DOORS @ 7:30 / SHOWS @ 8PM, UNLESS POSTED OTHERWISE
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Fri12Sep2025
Leila Adu • Ali Dineen • Stephanie Nilles Sept 12
7:30 Doors 8:00 Music $15 suggested donation
Leila Adu’s velvet-voiced performances weave punk protest lyrics, classical harmonies, Afro rock, and torch songs into a striking, personal sound. Born in New Zealand to Ghanaian-British roots, she has performed worldwide and drawn comparisons to Nina Simone and Joanna Newsom. Adu has released five acclaimed albums, appeared on BBC and WQXR, and performed with the Ojai Music Festival, Bang on a Can, and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. Her credits include Late Night with David Letterman and composing for a Billboard-charting album. LEILA ADU features David Frazier on drums and Spencer Murphy on bass.
Ali Dineen is a Queens-based songwriter whose deeply vulnerable and compassionate music fosters connection and community. They have performed at the Museum of Art and Design, Brooklyn Folk Festival, Caramoor American Roots, and more. Ali was Musician in Residence with Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir (2022–24), opening for Neil Young’s Love Earth Tour. A 2025 NYSCA Support for Artists recipient and Wurlitzer Fellow, Ali is also Music Director of the Boxcutter Collective and is developing an opera on Joan of Arc. In addition to writing and performing, Ali teaches harmony, guitar, and youth chorus in NYC schools.
Stephanie Nilles is a New Orleans–based pianist, composer, and singer-songwriter. A Cleveland Institute of Music graduate, she has toured internationally since 2008, performing at festivals from Calgary to Ingolstadt. She has appeared at Carnegie Hall with Bobby McFerrin and is a Wurlitzer Fellow and former artist-in-residence. Her recording of Charles Mingus’s music, I pledge allegiance to the flag – the white flag…, won multiple NYC Jazz Record awards in 2021. Nilles also composed the score for NDR’s Jenseits von Eden, which won the 2022 German Audiobook Prize for Best Radio Play. She lives in New Orleans.