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  • Fri
    03
    Jan
    2025

    Hubby Jenkins • Hannah Lee Thompson • Ali Dineen Jan 3

    7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation

       

     

    Hubby Jenkins is a talented multi-instrumentalist who endeavors to share his love and knowledge of old-time American music. Born and raised in Brooklyn he delved into his southern roots, following the thread of African American history that wove itself through America’s traditional music forms. As an integral member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops and later Rhiannon Giddens band, Hubby has performed at festivals and venues around the world, earning himself both Grammy and Americana award nominations. Today he spreads his knowledge and love of old-time American music through his dynamic solo performances and engaging workshops.

    Hannah Lee Thompson is a musician and an organizer based in Baltimore and New York. She grew up in Brooklyn, performing frequently at the Jalopy Theatre and other local venues around New York. As a kid, she studied clawhammer banjo from Eli Smith of the Downhill Strugglers and Brooklyn Folk Festival. In 2019, she moved to Baltimore and worked doing live sound at Creative Alliance and Ottobar, while continuing to perform her own original music.  In 2021, she played the lead role in the feature film Hannah Ha Ha, which went on to win Best Narrative Feature and Best Acting Performance at Slamdance 2022, and premiered in theaters as a New York Times Critic’s Pick in February of 2023. 

    Ali Dineen is a songwriter, visual artist and teacher born and raised in Queens. Ali has performed at the Museum of Art and Design, the Caramoor American Roots Music Festival, the American Folk Art Museum, and the Brooklyn Folk Festival, among other wonderful venues, and was awarded the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Residency in 2020. Ali is also the music director for local puppet troupe extraordinaire The Boxcutter Collective, arranges music and sings with Reverend Billy & the Stop Shopping Choir, and is part of a duet with the inimitable Feral Foster. Ali released a third album, Hold On, in 2020, and is currently working on a new piece about Joan of Arc.

  • Sat
    04
    Jan
    2025

    sold out: Aggie Miller • Wendy Eisenberg • Tōth Jan 4

    7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $22.00 adv/ $25.00 door

        ***  SOLD OUT!  ***

    Aggie Miller is a 4 piece band from New York. The music is kind of like Sondheim, kind of like St Vincent. Mostly she just really hopes you know what she means by all of it.

    Wendy Eisenberg is an improvising guitarist, banjo player, songwriter, composer, and poet based in Western Massachusetts. Using the languages of free jazz, extreme metal, art song, and Tin Pan Alley, her music explores the questions surrounding the linguistic, representation, and technical demands placed on the body. This evening’s performance spotlights material in the language of the album she released on VDSQ, a label dedicated to the future of acoustic solo guitar music. Her guitar music has as much to do with the histories and languages of the guitar that she leaves out as it does with the languages she invents. This program of solo guitar music will integrate some of her sung material, but will primarily live in the rarefied, aesthetic world that the “Its Shape Is Your Touch” record introduces to you.

    Tōth is a project of Brooklyn multi-instrumentalist songwriter Alex Toth, known for collaborating and writing with Kimbra, Rubblebucket, Cuddle Magic and others. As Tōth, he presents his most vulnerable songs and performances yet — while also adding trumpet and guitar.

  • Sun
    05
    Jan
    2025

    Martina Liviero with Kevin Hays • Asher Kurtz Jan 5

    7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 adv / $20.00 at door

    tickets here

     

     

    Martina Liviero is a singer songwriter from Argentina, currently based in New York City.   Her sound effortlessly blends the complexity and sophistication of South American songwriting, with contemporary chamber music, experimental folk and jazz. Liviero’s music and arrangements were performed by internationally renowned ensembles, such as the New York Philharmonic and the Army Jazz Ambassadors Big Band. She was the recipient of the 2020 and 2019 ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Awards and the 2019 JEN Young Jazz Composer Award. Martina holds a B.M in Jazz Composition from Berklee College of Music, where she was awarded the Latin American Tour Scholarship.
     
    Grammy Award-winning jazz pianist, composer, and singer/songwriter Kevin Hays’s many recordings have received critical acclaim from The New York Times, Downbeat Magazine and Jazz Times. Kevin has recorded with Chris Potter, Bill Stewart, Joshua Redman, Jeff Ballard, Nicholas Payton, and Al Foster, among many others. Notable collaborations include a piano duo project with Brad Mehldau, world tours with James Taylor, Sonny Rollins, John Scofield, Joe Henderson, and Roy Haynes.   In addition, Kevin has become increasingly known as a gifted and expressive singer/songwriter. In 2015 he released the widely lauded recording New Day (Sunnyside), on which he performed his own songs.
     

