklyn. Weaving together angular art-pop songcraft, unorthodox vocalizations, and intricate arrangements, Spanger’s songs construct their own elaborate and immersive worlds.Andrew Dimola and Alec Spiegelman present the music from their new album, Diesel Cleaning. The LP features contributions from Trevor Dunn and Jason Nazary, and is full of grungey, far-ranging, quick-changing instrumentals, joined here and there by a whispery let’s-not-bother-the-neighbors choir. Andrew and Alec will perform music from Diesel Cleaning, as well as newer songs, joined by Christopher McDonald & Dave Flaherty (Cuddle Magic, etc.)having a crazy time loading photos and sending them with this wifi. will try a from a different location later today.Alec -
Sun18Nov2018
Open Ground: Maitri & Audible Sprits Nov 18
7:00 Doors, $10.00 Suggested Donation
7:30pm
Maitri – ft. Caroline Davis, Ben Hoffman8:00pm
Audible Spirits – ft. Sarah Elizabeth Charles, Curtis Hasselbring, Matt MoranTranslated from Sanskrit, Maitri (”my tree”) is an unconditional love and acceptance of self that extends outward into the world. Formed in Chicago by Caroline Davis, it has become a collective songwriting outfit for both her and Ben Hoffmann since its relocation to Brooklyn. Featuring soulful vocals over polyrhythmic grooves, the group also uses experimental sounds and effects to create a lush sonic landscape. Maitri is the soundtrack for the inevitable ushering in of the new world order.
Audible Spirits is an electro-acoustic live performance blurring improvisation and recording, the spontaneous and the codified; a meditation on the institutionalization of jazz; a recognition that jazz brings its history with it – performance is the fulcrum between the past and the future, and as musicians push the boundaries for the future, the ghosts are always present in the room. These three musicians – Sarah Elizabeth Charles (voice and electronics), Curtis Hasselbring (samples and trombone), and Matt Moran (vibraphone and cymbals) – use their instruments and electronic samples of “music minus one” recordings to explore (in)visibility and legacy in jazz. By diving deeply into an iconic jazz education tool that foreshadowed a huge jazz education industry, and reverently exploring “outdated” jazz standards, Audible Spirits is a manifesto on historical lineage and individual creativity in a hall of mirrors using live music, samples, and visual stagecraft.
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Thu22Nov2018
Closed for the holiday 11/22
The Owl wishes a happy holiday to you and your loved ones.
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Fri23Nov2018
HANKSGIVING Nov 23
7:30 $10.00 suggested donation
Featuring the Drifting Cow-Gals (Jared Engel, Zosha Warpeha & Raphael McGregor), Ali Dineen, Gustavo Rodriguez and More
with your hosts Rachel Swaner and Oren Bloedow
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Sat24Nov2018
Timo Andres & Anna RG Nov 24
7:30 $10.00 suggested donation
Music by Robin Holcomb, Charles Ives, François Couperin, Hobart Smith, Laurie Spiegel, and others, for voice, piano, banjo, and fiddle.
Composer/pianist Timo Andres grew up in rural Connecticut and lives in Brooklyn. A Nonesuch Records artist, Andres’s notable works include commissions for Carnegie Hall, San Francisco Performances, the Concertgebouw, the Barbican and Britten Sinfonia, the Takács Quartet, the Boston Symphony, the LA Phil, and (a 2016 Pulitzer Prize Finalist ) The Blind Banister. He has collaborated with Philip Glass, Gabriel Kahane, Brad Mehldau, Sufjan Stevens, Becca Stevens, Jonathan Biss, and many others; performed solo recitals at Wigmore Hall, San Francisco Performances, Lincoln Center, and elsewhere.
www.andres.comAnna Roberts-Gevalt is a voracious and curious musician who nestles in the space between ancient ballads and new sounds. After spending years in Baltimore’s underground art scene, she now resides in Brooklyn, NY. She fell in love with the sound of banjo in college, moved to the mountains, and learned with master musicians in Kentucky, Virginia, and North Carolina. She has been a fellow at the Berea College Traditional Music Archive and OneBeat (Bang on a Can’s Found Sound Nation); three years artistic director of Kentucky’s traditional music institute, the Cowan Creek Mountain Music School; and co-curator of Baltimore’s Crankie Festival. She is a summer 2017 fellow at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, and recently studied in a workshop with Meredith Monk.
