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Fri21Feb2025
Lilith • Mert Spalty • Footwork • Beche • Zoe Firn Feb 21
7:30 doors 8:00 music $15 suggested donation
Lilith Phillips is a songwriter from Brooklyn. Her work weaves themes of queer identity, vulnerability, and anti-capitalism together against a backdrop of classic folk fingerpicking techniques and contemporary indie rock influences. Her background as a drummer (for Zoe Firn and others) can be heard in her percussive fingerpicking rhythms.Footwork is a Brooklyn-based band performing songs written by producer and songwriter Harrison Park. The band features multi-instrumentalists Carl Michnovicz and James Myer. Their dynamic sound combines elements of lo-fi, indie, folk and experimental music. Their debut EP, Reverse Human Pyramid, will be released in March 2025.Mert Spalty is a songwriter living in Queens and raised in New Jersey. This night he’ll be playing original songs on an acoustic guitar and singing with his eyes closed. His songs are joyous, even the ones about heartbreak and crossroads and dissatisfaction.Zoe Firn writes intuitive and honest songs with lyrics that might make you cry and melodies that linger long after the first listen. For this show, she celebrates the release of a new song “Memorial Day” and shares work from her upcoming 2025 album “Atomic Force” – music described as “earthy alt-rock.”Brooklyn-based indie freakfolk project, Beche is, at its core, a duo between guitarist/singer songwriter Vincent Randazzo and saxophonist/clarinetist Betty Kean. A revolving cast of additional band members makes each performance uniquely impactful, enhancing the intricate dance between woodwind and voice that has become their calling card.
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Sat22Feb2025
poet Nora Rose Tomas, and Chase Elodia • Eden Girma• Feb 22
7:30 doors 8:00 music $15.00 suggested Donation Nov 24
Nora Rose Tomas is a queer interdisciplinary writer. She lives in Brooklyn and works in independent publishing. She holds an MFA from Columbia University. Her work has been longlisted for the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize and the Pink Poetry Prize, as well as nominated for the Best of the Net and Best Small Fictions anthologies. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Salt Hill Journal, ANMLY, Peach Mag, Lavender Review, Dream Pop and Mantis, among others. Last year, she was named a Brooklyn Poets Fellow for study in Cindy Tran’s “Bad Behavior” workshop.
Chase Elodia’s quartet is a Brooklyn-based ensemble. Founded in 2020, the group released their debut album, Portrait Imperfect, on Biophilia Records in May 2022. Hailed as an “artful” and “ambitious” ensemble by Downbeat Magazine, the band combines a collaborative and improvisational sensibility with an aesthetic orientation that has been nourished by singer-songwriters and electronic artists like Meshell Ndegeocello, Norma Winstone, and Becca Stevens. The group frequently performs at venues around Brooklyn; in the past few years, they have performed at Scholes St. Studio, Pete’s Candy Store, and the Owl. They toured across the USA in 2022, with performances at Lakehouse Jazz (San Francisco), The Muse (Boulder, CO), Oberlin College and Conservatory, Rudy’s Jazz Room, Fulton St. Collective, and Rockwood Music Hall. Chase is a 2021 ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award Winner as well as a 2022 MacDowell Residency Fellow.
Eden Girma is a multi-instrumental musician hailing from Madison, WI. Having grown up at the nexus of widely varying and vibrant musical traditions, Eden creates through a variety of audio-visual-technological media — bridging realms such as popular music, improvisatory collaboration, expressionism, and experimental electronics. Through a genre-bending compositional ear and a poetic lyricism, Eden aspires to create art that not only resonates with individual hearts, but brings people closer together in a spirit of intimacy and empathy. As a student in the Boston area, Eden has worked with and studied under Vijay Iyer, Yosvany Terry, Hans Tutschku, Dominique Eade, Frank Carlberg, and Ran Blake. Eden graduated from Harvard College in 2018 with a bachelor’s degree in astrophysics and math, and in 2019 completed a Masters in Music in Creative Practice at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Currently, Eden is a graduate student in Princeton University’s Astrophysics department. If you are interested in learning more about Eden’s scientific work, click here. -
Sun23Feb2025
Spring Onion • Emma Munger • Hannah Lee Thompson Feb 23
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Spring Onion is the recording project of Philadelphia based musician Catherine Dwyer. Dwyer has played in numerous projects over a decade long music career, including Remember Sports, 2nd Grade, and 22 Degree Halo. Her debut LP, Seated Figure, is out March 14th via Anything Bagel Records.
