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Thu23Mar2023
Hayfitz Farewell Show w carol and h. pruz Mar 23
7:30 Door 8:00 Show $15 adv/$18 *cash* door
More Than a Goodbye, the debut album from New York-based artist Carol, started the day that a lot of things ended. On March 13th, 2020, Carolyn Flaherty and her band at the time were driving from New York City to Boston for a show that proved to be their last before the entire world shut down. As the world stopped completely, Carol suddenly had more time than ever to write, reflect, and grow artistically and as a person. In late 2020, she released Soiled, an EP that captured her traversal through inner turmoil to be on the precipice of something new and, hopefully, beautiful. More Than A Goodbye feels like the answer to Soiled’s cliffhanger: A mature but cathartic testament to love in the future, present, and past tense that features Carol’s brightest and most realized songwriting to date.
h. pruz is the solo project of Brooklyn based singer-songwriter Hannah Pruzinsky (they/she). h.pruz released their debut EP “again, there” in late 2022 via Oof Records. The collection of songs is a front porch with wind chimes sounding; a nap on the couch on a summer afternoon; a pair of dirty hands in compost, letting dead things turn into something richer, kinder. h. pruz expects to release their first full length album in late 2023
A self-proclaimed purveyor of ‘gentle folk’ Hayfitz crafts delicate songs about the most delicate of subjects. Fresh off of his self-produced 2020 debut, Capsules, the Brooklyn based multi-instrumentalist is now deep into a second full length record exploring the complex journey of coming into his new-found queer identity.
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Fri24Mar2023
The Ἔrιs Quartet • Wendy Eisenberg Mar 24th
7:30 Door 8:00 Show $12.00 suggested donation
The Ἔrιs Quartet,
(Amina Knapp and Maya Irizarry-Lambright, Violins; Felix Veser, Viola; Daniel Knapp, Cello) formed in 2022 at the Oberlin Conservatory Advanced String Quartet Seminar. They have been mentored by Sibbi Bernhardsson of the Pacifica Quartet, Kirsten Docter of the Cavanni Quartet, and members of the Verona Quartet. As advocates of new music in the growing classical world, The Ἔrιs Quartet will be touring a new program: “Paintings, Songs, and Dances” during the Spring 2023 season. This tour starts in their home of Ohio, with performances in Cleveland, Grafton Prison, Downtown Oberlin, and Lorain County Hospitals, and then will continue throughout a larger East Coast tour through Pittsburgh, New York City, Philadelphia, and DC. The name, Ἔrιs, comes from the Greek Goddess of Chaos, a symbol of the quartet’s commitment to new a changing landscape of music and collaboration.
Wendy Eisenberg is performing mostly unreleased songs for voice and classical guitar as a glimpse into what will be their next record.
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Sat25Mar2023
Michael Rocketship •Ben Kamen • Matt Mehlan Mar 25.
7:30 Door 8:00 Show $12.00 suggested donation
Hailing from a small hamlet on the western seaboard called Los Angeles, Jean Marie is a lyrical singer-songwriter who has wowed both her mother and various roommates with how softly she can sing. Her quiet guitar playing is envied worldwide by baby spiders and cotton balls. Her gentle approach and intrepid spirit has brought her to stages as far away as Japan, Australia, South Korea and Vietnam. Jean Marie is a seasoned vet of playing bar shows in the US where drunken converts have slurrily compared her to Neil Young, Yo La Tengo and Young Marble Giants.Over the past two decades, Ben Kamen has created music for a variety of formats and genres — from chamber music to multi-channel sound installations to folk and post-rock. His 2022 album, “Watershed,” his first collection of new songs in over a decade, is an exploration of timbre and memory inspired by daily walks through the temperate rainforest near his home in Olympia, WA.