    Old Feels is the solo project of guitarist and producer Asher Kurtz. Folk songs, IDM beats , cassette tape loops, and found sound sample chops create a comfy bed of nostalgic ambient texture and deep groove. His recent  album “Each Day” set to be out later this year, reflects on and explores the microcosms of childhood and how those memories impact everyday life. 

  • Thu
    09
    Jan
    2025

    Quartet Mirage • Caroline Kuhn • Hayden Arp and Griffin Jennings Jan 9

    7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation

     

     

    Quartet Mirage is a collective that honors the classical tradition by celebrating living composers and fusing popular music with chamber music.  The members of quartet mirage perform extensively together and separately across the Tri-State area both as a quartet and as featured strings for other groups spanning all genres and instrumentations. 
     
    Caroline Kuhn is a New York City native. Her introspective songs on guitar and banjo become bangers for the ages when backed by her powerful rock band. Most recently, she released her debut album, Be Something, showcasing her truly singular soprano and unwavering degree of command as a songwriter.
     
    Hayden Arp and Griffin Jennings are songwriters and producers based in Vienna and New York, respectively. They are longtime collaborators who met studying composition at Oberlin college and have been working on their song cycle album, The Towers we Lived In, since then. The album, out this January, deals with childhood, family, and the inevitable loss of innocence we all face as we grow older. 
     
     
     
  • Fri
    10
    Jan
    2025

    Alexia Avina • Kitba • Alara Jan 10

    7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation

     

     
     
    Alexia Avina is an experimental ambient folk artist based in Queens who blends minimalism and restraint with lush sonic landscapes and ethereal melodic hooks. 
     

    Kitba, the eponymous musical project of singer-songwriter and harpist Rebecca Kitba Bryson El-Saleh, is the culmination of a lifetime of musical and artistic development. Based in Brooklyn, El-Saleh makes exhilarating, deeply personal music that explores the nuances of interiority, self-acceptance, communication, mental health, and love. Kitba’s debut self-titled album, produced by El-Saleh and Zubin Hensler, was released in July 2023 via Ruination Record Co.

     
    Alara is a singer-songwriter and producer based in Brooklyn. Her debut EP, recorded in Toronto and Philadelphia, is set to be released early 2025. The past 12 months have proven to be a transformative period for Alara’s writing and artistry, bringing her back to her indie-folk and singer-songwriter roots. 
     
     
  • Sat
    11
    Jan
    2025

    Ambient Pasta presents Rain Johannes & Weeze Jan 11

    7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation

    Rain Johannes returns to The Owl to celebrate the 6-year anniversary of his album, “Overcome” by performing it in its entirety. Released in December 2018, Rain’s sophomore album builds upon the unique blend of introspective folk music, delicate classical guitar and hard rock first explored on his 2016 debut “Sunshine.” From the deep well dug by the likes of Joni Mitchell & Nick Drake, Johannes draws poetic lyricism and rich guitar harmony together to write his own stories of love, loss, and overcoming (naturally). Joined by multi-instrumentalist brothers Tom and Dan Criblez, you’ll be sure to hear “Overcome” at its fullest.

    Weeze is a multi-sensory artist always discovering and chasing new paths in his work. In music, piano became his greatest ally, exploring nostalgic melodies and creative arrangements of his compositions. Performing in collaboration with a variety of instruments and players, Weeze sets tend to be different every time he plays. Putting effort into the sequenced experience for his band and the audience, it allows space to do something that feels current and inspiring to everyone involved. Jan 11th, Weeze will explore a piano based collage, allowing songs and ideas to blend into each other. Weeze is also the director and lead curator for Ambient Pasta, the creative community event and production company based in Brooklyn, NY.

  • Sun
    12
    Jan
    2025

    Eric Gabriel • Joy Askew Jan 12

    7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation

    Eric Gabriel is an NYC born and raised songwriter, pianist, and producer.  Once generously described as “somewhere between Bootsy and Willie,” Eric’s music is occasionally groovy, at times introspective, and always pulling from a wide array of folk, soul, and 70s rock as well as his experience playing with his band Melt for the past seven years.  This show will be entirely unreleased music off his upcoming debut solo album.  For this performance, Eric will be joined by Adam Brisbin, Julian Cubillos, and Sean Mullins.

    Joy Askew is a musician; she’s also an artist. For the former, she’s played keyboards and sang harmony with some of the biggest stars in music…”

    Now, as a reinvented musical poet, Joy has been a dedicated songwriter and performer for many years. Along the way she has sung in a choir featured on an EP by Sufjan Stevens, collaborated with a British brass band and released 10 solo albums. Her music has been described as “surprisingly contemporary, or rather, timeless. As in timelessly beautiful songs, singing, and arrangements.”