Emma Munger is a songwriter and guitarist based in Brooklyn. Her debut LP, Pattern, came out in January 2025. When she’s not working on her own music, she’s a mix engineer, composer, and sound designer for podcasts and film.Hannah Lee Thompson is a musician and an organizer based in Baltimore and New York. She grew up in Brooklyn, performing frequently at the Jalopy Theatre and other local venues around New York. As a kid, she studied clawhammer banjo from Eli Smith of the Downhill Strugglers and Brooklyn Folk Festival. In 2019, she moved to Baltimore and worked doing live sound at Creative Alliance and Ottobar, while continuing to perform her own original music. In 2021, she played the lead role in the feature film Hannah Ha Ha, which went on to win Best Narrative Feature and Best Acting Performance at Slamdance 2022, and premiered in theaters as a New York Times Critic’s Pick in February of 2023. -
Thu27Feb2025
Dana Lyn's keyboard trio • Domino Kirke Feb 27
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15 suggested donation
Composer-violinist Dana Lyn inhabits a musical world somewhere in the Venn diagram of 70’s art rock, classical, traditional Irish and improvised music. She has written music for Brooklyn Rider, Palaver Strings, A Far Cry and the National Orchestra of Washington and performs regularly with Taylor Mac, Stew, Hank Roberts, and guitarist Kyle Sanna.
Initially captivated listeners at the helm of the band Domino, Domino Kirke has toured with everyone from Lily Allen to Gang Of Four. She has evolved across solo releases such as Everyone Else Is Boring EP [2006], The Guard EP [2012], and the unanimously applauded Beyond Waves [2017]. Domino Kirke’s music sounds a lot like reuniting with your oldest and most important friend—yourself. The UK-born and New York-based singer, songwriter, producer, doula, and mother encodes feelings of nostalgia, longing, regret, anxiety, acceptance, and love within the threads of a tender sonic pastiche colored by soft piano, lilting orchestration, electronic warmth, and intimate vocal delivery. She now returns with new music to give you all of the feels in an intimate setting.
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Fri28Feb2025
Rocketsnail Feb 28
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15 Suggested Donation
ROCKETSNAIL LIVE #5, hosted by MICHAEL ROCKETSHIP & SNEAL, is a multimedia variety series featuring music, video & all manner of variegated miscellany. this edition features the legendary needs-no-introduction KENNY WOLLESON, backed of course by the resident rocketsnail house band, plus the banjo stylings of ELI SMITH, along with video submissions from two authors, JESSE MICHAELS and
DAVID CONNOR—and WALTER RIMLER reads some more tweets from his woebegone firstborn son. Plus new SNEAL songs and lots lots more ! -
Sat01Mar2025
Infinite Jess • Claire Ozmun • florid Mar 1
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Infinite Jess is the new place where jesse french’s songs go. for the last five years, jesse has been exclusively in collaborator mode, playing with a number of bands and artists, engineering and producing, touring the US and Europe — focusing on bringing other people’s songs to life. this is the first time they’ve performed their own music since March 2020, and will be sharing a new set of songs that have never been played live, backed by an exceptional band.Claire Ozmun is a songwriter from Ohio and is now based in Brooklyn, NY. Her debut EP, Dying in the Wool, came out last summer. She is currently recording her first full-length album and is looking forward to making it both very quiet and very loud.
florid is a NY-based independent musician. Drawing inspiration from eclectic sources, florid’s music addresses the human experience while disregarding traditional genre constraints.
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Sun02Mar2025
Mika Akim • Freddy and Sally Mar 2
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
In Swedish multidimensional musician Mika Akim’s solo project, she works in a song-based direction, while still giving plenty of space for her viola and viola d’amore. She has been described as a musical sister to artists such as Sam Amidon, Adrienne Lenker and Joni Mitchell, and writes songs rich with both melancholy and defiant hope. Her minimalistic music consists of ostinatos, textural sounds on stringed instruments and simple melodies, with texts about the body, memory and time. Since her debut in 2020, Mika Akim has released two albums “Till Kroppen” and “Tillsammans” and played concerts in Denmark, Sweden, Czech Republic, Germany, France and Chile.