Michael Rocketship is a keyboardist/composer/improviser living in Brooklyn, NY. He spends time leading his own groups (Michael Rocketship, CavityFang, Visuals) or playing, recording and touring in a wide variety of other people’s projects (Ben Goldberg, Dida Pelled, Sam Evian). When not playing keyboard instruments, Michael works as a recording engineer at Figure 8 Recording. -
Sun26Mar2023
Scivic Rivers & Aisle Knot March 26
7:30 Door 8:00 Show $12.00 suggested donation
Aisle Knot is a four-piece band from Brooklyn, New York. They hope to make exciting, resonant music and enjoy the unique thrill of the live setting. Their debut full band album is due out later this year.
Scivic Rivers is the new musical nom de plume of American singer-songwriter Randy Bickford (fka The Strugglers and Brice Randall Bickford). The new self-titled album is his seventh full-length and was produced with his longtime collaborator Scott Solter (Mountain Goats, Spoon). Bickford’s songs have earned him wide recognition from fellow lifer musicians and critics alike. Pitchfork has described his writing as “tracing a single thought or sketching a single image throughout the course of several bars, building suspense and making you wait patiently for the pay-off”. In a review of the new album, Indyweek writes, “Bound by the yearning of Bickford’s honeyed and hypnotic baritone, Scivic Rivers ponders questions that are big, unknowable, and universal with arrangements that are consistently immersive and engaging.”
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Wed29Mar2023
SOLD OUT: Laura Veirs with Katy Pinke. Mar 29
7:30 doors 8:00 Showsorry there are no places left for this show
This special performance by Laura Veirs will gather those who played on her most recent album Found Light—co-producer Shahzad Ismaily (drums, keys), Sam Amidon (fiddle, vocals) Karl Blau (bass, vocals) and Charlotte Greve (sax, vocals)—together for their first live performance of the entire album, alongside a set of Veirs’ greatest hits. This is Veirs’ only State-side full band show.
“On the edge of this vibrant new world, Veirs names everything she feels and sees, with breakthrough frankness and the occasional whip-sting of vengeance, and it’s thrilling to share in that freedom with her.” – Pitchfork (10 Best Reviewed Albums of the Week)
“…Found Light plunges us headlong into Veirs’ discoveries, which she elucidates with trademark nuance as well as a newly honed way with a gut punch…Intimate and profound, it is a powerful document of self-discovery” – NPR Music
“…fittingly reinvigorated and inspired.” – The New York Times
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Thu30Mar2023
SOLD OUT: Laura Veirs with Jackie West March 30. $20 adv / $25 door
7:30 doors 8:00 Showsorry there are no places left for this show
sorry there are no places left for this show
This special performance by Laura Veirs will gather those who played on her most recent album Found Light—co-producer Shahzad Ismaily (drums, keys), Sam Amidon (fiddle, vocals) Karl Blau (bass, vocals) and Charlotte Greve (sax, vocals)—together for their first live performance of the entire album, alongside a set of Veirs’ greatest hits. This is Veirs’ only State-side full band show.
