Harrison Basch / Eamon Fogarty / Ongoing
May
5
8:00 PM20:00

Harrison Basch / Eamon Fogarty / Ongoing

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Harrison Basch is a songwriter/instrumentalist born and raised in the Hudson Valley, New York. He has performed in several groups, on the west and east coasts, either playing his own songs or drumming for the likes of Emily Ritz, Credit Electric, or The Long Road Society artists. Harrison’s lyricism is revolved around love, death, and nature. His music is both soulful heart folk and dark jangly experimental landscapes. His songs reflect the times that we live in and beckon the audience to engage honestly.

Harrisonbasch.bandcamp.com

Eamon Fogarty is a composer, songwriter, singer, multi-instrumentalist, and audio archivist who was born in the state of 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 numerous folk and rock bands, (Alex Dupree, Psychic Temple, Matt Kivel) choral groups, free improvisatory ensembles, and theater productions. His new songs are concerned with the porosity of human categories, and the speed at which language erodes.

eamonfogarty.bandcamp.com

Ongoing is a folk-rock group based in the Hudson Valley, NY. The band features lead vocals by Katie Jones, Adam Netsky of Maybird on drums, multi-instrumentalist Braden Bodensteiner and Jonathan Hudack on bass. Ongoing’s songs vary in style and draw inspiration from artists like Neil Young, Wilco and early Fairport Convention. They consider each live show an opportunity to ever so slightly explore beyond the edge of a song. Their music presents passionately delivered melodies, philosophical lyrics, as well as spirited and wild sonic textures.

https://katiejones.bandcamp.com/

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Katy Pinke / Sam Kogon
May
8
8:00 PM20:00

Katy Pinke / Sam Kogon

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Katy Pinke’s songs are self-examinations—cerebral and unsparing, but reaching toward a more promising future. The Manhattan-based singer-songwriter, painter and actor mixes the precise and wry delivery of The Roches and Connie Converse with the idiosyncratic songforms of her espoused hero Bill Callahan. The songs on her self-titled debut album possess a direct and inviting quality, but within each, a quiet battle is being waged in an ongoing struggle to, as Pinke puts it, “unconditionally love a fragmented self.”

https://katypinke.bandcamp.com/

Sam Kogon describes his new approach as that of an “Upstate country rockabilly crooner,” a sound he had once put off while playing in Brooklyn’s psychedelic scene. Kogon lived and played in New York for several years, but nowadays lives in Westchester and spends more time in LA. He has always skewed a little older in his sensibilities, from an early affinity for Chopin and the Beatles to the session work he’s done with Al Jardine of The Beach Boys, fronting the 1960's revived baroque pop group The Left Banke ("Walk Away Renee"), and songwriting with Grammy Award nominee Patty Smyth. He has recorded two albums of psych-adjacent power pop, including 2016’s standout Psychic Tears (Beyond Beyond is Beyond), which was co-produced by Kogon and Sam Owens (aka Sam Evian) and features a duet with Frankie Cosmos on the track "I Was Always Talking." His latest self-titled EP (2022) was produced by Kurt Vile and Dinosaur Jr. producer, John Agnello. The new EP features the single "Barbed Wire", which Rodney Bingenheimer picked as "the Coolest Song in the World" on Little Steven's Underground Garage on SiriusXM.

“I’m sure you’ll notice Sam‘s affinity for power pop and new wave rock along lines of Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, maybe even T. Rex” – Alice Cooper


"A student of 1960s pop, Kogon is paring down his previous psychedelic sound and exploring his country roots." - The Boot

"Dusty guitar pop recalls late-'70s powerpop acts like Nick Lowe and Marshall Crenshaw" - Brooklyn Vegan

https://www.samkogon.com/

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Savak / Sky Furrows / Elephant Rex
May
9
8:00 PM20:00

Savak / Sky Furrows / Elephant Rex

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SAVAK was formed in 2015 by Sohrab Habibion (Obits, Edsel) and Michael Jaworski (The Cops, Virgin Islands), who play guitars and trade off singing songs, along with drummer Matt Schulz (Holy Fuck, Enon). The live band features Jeff Gensterblum (Small Brown Bike, Her Head’s On Fire) on drums and bassist Matt Hunter (New Radiant Storm King, Silver Jews).
https://www.savakband.com/

Fronted by poet Karen Schoemer, Albany NY’s Sky Furrows combine influences from krautrock, NZ bands the Clean and theVerlaines, the Minutemen, Sylvia Plath and early Sonic Youth. Schoemer collaborates with bassist Mike Watt in Jaded Azurites, and with Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby. Eric Hardiman, Mike Griffin and Phil Donnelly are members of psych rock unit Burnt Hills.
https://skyfurrows.bandcamp.com/

Elephant Rex are a terrifying indie rock band that will melt your face off.
https://elephantrex.com/

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Erica Dawn Lyle / Wing/Kite / Matt Weston / Widow
May
12
8:00 PM20:00

Erica Dawn Lyle / Wing/Kite / Matt Weston / Widow

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Erica Dawn Lyle is a writer, musician, artist, and curator who lives in New York and Florida. One half of the art and filmmaking collective, SOBBETH, Lyle is the author of several books, the founder of Bermuda Triangle Press, and, most recently, was the guitar player of Bikini Kill.