Freddy and Sally is the chamber–folk duo of composer/instrumentalists Eli Greenhoe and Ledah Finck. Based in a shared reverence for the Appalachian and Irish folk music they grew up steeped in, the duo works collaboratively to layer and weave together intricate arrangements of original and traditional songs with a preference towards unconventional sounds and structures.
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Thu06Mar2025
Trevor Dunn solo • The Curhachestra Mar 6
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
The Curhachestra is Curtis Hasselbring (trombone/guitar), Raphael McGregor (lap steel), Adam Minkoff (electric bass) and Dan Rieser (drums). The group has played together since 2021 and will be releasing their first eponymous recording in March of 2025. In addition to the core quartet, special guests on the album include Nels Cline and Lisa Parrott.
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Fri07Mar2025
Kitba with writer Jenn Pelly and Joan Kelsey March 7
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Joan Kelsey is a musician and writer living in Manhattan.
Jenn Pelly is a music critic, journalist, and the author of The Raincoats. Her writing appears in Pitchfork, The New York Times, The Guardian, and NPR, and her liner notes, zines and poetry are out there somewhere.
Kitba is the eponymous musical project of Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter and harpist Rebecca Kitba Bryson El-Saleh. They are joined for this show by Talk Bazaar, Bernardo Ochoa, and Matti Dunietz.
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Sat08Mar2025
Steve Long • Kim Anderson March 8
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15 Suggested Donation
Steve Long, a lifelong New Yorker from Canarsie, Brooklyn, is an artist and organizer working with sound, language, and space. For him, creative work, as a composer or curator, is an act of facilitation. To this end, he constructs situations that allow collaborators to push out into corners and luxuriate in both physical and metaphysical space. His work organizes collective imagined futures unencumbered by incessant categorization.Recordings of his solo and collaborative work have been released on NotArt Records, Biophilia Records, and Tripticks Tapes, among others.
Kim Anderson is a singer, songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist based in upstate NY. Her songs bend genres and walk the line between folk, jazz, pop and chamber music styles, with special attention to poetic lyrics and warm, lush timbres. Her debut album ‘Yarrow’ was released in 2018 on Biophilia Records, and her sophomore album ‘Asphodel’ was released in 2023 on Sempervirens Studios. -
Sun09Mar2025
Evangeline Young • Eamon Fogarty • Alex Dupree Mar 9
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Evangeline Young is a Brooklyn based singer-songwriter and actor originally from Philadelphia. Having grown up in a family of folk singers, her music moves between the softer acoustic sounds of the folk songs she was raised on, and the harder edges of her indie-rock influences. Her lyrics feature a conversational poetry aimed at personal revelation with a few laughs along the way. In 2022, Evangeline opened for Glen Hansard (The Swell Season) at the Beacon Theatre in NYC and The Anthem in Washington D.C. She is currently finishing her first full length record which will be released next year.Eamon Fogarty is a New York City-based singer-songwriter, multi-disciplinary artist, and audio archivist who was born in New Hampshire. Aquarium Drunkard described his 2019 record Blue Values as “a remarkable piece of art-pop, exhibiting the low slung ease of Tim Buckley’s jazz-rock, the shambolic grace of Beck, the progressive grandeur of Scott Walker, and the mystic yearning of Talk Talk.” He has written for, recorded, and performed in a broad range of capacities and contexts, including folk and rock bands, (Alex Dupree, Psychic Temple, Specific Thing) choral groups, free improvisatory ensembles, and puppet theater productions. Last year he released his third LP “I’m an animal now” via Orphean Kiosk Recordings.Alex Dupree is a published poet and songwriter from Austin, Texas. He has been making lyric-driven folk music for over 20 years. Most recently, his 2017 album, “You Winsome, You Lonesome”, was reissued following the success of his 2022 album “Thieves”. These are sturdy, songwriter’s records in the tradition of Willie Nelson or Bill Callahan. Sounds unfold in ways that are timeless, as if they’ve always existed. Dupree just needed to discover them and dust them off. -
Thu13Mar2025
Wendy Eisenberg salutes Morton Feldman • Mari Rubio x Jessica Pavone duo March 13
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Fri14Mar2025
Ryan Dugre • Chelsea Crabtree • Market March 14
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Chelsea Crabtree is a Brooklyn based singer-songwriter originally from Seattle, WA. Growing up in a very musical family, she has been singing with her 8 siblings from a very young age. After studying jazz voice in college, she has now been inspired to write her own songs. Her music draws from elements of folk, pop, soul and 90’s rock music. She will be joined at The Owl by Gregg Belisle-Chi, Sam Decker, Chris Parker and Sam Weber.