“On the edge of this vibrant new world, Veirs names everything she feels and sees, with breakthrough frankness and the occasional whip-sting of vengeance, and it’s thrilling to share in that freedom with her.” – Pitchfork (10 Best Reviewed Albums of the Week)
“…Found Light plunges us headlong into Veirs’ discoveries, which she elucidates with trademark nuance as well as a newly honed way with a gut punch…Intimate and profound, it is a powerful document of self-discovery” – NPR Music
“…fittingly reinvigorated and inspired.” – The New York Times
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Fri31Mar2023
Darian Donovan Thomas • Ian Davis: Rock Band • Panther Hollow Mar 31
7:30 Door 8:00 Show $12.00 suggested donation
On any given night you can find composer, multi-instrumentalist, and interdisciplinary artist Darian Donovan Thomas at a salon house show, a grungy basement, a bar/venue or formal concert hall. He is currently performing with eight bands and ensembles in New York and creating interdisciplinary work in different visual mediums. He recently performed with Moses Sumney on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, in a Tiny Desk concert with acclaimed dreambow band Balun, and in Iceland, China, and the U.K. Darian received his Bachelors in Music Composition from The University of the Incarnate Word (2016) in San Antonio, Texas. He has since been a New Amsterdam Records Composer Lab Fellow (2018), So Percussion Summer Institute (SoSI) Composer Fellow (2018), Infinite Palette composer performer for Aeon Ritual at MASSMoCA (2019), and a Bang on a can Summer Institute “Banglewood” Composer Fellow (2019).Panther Hollow is the band of New York City based artist, Bernardo Ochoa. Nardo works with various projects in various capacities; Panther Hollow reflects this endless curiosity and genre-fluidity. Honestly, this Colombian-american, Pittsburgh-raised artist is just trying to stay healthy and recover/foster a sense of play in music.ID:RB is an outlet for composer/guitarist/singer Ian Davis. The music is part carefully constructed, part free; sections of intricate synthesizer and guitar counterpoint devolve into playful, noodley noise. ID:RB released their first album *Passing Phase* as a cassette in January 2020. -
Sat01Apr2023
Alec Spiegelman •Bim Tyler • Joseph Keckler Apr 1
7:30 Door 8:00 Show
Bim Tyler is a multi instrumentalist from Vermont whose passion for forgotten folk songs doesn’t stop him from attempting something new in the 21st century. With a history of playing Old Time, Country, Psychedelic Jam, and Experimental, his music can be classified as Freak-Country or Freak-Folk with deep roots. His Debut album was released in 2021 and he has two new EPs set to release this Winter.
Brooklyn-based musician, producer and songwriter Alec Spiegelman’s most recent full-length album is Airplane Mode, available on all digital platforms. He is a founding member of the band Cuddle Magic and has produced recordings for Ana Egge, Taylor Ashton, The David Wax Museum, Jennifer Kimball, Anna & Elizabeth, and the conceptual multi-media artist Jack Early, among others. As a sideman, on stage or in studio, he’s worked with Amanda Palmer, Anais Mitchell, Darlingside, Kevin Morby, Okkervil River, Pokey LaFarge, among others.
Joseph Keckler is a musician and writer. He recently released a new single + film, “Ghost Song” and an NPR Tiny Desk concert. He’s been presented by Lincoln Center, Centre Pompidou, Joe’s Pub, SXSW, among others, and played in venues such as Hammerstein Ballroom and Ryman Auditorium (as national support act for Sleater-Kinney.) His story collection, Dragon at the Edge of a Flat World was published in 2018. His music-performance Train With No Midnight just ran at Seattle’s On the Boards and he is working on a feature film, touring with Lydia Lunch, and solo.
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Sun02Apr2023
Kenny Warren's Sweet World • Danny Fisher-Lochhead Apr 2
7:00 Door 7:30 Show $12.00 suggested donation
Sweet World delivers a brand new set of compositions by trumpeter Kenny Warren. Lyrical and rhythmically driven noise/jazz with it’s gaze toward the transcendental. Christopher Hoffman on cello and Nathan Ellman-Bell on drums.
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Thu06Apr2023
Sara Caswell & Julian Shore • Caleb Curtis trio April 6
7:30 Door 8:00 Show $12.00 suggested donation
Grammy® Nominee Sara Caswell “is a brilliant world-class violinist…one of the very best of the present generation of emerging young jazz stars” according to the late David Baker, internationally-renowned jazz educator and Director of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. Rooted in an early exposure to a variety of musical genres, Sara’s technical facility intertwined with her gift for lyricism continue to attract growing attention to her artistry as a jazz soloist, sideman, and teacher.