Kite aka Suzanne Kite is an award winning Oglála Lakȟóta performance artist, visual artist, composer and academic, known for her sound and video performance with her Machine Learning hair-braid interface. Kite’s practice explores contemporary Lakota ontology through research-creation, computational media, and performance. Kite often works in collaboration with family and community members.

Robbie Wing (Cherokee Nation) is an artist, musician, and composer. His artistic practice focuses on immersive and spatialized sound installations, ecological sound art, and composition for acoustic instruments, electronics, and field recordings. Robbie holds an undergraduate degree in Environmental Sustainability and a master’s degree in Urban Design from the University of Oklahoma where he developed sound art installations based on his research on environmental psychology and acoustic landscapes.

Matt Weston plays percussion and electronics. He has studied and/or collaborated with Arthur Brooks, Bill Callahan/Smog, Bill Dixon, Kevin Drumm, Paul Flaherty, Charles Gayle, Milford Graves, Mary Halvorson, Le Quan Ninh, Bob Marsh, Ben Miller (ex-Destroy All Monsters), Roger Miller (Mission of Burma), Jim O’Rourke, Jeff Parker, Jack Wright, and many others. His work has earned critical praise from such publications as the Wire, the Village Voice, Signal To Noise, Cadence, All About Jazz, Grooves, and Bananafish. His solo works have garnered international acclaim, as have his recordings with Barn Owl, Tizzy, and Thrillpillow. He has recorded for the Tautology, Sachimay, Breaking World Records, Imvated, Crank Satori, BoxMedia, and Drag City labels. He currently records for his own 7272Music label. In addition to his solo work, Weston is currently a member of the Arthur Brooks Ensemble V; and Arc Pair with drummer Amanda Kraus.

Widow (A.Vitacolonna) gathers and directs sound in collaboration with living environments. With a background in movement, they imagine feeling the pulse in the room and amplifying it back like an echo in the space. Their work is improvisational and ephemeral, and their palette ranges from minimal & acoustic to layered & immersive, at times punishing. They often utilize bells, chimes, strung instruments, feedback, symbols, vocals, breath, the human body, household objects, and electronic distortion to create various sonic and spatial manipulations. Outside of their musical endeavors, they practice hypnotherapy, and take up their time with studies in consciousness, the extra sensory, communication, nature, ancient medicine, and energetic practices.

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Lydia Luce / Julia Zivic
May
13
8:00 PM20:00

Lydia Luce / Julia Zivic

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Monday May 13th
8PM
$15 ADV / $18 DOS

On her new album Florida Girl, Lydia Luce offers up a body of work graced with all the transformative beauty of watercolor, at turns delicate, dreamlike, and instantly potent in its emotional realism. The second full-length from the Fort Lauderdale-born singer/songwriter, Florida Girl matches its luminous form of indie-folk with an in-depth examination of Luce’s inner life, exploring everything from mortality to body image to the ineffable intricacy of human connection. As she bares her soul and unburdens her heart, Luce slowly embraces her own infinite complexity—ultimately arriving at the self-possessed state of mind that inspired the album’s title. 

For follow-up to her 2021 acclaimed debut Dark River, Luce joined forces with her longtime friends and bandmates Anthony da Costa (Joy Williams and Michaela Anne) and Aaron Steele (Joy Oladokun, Portugal. The Man) to deliver her most intuitively realized and imaginatively composed work to date. 

Luce grew up in a strict musical household where her mother was a professional conductor and did not present learning the violin as a choice. After graduating from Berklee College of Music, she briefly worked at world-music label Smithsonian Folkways Records, before relocating to Nashville and establishing herself as an in-demand session musician playing viola/violin for legends like Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson and hip-hop superstar Eminem. Luce also founded Lockeland Strings—a community arts organization and showcase of local artists (which included country superstar Kacey Musgraves) accompanied by string quartet arrangements.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4w_OTa-bLc

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With inspirations ranging from the Beach Boys to Amy Winehouse, Julia Zivic's music walks the tightrope between gentility and power, and it makes that balancing act look easy. Zivic’s simple chord progressions allow introspective lyrics and haunting melodies to shine in a way that rewards attentive listeners. And her multi-layered harmonies provide enough ear candy to satisfy any sweet tooth.

https://juliazivic.bandcamp.com/

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Thor and Friends / Jessica Pavone String Ensemble / Hour
May
15
8:00 PM20:00

Thor and Friends / Jessica Pavone String Ensemble / Hour

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Thor & Friends

Thor & Friends is an instrumental ensemble influenced by classic Minimalist composers like Terry Riley and Steve Reich while amalgamating diverse influences as Brian Eno, Aphex Twin, Moondog, and The Necks around a polyrhythmic core of mallet-struck instruments -primarily marimba, xylophone, and vibraphone. Circling these core motifs are shifting streams of everything from processed pedal steel and analog synthesizer to violin, viola, stand-up bass, clarinet, duduk, and oboe.