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Sat15Mar2025
Anne Malin • Miles Hewitt • whait March 15
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Sun16Mar2025
Izzy Oram Brown • Kristin Daelyn March 16
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Izzy Oram Brown is a Brooklyn based guitarist and songwriter who released her debut record Mess in 2022. Created with a host of collaborators in various spaces around New York, Mess finds Oram Brown drawing on her work as a guitar player and her love of the folk song tradition to create her first project as a songwriter. She pairs introspective lyrics and winding melodies with layered guitars, synthesizers, and percussion to create an ethereal and moving body of work. Grounded in precise songwriting and embellished with experimental production, Mess is Oram Brown stepping out from a supporting role and sharing an assured album of naked honesty.Beyond the Break, the second full-length album by Kristin Daelyn, is a statement of rare tranquility and wisdom, atmosphere and grace. In these eight compositions, the Philadelphia songwriter takes influence from solo guitarists like Leo Kottke and John Fahey as well as writers like Mary Oliver, whose poem “Patience” inspired the early single “Patience Comes to the Bones.” Through instrumental pieces that highlight her virtuosity as a player and elegant folk songs that showcase her gifts for tender pop melodies and emotionally incisive lyrics, Daelyn’s voice feels both urgent and timeless. Like a well-loved paperback passed between friends, her songs are open to reflection and personal annotation, designed to be of use.
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Thu20Mar2025
Tabaret March 20
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music
The Tapestry Choir is thrilled to announce their 5th Annual Tabaret: Tapestry’s Cabaret, featuring solo and group performances by their choir members. he concert will also be live-streamed via Zoom link. To attend, please see our donation link here https://www.pledge.to/5th-annual-tabaret.The Tapestry Choir breaks the traditional mold by celebrating artistic excellence through a blend of diverse singing approaches, spotlights of contemporary composers, and wide-ranging repertoire (from classic choral works to exciting new commissions) that captures and uplifts the beauty of music across all genres, eras, and traditions. Tapestry seeks to invite everyone—of any background, culture, socioeconomic status, or identity—into the lively world of choral music. As a group, the Tapestry Choir cares deeply about fostering a sense of community both among the membership and the broader NYC arts community, and crafting an ensemble culture where members genuinely support each other. Tapestry aims to regularly collaborate with other groups, musicians, and artists of all kinds across NYC.More information at https://www.tapestrychoir.org/. -
Fri21Mar2025
tilt • Ali Dineen Mar 21
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
In a small room, the sound of tilt rings out like one big voice. Composed of vocalist Isabel Crespo Pardo, vocalist/bassist Carmen Quill, and trombonist/vocalist Kalia Vandever, the Brooklyn-based group tilt writes intricate, viscerally affecting art-pop compositions that blend carefully interwoven motifs with improvisation. Their melodies are chiseled at extremes, vacillating between the angular and the achingly lyrical. All three members are accomplished artists and composers in their own right, coming from strong backgrounds in the jazz world. Their stunning debut LP, something we once knew (out May 3, 2024 on Dear Life Records), is in its own class, stylistically distinct from each player’s solo work—a record that teaches us how to listen to it as it progresses. Recorded live in the studio without overdubs, its songs chart troubled and surreal journeys toward understanding or acceptance, passing through mystical corners of its members’ singular musical vocabularies.Ali Dineen is a songwriter, visual artist and teacher born and raised in Queens. Ali has performed at the Museum of Art and Design, the Caramoor American Roots Music Festival, the American Folk Art Museum, and the Brooklyn Folk Festival, among other wonderful venues, and was awarded the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Residency in 2020. Ali is also the music director for local puppet troupe extraordinaire The Boxcutter Collective, arranges music and sings with Reverend Billy & the Stop Shopping Choir, and is part of a duet with the inimitable Feral Foster. Ali released a third album, Hold On, in 2020, and is currently working on a new piece about Joan of Arc. -
Sat22Mar2025
Emma Frank and Elizabeth Ziman March 22
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Sun23Mar2025
Gregg Belisle-Chi Trio /James Carney quartet Mar 23
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 adv / $18.00 at door
Gregg Belisle-Chi’s band will be Stomu Takeshi, Bass and Michael W Davis, Drums.