    With Luca Benedetti, guitar; Tony Mason, drums; and Andy Hess, bass.

    https://www.joyaskew.com

  • Thu
    16
    Jan
    2025

    Tommy Economy • Worldwide Seagull • Peaceful Faces Jan 16

    7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation

       

    In the 8 years he has toured the US as a founding member of the band More Fatter, Tommy Economy  has gotten good at a lot of things: sleeping in vans, skipping meals, telling jokes on stage. But the skill he has honed most obsessively this past year is songwriting. On his debut album, ‘Filmmaking,’ the Brooklyn based songwriter weaves carefully crafted guitar parts and melodies with tender storytelling. It is a raw and authentic listen that will pull you in deep. 
     
    Worldwide Seagull is a song-art project brined in humility, solitude, and truth – a take on humanness, in an alternate verse. Look closely, and you’ll notice we both drink fresh water… She strives to provide care and healing, living off her songs amidst an abundance of candles, with a high chance of having a hot tub in her apartment one day!  A native of California and based in Brooklyn, Anna Abondolo is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans music, movement, visual art, and theater. Curious about individual experience, her work investigates memory, spatial environments, and their relationship to the physical body. Anna uses a combination of traditional notation, graphic scores, and text, writing for instrumental ensembles, vocalists, electronics, song, and bodies. 

    Peaceful Faces is a Brooklyn band that combines finger-picked guitar with vulnerable lyrics, sneaky chord progressions and warm brass arrangements. Tree Palmedo writes the songs and a crew of crack NYC instrumentalists helps make them better. Their most recent album, Sifting Through The Goo, Reaching For The Candlelight, was released in 2023, and their follow-up is due in 2025.

  • Fri
    17
    Jan
    2025

    Evangeline Young • O.0blivion • Damon Smith • Early Worm Jan 17

    7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation

         

    Evangeline Young is a Brooklyn based singer-songwriter and actor originally from Philadelphia. Having grown up in a family of folk singers, her music moves between the softer acoustic sounds of the folk songs she was raised on, and the harder edges of her indie-rock influences. Her lyrics feature a conversational poetry aimed at personal revelation with a few laughs along the way. In 2022, Evangeline opened for Glen Hansard (The Swell Season) at the Beacon Theatre in NYC and The Anthem in Washington D.C. She is currently finishing her first full length record which will be released next year.
     

    O.0blivion is a performing name used by (guitarist-lite) Oren Bloedow, slightly known for journeyman work behind numerous ‘Name’ artists about whom you can ask him directly, if you like; more collaborative work with leaders such as Meshell Ndegeocello, Chocolate Genius, Anohni and 101 Crustaceans; and co-leading the band Elysian Fields with lifetime music partner Jennifer Charles.  He will appear tonight with his own tunes, singer/ bassist Adam Minkoff and drummer Robert DiPietro.

    Early Worm is a Brooklyn based alternative folk trio consisting of Liam Hastings, Henry Nelson, and Will Curry. They released their debut EP, EW.EP1, in May 2024, and are currently working on their debut full-length album.
     
    Damon Smith is a NYC-based pianist, songwriter, and improviser. Born and raised in Brooklyn, he has played his original music at venues such as the Highline Ballroom, the Joe’s Pub, CBGB’s, and Webster Hall. His debut solo album, “Intimate Machinery,” came out shortly after Smith graduated from NEC in December 2017. His second album “God of the Grid” dropped in March 2019, which prompted NPR’s Here and Now to state: “Excited for what he has next.” He has a band with his brother Brendan Jacob Smith called The Brightmares, and their debut album “When The World Gets Fixed” dropped in 2022.
     
  • Sat
    18
    Jan
    2025

    Lena Bartels • Kelly Schenk • Purse Jan 18

    7:30 doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation

     

    Léna Bartels is a songwriter based in Brooklyn, NY. In December 2022, Bartels released her debut EP “Preservation,” a collection of songs that play with language and fantasy, trying on various sonic hats to explore what it means to be uncovered. She is currently working on her first full-length album, with an expected release in 2025.

    Kelly Schenk is a Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter from Portland, Oregon. Her recent work fuses elements of folk storytelling with an indie-pop sensibility, creating a sound that is both intimate and colorful. Kelly released her debut album Something About You, featuring the single “Making Room,” which appeared on Spotify’s Best Vocal Jazz of 2021. Her latest release, Yellow Light, showcases three live performances with some of Miami’s top musicians, a city where she spent much of her career before relocating to NYC. Kelly’s music commonly explores themes of identity, body neutrality, and acceptance, drawing heavily on imagery from the natural world.