Thor has performed in nearly every country and venue of all sizes, as well as most well-known fests. Specifically, Thor & Friends has toured with Deerhoof, Wye Oak, Xiu-Xiu, Adam Torres, and more. They've shared stages with AJJ, Faust, Beak>, Yonatan Gat, Amanda Palmer, Explosions in the Sky, Palm, Lomelda, and so on. They've played SXSW, Oblivion Access Fest, Saskatchewan Jazz Festival 2017, Sled Island, and others.

J Pavone String Ensemble

The music of the J. Pavone String Ensemble experiments with indeterminate techniques: alternating between metered and time-based scores, and improvisational and notated instructions. In this system, the players develop the skills of responding to a score and to each other, encouraging a model of connectivity within the group. During each performance, the musicians re-create the works together. A digital clock is often used as a conductor to mark sections, duration, and cues. The score includes time frames that direct musicians to move freely between sections, creating an overlap of sonic textures. The ensemble approach focuses on a vision of collective improvisation that prioritizes a collaboratively woven fabric, in contrast to the traditional improvisatory method that prizes the showmanship of the soloist.

Similarly, Pavone’s approach to composition expands the traditional purpose of music. Rather than just working with melody and harmony, she chooses ensemble sounds to provoke physical and cognitive effects on the audience. This reflects her interest in how the body plays a role in sound and intention. Thus, people–both players and listeners–play a huge role in the work’s development.

Four studio albums have been released to critical acclaim from The Wire, The New Yorker, Pitchfork, JazzTimes, and San Francisco Classical Voice. Brad Cohen of Jazz Times described her as "a free-thinker who can't be pigeonholed." In 2019, the string ensemble's debut album, Brick and Mortar, was hailed by the Chicago Reader's Peter Margasak as "the most assured, bracing work of Pavone's career." Astral Spirits Records released their second, Lost and Found, in 2020 to critical acclaim from publications such as; The Wire, The New Yorker, NYC Jazz Record, NPR, and Jazzwise. Bandcamp Daily named it a "Best Contemporary Albums of 2020". Chris Ingalls from Pop Matters described their music as "too stunning to lump into genres."

Hour  

Hour is an instrumental ensemble demonstrating a compositional ethos grounded in rote arrangement and group improvisation while aiming for breathy timbral intricacy and carefully balanced melodicism.
Formed in the flourishing underground of West Philadelphia in the latter half of the 2010s, Hour fluctuates in size and scope around composer and multi-instrumentalist Michael Cormier-O'Leary (Friendship, Dear Life Records) who provides a clear yet open-ended harmonic framework and an ambitious ear towards evoking atmosphere, both expansive and intimate.

Cormier-O'Leary has contributed notably across the landscape of independent music, and Hour clearly distills the versatile range and community-minded nature of his touch.

Ease The Work will be out in April 2024 on Dear Life Records. 

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Michael Tarbox / The Riverboat Gamblers
May
17
8:00 PM20:00

Michael Tarbox / The Riverboat Gamblers

Michael Tarbox writes songs anchored in rock ‘n’ roll, backwater blues, and hillbilly music. The Chicago Readercalls his singing “ageless.” His gospel-tinged electric guitar playing, tough as Texas barbed-wire, brings it all together. 

“I write my own songs, and play them on guitars run though a tiny old amp. My inspirations are musicians from a world that’s vanished. They guide me, but my goal is to create something new.”

At the heart of Tarbox’s music is his guitar, as raw as it is charismatic. It creates an electricity that courses through every song." – Twangville

YouTube Playlist: https://shorturl.at/pGNU2

Press on his soup The Tarbox Ramblers:

All Things Considered: “Homemade rock ‘n’ roll with a dose of rattlesnake venom and gospel-drenched howling.”

The New Yorker: “Between the fiddle, string bass, drums and slide guitar, you won't know what hit you.”

The Washington Post: “The Ramblers put across a sound that is at once reminiscent of the past yet wholly original.”

Calgary Sun:  “Tarbox is the most evocative and distinctive blues-roots artist to come down the pike in ages.”

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The River Boat Gamblers gradually met through the 2010s at different corners of the Hudson valley after leaving behind a life of chaos, unattainable dreams of lofty expectations, half empty ballrooms, and high debt in gambling and car repairs. They have settled for something much more amusing & satisfying, playing music for fun. No longer in debt and free of credit collectors, they get together when they please in whatever four walls allows them to.

https://theriverboatgamblers.bandcamp.com/track/all-creation

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tilt / Rose Stoller
May
19
8:00 PM20:00

tilt / Rose Stoller

tilt exists in the space between improvisation and song, elastic and flowing, their music emerges from a shared love of words and experimentation. This Brooklyn-based collective brings together the voices of Isabel Crespo Pardo, Kalia Vandever, Carmen Quill . The intimacy found in the ensemble is apparent through their evolving chemistry on stage and their symbiotic improvisational approach. tilt premiered at bop dubu in Red Hook, Brooklyn in July 2022, with performances ongoing in NYC. tilt will be touring the West Coast in May 2024 to celebrate their debut album, something we once knew (Dear Life Records).