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Thu27Mar2025
Theresa Rosas and friends
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Pianist / Songwriter Theresa Rosas will present music by Manuel De Falla as well as her original songs with guests from the classical and popular music universes.
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Fri28Mar2025
Riley McBride • Alexia Avina • Jesse In Grey Mar 28
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Riley McBride is a South Georgia-raised Brooklyn-based artist who laughs uncontrollably when uncomfortable. Through meticulous surveys of the psychological and physical landscape, their folk/rock-inspired songwriting reflects on growing up in the Bible Belt, familial structures, and waves of romantic yearning and strain.
Alexia Avina is an experimental ambient folk artist based in Queens who blends minimalism and restraint with lush sonic landscapes and ethereal melodic hooks.
Jesse in Grey is the songwriting project of Brooklyn based multi-instrumentalist Jesse Bielenberg. His recorded music contains ingredients consistent with folk, rock, chamber, emo, & shoegaze, but he likes to think of it as “comfortcore.” His raw, vulnerable songs ruminate on trees & television & loving & domesticity & growing up & the grey in-between spaces of uncertainty.
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Sat29Mar2025
Sofia Wolfson • Will Stratton • The Bird Calls Mar 29
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Sofia Wolfson is a musician and writer born and raised in Los Angeles, now based in Brooklyn. Her latest record, Imposing on a Hometown, was released in May of 2024. Wolfson is currently getting her MFA in Creative Writing at the New School and her fiction has been published in Superstition Review, Open Ceilings, Westwind, Flash Fiction Magazine, and more.
Will Stratton (b. 1987, Woodland CA) is a songwriter and guitarist living in Beacon, NY. His eighth album, the narrative-driven concept album Points of Origin, is out March 7th on Ruination Records (USA) and Bella Union (worldwide). His previous albums, 2021’s The Changing Wilderness and 2017’s Rosewood Almanac, received critical acclaim from Elton John and Alexis Petridis (The Guardian), as well as journalists at Pitchfork, Mojo, and Uncut, among others.The Bird Calls is the recording project of Sam Sodomsky, a writer and musician based in Park Slope. His latest album, Melody Trail, arrives this winter on Ruination Record Co. Paste Magazine said that its songs “cut right to the cores of feelings you only wish you could have distilled into words so precisely.”
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Sun30Mar2025
Nico Hedley • Strawberry Runners Mar 30
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Emi Night, the songwriter for folk/country/pop project Strawberry Runners, is workshopping a batch of newly-written narrative folk songs to be recorded as part of a grant project for NYFA and the NYC Womens’ Fund. Sit in on a pre-studio session with Night and collaborators as they explore the new music together at The Owl on this night.
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Thu03Apr2025
Here's That Rainy Day with O. 0'blivion and friends Apr 3
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Fri04Apr2025
Natalie Simons • Dorée Apr 4
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Natalie Simons is a Brooklyn-based songwriter, originally from Northern California. Raised in a deeply musical household, she began playing piano at three years old and picked up orchestral trumpet by seven. Over the years, she has shifted her focus to songwriting, where she blends her classical foundation with introspective lyricism. Her forthcoming album is set to be released in mid-late 2025.
Dorée is a Brooklyn based artist and band. Playing solo or in band formation, they regularly gig at venues and DIY spaces in New York as well as surrounding and nearby states.