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Thu29Nov2018
Kris Davis & David Leon / Jeff Taylor Nov 29
7:30 $10.00 suggested donation
Here accomplished pianist Kris Davis takes budding saxophonist David Leon under her wing for a performance inspired by Davis’s approach to composition and bandleading.Kris Davis- piano
David Leon- alto saxophone
Ingrid Laubrock- tenor saxophone
Stephan Crump- bassLearn more about Kris and DavidJeff Taylor is a singer/songwriter based in the NY/NJ area. This past year has seen Jeff collaborate with Donny McCaslin (David Bowie’s “Blackstar”) on his new album, “Blow”, touring around the world with Donny for the album release. Earlier in 2018 Marike van Dijk’s “The Stereography Project” was released, featuring arrangements of Jeff’s songs for a 12-piece wind and string ensemble. He also frequently sings with Mark Guiliana’s Beat Music project.”Appearing with Jesske Hume and Matt Johnson -
Fri30Nov2018
Akie Bermiss Trio / Richard Sears Nov 30
7:30 Doors, $10.00 Suggested Donation 
Akie Bermiss with his affable disposition, glasses, and healthy do of cascading dreads that drape down to his shoulders, is unabashedly a self-professed nerd to the nth degree. Since early childhood Akie has been an obsessed science fiction aficionado. Yet he does have an artist-friendly façade and has managed to cultivate and live a double-life as a thriving music protégé, pianist, singer/songwriter, composer, arranger and emerging solo artist. Akie kicked off his 2017 touring schedule playing keyboards and providing backing vocals for veteran indie multi-genre band Lake Street Dive’s national concert tour in support of their latest CD, “Side Pony.
Akie is a Brooklyn native raised in a musical household full of jazz and politics fueled by his former- activist mom and dad. He began singing in church, moved it to school for a while, enroute becoming somewhat of a musical chameleon. His raucous, guttural and soulful vocals are a delectable fusion of Donny Hathaway and Tom Waits. He’s equally adept singing neo-soul, funk, contemporary jazz, alternative rock, and hip hop.
Akie cut his teeth in music the old-fashioned way; he went to college and earned a degree in music composition at Bard College. Among other things he is also the author of a children’s book (“I Hate to Be Sick” — out on Scholastic), a lover of science fiction and fantasy novels, a huge fan of cigars, and he takes his bourbon: neat.
Appearing with Akie are Dan Asher, Bass, and Andrew Gillespie, Drums
Richard Sears Sextet – Iron Year CD releaseRichard Sears – piano/compositionsRoman Filiu – alto saxophoneDayna Stephens – tenor saxophoneChris Dingman – vibesMartin Nevin – bassSean Mullin – drumsBrooklyn based pianist Richard Sears has appeared with the Billy Hart Quartet (ft. Mark Turner and Ben Street), the Muhal Richard Abrams Orchestra, Joshua Redman, Ralph Alessi, Eric Revis, and others. As a composer Richard has received commissions/grants from The Shed (2018), the Aaron Copland Fund (2015) and the Los Angeles Jazz Society (2013). His previous release, “Altadena”, features the legendary drummer, Albert “Tootie” Heath performing with Richard’s sextet. “Altadena” earned 4 stars in Downbeat Magazine, naming it one of the Best Albums of 2017. Taking inspiration from the poetry of Hart Crane, “Iron Year” features original music for sextet, written since Sears moved to New York in 2015. -
Sat01Dec2018
Dolunay Duo, Falsa Dec 1
