CALENDAR

DOORS @ 7:30 / SHOWS @ 8PM, UNLESS POSTED OTHERWISE 

• Sat

  26

  Apr

  2025

  Classical Piano with Charlotte from The Mops • Peter Stampfel and the Atomic Meta Pagans April 26

  6:30 Doors, Charlotte at 7, Stampfel, etc 8pm $15.00 suggested Donation

     

  Charlotte from The Mops has spent a lot of her life practicing classical piano. She is currently completing her doctorate in piano performance at SUNY Stony Brook, where she studies with 89-year old legend Gilbert Kalish (one more year than keys) and teaches undergraduate piano students. This solo piano program at the Owl will focus on fantastical imagination, with selections from Bach’s Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, Beethoven’s Sonata quasi fantasia, and Scriabin’s Sonata-Fantasy. When not at the piano or in band practice with the Mops, Charlotte works with her mom to run Music at Port Milford, a summer chamber music festival and school in Ontario. She welcomes all challenges to her unusually developed knowledge of string quartet trivia.

  Peter Stampfel first came to prominence in 1964, as the singing, banjoist-fiddler co-founder of the Holy Modal Rounders, who were in turn the backing band of the Fugs at the time of their 1965 debut. These alone would have secured his place in history as a founder of Freak Folk.  But Peter has never stopped playing or innovating.  This show will feature a largely new repertoire, including a batch of recent “soul jingles” featuring the wisdom of the Stoics. 

  The Atomic Meta-Pagans on this date may be: Peter Stampfel (electric uke, fiddle, banjo, lead vocals), Steve Espinola (piano), Heather Wagner (drums), Eli Hekto (banjo, mandolin), Sam Werbalowsky (lap steel), Dok Gregory (general “kirking”), Paul Nowinski (bass).