Caleb Wheeler Curtis Trio w/ Michael Sarin and Rashaan Carter
Brooklyn based saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Caleb Wheeler Curtis is a bandleader and core member of several acclaimed bands including Ember and The Captain Black Big Band (2x GRAMMY Nominated). His third album as a leader, HEATMAP, was released on Imani Records in 2022 (with Orrin Evans, Eric Revis, and Gerald Cleaver). All About Jazz called Caleb “one of the more interesting alto saxophonists to emerge since 2000,” Jazzwise raved “exhilarating post-Ornette free-jazzmaking.” DownBeat Magazine said the music “radiates with brilliance,” and Musica Jazz (Italy) described it as “a masterpiece.” -
Fri07Apr2023
Sam Sadigursky's Solomon Diaries • Danny Fox Trio record release event
7:30 Door 8:00 Show $12.00 suggested donation
Songs of freedom, rebellion, celebration, tradition, independence, loss, hope, decay and renewal – this is the music of Sam Sadigursky’s The Solomon Diaries, featuring accordionist Nathan Koci. Originally inspired by the fascinating rise and fall of the Borscht Belt, Sadigursky’s unique take on Jewish music combines numerous folk, world and jazz influences with a classical sense of harmony and deep love of improvisation. “While the music often returns to klezmer and Yiddish modes, it is never confined by them, and Sadigursky refrains from relying on traditional sounds or nostalgia. In its totality, the instrumental cycle addresses the 20th-century American Jewish experience, but its spirit is generous and open enough to reflect that of any population of immigrants and refugees, transcending the particular to address the promises of the American dream, both realized and broken.” – ChronogramDanny Fox Trio- Time Took Care of It album release partyCelebrating its 15th anniversary, the Danny Fox Trio, featuring pianist Danny Fox, bassist Chris van Voorst van Beest, and drummer Max Goldman, is a true working band hailed for reinventing the classic piano trio format with genre-defying, uniquely personal original music. Whether holed up in a Brooklyn basement rehearsing or touring around the country crammed into a sedan, the trio has spent countless hours developing a rapport that’s immediately palpable in their music. Described as a modern-day Ahmad Jamal Trio, the band mixes tight ensemble playing with interactive, attuned improvisation. Drawing on influences as varied as Ellington, Bartok, and The Meters, the music can switch gears at any moment yet remains cohesive thanks to strong motivic development and rigorous arrangements that challenge the traditional roles of the piano trio instruments. Hailed as “changing the sound and expectation of a jazz piano trio” (WNYC) and “cool but not modish” (NY Times), the band is set to release its fourth album “Time Took Care of It” in April 2023. -
Sat08Apr2023
Katy The Kyng and friends Apr 8
7:30 Door 8:00 Show $12.00 suggested donation
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Sun09Apr2023
Elsa Nilsson • Michael Sarian Apr 9
7:00 Door 7:30 Show $12.00 suggested donation
Trumpeter and composer Michael Sarian has been praised for his “unique compositional and instrumental voice” (Friedrich Kunzmann, All About Jazz) and his “endlessly renewable strain of lyric improvisation regardless of context or material.” (Peter Margasak, Downbeat Magazine). Born in Toronto and raised in Buenos Aires, Michael relocated to NYC in 2012, and has performed at some of the most iconic international stages, including the Montreux Jazz Festival, Kennedy Center, Teatro Colón in Argentina, Blue Note Jazz Club, Jazz at Lincoln Center, BRIC JazzFest, and Central Park SummerStage. He has appeared on WNYC’s Soundcheck with John Schaefer, NPR’s World Cafe, and many more.