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Bio:Described as “the cure for alienation” and “music that’s not about means to ends but about meaning and transcendence”, Falsa is an amazing musical experience rooted in 14th century Sufi music of North India. The effect of listening to Falsa is to be transported both inwards and across centuries of joys, sorrows and longings.Website: https://www.falsamusic.com FB-IG-Twitter: @falsamusic www.facebook.com/falsamusicMusic Samples: https://soundcloud.com/falsamusic 5 Min of Falsa (Video) live at Franky Bradleys Philadelphia 8/8/17: https://www.facebook.com/frank.deis/videos/vb.629567 457/10155650139177458 Press:NPR Newsworks: http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/item/106 263-philly-musician-umer-pirac ha-journeys-home-in-sufi-music – WXPN Philadelphia: http://thekey.xp
n.org/2017/04/26/sounds-connec tion-umer-piracha-explores-int imacy-traditional-sufi-music-n ew-project-falsa/ “A language around love and ecstasy as fundamental to the human experience. An abiding recognition of the astonishing complexity of being human. A tenderness around the most important, deeply felt emotional and psychological needs. And a cultural mechanism whereby satisfying these does not have to be a struggle. That’s Sufi Music.” – FalsaDOLUNAY plays an array of original compositions alongside renditions of Turkish and Rumeli standards. The music of Dolunay (Turkish for “full moon”) infuses classic and contemporary traditions with an urban grit that can only be found in New York City’s confluence of musical and cultural forces. -
Sun02Dec2018
Pete's Posse 4:30 pm Dec 2
4:30 pm
“This Vermont band embodies all the beauty of American roots music.”
— LE DEVOIR, QC, CAN
Vermont’s own trad-roots power trio! Composed of acclaimed musician Pete Sutherland, his talented protégé Oliver Scanlon and the uber-dynamic Tristan Henderson, Pete’s Posse never fails to surprise and excite! Twin fiddles in tight, wild harmony over high-powered guitar and pounding foot percussion with mandolin, clawhammer banjo, jaw harp, rocking keyboards, and soaring vocal harmonies adding color to the Posse’s sonic landscape.
12pm-3pm Musicians Master Class
with Pete Sutherland, Oliver Scanlon, and Tristian Henderson.
A Master’s class with Pete’s Posse, for folk and traditional musicians interested in learning to play dance music. Class size will be limited to 15 musicians with 3 teachers! Topics are the teachers choice, but we’ve requested these subjects: foot percussion, writing and arranging tunes, improvising and combining sounds as a band, communicating while performing, injecting fun and excitement into performances, and, if possible, learning a Pete’s Posse tune.
Doors 4:30 $10-20 Suggested
5:00pm Masterclass Sharing
5:30 Pete’s Posse Performs
This event is produced by Brooklyn Contra in collaboration with Robert Matson and is supported in part by the Mary Kay Friday Fund of the Country Dance and Song Society. www.cdss.org
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Sun02Dec2018
Open Ground: Alex LoRe Quartet | Beekman Dec 2
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Open Ground PresentsAlex LoRe Quartet | Beekman8pmAlex LoRe QuartetAlex LoRe – alto saxophoneGlen Zaleski – pianoDesmond White – bassAllan Mednard – drums9pmBeekmanKyle Nasser – tenor saxophoneYago Vázquez – pianoPablo Menares – bassRodrigo Recabarren – drumsFormed in 2012 at the 5th Estate sessions in Brooklyn, NYC, Beekman is a collective endeavor by saxophonist Kyle Nasser, pianist Yago Vazguez, bassist Pablo Menares, and drummer Rodrigo Recabarren. The quartet couples eclectic original compositions – steeped in jazz, rock, Latin, and classical – with dynamic group interplay into a sound that is international while remaining squarely in the realm of modern jazz. Their first record (Vol. 01, Discos Pendiente 2015) was nominated for a Chilean Music Award (Premios Pulsar) for best Jazz album. The group released Vol. 02 on in October 2016 and Vol. 03 Live in San Francisco on in June 2015, both for Ropeadope Records.