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Sat05Apr2025
Mutual Benefit • Verboten • Raybody April 5
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Mutual Benefit is a decade-long NYC-based symphonic folk pop thing with Jordan Lee and many wonderful collaborators. The newest album, Growing at the Edges, focuses on regrowth after disasters
Verboten writes charming, folky pop songs about disillusionment. Songwriter Foster Powell pairs bright, melodic hooks with poetic lyrics and a sound indebted to 90s-era alt rock. The band recently relocated to Bellingham, Washington, and released their first full-length, Life Expectancy, in 2024.
Raybody (fka Katy Rea) writes “classic singer-songwriter shit that gets weird.” Her singular vocal is intense, melodic, and endlessly dynamic. Paired with a band that deeply understands her songwriting, Raybody capture’s audiences in her current home of Brooklyn, and across the US; past bills with: Little Wings, Babehoven, Allegra Krieger, Sadurn, Florry, and more.
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Sun06Apr2025
Trail Papa • TBA Apr 6
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Thu10Apr2025
Leila Adu • Steph Richards Apr 10
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15 suggested donation
Leila Adu is an astonishing force in the space where electropop, avant-classical and singer-songwriter meet. Exploring her roots in New Zealand, Britain and Ghana, Adu is an international artist who has performed at festivals and venues across the world. Compared to Nina Simone and Joanna Newsome by WNYC, Adu has released five acclaimed albums, and has given visionary solo BBC and WQXR performances. Adu’s credits include Ojai Music Festival, Bang on a Can, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Late Night with David Letterman, and composing for a Billboard charted album. Adu holds a Princeton University music composition PhD. In 2022, Leila Adu–Gilmore was awarded a Charles Ives Composer Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Steph Richards is no stranger to challenging listeners’ expectations, but the trumpeter, composer and bandleader is pushing in a still more unusual direction with her new project Supersense. Touring with a group of brilliantly creative improvisers—Joshua White (piano), Stomu Takeishi (bass) and Max Jaffe (drums and electronics) —Richards taps acclaimed multimedia artist Sean Raspet to create singular, abstract scents embedded into concert programs using scent to prompt musicians and the audience in a way that avoids language and representation completely.
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Fri11Apr2025
Hush Puppy • Ian Davis: Rock Band • The Blump Band • Apr 11
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 adv / $18.00 at door
The Blump Band is Michael Coleman – Keys Ivan Arteaga – bass clarinet. Sara Schoenbeck – bassoon. Sam Kulik – bass trombone Sarah Galdes -drumsIan Davis: Rock Band is an outlet for composer/guitarist/singer Ian Davis. The music is part carefully constructed, part free with sections of intricate counterpoint devolving into playful, noodly noise. The set features songs about Star Trek, debt, and love. ID:RB released their first album *Passing Phase* in January 2020. ID:RB will feature Jason Burger, Michael Coleman, Julian Cubillos, and Dandy McDowell. -
Sat12Apr2025
Lily Talmers • Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light Apr 12
7:30 Doors $15.00 suggested donation
Robin Bienemann is a singer & songwriter from Chicago. His wickedly funny and poignant original songs mix contemporary themes with old musical styles. He combines dry humor and sophisticated songwriting with a deep sense of history. At his musical core is a reverence for the guitar as an instrument to accompany songs and as a vessel to express the American psyche in all its strange beauty and complexity.
The now Brooklyn-based Lily Talmers hails from Michigan and writes of the innate divinity in humanity from a palpably Midwestern vantage. Her lyrics are spiritual and strange—vivid images that range from sludge-covered and dismal to childlike and wondrous. Musically, Talmers calls to mind heady 60’s folk revivalists like Leonard Cohen and Judee Sill, at times expanding into the experimental bigness of Paul Simon, and fitting cozily amidst the emotional delicateness contemporary songwriters like Adrianne Lenker or Haley Heynderickx.Fresh off their 2023 win at the Thomas Point Bluegrass Festival band competition, Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light are shaking up the bluegrass world with their fresh take on traditional music. Led by John Lennon Award-winning songwriter Sumner, the string band’s dynamic sound showcases bold chord progressions, unforgettable stories, and mesmerizing musicianship from fiddler Kat Wallace and bassist Mike Siegel. With their grassy roots, Rachel Sumner & Traveling Light create a sound that’s both timeless and utterly unique, captivating audiences with every note they play.