www.michaelsarian.com • instagram • facebook • twitter
Band of Pulses consists of Flutist Elsa Nilsson, Pianist Santiago Leibson, Bassist Marty Kenney and drummer Rodrigo Recabarren. They will be performing their suite entitled “Pulses” based around the rhythmic and melodic materials of Dr Maya Angelou’s voice as she reads her poem “On the Pulse Of Morning”. The suite explores the intersection between jazz and communication by using Angelou’s voice as a framework for the compositions and improvisations. This work has been made possible with support from Chamber Music America’s New Jazz Works program funded through the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
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Thu13Apr2023
Matt Bachmann • Brittain Ashford April 13
7:30 Door 8:00 Show $12.00 suggested donation
Matt Bachmann (b. 1988, Chicago) is a social worker/musician whose music is a marriage of long form repetitive instrumental music and songwriting music. Maybe best known for his bass plucking in Mega Bog, Jeff Tobias’ Recurring Dream Band and with the Ed Askew band, Bachmann brings the gentleness and touch of his bass playing to his synthwork and shaky voice. He has released three records on Owen Ashworth’s (Advance Based) tight knit Chicago based label, Orindal Records, including Dream Logic which was released in 2021.
While Brittain Ashford has spent much of her career recording and touring in support of her original music, her unlikely appearance in the Broadway musical The Great Comet of 1812 took her a slightly different direction. Lin-Manuel Miranda once suggested that she could “sing while he wept into a bucket” and The New York Times said she should have been nominated for a Tony. Decidedly “not a theatre person” she has returned to writing and performing her own music; her forthcoming album, Trotter, will be out May 19 on Misra Records.
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Fri14Apr2023
Ryan Dugre • Chelsea Crabtree • Kitba April 14
7:30 Door 8:00 Show $12.00 suggested donation
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Sat15Apr2023
Poet Marissa Davis/Chase Elodia's Perennials/Chris Morrissey Band Apr 15
7:30 Door 8:00 Show $12.00 suggested donation
Marissa Davis is a writer, translator, editor, and educator from Paducah, Kentucky. Following years in Nashville, Tennessee and Paris, France, she now resides in Brooklyn, New York. She received her MFA in poetry from New York University, where she was a Rona Jaffe fellow. Marissa is the author of My Name & Other Languages I Am Learning How to Speak (Jai-Alai Books, 2020), which received Cave Canem’s 2019 Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize, chosen by poet Danez Smith.
Chase Elodia’s Perennials is a Brooklyn-based ensemble. Their 2022 Biophilia Records release, Portrait Imperfect, was named one of the Best New Albums of 2022 by Downbeat Magazine. Founded in 2020, 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. Each member of the group is an exciting, emerging voice in the contemporary jazz scene in New York: Claire Dickson on Voice, Tyrone Allen on Bass, and Theo Walentiny on piano/keyboards, and Chase Elodia on drums. 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 (Nashville, TN), Fulton St. Collective (Chicago, IL), and Rockwood Music Hall. They were a featured ensemble at the 2023 Winter Jazz Festival and will be touring in Europe in summer 2023.
Chris Morrissey is a songwriter, a bassist, a singer, a music director, a leo, an uncle, a lover of most cats and some dogs, a New Yorker, a Minnesotan, a yoga practicer, a wino, a restaurant frequenter, and joke teller/appreciator. As a bassist, he’s logged hundreds of thousands of miles touring five continents with Norah Jones, The Jim Campilongo Trio, Mark Guiliana Jazz Quartet, Beat Music, Dave King Trucking Company, Sara Bareilles, Chris Thile’s “Live From Here” house band, Margaret Glaspy, Boy George, Ben Kweller, Andrew Bird, Mason Jennings, Gretchen Parlato, Trixie Whitley, Gabriel Kahane, and Amy Helm.
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Sun16Apr2023
Diamond Grinder • Wila Frank • Verboten Apr 16
7:00 Door 7:30 Show $12.00 suggested donation
Diamond Grinder is a New York-based folk-rock band formed in 2021 by Margaret Nygard and Eli Recht-Appel, whose songwriting partnership traces back to first attempts during their high school days in San Francisco, California. After many years of off-and-on collaboration between the pair, Nygard moved to New York City in the summer of 2021, where Recht-Appel had lived for the past five years. The two, both residing in the Ridgewood neighborhood of Queens, began to write music together frequently, overtime generating the material for their forthcoming debut album produced by Jared Samuel and Ian “Skinny” Salazar.