Praised by Ben Ratliff of The New York Times as a saxophonist who is “…making the connections among about 70 years’ worth of contemplative, articulate and light–toned players,” Alex LoRe is an in-demand saxophonist and composer on the current New York scene. With a strong upbringing in classical music, mentored by such masters as Lee Konitz and James Moody, LoRe’s playing and compositions reflect a myriad of influences ranging from the European classical repertoire to post–bop jazz to 21st century pop music. In 2016, he released his second album entitled More Figs and Blue Things on Greg Osby’s Inner Circle Music label. Alex LoRe, says saxophonist and educator Bunky Green, “will emerge to become one of the leading voices on the international jazz scene.” -
Thu06Dec2018
closed for a private event dec 6
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Fri07Dec2018
Tredici Bacci *sponsored by La Birra di Meni 12/7
7:30 $12 adv/ $15 at the door
Tredici Bacci salutes Udine in Song! – sponsored by Meni Beer of Udine,Italy… and featuring a Meni Tasting with Ryan Zenga”?).
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Sat08Dec2018
Out of Sight of Land, Kami Maltz, Kim Anderson Dec 8
7:30 $10.00 suggested donation
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Thu13Dec2018
Igor Lumpert Ballads and Blues Dec 13
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
https://www.igorlumpert.com
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Fri14Dec2018
Endangered Heart Quartet / Mike Baggetta & Nick Millevoi /The Shantypeople Dec 14
7:30 $10.00 suggested donation
Endangered Heart Quartet is an elastic group of composer-musicians. Founding members of the prestigious Jazz Passengers, saxophonist/writer Roy Nathanson and in-demand trombonist Curtis Fowlkes, join versatile bassist Tim Kiah and two-time Grammy-nominated violinist Jesse Mills to create a new ensemble with a broad musical palette. Endangered Heart Quartet elaborates on Roy Nathanson’s Sotto Voce ensemble, which explored ways to merge words and sound in an extended language, through composition and mostly jazz-inflected improvisation. This new collective band, Endangered Heart Quartet, expands that language through chamber music and detailed classical composition, to “sing” the most human songs from the American musical tradition. From re-imaginings of “Goodnight Irene” and Ornette Coleman’s “Circle with a Hole In The Middle” to the personal compositions of the bands’ members who all offer their own varied musical legacies, EHQ symphonically combines the instrumental sounds with their own vocals. Endangered Heart Quartet mines the many years of professional playing and composing of the group’s members, to offer a kind of “heart music” salve for the harsh political and social climate of today.
Mike Baggetta and Nick Millevoi come together in a new duo of improvised electric guitars. Baggetta has been called a “guitar poet” by Nels Cline, “a kind of post-Frisellian sonic explorer” by Downbeat, and the New York Times says he “makes stealthy, mysterious music.” Millevoi’s music has been described by Pitchfork as “music that seeks the sun by exploding toward it,” and NPR Music has said, “When Nick Millevoi plays the guitar, it’s like a rocket darting skyward between clouds.” Both guitarists have worked with some of the biggest names in experimental jazz and rock, including artists like Nels Cline, John Zorn, Mike Watt, Jim Keltner, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, and many more.
the shantypeople:“simon hanes, sami stevens, evan allen and friends perform various exciting songs of the sea – with a yo ho ho and a bottle of… fun?!?” -
Sat15Dec2018
Allegra Krieger, The Cradle and Joanna Sternberg Dec 15
7:30 $10.00 suggested donation 
about Allegra Krieger: A contemporary folk singer, songwriter, tree planter, art model, waitress, and cave dweller inspired by a life lived transiently and freely; with songs regarding her travels and the relations that have come and gone within them.
Joanna Sternberg lives in New York City and plays instruments, writes songs, sings and draws. Joanna writes songs about the span of human emotions with the hope that it will make someone feel less alone. This is the reason Joanna creates all of their art. Joanna does not like to think of music in terms of style or genre, and thinks that everyone can draw.