    Purse is the brainchild of songwriter/vocalist Carrie Furniss and Priya Carlberg.  The music highlights lush vocal harmonies, prog-rock elements and improvisation.  They are joined by guitarist Stephe Cooper and drummer Joanna Quinn.  

  • Sun
    19
    Jan
    2025

    Ann Gillespie's The Dictionary! matinee 2PM Jan 19

    2:oo P M. !!!!

    Ann Gillespie is a playwright and performer who lives in Brooklyn, New York. Ann’s darkly comedic and nuanced writing for theater and film emphasizes movement, ambiguous moral dilemmas, and strong female characters. Plays include The End of a Sound; Choreographing a Rape Scene to go into a Feminist Play, and Bunnies Inside of Her. Her stop motion animation work has been streamed on Broadstream.

    While earning her BFA in Drama at Syracuse University, Ann was able to study performance at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London. Ann later went on to earn an MA in Text and Performance from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. The End of a Sound was a Semi-Finalist for The Relentless Award, and was workshopped at Texas Tech University.

    anngillespieplaywright.com

  • Sun
    19
    Jan
    2025

    Noah Garabedian Trio • Michael Sarian Jan 19

    7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation

     

    While his quartet has been described as “the work of a band that’s developed the kind of telepathy only the road can build . . . there’s a late ’70s-early ’80s feel to the music throughout, more akin to the ‘stadium jazz’ of V.S.O.P. or Milestone-era McCoy Tyner” (Philip Freeman, The NYC Jazz Record), trumpeter and composer Michael Sarian has been praised for his “unique compositional and instrumental voice” (Friedrich Kunzmann, All About Jazz) and his “endlessly renewable strain of lyric improvisation regardless of context or material.” (Peter Margasak, Downbeat Magazine).

    Born in Toronto and raised in Buenos Aires, Michael relocated to NYC in 2012, and has performed at some of the most iconic international stages, including the Montreux Jazz Festival, Kennedy Center, Teatro Colón in Argentina, Blue Note Jazz Club, Jazz at Lincoln Center, BRIC JazzFest, and Central Park SummerStage. He has appeared on WNYC’s Soundcheck with John Schaefer, NPR’s World Cafe, and many more.

     

    The Noah Garabedian Trio, featuring Vinicius Gomes on guitar and Ele Howell on drums,  joins together to explore original music as well as music of Milton Nascimento, John Coltrane, and João Bosco. Their non-hierarchical approach is reflected in moments of spontaneous free improvisation and the transitions into new songs.

  • Thu
    23
    Jan
    2025

    Kayla WIlliams • Vanisha Gould Jan 23

    7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation

  • Fri
    24
    Jan
    2025

    Pink Must • Relatives • Nuria Graham Jan 24

    7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation

     

    Pink Must is the collaborative project of Brooklyn-based sound artists and musicians Mari Maurice and Lynn Avery. Mari’s work, often under the moniker more eaze, ranges from ambient pop to deconstructed sound collage. Her numerous solo and collaborative releases weave mundane, everyday sounds, acoustic orchestration and instrumentation, and electronics into adventurous textural compositions. Lynn is known for a.o. Iceblink, an ever shifting instrumental collage that has recently evolved into a dynamic 6-piece ensemble. Her ambient jazz project with Cole Pulice released an album last year, while her improvisational work for Signal Quest invents new styles of synthesis and production.

    Relatives – Ian McLellan Davis and Katie Vogel – met upon arrival in 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. 

    Núria Graham began her musical journey in Catalonia, Spain, releasing her debut album at the age of sixteen. Since then, she has released four albums and performed on stages worldwide, including festivals like Primavera Sound. Her latest album, “Cyclamen” (Verve Forecast, 2023), self-produced by Núria, is filled with dreamy textures, wind and string arrangements, from piano to classical guitar. Influenced by classical music, film scores and jazz, this album is a new approach to Núria’s oneiric world.

  • Sat
    25
    Jan
    2025

    Domestic Drafts single release w Winston C.W. & Mason Lindahl Jan 25

    7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation

     

    Domestic Drafts is the songwriting and guitar-playing project of Andy Cush, who can otherwise be found playing bass and singing in Garcia Peoples. He likes Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Bill Callahan, the Roches, Richard Thompson, Nick Drake, the Beatles, Jimmy Webb. Other stuff too, obviously, but that list should give you a sense of the target, at least. With his aim, it’s always possible that the arrow lands somewhere else entirely: a few yards short, or even behind him sometimes, its feathers pointing slantwise toward the sky, its head buried an inch in the dirt. 