Wila Frank makes music that’s searching, cinematic, and introspective with scalpel-like precision. With her forthcoming debut album, the 24-year-old Nashville-based songwriter immediately sets a mesmerizing mood that showcases her evocative lyricism as well as her tasteful ear as a multi-instrumentalist and producer blending delicate indie folk with visceral alternative rock.
Verboten tinkers with the old 60s-era pop song formula, combining late-Beatles/Elliott-style songwriting with distinctive modern touches of synthesizers and drum machines to create a dark, but inviting interior world of music. Verboten (Foster Powell) is based in Vermont.
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Thu20Apr2023
Andreas Arnold • Burtone Rosenblum Belo Trio Apr 20
7:30 Door 8:00 Show $12.00 suggested donation
Burtone Rosenblum Belo Trio Introducing an exciting and dynamic acoustic trio that will transport you to new musical horizons! The trio is comprised of violinist Ludovica Burtone (ITALY), Ben Rosenblum (USA) on accordion, and bassist Eduardo Belo (BRAZIL), who come together to create a unique sound that blends original compositions with Brazilian, Folk, and Latin influences. Drawing from their diverse musical backgrounds, this trio’s music is a perfect fusion of their individual styles, resulting in a sound that is both eclectic and harmonious with infectious rhythms, intricate but also lyrical melodies, and spontaneous improvisations are all hallmarks of their performance.
The guitarist Andreas Arnold will perform some rootsy, traditional flamenco guitar as well as original pieces from his first first solo album and most recent release “From A to Z”. “In the increasingly strong world of flamenco fusion the guitarist Andreas Arnold has a very personal, outstanding sound” – Flamenco y mas (Spain) -
Fri21Apr2023
Stephen Becker • Stranger Cat• Charlotte Jacobs Apr 21
7:30 Door 8:00 Show $12.00 suggested donation
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Sat22Apr2023
Julia Easterlin • TBA Apr 22
7:30 Door 8:00 Show $12.00 suggested donation
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Sun23Apr2023
Evil Hour reading series Apr 23
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Thu27Apr2023
Kyle Morgan • Sean Cronin • Noah Harley Apr 27
7:30 Door 8:00 Show $12.00 suggested donation
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Fri28Apr2023
Dorée • Eleanor Buckland • Liv Greene
7:30 Door 8:00 Show $12.00 suggested donation
Eleanor Buckland made her start as one-third of Lula Wiles, the Boston-based folk-rock trio that became an acoustic music scene favorite with their three critically hailed albums. Now living in Brooklyn, the singer songwriter has turned to a different side of her musical interests as a solo artist. Buckland’s debut album You Don’t Have To Know (released October 2021 on Soundly Music) sets her deeply personal songs against inventive indie rock arrangements.
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Sat29Apr2023
h. pruz • Dirty Bird • Hemlock Apr 29
7:30 Door 8:00 Show $12.00 suggested donation 
h. pruz is the solo project of Brooklyn based singer-songwriter Hannah Pruzinsky (they/she). h.pruz released their debut EP “again, there” in late 2022 via Oof Records.
The collection of songs is a front porch with wind chimes sounding; a nap on the couch on a summer afternoon; a pair of dirty hands in compost, letting dead things turn into something richer, kinder.
h. pruz expects to release their first full length album in late 2023.Elijah Berlow (Hemlock) is a Chicago-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist folk musician.
Originating from pastoral roots in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, Berlow is a playful story-teller with a narrative style grounded in the traditions of Americana music. As a vocalist, he emanates a sincere warmth through his thoughtful phrasing; and his diligent fingerpicking guitar-style leads steadily through the pulsing catharsis of any song. Berlow creates music that is complex, soulful and in conversation with a
rich rhythmic history. His music can currently be found on all streaming platforms including the newly self-released EP “Put Out Fires”(2022). -
Sat06May2023
Rachel Baiman and friends May 6
7:30 door 8:00 Show $15.00 adv / $20.00 Door
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Fri12May2023
Drinking Bird • TBA Mar 12
7:30 Door 8:00 Show $12.00 suggested donation
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Sat13May2023
Camilla Ortiz • TBA May 13
7:30 Door 8:00 Show $12.00 adv / $15.00 door May 20
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Sun14May2023
Emily Elbert • Lau Noah May 14
7:30 Door 8:00 Show $12.00 suggested donation
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Fri19May2023
Katie Von Schleicher • Poppy Patica • Broken Every Angle • Market May 19
7:30 Door 8:00 Show $12.00 adv / $15.00 door May 20
Poppy Patica was started by Peter Hartmann as a solo rock project in Oberlin, OH in 2014. The project has taken the form of full bands and various collaborations in Hartmann’s hometown, Washington D.C., as well as on tour around the country, including New York and Oakland, CA where Hartmann is now based. After several short releases, ranging from layered psych-pop, to dancey drum machine tracks, to stripped down acoustic songs, the first full length Poppy Patica studio album, Black Cat Back Stage, is out on May 5th via House of Joy. The album was recorded with a full band in D.C. in February of 2020. More recently, Poppy Patica recorded another full length album in the fall of 2022 with Nate Mendelsohn (Market), as well as an EP with Paco Cathcart (The Cradle).Broken Every Angle is the solo project of Tom Kearney. On “Telling Pattern”, his latest release (CEE-07), he combines avant garde soundscapes with rootsy guitar compositions, using a lyrical style that is by turns whimsical and psychedelic, yearning and nostalgic. Tom lives and books DIY shows in Mexico City’s thriving underground experimental music scene.On their debut for Western Vinyl, Nate Mendelsohn and his band Market use lyrical maximalism for the powers of good. On “The Consistent Brutal Bullshit Gong” Mendelsohn and his band carve out space for his words to speak through with humor and intensity. Guitars and synthesizers tangle fluidly over top of the rhythm section’s tight bedrock. Outside of Market, Mendelsohn has recorded and produced for artists like Frankie Cosmos, Dougie Poole, and Wendy Eisenberg, and played with Yaeji, Vagabon, Katie Von Schleicher (who co-produced the album with him), and Sam Evian (who mixed it). -
Sat20May2023
Lowpines • Air Waves • Darren Jessee May 20
7:30 Door 8:00 Show $12.00 adv / $15.00 door May 20
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Thu25May2023Sun28May2023
Ambient Pasta Presents Apr 25-28
7:30 Door 8:00 Show $12.00 adv / $15.00 door May 20
The good people of A.P, will occupy The Owl and offer their own unique curation and multi-sensory immersions for this week. https://ambientpasta.com
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Sat15Jul2023
Balance • Anna Webber/ Matt Mitchell duo Jul 15
7:30 Door 8:00 Show $12.00 adv / $15.00 door May 20
Balance is a collaborative duo between saxophonist Marcus Elliot and pianist Michael Malis. Called “among the most compelling Detroit jazz musicians of their generation,” Elliot and Malis’ “intuitive improvisations” stand on the threshold of composed and improvised music. Their 2022 sophomore album, Conjure, was called “one of the best contemporary jazz records to come out of Detroit in quite some time” (Hour Detroit Magazine.) In 2017, they released their eponymous debut record, which was praised by the Detroit Metro Times as “contemporary jazz of the highest order, a benchmark for where the genre can go.”
Anna Webber (flute/tenor sax) and Matt Mitchell (piano) have been playing music together for over 10 years in various projects, including in Anna’s Simple Trio and Clockwise Septet, and Matt’s Pouting Grimace and Sprees. However, this is the first time that they have collaborated as a duo. They will be premiering a set of new music, with music written by both Matt and Anna.