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Thu20Dec2018
closed for a private event Dec 20
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Fri21Dec2018
Brittain Ashford w Brent Arnold Dec 21
7:30 Doors $15.00
If the season has you feeling a certain way, we invite you to marinate in those feelings with a night of music at one of Brooklyn’s loveliest and most intimate venues. Brittain Ashford will be playing from her extensive holiday catalog, solo and unplugged, and Brent Arnold will open the evening with new solo works for cello. There will be, no doubt, special guests and holiday surprises.Brent Arnold is a founding member of Ghost Quartet with Brittain Ashford, Gelsey Bell, and Dave Malloy. He has played and collaborated with artists including The Antlers, Reggie Watts, Eyvind Kang, Jessika Kenney, Aditya Kalyanpur, Filastine, Louis CK, Baby Copperhead, Wayne Horvitz, Jherek Bischoff, Jessica Pavone, Sleater-Kinney, and Modest Mouse. He studied with violinist Michael White (Pharoah Sanders, John Handy) and cellist Walter Grey (Kronos Quartet) and currently resides in New York City. -
Sat22Dec2018
Chris Weisman / Wendy Eisenberg Dec 22
7:30 Doors $15 at the door (cash only)
Wendy Eisenberg “Its Shape Is Your Touch” VDSQ Release ShowWendy 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.Opening the evening is the incomparable, innovative, standard-setting guitarist and songwriter Chris Weisman, singing and playing new, unreleased work as well as gems from the his massive catalog. -
Thu27Dec2018
An Howliday Spectacular with Alec, Charlie, Elizabeth, Akie, Zoe, Taylor, Oren and Adam Dec 27
7:30 $10.00 suggested donation
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Fri28Dec2018
Ali Dineen , Frankie Sunswept and the Sunwrays & Starcrossed Losers 12/28
7:30 $10.00 suggested donation 
Ali Dineen has been performing her original music and songs from the American folk tradition in New York and across the United States for the past several years, drawing upon music ranging from 1920s American jazz to Eastern European polyphony. Her lyrics are poetic and deeply personal, using narrative to draw connections between personal experience and larger histories. Audiences across the country have been captivated by her breathtaking voice and the power of her songs’ messages. When not performing her original music, Ali also works with various projects including the Crimson Ragdolls and Bread and Puppet Theater, and works as a music educator. She is based in New York City.
STARCROSSED LOSERS is the title songwriter Kyle Morgan has given his ongoing musical/spiritual stumble through time. Not really a band, not exactly a solo project, Losers is more like a continually-shifting musical collective gathered around the NYC-based singer and his evocative music. For the past ten years, in collaboration with many a dear musical companion, Morgan has formed different iterations of Losers everywhere he’s lived: central Pennsylvania, southern Maine, the Cotswolds of England, and most recently, New York City. With two full-length albums already under his belt, Morgan explores a range of styles in the “Americana” tradition, from stripped-down acoustic balladry and love-lorn parlor laments, to old-school rock’n’roll and distorted proto-punk. Kyle is currently in the process prepping for STARCROSSED LOSERS’ third studio album to be recorded at Plaid Dog Recording in Boston, MA.
Frankie Sunswept and The Sunwrays play ‘cosmic r&b’, original songs reminiscent of Smokey Robinson, Roy Orbison and solo John Lennon records. The Sunwrays consist of Rachel Housle on drums, Sean Cronin on bass, Kyle Morgan on vocals and lead guitar, Ernie Vega on lap steel, and Frankie Sunswept on vocals, guitar and piano. Frankie Sunswept has performed in 45 US states and 11 international countries, creating original music drawing inspiration from folk music, blues, r&b and soul, to garage, surf, and rock n’ roll.
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Sat29Dec2018
Doomscape2000 Dec 29
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
doomscape2000, когда вы чувствуете, что все ускользает ... с каждым днем возможностей становится меньше, а опасностей становится больше помощи не видно, и все сметается. единственное утешение - это чистый лист для существ будущего, если таковые возникнут ... возможно, они узнают о нас, как мы знаем о динозаврах. это не будет иметь большого значения, не так ли?