    Winston C.W. is the moniker of Winston Cook-Wilson, lead singer, keyboardist, and songwriter in the Brooklyn band Office Culture. (The band released their fourth album, Enough, in the fall of 2024.) Distinct from the pop-oriented, groove-based music of Office Culture, Cook-Wilson’s solo performances are spare and intimate, drawing influence from Scott Walker, Leonard Cohen, and Mark Hollis. He debuted as Winston C.W. with 2017’s Thirty, followed by his quarantine standards album Without a Sail. His emotionally unsparing and exploratory Good Guess(2020) features jazz-influenced arrangements assisted by upright bassist Carmen Quill and guitarist Ryan El-Solh of Scree.

     

  • Sun
    26
    Jan
    2025

    Ellie MacPhee • Kyle Morgan • Kat Wallace Jan 26

    7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15 suggested donation

        

    Ellie MacPhee is a Brooklyn-based violinist and singer-songwriter. She recently released her debut EP, ‘Cardinal Creek,’ which explores themes of growing up in South Carolina, blackberry pie, old love, and strange neighbors. Her writing is inspired by the small tragedies and comedies within our day-to-day lives.
     
    Kyle Morgan is a Brooklyn-based songwriter originally from Dillsburg, Pennsylvania, where he grew up singing with his family at church and home.  With influences ranging from the classic roots music of the Carter Family and Hank Williams to more modern artists like Thom Yorke and Rufus Wainwright, Kyle sings songs of spiritual longing, struggle and redemption in an earnest tenor voice. He released three albums in the twenty-teens under the name Starcrossed Losers.  In 2022, his latest record, Younger at Most Everything, came out on Team Love Records under his own name.  
     
    Kat Wallace is a Boston-based multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter. Her affinity for original music has her touring with local bands, most notably as the fiddle player in Rachel Sumner and Traveling Light. Her debut solo album, Grand Design, set to be released early in 2025, captures Wallace’s musings on world’s endings, sailing across the western ocean, and moving on. Her timeless lyrics and virtuosic guitar playing are grounded in traditional Celtic and American folk repertoire. 
  • Thu
    30
    Jan
    2025

    Carlo Costa / BlankFor.ms / Kenny Warren • Ludovica Burtone Quartet Jan 30

    7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15 suggested donation

     

    Kenny Warren on trumpet
    Carlo Costa on percussion
    BlankFor.ms on live audio processing
    Electroacoustic collaboration between Tyler Gilmore aka BlankFor.ms who makes richly textured, emotive music using degraded tapes, analog synthesizers; sonically minded trumpeter/composer Kenny Warren; and percussionist Carlo Costa, founder of Neither/Nor Records and pillar of Brooklyn’s minimalist improv community.

    Ludovica Burtone is celebrating the release of her second single from her upcoming album, Migration Tales (Endectomorph, April 2025). Inspired by stories of immigrant women in New York City, her music blends jazz, classical, and global influences in a heartfelt and unique way. The quartet will perform pieces from the upcoming album and other older compositions for an intimate night of music and storytelling. 
    With Ludovica Burtone violin/composition • Marta Sanchez piano • Chris Tordini bass • Eliza Salem drums

     

  • Fri
    31
    Jan
    2025

    Andre Matos • The Cradle Jan 31

    7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation

     

  • Sat
    01
    Feb
    2025

    anna rg (+band) • medium (Yaz Lancaster + gg200bpm) Feb 1

    7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation

    Out of respect for the artist's wishes THIS IS A MASKED SHOW.  Thanks for your understanding.

      

    anna rg  presents new songs  (with a band)

    Songs for guitar voice and improvisation, chronicling small interior moments, difficult silences, letters across centuries, griefs of sick and abandoned, and what joy, the connection between sick friends. anna learned fiddle in east kentucky in her early twenties; she spent a decade touring with her ballad-singing duo Anna & Elizabeth: their record on Smithsonian Folkways was dubbed “a radical expansion of what folk songs are supposed to do” by The New Yorker. she holds a masters degree in sculpture, tends a small backyard garden, enjoys chats with her neighbors and works as a community organizer and disability activist. this body of work is supported by the nyc women’s fund.

    medium. is a project by multidisciplinary artists Yaz Lancaster and gg200bpm. They perform longform compositions and improvisations with unique electroacoustic instrumentations, including buzz saws, handmade steel instruments, violin, voice(s), samplers, keyboards and octatrack. Their music considers tension/release, spiritual energies, and collective experiences; often situated in the extremes of softer ambient textures and harsh noise; or sound installation. medium. has performed at venues like Nublu, Sleepwalk, Cassette, and Hart Bar; and streamed on The Lot Radio. 

    access info for the show : 

    masks will be required in the listening room. air purifiers will be present, provided by airnyc.

    the venue, and bathroom, is wheelchair accessible. 