 Rose Stoller is a New York based multidisciplinary artist. In her original music, she is a delicate songwriter who merges an influence of contemporary jazz, R&B, Laurel Canyon folk rock, Brazilian Popular Music, and ambient soundscapes into a corner of her own. Sometimes whimsical, romantic, often somber or daring, Rose crafts her music like a mandala to be softly swept away.

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ROZART MIX release with Aaron Dilloway / C. Lavender / John Wiese
May
20
8:00 PM20:00

ROZART MIX release with Aaron Dilloway / C. Lavender / John Wiese

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Performances from Aaron Dilloway, C. Lavender, and John Wiese, in celebration of the Rozart Mix record release.
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Realized by former Wave Farm Resident Artist Aaron Dilloway, the 2021 Rozart Mix installation at the John Cage Trust was an expansive, multi-level, visual, and sonic work, with collaborating tape players including Rosie Actor-Engel, Twig Harper, C. Lavender, Quintron, Robert Turman, and John Wiese.

In keeping with Cage's score, a minimum of 88 tape loops were employed. The tape loops ran on 12 reel-to-reel decks positioned in various rooms and floors of the John Cage Trust building, winding up stairs and around furniture. Visitors, who registered in advance for scheduled indoor sessions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, were immersed in a kinetic and audible drawing. Outdoors, visitors were welcomed with hot cider for an durational stereo mix of the installation, which was also streamed online at wavefarm.org/listen. A live FM radio broadcast took place on Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM from 4 - 6 p.m.

As in the first performance of Rozart Mix in 1965 at Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, the content on the tape loops included field recordings as well as voices; however, in this new iteration, the sound materials were sourced from the over 100 volunteer programmers who contribute programming on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM. The event served as a culminating celebration of WGXC's 10th Anniversary year.

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Pony In the Pancake / Florist / Hellish Cashstrap
May
22
8:00 PM20:00

Pony In the Pancake / Florist / Hellish Cashstrap

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Over the years Pony In the Pancake has amassed a large and faithful following in and around the Northeast. They have played shows to packed houses all along the East Coast and Canada. Their live sound is a psychedelic juggernaut. "Anyone who's had the pleasure of witnessing their live show has felt the sweet spot where the propulsion of the Velvet Underground, the wide-eyed romanticism and surf twang of the Beach Boys and the elliptical grooves of Krautrock intersect." (Jeremy Schwartz, Chronogram Magazine).
https://ponyinthepancake.bandcamp.com/album/in-dreams
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Florist: four friends from the Hudson Valley/Brooklyn playing original music
https://florist.bandcamp.com/album/florist
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Hellish Cashstrap: Neurotic Ambient (Guitar, synth, transmissions)
https://hellishcashstrap.bandcamp.com/


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The Larry Locust Band / Gary's Dream / Allie Young / Nicer Days (DJ Set)
May
24
to May 25

The Larry Locust Band / Gary's Dream / Allie Young / Nicer Days (DJ Set)

Larry Locust is the song-writing project of Kenny Hauptman. It's dark and dreamy indie folk from the Hudson Valley.

https://larrylocust.bandcamp.com

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Gary’s Dream are a Catskills band circling themes of love and nostalgia with shoegaze and grunge-flecked dream pop, woven together by glittery vocals.

https://garysdream.bandcamp.com/album/garys-first-dream-ep

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Allie Young is a musician and producer of enigmatic force making gritty vocalpower pop. Honest lyricism cuts through waves of magnetic soundscapes and vocal layers that range from delicate to dissonant and bellowing. Her live performances infuse tenor saxophone, vocal distortion, off-kilter samples and other mysteries.

https://allieyoung.bandcamp.com

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Nicer Days of Kingston, NY performs electronic music that incorporates his own garage-influenced beats with 90s rave music, 2010s alternative, hyperpop, modern techno and house, and R&B. His DJ sets have garnered local acclaim for the inspired thread that they weave through Dance music’s storied and  https://www.instagram.com/nicerdays?igsh=ZWk1aWZ1bXN2Z3Rw&utm_source=qr



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Spin Cycle Lava / Geezer
May
25
8:00 PM20:00

Spin Cycle Lava / Geezer

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Spin Cycle Lava delivers songs of Fire Despair and Corruption with a mighty and revelatory feel to their music. Their high energy shows are led by the drive of Billera's unique vocals and alter ego " The Clayman" who - while painted in make up from waist to head - paces the stage blowing fire to the sonic tapestries created by the band

Geezer play cosmic stoner blues

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beccs (solo) / Ginger Winn
May
29
8:00 PM20:00

beccs (solo) / Ginger Winn

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beccs  is an indie pop artist hailed as one of NYLON Magazine’s “favorite cool girls” and an “indie-pop vocalist of astonishing candor” by the HuffPost.

Holding up a mirror to herself and society at large, beccs confronts and heals audiences with a soul-stirring voice that is as dynamic as it is vulnerable. 

Blending an edgy modern songwriting with a powerful voice akin to classic 60’s Laurel Canyon, the indie pop artist has been critically acclaimed by  Refinery29, NYLON, AudioFemme, PopDust, Huffington Post Queer Voices, and was featured on The BUILD Series with Monet X Change (RuPaul’s Drag Race) for her queer-inclusive Christmas music video "Before This Christmas Ends". beccs just released her latest singles, I Don’t Do Fun and Good Comin’, “bursting with color, soulful vocals…[and] a hook you won’t get out of your head.” -The Daily Skimm

In addition to her own artist project, beccs has lent her voice and songwriting to various other records and commercials, including Matchbox Twenty’s Where The Light Goes, XL Producer Alex Epton (Arca, Bjork, FKA Twiggs) Episodic Buffer Vol. 2 EP, and a Nike Japan commercial. beccs is a 2024 Official SXSW Artist.

http://www.beccsmusic.com/
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Born and raised in South Carolina, the daughter of a lightning photographer and a songwriter, Ginger Winn has dedicated her life to singing and songwriting since the age of 9. She did not attend or complete high school after the age of 16. She could not imagine doing anything with her life other than making music, so she didn’t bother pursuing anything else…but of course she had to take on jobs to survive. One job that stuck was working as a pastry chef for over three years while making music. Ginger was talented at the job but tortured by the idea that what she really needed to be making for people was music not cakes. She needed to escape.

A little over 2 years ago, Ginger started working as a freelance music producer online – taking on commissioned work assignments by non-musicians who had an idea for a song either as a creative or to gift the song to a loved one. One of the websites she tried was Upwork. Her first assignment came from Tina Baione. Her husband, Matthew, had been writing poems that he only showed to her. While she appreciated the intimacy of the private poems, Tina always felt more people deserved to hear this poetry – and that it wasn’t poetry at all, it was song lyrics. So, she made a posting searching for a freelance singer to turn poetry into songs. Ginger responded to the posting in March of 2022 and sent back the original version of what has become the new single, “Super 8.” She later moved to South Africa to be with her boyfriend who is also a musician.


For the past two years, Ginger, Matt, and Tina have been making music together as an art collective. Everything they make is grounded in the visuals – how it looks and feels has always been as important as how it should sound. 
https://www.gingerwinn.com/

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May
30
8:00 PM20:00

TRIO-E / The InBetweens

Bobby Previte presents TRIO-E, a new electro/acoustic band with Matt Bauder, Flute/Saxophones/Electronics and David Lizmi, Bass/Electronics.

The InBetweens, an electric guitar trio that thrives on improvised tangents, disparate sonic dimensions, and rhythmic propulsion has been blurring the lines since 2002. As improvisors, they began to “collectively weave melodies and vamps into intricate spider webs of rhythm.” These experiments created a new sound and dimension to the palette of improvisation and experimental music.  

https://theinbetweens.bandcamp.com/

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Jake Xerxes Fussell / Kath Bloom
Jun
28
8:00 PM20:00

Jake Xerxes Fussell / Kath Bloom

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Reared in Georgia and now settled in North Carolina, Jake Xerxes Fussell has established himself as a devoted listener and contemplative interpreter of a vast array of so-called folk songs, lovingly sourced from a personal store of favorites. On his latest album, When Im Called—his first LP for Fat Possum, and his first as a parent—Fussell returns to a well of music that holds lifelong sentimental meaning, loosely contemplating the passage of time and the procession of life’s unexpected offerings. 

The album was produced by James Elkington and mixed by Tucker Martine. In addition to Elkington, it features the playing of Ben Whiteley (The Weather Station), Joe Westerlund (Bon Iver, Califone), and others. Blake Mills contributes guitars on several tracks. Joan Shelley and Robin Holcomb provide backing vocals. 

“…Fussell is the rare contemporary to approach folk in its pure form, shunning self-penned compositions about bummer relationships to concentrate on material handed down from bygone, hardened times.” – The New Yorker

“(Fussell) is one of the great magpies of American song, collecting forgotten, tarnished gems with a folklorist’s zeal… his renditions aren’t so much cover versions as composites…” – The Guardian

“…maybe the leading interpreter of American folk music right now.” – Ann Powers, NPR
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Kath Bloom is some kind of legend. She comes from a special place where country, blues and folk are made beautifully translucent and emotive. Highly regarded but a bit of a mystery. The Connecticut based singer/songwriter has a special gift - her almost supernaturally beautiful, wavering soprano is one that has to be heard, she has a clear transparent moonlight tone combined with an earthly raw quality that can silence a room.

Kath made some very very limited edition albums in the 70’s and 80’s with the amazing (and equally dreamlike) guitarist Loren Mazzacane Connors, full of songs that float and melt into the ether. Impossibly beautiful. However, music was put on the back burner as life changed and she raised a family, trained ‘problem horses’ and taught special music programs to kids. Just as she was starting to write and

release CDs again, Richard Linklater decided to use her song ‘Come Here’ in his 1995 film ‘Before Sunrise’. Life altered - not much - but the public consciousness was rightfully tweaked. Slowly her old recordings and new material have been seeping back into the world. This includes a special tribute album by artists such as Josephine Foster, Bill Callahan, Devendra Banhart, Meg Baird and Scout Nibblet. Since 2017 she has been recording and performing with New Haven, CT based guitarist David Shapiro.

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Arone Dyer / Glockabelle / Hinterlands
May
3
7:00 PM19:00

Arone Dyer / Glockabelle / Hinterlands

FRIDAY MAY 3RD

7-10PM

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Arone Dyer does a lot of things that don’t fit in tidy boxes. She produces sound as a vocalist, musician, composer & is a founding member of the uncategorical duo Buke and Gase & somewhat-hyper-pop duo Mistresses, as well as the producer of a roving, ever-evolving, non-static Dronechoir.
https://aronedyer.com/

Glockabelle is a Casio VL-Tone and glockenspiel shredder who sings in both French and English. She has opened for Lightning Bolt, Marnie Stern, The Space Lady, Mdou Moctar, James Chance and the Contortions, Kaki King, Quintron and Miss Pussycat, and The Go! Team.
http://www.glockabelle.com/

Hinterlands is an accordion and violin duo playing original music ranging from contemplative to howling. Ben Russell and Matt Schreiber have been performing together for fifteen years in an evolving conversation between musical worlds. Sometimes fiery, sometimes melancholy, Hinterlands leaves listeners feeling that they have journeyed through landscapes of shapes and sound. Iutside of the duo, Ben has performed with Kronos Quartet, Max Richter, Björk, Sufjan Stevens, The National, and Johann Johannson. Matt has studied and performed Romani and Balkan music for almost two decades and is one of a handful of American accordionists helping the instrument move beyond a state of perpetual comeback.  

https://www.hinterlandsmusic.com/

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Kal Marks / King in Yellow / Grocer
Apr
28
8:00 PM20:00

Kal Marks / King in Yellow / Grocer

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Kal Marks make noise-rock 
https://kalmarks.bandcamp.com/album/my-name-is-hell

King In Yellow are a post-punk band from the Hudson Valley

Grocer is a band from Philadelphia. Lead by three distinct vocalists, each with a unique voice both on and off their respective instruments, they flicker between moments of brash chromaticism, saccharine pop sensibility, and rhythmic acrobatics.
https://itsgrocer.bandcamp.com/album/bless-me

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Sean Cronin's Gory Dove / Noah B Harley / Jenna Nicholls
Apr
26
7:30 PM19:30

Sean Cronin's Gory Dove / Noah B Harley / Jenna Nicholls

Hiding somewhere between swampy jug music and Kurt Cobain sits Gory Dove, drawing from influences as diverse as Leonard Cohen, Kurt Weill, The Pixies, Charles Mingus, and Neil Young. Never satisfied to just play music, Sean Cronin incorporates theatrical elements into his performances, generating disparate emotional qualities from the character of each song. He appears at times sneering and unlikeable, at times innocently earnest, but is always leading the listener into a living, reflective, and rhythmic realm of song. 

Noah B Harley fashions old skins from new grapes and grafts the weird branch of U.S. American vernacular onto our post-nuclear bough.

Whether she’s belting out a New Orleans style vamp on her Ukulele, singing an original cowboy tune,  or lush ballad on the piano, the music of multi-instrumentalist Jenna Nicholls is giving a vintage genre a new spin with her own lush nostalgic style and melodic sensibility.  Recently, Jenna has toured nationally with Ingrid Michaelson, shared stages with Oscar Winner Glen Hansard, Amanda Palmer, Lucius, and Joan as Policewoman.  She’s performed in venues all over the world including the Beacon Theater NYC, and Carnegie Hall.

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Stephen Bluhm Album Release / Alex P. Wernquest
Apr
25
8:00 PM20:00

Stephen Bluhm Album Release / Alex P. Wernquest

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Coming April 19, "Out of the Nowhere. Into the Here." is the sublime second album by singer, songwriter, and performer Stephen Bluhm. Recorded, mixed, and produced by Bluhm and featuring a host of gifted guest musicians, the orchestral opus is an elaborate aural feast of strings, horns, flutes, piano, reed instruments, and other timelessly evocative musical sounds — ambitious, but intimate and confiding as well.

The album is described by Bluhm, who was raised in rural Pennsylvania, as “ten intimate but playful songs capturing the visceral feelings of autumn and winter, love and passion, and the suspicion (I’m not alone with) that there is something going on beyond our understanding.”

“The music (and Stephen) is utterly charming,” raves famed musical theater actor and composer Tom Judson, one of Bluhm’s avowed fans, about "Out of the Nowhere. Into the Here." “The halting, clipped vocals, with a sudden appearance of sumptuous string writing, are unexpected and elegant. The music, at first blush, appears naïve. But on a close listen, it’s very assured, and complex writing. And the arrangements are really just wonderful. Sufjan Stevens meets Kurt Weill meets Stephen Foster.”

“As I put these songs and arrangements together for the album, I became more and more confident in them,” says Bluhm. “I just hope people sense the beauty in them, the genuineness that I put into them.”

https://stephenbluhm.bandcamp.com

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Quattracenta / Rip Room / Faccia Brutta
Apr
18
8:00 PM20:00

Quattracenta / Rip Room / Faccia Brutta

Quattracenta:

“Quattracenta is a three-piece art rock band from Baltimore, MD, who draw on post punk and no wave influences to create cathartic and meditative songs about mortality and longing. The trio of indie rock veterans is led by guitarist/vocalist Sarah Matas, bassist Christian Sturgis, and drummer Andrea Shearer. Their most recent record "II" was produced by J Robbins (Jawbox, Government Issue) and released by Bob Nastanovich's (Pavement, Silver Jews) Brokers Tip label.”

https://quattracenta.bandcamp.com/

Rip Room:

“Once described as “dance music for people who don’t like to dance,” Rip Room prefers the humble designation “dance music for people who like to dance … but are also bummed out”. This three-piece from San Francisco play high-energy art punk with a math-y, prog edge — propulsive rhythms and piercing lyrics, but with a sense of buoyancy — wolves in sheep’s clothing. The band released their first full length LP with Spartan Records and is currently working on their next record.”

https://riproom.bandcamp.com/

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Sleepover Trading Co. Presents: Streets Of Fire
Apr
17
7:30 PM19:30

Sleepover Trading Co. Presents: Streets Of Fire

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Join Sleepover Trading Co. and the Avalon Lounge for a screening of a one-of-a-kind "rock & roll fable" - the 1984 cult action-musical Streets of Fire! When rock singer Ellen Aim (Diane Lane) is kidnapped by Raven (Willem Dafoe) and his biker gang, it's up to her mysterious ex Tom Cody (Michael Pare) with some help from a sarcastic soldier (Amy Madigan) and her smarmy boyfriend/manager (Rick Moranis) to save her. 

Featuring a look that's part 50s greasers, part 80s neon with sprinkles of Blade Runner futurism for good measure, director Walter Hill (The Warriors, 48 Hours) mixes sledgehammer fights with musical numbers including original songs by Jim Steinman (Bat Out of Hell), Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty, Ry Cooder, Dan Hartman and an onscreen performance by roots rockers The Blasters!

This screening will kick off with an exclusive pre-film clip show. The pre-show begins at 7:30pm with the film at 8pm at the Avalon Lounge (29 Church Street, Catskill, NY).

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Business Casual: Cowboys
Apr
15
7:30 PM19:30

Business Casual: Cowboys

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Business Casual is a bicoastal comedy best friendship made up of Jeremy Elder, Hunter Saling and Cory Peter Lane. The boys are known for their chaotic clown influenced comedy that 3 Weeks Magazine called "Physical Comedy Perfection." The trio has been featured at the Edinburgh Fringe, San Francisco Sketch Fest and JFL's Moontower Comedy Festival. They're bringing their new hour Cowboys! to the Avalon Lounge ahead of their headline show at the Netflix is a Joke Comedy Festival in May.

Cowboys: 

Join lonesome cowboy, Levi Jeans, on his ballad for revenge. Through dusty saloons and rusty spittoons, this cowboy is on a mission to avenge the murder of his family and kill the Sampson Brothers. Slapstick physical comedy, imaginary horses and lots and lots of gunshot sound effects.

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Lael Neale / Camp Saint Helene / Andrew Victor
Apr
14
8:00 PM20:00

Lael Neale / Camp Saint Helene / Andrew Victor

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Sunday April 14th
8PM
$12 adv / $15 door

Lael Neale splits her time between rural Virginia and Los Angeles.
She loves walking, Emerson, fantasy fiction, espresso and not listening to music. She is an amateur gardener, painter and musician.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMWGosSNwIs

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For Camp Saint Helene, the concept of otherworldliness is neither strange nor complex, but alluring and holy. Created by Elizabeth Celeste Ibarra, Dylan Nowik, Wesley Harper and Alex P. Wernquest, they approach their craft akin to a ritual, leaning into the notion that art and expression are sacred experiences on an overstimulated planet. Often informed by the spirit of a defunct Christian-summer camp turned arts-colony deep within the mountains of New York, their music searches for shimmers of hope amidst hints of doom. 
https://www.campsainthelene.com/

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D.Light (& The Intergalactic Ear Orgy Orchestra) / Southern Star / Les Freqs (DJ set)
Apr
12
to Apr 13

D.Light (& The Intergalactic Ear Orgy Orchestra) / Southern Star / Les Freqs (DJ set)

D.Light (& The Intergalactic Ear Orgy Orchestra) is a transformative, theatrical Glam-Rock band. As the alter ego of Brooklyn-based actor and musician Delano Montgomery. The band evokes the wild spectacle of the 70s, with a futuristic spin. Montgomery cites influences such as Roxy Music, Talking Heads, and David Bowie. He blends groovy, glittery bass-lines, cheeky lyrics, and a flare for maximalism. D.Light wants to make you move before you think. The band features members from other well-known New York acts, including Mikaela Davis, Cutouts, August West, and Salon – as well as performance artist Akil Apollo Davis. On stage, performers adopt larger-than-life personas, each becoming a character in the intricate D.Light universe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucNcZxdkFXg

Southern Star are Mikaela Davis’ backing band, and feature the songwriting of Cian McCarthy

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Harmonium / Michael Brandt / Bluestone Quarry
Apr
11
8:00 PM20:00

Harmonium / Michael Brandt / Bluestone Quarry

HARMONIUM’s sound triangulates power pop and cosmic country with Celtic hymns. The music proposes an alternate universe in which Robert Lowell is the principal songwriter for Big Star, and the band has just been commissioned to score the film Braveheart.

Celebrity bartender Michael Brandt is a songwriter who straddles the casual intimacy of a local dive with volcanic presence

Hudson Valley bluegrass at its finest; luscious 3-part harmonies overlay a yeoman’s acoustic foundation.

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Room 31 / John Thayer + Bryan Kopchack duo
Apr
8
8:00 PM20:00

Room 31 / John Thayer + Bryan Kopchack duo

The story of Room 31 began when drummer Marlon Patton and saxophonist Greg Sinibaldi first crossed paths while playing in the band Kenosha Kid back in 2008. The two formed an instant connection, and fate brought them together again when they both relocated to New York City in 2019. Sharing a practice space, they embarked on a musical journey that would lead to the birth of Room 31. Inspired by their surroundings and the room number of their current practice space, they chose the name that would forever encapsulate their creative endeavors.
Greg Sinibaldi says: "I feel like our experiences of moving to NYC, trying to network, meet people, hustle, make a music career, etc. is reflected in this music in some ways. I think the title Crazy Town fits based off of these shared experiences.
I painted the cover during the time we were working on the record. I often make visual art as part of my musical process. Painting helps remind me how free I want to feel when I'm making music". 
Room 31's debut album ‘Crazy Town’ is an exploration of sonic possibilities, weaving elements of avant-rock, jazz, beats, experimental sounds, and ambient textures. While the albums six tracks sound like compositions they are actually all improvised during the recording sessions, and afterwards brought back to the cutting floor of the studio where they are edited and expanded, to convey the band's unique sonic footprint.
Greg Sinibaldi plays NuRAD and baritone saxophone on the album with Marlon Patton contributing drums and bass. Both musicians play electronics.

https://positiveelevation.bandcamp.com/album/crazy-town

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Let's Make it Last Forever!
Apr
7
5:30 PM17:30

Let's Make it Last Forever!

The Avalon Lounge and CRN present a very special birthday house music soirée! Our dear friend, dance floor legend, and NYC nightclub elder Michele Saunders is celebrating another trip around the sun. 

Join us on Sunday April 7th at 5p for a celebration of Michele, house music, community, and being 'FIERCE'. CRN resident dj's are joined by Catskill's own Elliot Matos and some surprise guests to soundtrack your Sunday tea dance. 

Admission is free. Annie's Kitchen serving food all night! 

Let's Make it Last FOREVER

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Dark Forest
Apr
5
to Apr 6

Dark Forest

🎟️ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dark-forest-at-avalon-lounge-tickets-850377771807

RSVP 👉🏽 https://facebook.com/events/s/dark-forest-at-avalon-lounge/414549677636354/

From the creators of @cyber__circus

@purple__productions presents @dark_forest_events 💀 

Dark Forest rave is back better than ever with a vengeance at @theavalonlounge⚡️featuring a dark edm DJ dance party alongside aerial acts, fire dancing, and pole dance performances. 

Emerging from the murky depths & shadows of the deep Dark Forest- where the sunlight can’t reach & the misty fog envelops the most extraordinary experiences. The dank woods- a low rumble rises & shakes bass frequencies that make all the woodland creatures begin to move & encircle the trees in a psychedelic trance. Fireflies light up laser flashes as the celebration & ritual resound; mystifying you in an enchantment of visual stimulation, wonderment, & deep, dark, addictive vibrations. 

Our host @jesse_d_leach aka DJ Gunk- the creature will not only be entertaining you in full character throughout the night but he will also be pumping the best Dark & Atmospheric EDM- tribal EDM, Chillstep, Electronic Dream Pop, Trip Hop, tribal trap, Industrial, Dubstep, Deep house, Drum & Bass, Ethnic Electronica, & more- with a DJ set before & in between all performances. Also- stick around for the DJ dance after party once the show ends because that’s when our forest really lets loose! 

Captivating performances by 

☆ @goddess.purple seductive fierce pole & aerial artistry🔮 

☆ @solaceandchaos flame eating & trance filled fire play🔥 

☆ @carolyn_tigermom impressive skillful aerial & pole acrobatics✨

Dressing up as your best mystical dark woodland creature is encouraged if you’d like to join the tribe. There will be raffles, prizes, & even interactive entertainment- so be prepared to come up on stage if you dare.

Space is limited. Be sure to secure your spot by grabbing your tickets online at the link below. Use promo code “PURPLE” for 15% off your purchase.

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💥Doors 8pm

📍The Avalon Lounge 

29 Church Street 

Catskill, NY, 12414

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