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Sun13Apr2025
Arthur Lewis • Akie Bermiss Apr 13
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Sat19Apr2025
Kyle Morgan Record Release with Ellie MacPhee Apr 19
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Sun20Apr2025
Sam Decker Quartet • TBA Apr 20
Saxophonist Sam Decker will appear with quartet members Gregg Belisle Chi, guitar; Chris Tordini, bass; and Tom Rainey, drums.
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Thu24Apr2025
Will Shore • Sonic Mud Apr 24
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Will Shore presents a new set of compositions for electric vibraphone, clarinet, and bass clarinet—featuring Stuart Bogie and Doug Wieselman. Will Shore is a composer, producer, and vibraphonist. He has released his solo-vibraphone focused productions on Mister Saturday Night Records and Pique-nique Recordings. He DJ’s a monthly show on the Lot Radio, and has played vibraphone for Nels Cline’s LOVERS, Arto Lindsay’s Noise Quartet, The Dave Harrington Group, and the Nublu Orchestra conducted by Butch Morris. He’s written and produced music for shows on NBC, History Channel, and Netflix, and he has won 4 ASCAP Awards.Julia Elsas‘s SONIC MUD is a band that showcases her hand-built ceramic instruments – flutes, drums, natural trumpets, shakers, clayrimbas, rain machines and more. SONIC MUD recorded their first album, Above Ground in 2023. SONIC MUD has performed at The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pasaquan, The Bo Bartlett Center, The Jewish Museum of Maryland, Cooler Gallery, Printed Matter, The Drawing Center, The New School, NARS Foundation, Ortega y Gasset and Pratt.Joining Julia on April 24th at The Owl is Kenny Wollesen, Mauro Refosco, Tim Keiper, Mike Irwin and Eléonore Weill
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Fri25Apr2025
Jane Bruce • Bold Forbes Apr 25
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Sat26Apr2025
Maia MacDonald • Mirah Zeitlin April 26
7:30 Door 8:00 Music
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Fri02May2025
Lau Noah • TBA May 2
7:30 doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Sat03May2025
Alex Harwood • Eliza Edens May 3
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Fri09May2025
Katie Martucci • Cloudbelly • Stefan Weiner May 9
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Hailing from the rich musical history of the Catskill Mountains in New York State, Katie Martucci grew up singing, and playing fiddle and guitar. The daughter of a jazz pianist, she began performing with her father at a young age. By the first grade, she was writing her own songs and playing for tips. Her musical journeys led her to the Ashokan Western and Swing Week, vocal lessons with Laurel Masse of Manhattan Transfer, a brief stint of collegiate acappella at Skidmore College and ultimately, to the New England Conservatory. Since graduating NEC, Katie has toured the country with her trio The Ladles, founded the Tucci Swing Orchestra (a 9 piece jazz band playing Boswell Sister inspired arrangements of classic swing rep) and begun recording and performing under her own name. Visit KatieMartucci.com for more details on upcoming projects.
Come celebrate the release of How Lucky You Are, Stefan Weiner’s first full-length album, out in May on Better Company Records. Stefan is an NYC-based queer indie folk singer-songwriter. A recent Top Shelf finalist in NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest 2024, he creates a musical space for people to access a deeper vulnerability. He is open and honest about his experiences with chronic pain, love, loss and his queer journey. How Lucky You Are is sure to bring both a tear to your eye and a smile to your face.
Cloudbelly is an indie-folk trio from Western Massachusetts, led by songwriter Corey Laitman. Known for their lyrical, confessional songwriting, the band blends quirky, psychedelic undertones with rich, emotive storytelling. With intricate arrangements featuring lush harmonies and evocative lead guitar hooks, Cloudbelly creates a sound that’s both atmospheric and grounded. Their stage presence is equally captivating—goofy, warm, and inviting, offering a genuine connection with their audiences. Drawing on diverse influences, their music captures a sense of the uncanny, where the personal feels both otherworldly and deeply real.