     

  • Sun
    02
    Feb
    2025

    Leather Dollar • The Mops Feb 2

    7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation

  • Thu
    06
    Feb
    2025

    Justin Felton & Ryan El-Solh • Little Mystery • Alena Spanger Feb 6

    7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation

     

    Justin Felton & Ryan El-Solh play guitar – at the same time!

    Little Mystery is the musical project of singer-songwriter Ivy Meissner. Propelled by a rich and dynamic voice and guitar-driven compositions, Meissner crafts expansive and diverse musical landscapes, delving into corners of her past and seeking connection in a fractured world. Little Mystery’s self-titled debut record is out now via Ruination Records.
     
    Alena Spanger is a singer/keyboardist/songwriter based in Brooklyn. Weaving together angular art-pop songcraft, unorthodox vocalizations, and intricate arrangements, Spanger’s songs construct their own elaborate and immersive worlds. 
     
     
     
  • Fri
    07
    Feb
    2025

    Stefani Bondari • Little Cliff • Dorèe Feb 7

    7:30 Door 8:00 Music $15 suggested donation

     

    Stefani Bondari seeks to find power in vulnerability. Her introspective anthems are fearless affirmations of how we are strongest in our most delicate states. Incorporating her classical and jazz background, Stefani creates her own genre of rock that is both tender and entropic. Performing her most intimate thoughts, Bondari opens up a space for everyone to find themselves in her songs. 
     
    Little Cliff  a/k/a Neil MacLeod Stiskin is a 25-year-old singer-songwriter born and raised in Rockland County, NY. The first song he ever learned to sing was “You Are My Sunshine” at age four, which finds itself reinterpreted as the closer on 2023’s full-length release “the falling part.” The moniker Little Cliff is a reference to the sloped rocky cliffs he used to admire while visiting family in Maritime Canada. Over the last ten years, Neil has experimented with songwriting and recording techniques with various collaborators, and released three albums and 2 EPs under Little Cliff. Neil continues to be inspired by personal songwriting heroes like Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Alex G, and Adrianne Lenker. Little Cliff is Dorée Gordon (Dorée) on drums and vocals, Ben Roffman on bass and vocals, and Connor Gibson (Wiring) on guitar, with Neil acting as songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist. The current iteration of Little Cliff offers an easy and fully realized sound that comes as a result of years of friendship and musical collaboration between members.  
     

    Dorée is a Brooklyn based artist, songwriter and musician.   A multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, they regularly play shows in venues and DIY spaces throughout NYC and have toured through states in the US, in both solo and band formation. Dorée’s songs combine folk, alternative, math, experimental and other elements to create a variety of unique sounds.

  • Sat
    08
    Feb
    2025

    Or Best Offer • Otracami • The Cradle Feb 8

    7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation

     

     
    Or Best Offer is a brooklyn-based duo project made up of Brian Culligan & Grace L.s. Incorporating tactile sampling & experimental electronics to augment & reinforce their drum, guitar and vocal set-up, their music quilts together ambient, post-rock, electro-folk, soft noise & new age mysticism.
     
    Otracami is the project of Camila Ortiz, a Brooklyn-based songwriter and producer. Her songs unravel moments of the past that demand attention, seeking to convey otherwise incommunicable truths. She released her debut full-length album, touching the stove coil, in November 2023.
     
    The Cradle is the musical project of Paco Cathcart. Born and raised in Brooklyn, and having cut their teeth at seminal DIY venues such as Palisades, The Glove, Silent Barn, etc, Cathcart has been a fixture in the New York underground for a decade or so. Often the lone “singer-songwriter” on bills with noise musicians, performance artists and clowns, Cathcart’s eclectic music reflects their locality in a thriving experimental arts scene, as well as their root interests in folk music, story-telling, history and poetry. Cathcart has something like 50 releases on cassette, vinyl, CD, and digitally, through many different indie labels, notably NNA Tapes, as well as self-releasing.
     
  • Sun
    09
    Feb
    2025

    Paul Bedal Feb 9. (bertucci fraser canceled!)

    7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation

     

    Pianist and composer Paul Bedal will perform a set of new compositions featuring melodic writing and free improvisation. His work spans various creative music scenes/film composition and music production. This performance will include trumpeter Kenny Warren, saxophonist Caroline Davis, bassist Dion Kerr and drummer Roberto Giaquinto. Bedal’s recent record Cerulean Stars has been described, “As the recording develops, a clear impression of his style as a writer comes into focus, with each piece grounded in melodic designs that are generally intricate and atypical – in a good way.” – Textura

    Lea Bertucci / Henry Fraser are canceled due to driving conditions upstate

  • Thu
    13
    Feb
    2025

    Charlie Burnham •The Binoculars • Mamie Minch Feb 13

    7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation

     

    Mamie Minch is a longtime staple of New York’s acoustic blues scene. Listening to her sing and play is like unpacking a time capsule of American music that’s been stored in her 1930’s National steel guitar for decades and filtered with a modern femme sensitivity.  Her latest album is the EP Slow Burn, a collaboration with drummer/producer Dean Sharenow.

    The Binoculars: Welcome to Chloë and K8A picnic blanket in the shade of a black walnut tree, where they’ve brought a pair of binoculars to peer at long lost tunes from around the world using fiddle, guitar, lap steel, and laser vocal harmonies.

    Charlie Burnham is a local fiddler and songster who loves performing at The Owl Music Parlor.  On February 13th he will be singing some songs and fiddling along in a duet with the wonderful bass maestro Fred Cash.  Expect the unexpected with a garnish of the usual.

  • Fri
    14
    Feb
    2025

    special Valentine's Day show with Camellia Hartman • The Point Feb 14

    7:00 Door 7:30pm Show

     

    Camellia Hartman is a Manhattan-born, Brooklyn-based violinist, singer, and event producer working across a wide range of genres and musical stylings. Whether it be through recording, performing, arranging, or coordinating bespoke ensembles, Camellia is passionate about all sides of the creative process, collaboration, and the magic of bringing an artistic vision to life.

    Over the past 10+ years as a freelance musician in NYC, Camellia has performed and recorded with hundreds of artists in the greater New York area as well as joined artists on regional and national tours such as Ghost Funk Orchestra (vocals, 2023), Skullcrusher (violin/vocals, 2022), Pom Pom Squad (violin/vocals, 2022) and Katie Martucci (violin/vocals, 2019). 

    The Point is a synchronized live performance of the entire Harry Nilsson opus with the charming film projected on the Owl’s theater-size screen.  A perfect date!

    SPECIAL EXTRA SET:  after the screening,  The Point mastermind Eric Burns will share Trans-Sapien Immortal Babies. TSIB is an experimental musical fable inspired directly by Harry Nilsson’s The Point! Join the Band and the Babies on a ride as they learn about growing up without getting any older and what it means to create something.

     

  • Sat
    15
    Feb
    2025

    Robert Wyatt birthday show with Adam Minkoff and friends Feb 15

    7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation

  • Sun
    16
    Feb
    2025

    Martha Wainwright special early show

    5pm door

    Tickets Here:

    https://tickets.venuepilot.com/e/martha-wainwright-2025-02-16-the-owl-brooklyn-206126

     

    Born into music royalty, the daughter of folk legends Kate McGarrigle and Loudon
    Wainwright III and sister to the highly acclaimed, genre defying singer Rufus
    Wainwright, Martha Wainwright grew up in a world filled with incomparable musical legends Anna McGarrigle, Leonard Cohen, Suzzy Roche, Richard and Linda Thompson, and Emmylou Harris and struggled to find her voice in a milieu in which every drama was refracted through song. Then, in 2005, she released her critically acclaimed debut album,
    Martha Wainwright, which containing the blistering hit, “Bloody Mother F*cking Asshole,”
    which the Sunday Times called one of the best songs of the year. That release, and the albums that followed, such as Come Home to Mama and I Know You’re Married But I’ve Got Feelings Too, showcased Martha’s searing songwriting style and established her as a
    powerful voice to be reckoned with.

  • Sun
    16
    Feb
    2025

    Jackie Evans • Katie Martucci • TBA Feb 16

    7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation

       

    Jackie Evans is a singer-songwriter and pianist based in NYC. She’s a classic songwriter; her music has melodic lines and piano arrangements reminiscent of 70’s styles with a modern take. Her most recent release, ‘January’ is out now on all platforms. 

    Katie Martucci is a tall lady in Brooklyn, singing as much as possible and just trying to get good at music, ya know? Her latest release ‘Note to Self’ on La Reserve Records is a collection of songs about the “unspoken third thing in the room” — stories surrounding friendship, family history, imposter syndrome, her own personal journey with epilepsy and more.

  • Wed
    19
    Feb
    2025

    John Roseboro• Zoh Amba WEDNESDAY Feb 19

    7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation

  • Thu
    20
    Feb
    2025

    Martina Liviero • Jesse Harris Feb 20

    7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 adv / $20.00 at door

    TICKETS:

    https://tickets.venuepilot.com/e/martina-jesse-2025-02-20-the-owl-brooklyn-6c02e5

     

    Martina Liviero is a singer songwriter from Argentina, currently based in New York City.   Her sound effortlessly blends the complexity and sophistication of South American songwriting, with contemporary chamber music, experimental folk and jazz. Liviero’s music and arrangements were performed by internationally renowned ensembles, such as the New York Philharmonic and the Army Jazz Ambassadors Big Band. She was the recipient of the 2020 and 2019 ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Awards and the 2019 JEN Young Jazz Composer Award. Martina holds a B.M in Jazz Composition from Berklee College of Music, where she was awarded the Latin American Tour Scholarship.

     

    Jesse Harris is a Grammy Award-winning songwriter, singer, guitarist, and producer of artists from all over the world. Originally from New York City, he began making records in the mid ’90s. Since then he has released more than 20 albums under his own name, as well as many others with various projects. His latest album is Paper Flower, a collection of new songs, recorded in Paris with his old friends Kenny Wollesen and Tony Scherr, who will perform with Jesse at The Owl.

  • Fri
    21
    Feb
    2025

    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. 

  • Sat
    22
    Feb
    2025

    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.

  • Sun
    23
    Feb
    2025

    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. 
     
     

     

     

  • Thu
    27
    Feb
    2025

    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.

  • Fri
    28
    Feb
    2025

    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 !
  • Sat
    01
    Mar
    2025

    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. 

  • Sun
    02
    Mar
    2025

    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.

  • Thu
    06
    Mar
    2025

    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.

  • Fri
    07
    Mar
    2025

    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.

     

  • Sat
    08
    Mar
    2025

    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. 

     

  • Sun
    09
    Mar
    2025

    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.
     
     
     
     
  • Thu
    13
    Mar
    2025

    Wendy Eisenberg salutes Morton Feldman March 13

    7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation

  • Fri
    14
    Mar
    2025

    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.

  • Sat
    15
    Mar
    2025

    Anne Malin • Miles Hewitt March 15

    7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation

  • Sun
    16
    Mar
    2025

    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.

  • Thu
    20
    Mar
    2025

    Tabaret March 20

    7:30 Doors 8:00 Music

    Tabaret: New York’s inclusive Tapestry Choir’s annual Cabaret-fundraiser 

    about Tapestry:

    The Tapestry Choir aims to break 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. We seek to invite everyone—of any background, culture, socioeconomic status, or identity—into the lively world of choral music. As a group, we care deeply about fostering a sense of community both among the membership and the broader NYC arts community. We craft an ensemble culture where members genuinely support each other and we aim to regularly collaborate with other groups, musicians, and artists of all kinds across NYC.

  • Fri
    21
    Mar
    2025

    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.
  • Sat
    22
    Mar
    2025

    Emma Frank and Elizabeth Ziman March 22

    7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation

  • Sun
    23
    Mar
    2025

    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.

  • Thu
    27
    Mar
    2025

    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.

     

     

  • Fri
    28
    Mar
    2025

    Riley McBride • Alexia Avina • Jesse In Gray Mar 28

    7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation

     

     

    Riley McBride is a South Georgia-raised Brooklyn-based artist who laughs uncontrollably when uncomfortable. Through meticulous surveys of the psychological and physical landscape, their folk/rock-inspired songwriting reflects on growing up in the Bible Belt, familial structures, and waves of romantic yearning and strain.

    Alexia Avina is an experimental ambient folk artist based in Queens who blends minimalism and restraint with lush sonic landscapes and ethereal melodic hooks. 

  • Sat
    29
    Mar
    2025

    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.”

  • Sun
    30
    Mar
    2025

    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.

  • Fri
    04
    Apr
    2025

    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.

  • Sat
    05
    Apr
    2025

    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. 

  • Fri
    11
    Apr
    2025

    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 -drums
     
    Ian 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. 

     

  • Sat
    12
    Apr
    2025

    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.

  • Fri
    25
    Apr
    2025

    Jane Bruce • Bold Forbes Apr 25

    7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation

      

     
     
  • Sat
    26
    Apr
    2025

    Maia MacDonald • Mirah Zeitlin April 26

    7:30 Door 8:00 Music

        

  • Fri
    09
    May
    2025

    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.

     

  • Thu
    22
    May
    2025

    Phillip Golub and Lesley Mok • Amir El Saffar May 22

    7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15.00 suggested donation

     

  • Fri
    23
    May
    2025

    Cam Knowler • Adeline Hotel • Nuria Graham May 23

    7:30 doors 8:00 music $15 suggested donation

       

  • Sun
    25
    May
    2025

    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
  • Sat
    31
    May
    2025

    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.

  • Wed
    18
    Jun
    2025

    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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