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Fri16May2025
Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn • Maia Macdonald May 16
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $TBA
Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn lives in Brooklyn where she works as a song writer, performer, producer and mom. In a constant dedication to expanding her tender repertoire of American folk songs into a larger context, her recordings seek to find the magical amity between explorative percussion, orchestral sounds and elements of rock and popular music. Since starting out in the late 1990’s, she has released over a dozen solo and collaborative recordings on various independent labels including K Records, Kill Rock Stars, Absolute Magnitude Recordings, Double Double Whammy and 7e.p., and toured solo and with countless iterations of her own band in concert halls, music clubs and punk basements all across North America, Japan and Europe.
Mirah is currently in the thick of finishing a new record and will play some of the new songs at The Owl, accompanied by the always magnificent Aviva Jaye.
Mirah sees her creative process as a dedication to investigating the complicated intersections within communities large and small, believing that with deeper understanding of each other, the seeds of a more generous and less violent world are planted.
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Thu22May2025
Amir El Saffar • dream brigade May 22
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Amir ElSaffar presents a captivating solo set for Trumpet, Santur, Voice, and Modular Synths.
dream brigade is the duo of Phillip Golub (piano) and Lesley Mok (drums). Fresh off the heels of their debut self-titled release on Infrequent Seams, they present a set of original compositions, standards, and improvisations.
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Fri23May2025
Cam Knowler • Adeline Hotel • Nuria Graham May 23
7:30 doors 8:00 music $15 suggested donation
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Sat24May2025
Nora Stanley • Nicomo • Little Cliff May 24
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
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Sun25May2025
Adelyn Strei and friends May 25
7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation… a 6 piece experimental cohort made of members of ice blink, more eaze, Jeff Tobias, Adelyn Strei -
Sat31May2025
Kyle Morgan • Katy Pinke May 31
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation 
In the past decade, Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Kyle Morgan has released 4 records. Each features his earnest tenor voice, evocative lyricism and distinctive conglomeration of Americana – from stripped-down acoustic ballads and love-lorn parlor laments to roaring alt-country and throwback 60’s rock’n’roll. His latest release and label debut, Younger at Most Everything, came out on Team Love Records in 2022. In addition to his solo efforts, Kyle performs throughout NYC with a number of collaborators including Isaac Gillespie (Kyle & Isaac), Rachel Housle (WishWish), and Tamar Korn.
Katy Pinke’s songs are self-examinations—cerebral and unsparing, but reaching toward a more promising future. The Manhattan-based singer-songwriter, painter, and theater-maker’s nimble soprano evokes the precision, humor, and melancholy of forbearers like The Roches and Connie Converse. Sentences pour across verses, disrupting the symmetry of the expected verse-chorus form. Pinke released her stripped-down debut self-titled album in the spring of 2024, which PopMatters describes as “somehow dreamlike but rooted in authentic, basic principles of songwriting and performance.
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Sat07Jun2025
Sweetbreads • Natalie Carol • Brittany Ann Tranbaugh June 7
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Natalie Carol is front-woman and songwriter of LA-based band, Valley Queen. Cited as “one of the great cosmic belters from the school of Grace Slick and Delores O’Riordan” by Rolling Stone Magazine, Carol has shared tours with the likes of Laura Marling, St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Social Distortion and featured on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert, Linda Perry’s Dodger Stadium Covid Concert Series, and Willie Nelson’s Luck Reunion Festival.
Brittany Ann Tranbaugh (pronounced TRAN-baw) is a Philadelphia-based songwriter whose queer Americana heartbreaker “Kiss You” won Song of the Year in the 2021 John Lennon Songwriting Contest.
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Wed18Jun2025
Jenifer Jackson and friends June 18 (WEDNESDAY!)
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation
Jenifer Jackson says, “Morning Star” is inspired by the desert and flight. The album was sponsored in part by a grant awarded me by the City of Austin Live Music Fund. I’ve lived in Austin TX for the past 17 years and although I perform a couple times a year in NY’s Hudson Valley, this show at The Owl Brooklyn will be my first in the city for many years. I’m over the moon about reuniting with bandmates Oren Bloedow, Greg Wiecsorek and with dear city friends. Join us, along with some other musical guest stars, for a celebration of music and friendship.
official website: http://www.jeniferjackson.com
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Fri20Jun2025
Alena Spanger • TBA. June 20
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation