Name: Slambovian Circus of Dreams
Start: 2025-05-31T20:00:00
End: 2025-06-01T00:00:00
Location: Stone Church

20th anniversary show celebrating the band's debut album, played in its entirety.Formed in the foggy timeline around the fall of the Twin Towers, the death of Elliott Smith, the peak influence of Pitchfork and the dawn of the iPod, the members of Winterpills met and began making music in the old-fashioned winter of 2003 in the heady Northampton, MA music scene. At first 4 friends – later 5 – who all knew each other’s songs and talents and had all recently suffered a common adult loss of some kind or another (a dead parent, some breakups, a custody battle, etc), they gleefully stumbled upon their sound: Flora Reed and Philip Price’s harmonies and “heartrending” songwriting (so says No Depression), Dennis Crommett’s tender shoegaze guitar, Dave Hower’s risky drumming, Max Germer's spare basslines. "Winterpills gradually builds elegant arrangements... While the gathered instruments offer some solace, the songs stay haunted,“ wrote Jon Pareles in the New York Times.The cinematically-weird pop songs came effortlessly and partly channelled the freshly mourned Smith but also caught a bit of the dust of Low, The Innocence Mission, Big Star,&nbsp; Joni Mitchell, maybe a little Radiohead, but something else all their own. “I don’t know why Winterpills aren’t one of the most cherished pop bands in the world,” wrote Jonathan Lethem in Rolling Stone: “Their songs are mournful, slow-exploding and lyrically dazzling, and their albums have a coherence that’s rare.”Released in the fall of 2005, the band's eponymous debut,&nbsp;captured the sound of a band that had discovered a rare alignment of musicianship. AllMusic wrote, "Not unlike Low or Stars, Northampton, MA-based coed indie rockers Winterpills go down easy on this ten-song debut. From the outset, the warm allure of "A Benediction" counts front man Philip Price as an Elliott Smith devotee, but the group sounds best when Price gets vocal accompaniment from Flora Reed, who gives the percolating, acoustic pop of "Laughing" and the breathy, stripped-down "Cranky" harmonic life. The hard-working "Threshing Machine" and the muted glimmer of "Want the Want" personify the band's depth, leaving this eponymous offering a prescription for indie fans looking to fill a void."Over the past 20 years, the band has released 7 albums and numerous singles and EPs, has spent weeks both on the road and in the woodshed, and seems unwilling to relent. Emerging from the forced hiatus of the pandemic has given them a new perspective on their art. The restless Price released 3 solo albums during the unhappy break, but the full band is back with a trove of new music for the familiar alchemy to begin again. There will be a new album in 2025, in time to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their first album, the eponymous “Winterpills”."An ice-filigreeing-the-bare-trees sound, cold and achingly beautiful -- is what sets this group apart... downright glorious when the harmonies start, as crisp and shining as crystal." - The Washington PostWhether fronting Fancy Trash, The Reejers, Opal Canyon, or releasing music under his own name, Dave Houghton has moved through several generations to craft his own version of an uncompromising rock &amp; roll journey through a folk DIY lens and work ethic.Dave Houghton has got a lifetime of experience behind him, from opening for Neil Young, Dave Mathews and The Smashing Pumpkins before he was 24. Dave Houghton is a singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist that has made over a dozen records since the early 1990’s. Houghton’s journey brought him across the United States and has performed at Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, Red Rocks to Terminal 5 in New York City and 38 other states.Dave Houghton started his journey from Colorado in 1989-1996 in his first band, The Reejers. The band relocated to Chicago and toured constantly in the Mid 90’s. Dave moved to New York City to play solo at the turn of the century in the West Village working production, harmonica and playing places like Banjo Jim’s to the Mercury Lounge .While in New York, Houghton got a deal with MCY Publishing that helped with the craft of song-writing and relocate up to New England.&nbsp; Since 2002-2020, Dave has been performing&nbsp; solo or with Fancy Trash residing in Northampton and playing throughout New England.&nbsp; Dave Houghton has relocated to Cape Cape playing solo and with Opal Canyon in Massachusetts. Dave has worked and produced with phenomenal engineers such as Justin Pizzoferratto (Dinosaur Jr., Pixies, Sonic Youth) Jon Evans (Tori Amos, Paula Cole) and Martin Stebbing (Wico). Although Dave Houghton is very prolific and has made many records, he is best known as a live performer over the decades.&nbsp;&nbsp;“With its semi-countrified, punk-influenced music that recalls Neil Young, Clem Snide, the Flaming Lips, and an assortment of ’90s alternative rock bands ... .Its songs turn on delicate guitar picking and furious strumming.” Boston Globe- Sean Glennon“Acoustic rock with a punk aesthetic has certainly been done, but it retains an ironic charm, especially when tackled with the sloppy idealism of a band like Fancy Trash.” — Nashville Scene

Winterpills 20th Anniversary Show

Dust off your hats and boots, Luke Combs UK (the worlds leading tribute to Luke Combs and is endorsed by the man himself) is coming to town for an unforgettable night of country music with his full band.Luke Combs UK is the closest you’ll get to the real deal with the look and authentic sound of the GRAMMY nominated country music megastar.Screamin’ Rebel Angels’ unrelenting and hi-octane original music reimagines the legacy of rock ‘n roll,rockabilly, and rhythm ‘n blues into a contemporary sound. Their thrilling live performances are packedwith primal passion and authenticity. The sound is unapologetically their own, and they take their audiences on an exhilarating adventure into an untamed world of dangerous women, broken hearts, courage and conviction

Luke Combs UK

Weird Phishes is exactly what it sounds like - the iconic melancholy rock songs of Radiohead completely reborn as danceable, crunchy jams. With full-album performances, unexpected mashups, and gluey funk-driven improvisation, their jam-heavy take on alt-rock classics has sparked an unexpected energy in audiences across the northeast. Cleverly avoiding the "tribute" trope, Weird Phishes continues to push the envelope of what a mashup band can be, delivering performances that need to be experienced in order to believe.A quick glance at the band’s social media gives a glimpse into why this unlikely mashup proves worthwhile. “Bought tickets on a whim because I love both bands, had wanted to check out the club, and thought it would be amusing. I was not expecting such incredible musicianship and thought that had gone into their set...it was one of the best shows I’ve seen in years.” Said one user. “Clean, creative mashups of a favorite album and great Phish selections. Great energy.” says another. “Impossibly excellent show.”In July 2019, Weird Phishes solidified their place in the New England jam community, playing back-to-back afterparties after Phish’s performances at Fenway Park. With a growing fanbase and an ever-changing setlist, the band continued their breakout year with a fall run to the midwest. In a weird bout of poetic justice, Weird Phishes was the last band to play at northeast jam-staple venue Nectar's before the coronavirus pandemic of 2020.When live music came back in 2021, Weird Phishes returned with a force. The band made its triumphant return with a headlining performance at the inaugural Safe and Soundz festival, and took a victory lap with appearances across the northeast at Circus of Life Festival and a sold-out performance to christen Boston's newest venue, Aeronaut Cannery.

Weird Phishes

We can't wait to come back to the Church! join us for a great get down. 2 sets of Primal Dead!Wolfman Jack is a live music project of musicians from the New England area performing the psychedelic and electrifying Live Dead to Europe 72' era of The Grateful Dead. A true dance band in the style of such legendary venues as The Fillmores', Carousel Ballroom, Avalon Ballroom, Winterland Arena and the Strand Lyceum. They recreate those vintage sets from when the Grateful Dead were first cutting their teeth as a live music act. Don't miss it<img src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tbe/2/16/1f3b6.png" alt="🎶">

Wolfman Jack

The Surfrajettes are a four-piece instrumental combo from Toronto, ON, Canada. Since&nbsp; forming in late 2015, the band has charmed audiences with their clever mix of psychedelic&nbsp; rock and reverb-drenched surf music, sky-high beehives, go-go boots, and eyeliner as thick as&nbsp; their guitar strings. &nbsp;The band achieved viral online notoriety from their home-made performance videos and their&nbsp; feature by Norman’s Rare Guitars in LA. The debut 45 single “Party Line / Toxic” released late 2018 on Hi-Tide Recordings to immediate success. The band has toured extensively in its support, including performances on The Beach Boys Cruise, The Melissa Etheridge Cruise, at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://Sea.Hear.Now">Sea.Hear.Now</a>, Nashville Boogie, Wild O Fest in Mexico City, The New England Shake&nbsp;Up!, Surf Guitar 101 Convention, Tiki Oasis &amp; Hi Tide Summer Holiday: &nbsp;Asbury Park. &nbsp;They spent the rest of 2020 and most of 2021writing and recording their debut LP “Roller&nbsp; Fink” from Hi-Tide Recordings / Virgin Music, that released in 2022. Amidst touring&nbsp; throughout the last couple of years, they wrote their highly anticipated second LP, “Easy as&nbsp; Pie”, which is set to release on October 4th 2024. &nbsp;The Surfrajettes are guitarists Shermy Freeman and Nicole Damof, bassist Sarah Butler,&nbsp; and drummer Annie Lillis. When not on tour, the group is busy woodshedding in their&nbsp; secret beach hut, sewing new miniskirts, debating vintage gear, and daydreaming about&nbsp; performing in a Quentin Tarantino movie. &nbsp;Black Widows are a DIY surf-punk band from Mpls serving up wild surf guitar, riot grrrl vox, slick bass grooves, &amp; mean beats. BW have toured overseas &amp; nationally. They’ve shared the bill w/ Bombino, Dale Watson, L.A. Witch, The Trashmen, The Surfaris, The Surfrajettes, Shonen Knife, Olivia Jean, The Coathangers, Death Valley Girls, Agent Orange, Man or Astro-Man, Messer Chups, John Waters, &amp; more!!

Surfrajettes/ The Black Widows

Join Chest Fever on tour as they present The Best of The Band - Performing all the classics from The Band's 1976 greatest hits collection and more! From "The Weight" to "Up On Cripple Creek", "Don't Do It" to "Atlantic City", The Official Revival of The Band welcomes you to a celebration of timeless music by Levon Helm, Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, and Garth Hudson.About Chest Fever -The stories, legend and community of The Band live on through the passion and magic of Chest Fever, newly embodied in the live performance and burning energy they bring to every stage. Officially approved by Robbie Robertson and The Band Official, Chest Fever is comprised of members of the San Diego Music Award winning rock band Mrs. Henry, including keyboardist Jody Bagley, guitarist Daniel Cervantes, bassist Blake Dean, and multi-instrumentalist Ben Pinnola.In 2022, the group began hitting the road and playing venues in North America. From their hometown of San Diego to North Ontario, Chest Fever has performed in almost every state and province across the US and Canada with many highlights including a sold out show presented at Toronto’s revered Massey Hall on November 18th, 2023 - Celebrating the 45th Anniversary release of The Last Waltz. The same year saw Chest Fever releasing two albums that reimagined both Music From Big Pink and Rock of Ages, receiving critical acclaim and showcasing how the group honors the music of The Band while remaining true to their own original vision.While we can no longer rejoice in the live collective spirits of The Band, through the inspired work of this modern day band of brothers we can still drink deep from the well of cosmic creativity that has been opened to us by way of Richard Manuel, Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, and Levon Helm.&nbsp;Illustrious rock roots and a legacy honouring sound, MRS HENRY is ahard touring quintet from Southern California who captivate audiencesfrom Mexico City to Toronto and beyond. With authenticity as acompass, their musical bond mirrors a magical brotherhood revealed inspirited harmonies, psychoactive jams, and uplifting anthems thatelevate the band and their ever expanding audience into the sonicatmosphere.

Chest Fever

GOST&nbsp;exist in the dark crack between black metal and the most shadowy end of electronic music. Since the release of the&nbsp;Radio Macabre&nbsp;EP at the start of 2013, and the remorseless digital nightmare of their&nbsp;Skull&nbsp;debut album six months later, Texas-based multi-instrumentalist, producer and main-brain James Lollar has become an increasingly singular force in music. Far more aggressive and sinister than the synthwave he’s often grouped with,&nbsp;Gost&nbsp;is a harsh and unique digital nightmare that takes the listener right into the heart of the abyss.Now&nbsp;Gost&nbsp;return with their sixth album, and their most exhilarating and dangerous-sounding work to date,&nbsp;Prophecy. It’s a record that perfectly reflects the horror and grim anxieties of a world beset with religious and political overreach, and progress “being rolled back to the fucking 1950s“.“It’s about an imaginative fall of the Western civilization, the biblical end of the world – the rise of Satan and Armageddon,” says James. “In America, there’s been a big rise of scared, reactive Christianity again, and almost like a re-emergence of the Satanic Panic. So it felt like an appropriate time to bring Satan back into things.“

GOST/Dead Register

The Suitcase Junket w/ Special Guest Cloudbelly

A whirlwind of influences and genres, Boys Go To Jupiter’s captivating sound is grounded in strong storytelling and powerful live performance. Blending joyful indie-pop, dreamy soul, lush folk and sugary punk, the Brooklyn-based band delivers. They have emerged as one of the year’s brightest rising acts, garnering both viral and editorial attention.&nbsp;BGTJ is the project of songwriters Caleb Martin-Rosenthal, Jess Kantorowitz, &amp; Luke Volkert. Whether supported by their six-piece band or as a trio, they share a love for songs with heart, humor, and hooks that have audiences dancing, singing, crying, and back again.Their debut album is slated for Spring 2025.

Boys Go to Jupiter

The Gaslight Tinkers' mix of global rhythms creates a joyous world beat sound around a core of traditional New England old time and Celtic fiddle music, merging boundless positive energy with melody and song. Drawing from their extensive musical backgrounds in traditional folk, Caribbean, old time, Celtic, and rock, I-Shea, Clara, Garrett, Elie, and Peter craft a sound that brings world traditions together

Gaslight Tinkers

The musicians of Shakedown Citi met for the first time at the Shakedown Parking lot at Citi Field on June 21, 2023.&nbsp; They played their first full-band performance at Hill Country in NYC in Jauary of 2024......and the bus has been rolling since then

Shakedown CITI

Fresh on the heels of supporting Will Wood’s sold out 2024 U.S. tour, Shayfer James will be Summoning his new album of the same name with a full band U.S. headline tour beginning on April 8th, 2025. The performances will feature songs from the new album as well as songs from his entire catalog. The entire tour will be supported by very special guest, Sparkbird.Shayfer James is an internationally touring American singer-songwriter, pianist, and composer known for hauntingly beautiful and bombastic music that blends elements of rock, pop, soul and cabaret. His work spans 3 full length albums, 5 EPs, a rock-operetta and various singles and film scores .Shayfer has also collaborated with the likes of Will Wood, Fish In A Birdcage, Sparkbird and Kate Douglas. Shayfer will release a new album entitled “Summoning” in early 2025 which will be celebrated by a full band U.S. tour in April 2025 with support from special guest, Sparkbird.Sparkbird is the project of NYC-based singer-songwriter Stephan Nance (they/them). Their breakout single "November," described as "a masterpiece of contemporary musical artistry" (Sinusoidal Music), amassed 5 million streams on Spotify in its first year. Sparkbird’s songwriting has earned praise for its blend of speculative storytelling and a “slice-of-life aesthetic… reminiscent of Sufjan Stevens and Joni Mitchell” (Good Music Radar). In 2024, Sparkbird toured the US in support of Madilyn Mei’s Side Quest Tour. Their new album will be released in 2025, along with a highly anticipated collab with artists Fish in a Birdcage and Shayfer James.

Shayfer James w/ Sparkbird

"A Band Of Brothers" isn't just an Allman Brothers tribute band; they're a powerhouse, uniting the top-tier talent of the East Coast. This collective, more than amere homage, harness the Allman Brothers tradition as a vehicle to bring a unique and exciting experience every night.The ensemble features artists from an array of bands including-North Mississippi Allstars , Pink Talking Fish, Neighbor, DubApocalypse, Peter Wolf's Midnight Travelers, Dickey Betts Great Southern, Slightly Stoopid, Sonya Rae Taylor, Band of Killers and more.

Band of Brothers

Instrumental progressive rock trio Consider the Source has been honing in on their unique sci-fi fusion sound for over a decade, but it is with their 2024 release, “The Stare” that their sonic vision is fully realized. Produced by David Prater (Dream Theater, Firehouse), the 5-song album reveals more of the heavy metal influence the band has always had while also including the improvisational and cultural elements they have become synonymous with. This new collection of material certainly showcases their cutting edge instruments and technical virtuosity but the focus here is on the songs, chock full of catchy riffs and melodies ranging from delicate and heartfelt to full on headbanger’s ball.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;CTS have performed in a half-dozen countries across three continents. They have shared the stage with a wide variety of artists, including: Victor Wooten, King Crimson Projekt, Wyclef Jean, Ozric Tentacles, Soulive, The Disco Biscuits, Rusted Root, Papadosio, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Wayne Krantz, TAUK, Spafford and many others. They have performed at festivals and events including: Electric Forest, Peach Fest, Northlands, Gathering of the Vibes, Mountain Jam, Resonance, Summercamp, Shakori Hills, ProgDay, and Progtober.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Consider The Source

What better way to celebrate Bicycle Day than with an epic night of Pink Floyd classics!

Echoes of Floyd

Join us for this incredibly special night of solo acoustic performances by Medium Build &amp; Petey USAClick <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://vip.sofar.com/tour-events/2e3d7307-e4c4-4d85-9d3f-f9d8f266ce30/vip">HERE</a> for VIP Pre-Show Experience As a musician with a nomadic lifestyle, Nick Carpenter often enters spaces as a stranger and leaves with lifelong friends. The creator of Medium Build possesses a connective charisma that shows in his songs and performances—which can seem like equal parts concerts, testimony, and stand-up comedy. That gift and yearning for connection has been amplified during a transformative season for Nick. In 2023, Medium Build signed with slowplay / Island Records, toured with Lewis Capaldi, and reached the Billboard charts for the first time collaborating with X Ambassadors. Life was pulling him away from his home, dog, and sense of belonging in Anchorage to Nashville. Nick spent his drives looking, listening, and reflecting. This inner and outer journey led to Country, the thematic album draws from Carpenter’s roots as much as it considers his future—while exploring genre. His music is as vast and unique as his backstory, but “if you slow all of my songs down, they’re just three-cord bummer Country tunes,” he admits. Evident in the video single “Cutting Thru The Country,” this collection packs for a trip that explores wide open spaces, musical frontiers, and oneself.Medium Build began as the name Nick Carpenter attached to four-track recordings a decade ago. The storyteller applied aspects of a middle-class church-going Georgia childhood and a Tennessee education to truths learned along the way—ultimately delivering the queer extrovert to find a community in Alaska. There is duality and dichotomy in Medium Build’s life and music—but it is drenched in authenticity. The music has endured, resonated, and connected with a growing base. “Now I’m realizing that my career can last longer than five seconds and I can kind of just breathe and show one thing at a time,” Nick shares. His dynamic catalog mirrors the people who have shown up in his corner: Elton John, Boygenius, John Mayer, and Noah Kahan, to name a few. 2019’s somber and synth-tinged “Be Your Boy” and 2022’s therapeutic “Never Learned To Dance” are fan favorites amid the kaleidoscope of sounds and moods. Country seems much more focused, even if birthed by uncertainty.Now in his thirties, Nick says he only recently learned about his father’s poor rural South Carolina upbringing. As a result, Country music was something Nick’s dad covered up—along with the poverty and corresponding shame of his past. “I had no sense of identity as far as place,” the artist admits. Lately, the father and son began talking about the past and sharing Country tunes—exchanging culture and heritage. As an understanding of his DNA developed, perhaps the twang and American in Medium Build’s songs stood out. However, his Country is something unsurprisingly personal. “It feels self-soothing,” Nick says of the opener, “Beach Chair,” which is a love letter to self in a time of need. “Crying Over U” is deeply specific but conjures emotions in us all—when confronted by closure and what remains in the rearview.Written on the road, Country was fittingly recorded on Nashville’s Music Row. Carpenter and creative partner Jake LiBassi, aka Laiko, embraced experimentation. “We made the album we wanted to make,” he says joyfully and confidently. “It’s so easy to get back in touch with yourself if you can throw off the heavy cloak of duty and just do something that feels good.” At a time when people take the same photo a dozen times in search of a curated aesthetic, Medium Build captures the snapshot. The lyrics and the spirit of Country embrace both wandering and wondering. “I want this to feel lived-in,” Nick says. “It’s sort of me finding a defined place.”&nbsp;On his new album USA, Chicago-bred singer/songwriter Petey bares his soul about all the endless things that keep him up at night. As he muses on everything from masculinity to anxiety to the very nature of human existence, the Los Angeles-based artist drifts between warmhearted sincerity and delightfully warped humor—a deeply affecting dynamic that also defines the absurdist alt-comedy that’s earned him a massive following on TikTok. Built on his idiosyncratic but viscerally charged breed of alt-pop/rock, Petey’s Capitol Records debut ultimately brings a gloriously strange convergence of comfort, catharsis, and unrelenting joy.The follow-up to his 2022 debut Lean Into Life, USA finds Petey working with co-producers John DeBold (Wallows, Remi Wolf) and Aidan Spiro to piece together what he refers to as “an origin story of a typical American male in their 30s.” While the album includes decidedly autobiographical tracks like “Home alone house”—a real-life account of getting busted smoking weed on the beachin eighth grade—Petey’s songwriting often takes the form of impressionistic vignettes revealing the sheer depth and scope of his inner world. On “I’ll wait,” for instance, he delivers an explosive piece of pop-punk whose lyrics offer a candid perspective on mental health. “It’s a song from the mindset of an anxious man who’s acutely aware of the resources available to him, but for whatever reason decides to just wait it out,” Petey explains. “There’s some recognition that doing nothing will make the problem drag out longer, but there’s also an understanding that the uncomfortable moment will eventually end—just like everything else in life.”Mainly recorded at Gold-Diggers Sound in L.A., USA came to life with equal parts intention and spontaneity. “For me making music has always been like throwing spaghetti at the wall, and working with John and Aidan allowed me to be reckless and experimental while giving each song the care it deserved,” says Petey, who plays guitar, bass, drums, and synth on USA. “It helped me fulfill the only real goal I had for the album, which was to make sure every single song would be super-fun to play live.” To that end, “Family of six” unfolds in dance-ready grooves as Petey shares a fantastically surreal meditation on gender expression. “We hear so much today about toxic masculinity, so the idea behind that song is trying to reclaim masculinity in a way that’s actually positive and helpful,” he says. “Each stanza is imagining a parallel universe where the laws of physics are different, and therefore I’m the best version of a man that I could be.” On “Did mention I’m sorry?,” USA takes on a combustible urgency as Petey captures the kind of all-consuming insecurity that tips into self-indulgence. “It’s about someone who’s so self-conscious that it becomes almost narcissistic, because they can’t stop obsessing about their own anxiety,” he says. And on “I tried to draw a straight line,”Petey cycles through a whirlwind of existential questions, offsetting the track’s uneasy bewilderment with sweetly lilting rhythms and majestic guitar work. “That song’s an overview of my mental state when I’m over-analyzing everything,” he says. “It ends with wondering if we’re living in a simulation, and all the paranoid but also calming thoughts that come with that.”At turns philosophical, introspective, and wildly playful, the lyrics to USA mostly emerged as Petey hiked the trails surrounding an abandoned gold mine in the San Gabriel Mountains. “Hiking has become a really good creative vessel for me,” he says. “Once you get used to a trail it becomes second nature, which leaves space for your brain to think in different ways.” A longtime musician who previously played drums in Chicago-based indie-rock band Young Jesus, he first started writing songs at the age of 27 after making his way through a series of dead-end jobs. “I never earned more than minimum wage, and I never felt like I was capable of exceling at anything within the realm of American capitalism,” he says. “But then I wrote a song and put it on Spotify, and that somehow ended up being the thing that worked.” A bittersweet but exuberant breakup song, Petey’s debut single “Apple TV Remote” soon led to his signing to indie label Terrible Records, who later released Lean Into Life and helped pave the way for his signing to Capitol Records in 2022.With the release of USA, Petey hopes that exposing his deepest neuroses might have a liberating impact on the listener. “So much of life is out of our control, which is really scary, but hopefully these songs will help people feel a little better and less alone in their struggle,” he says. “I hope everyone can find some kind of solace in recognizing that life is incredibly complicated for everyone—so instead of spending too much time ruminating on a mistake you’ve made or something that went wrong, maybe the best thing is to go easy on yourself and let it go.”

Medium Build & Petey USA

DAVID SANCIOUS &amp; WILL CALHOUN (Open Secret) 2025Hall of Fame musician David Sancious has performed with Peter Gabriel, Sting, BruceSpringsteen &amp; The E Street Band, Eric Clapton, Aretha Franklin, Santana, ErikahBadu and Jeff Beck among many others. Check out his website at<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://www.davidsancious.com/">http://www.davidsancious.com/</a> for more infoWorld renowned drummer Will Calhoun is best known for his work in Living Colour. He hasalso played with B.B. King, Mick Jagger, Jaco Pastorious, Jack Dejohnette, Herb Alpert andmany others. For more info on Will Calhoun, check out his website at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://willcalhoun.com/">https://willcalhoun.com/</a>

David Sancious, Will Calhoun, Mahavishnu Project

Carsie Blanton is a songwriter with hooks, chutzpah, and revolutionary optimism. “It is possible to face the world as it is - rapidly heating, ruled by grifters, ravaged by profitable wars - and still have hope,” she says of her newest release, After the Revolution. “Not the narrow, grasping hope you might hang on an election or a billionaire, but a patient, zoomed-out hope.”Of After the Revolution, NPR’s Fresh Air says “"Protest music tends to be strident or self-righteous or justbluntly angry. But Blanton, a folk singer with a rock attitude, knows how to construct songs with realmelodies and storylines that don't obscure her messages."With her unique mix of humor, craft, and social critique, Blanton has amassed a small menagerie of viral hits (Rich People, Shit List, Fishin’ With You) and a dedicated fan base. In addition to fifteen years on the road with her band, Blanton volunteers as a political organizer, and was recently published in The Nation.Her latest full-length album After the Revolution, produced by Grammy-winner Tyler Chester, came out on March 21st. In summer of 2024, Blanton began releasing her most viral political songs on a new EP, The Red Album Vol. 1.Brittany Ann Tranbaugh (pronounced TRAN-baw) is a Philadelphia-based songwriter whose queer Americana heartbreaker “Kiss You” won Song of the Year in the 2021 John Lennon Songwriting Contest. Tranbaugh has been writing songs and playing shows as a side gig since she was a teenager, but in February 2023, at 31 years old, she finally quit her office job to pursue a full-time career in music. Her newest release is a self-titled EP produced by Grammy-winner Tyler Chester which showcases Tranbaugh in her new era: energetic, self-assured, surrounded by her beloved musical community, and more commanding as a vocalist and writer than ever before

Carsie Blanton

THE SLAMBOVIAN CIRCUS OF DREAMSExplore the depths of Americana "one trippy tune at a time" with New York’s SlambovianCircus of Dreams.Voted "Best Band" by NY’s Chronogram Magazine for their rootsy, rockin’ psychedelia,the Slambovians' deep connection with audiences and exciting live shows are legendary.This Woodstock-tinged Americana has a hint of southern rock, British folk combined withsolid songwriting - a slice of Americana pie that is irresistible! Dylan, Bowie, Syd Barrett,Tom Petty, and The Waterboys can be heard, yet the Slambovians' musicianship andcritically acclaimed songwriting stand on their own. Joziah (the resident shaman ofSlambovia), leads with vocals described as "soothing and bewitching as a snake oiltonic.” Longtime bandmates Tink Lloyd (accordion, cello, mandolin, flute)and guitarist/mandolin wizard Sharkey McEwen bring their own magic to the Slambovianbrew with “a little help from their friends” - RJ McCarty (keys, bass, sax), Bob Torsello(bass), and Matthew Abourezk (drums)."They take the stage by storm!" – NY Times"Longo, a god of the rock underworld!" – John Platt, WFUV Radio "Great songs and awhole lotta heart" – Meg Griffin, SiriusXM "Simply one of the finest American bands" – AllMusic "The cool end of Americana" – Maverick Magazine, UK"Longo is an awesome songwriter" – Garth Hudson, The Band "The best band since theBeatles" – Jim Pons, bassist: Frank Zappa, John LennonVideos:“Tink” - CROPREDY FESTIVAL 2022 <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://vimeo.com/756231759">https://vimeo.com/756231759</a>"The Grand Slambovians" (Live) <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://youtu.be/rkEnqaOtaek?si=u9liysBaC42RlTxH">https://youtu.be/rkEnqaOtaek?si=u9liysBaC42RlTxH</a>"The Trans-Slambovian BiPolar Express" <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://youtu.be/EEj_Z5zcrew">https://youtu.be/EEj_Z5zcrew</a>?si=G0uIH1YdADHdWpJU

Slambovian Circus of Dreams

It's BQDP's Birthday! Come celebrate 8 years of dancing together by grooving so hard we melt all the ice and snow!DJ LeFoxFabulous PerformancesTickets are sliding scale- $10-20This party is for Queers and Allies ages 18+ due to mature content.

BQDP Mid Winter Birthday Thaw

Mind Left Body is a western Massachusetts’s based ensemble specializing in thoughtful interpretations of classic Grateful Dead music. Hailing from the Pioneer Valley, performances showcase vocal harmonies and expansive musical explorations while also staying deliberate and focused on the beautiful songwriting talent that propelled the Grateful Dead to the ranks of one of America’s most interesting rock and roll bands. For more information on MLB, visit <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://mindleftbodyband.com/">mindleftbodyband.com</a>.

Mind Left Body

Sam Amidon returns for a very special hometown show in support of his brilliant new album Salt River!

Sam Amidon

Join us for a celebration of Bob Marley’s birthday with Hannah’s Field &amp; Sticky Greens

Dead Meets Marley 

Black Midi frontman Geordie Greep brings his fresh new project tio Stone Church!

Geordie Greep

Jessica Lea Mayfield is a boundary-pushing artist known for blending raw emotion with captivating soundscapes. Her upcoming EP, produced by Sam Acchione, showcases her evolution as a songwriter and performer. The lead single, "Choose Myself," is a bold anthem of self-discovery and empowerment, setting the tone for an era defined by personal growth and artistic reinvention.Margaux (born Margaux Bouchegnies) is a singer-songwriter based in Brooklyn, NY. Born to a French father and an American mother, Margaux grew up in Seattle. She picked up guitar first, then upright bass, and began writing songs inspired by Motown, Pixies, and Dirty Projectors. Bass in hand, she moved across the country to study jazz at the New School in Manhattan. Bouchegnies later

Jessica Lea Mayfield

In the deep Upstate New York winter of 2022, trees bare and taunting, Nandi Rose found herself searching for an apricitic clarity. She has always found the season difficult; its ruthless theft of birdsong and flora, heavy clouds low and smothering what little light remains. But the cacophonous silence of that winter was particularly brutal. It should have been stirred by the growth of life, a promise of a new chapter, a bright dawn, as Rose learned she was pregnant with her first child. That promise was broken in early December, when stillness took over the ultrasound screen; slow-motion mouths told her the life inside her had ended. Like a snapped branch weighed down by leaden frost, Rose lost a part of her future she thought would blossom.Baldwin tells us we must say yes to life, to “embrace it wherever it is found – and it is found in terrible places – nevertheless, there it is.” This is the guiding force of See You At The Maypole, the sixth full-length album in Half Waif’s prolific catalog. If we look for color in the midst of our own personal winters, the brightness will soon begin to bounce off the snow. This gathering of resilience and clutching of chiaroscuro––celebrating both light and dark––guides us on a journey towards acceptance and surrender. Rose had to figure out how to love her life, even if it didn’t look like what she wanted it to.See You At The Maypole was originally intended as a departure from the darker works of Half Waif. Whereas 2021’s Mythopoetics dealt with familial traumas and the patterns we carry with us, Rose––armed with the anticipation of planning her own family––envisioned a new collection of soft and joyous odes to motherhood, and to new beginnings. That writing sparked in the summer of 2021 at a solo retreat in the Catskills, as melodies formed in a small cabin overlooking a luscious and rain-rippled pond. A month later, Rose found out she was pregnant and anticipated nine months of writing through a new, maternal lens, speckled with the verdure of certainty. But when that soundless morning arrived in December, See You At The Maypole took on a new life. One that would seize the uncomfortable reigns of uncertainty.The treatment of a missed miscarriage, as with an at-home abortion, is most effective with the use of two pills: mifepristone and misoprostol. Rose, however, was only prescribed the latter, likely due to FDA regulations on the former. Over the course of the next four months, her body did not recover as it should have. It wasn’t until the spring that she learned she had retained pregnancy tissue and needed an additional procedure, finally allowing her to move forward. “I was literally carrying death inside me,” she explains, “and then my body was frozen.” In that same time, Rose’s beloved mother-in-law was diagnosed with aggressive pancreatic cancer; it felt like the universe was playing an endless, cruel joke. And so, Rose wrote to save herself. Before the sunrise, she wrote in the quiet corner of the would-be nursery while her husband slept across the hall. These were lullabies for no one, whispers dissipating into the fog.While the seclusion of grief feels infinite, Rose brought the songs to her trusted friend and longtime collaborator of the past decade, Zubin Hensler. The pair worked away from others for Mythopoetics, carefully crafting each note and flourish themselves but something else was needed for See You At The Maypole. Rose was learning to loosen her grip on perfection, to splatter the canvas or leave the dropped stitch, and know that it will be beautiful anyway. “How can I take the heaviest material of my life and make it feel like air?” she asked. Live takes, whispered early-morning vocals and distorted phone recordings were all kept. It became a children’s coloring book, broken crayons smudged across the lines.In The Wild Edge of Sorrow: The Sacred Work of Grief by Francis Weller, the author highlights the importance of ritual spaces, and how many communities tend to gather in these spaces when someone has lost a loved one. Though the stem of many of these songs were written in isolation, Rose’s lullabies would soon bloom into a collective calling for anyone experiencing their own personal winter. See You At The Maypole is a room for wailing, not just for catharsis but for connection. Like lung-bursting sing-a-longs alone in the car, notes leaving the open window to be caught by another.&nbsp;“This wasn’t just my story, I wanted to say. It was every story of loss—the loss of a life, the loss of a dream, the loss of trust and hope and faith. A story of finding a way back again,” Rose explains. “My own avenue back to the land of the living was through my relationships with people and with the natural world. It only seemed right that these songs would invite those people in to build the very heart of the sound.” To that end, Hensler and Rose welcomed a wealth of players and friends into the world of the record: Jason Burger and Zack Levine on drums and percussion; Josh Marre (Blue Ranger) on guitar; Hannah Epperson and Elena Moon Park on violin; Kristina Teuschler on clarinet; Willem de Koch on trombone; Rebecca El-Saleh on harp; and Spencer Zahn on upright bass. Andrew Sarlo (Big Thief, Bon Iver) lent his deft mixing skills to many of the tracks, including lead single ‘Figurine.’&nbsp;New York City-based choir Khorikos adorns several songs, most notably on opener ‘Fog Winter Balsam Jade’ urging a mantra of collective howling. Naming those stomach-prodding reminders of grief but still recognizing their beauty: cutting an apple in the kitchen; watching a bird take flight from the back yard; a morning glory climbing up the corner of the house (‘Collect Color’); a sunset in the rearview mirror (‘I-90’); fog, winter, balsam and jade. The natural world has often been a cradle to Rose––a gentle sway of serenity––but it’s on See You At The Maypole that she had to look to its tougher lessons, and embark on a metamorphosis of her own. “Let me be oak,” she utters on ‘Heartwood’. “I embrace in all directions.”&nbsp;Hensler and Rose recorded some––but not all––at Hensler’s Brooklyn studio, departing the comfort of those reassuring walls and stepping into the constellations of Chatham, NY, Kingston, NY, the St. Anthony of Padua Church in Manhattan, and notably, Imogen Heap’s The Hideaway studio in England. Hidden in the heart of a green conservation area, The Hideaway provided a foundation for moments on ‘Fog Winter Balsam Jade’; the urgent, percussive swells of ‘Ephemeral Being’; the glittering statement of ‘Heartwood’ and ‘The Museum’ –– a languid, uneasy look at bringing life into a crumbling world. There is no shadow without light, and as the strings soar, Rose desperately grasps at the responsibility of motherhood. Sustained, ghostly vocals fill the outro, wrestling with the blessing and insecurity of new parenthood.&nbsp;Dynamic arrangements adorn See You At The Maypole, but there are also moments of simplicity. ‘Figurine,’ a tender ballad written in January 2022, mimics the immobility of pain, but the perseverance of trying to move past it. Rose’s quiet lament of “I love you when it’s snowing, I love you when it’s warm” opens the song, pointing to the seasons of grief, as well as the glimmer of change and growth. “Not everyone will go through a miscarriage but this is a song about how to continue on when you're in a deep, deep sense of loss,” Rose says. “Head up, it’s gonna get so much better you’ll see,” it urges, a chin-up, jewelry box figurine, continuing its dance despite it all.See You At The Maypole is a recognition of personal sadness, and a call to ecstatic togetherness. It’s gathering the colors of our spirit, in all its shades, and making something intricate and remarkable. The ceremonial folk dance performed around a maypole is filled with fauna and flora, with ribbons woven into complex braids incapable of unraveling; these dances are survivals of ancient ritual, honoring the living trees, and the return of Spring and fertility. These patterns––this dance––cannot be completed alone, and so, Half Waif welcomes others to join her, a collective of bleeding color. “We are so much stronger for the colorful experiences we go through,” she says. “That's where we find our humanity and find each other.”&nbsp;

Half Waif

Join us in an evening of joy, revelry and defiance for our 7th Annual Strange One's Ball! What better way to deny despair, than to shout and scream against the horrors that may come and join us at our New Year's Eve 2024 Gala! Take the evening, steal away the night and help us bury this miserable year and welcome in the new- with our greatest shared weapon: Hope.Dress to the nines and be prepared to boogie until the ball drops. The end is nigh, but we have only just begunHayley pulls inspiration from a variety of styles, including 60s + 70s rock + pop, musical theater, folk, blues, soul, psychedelic, funk + bluegrass.&nbsp; Just as varied, are the many ways she can captivate an audience.&nbsp; Whether the concentrated potency of her solo acoustic performance, the explosive energy + movement of her full band shows, or one of her theatrical performances, she always brings the charisma, humor + passion to move an audience. &nbsp;Her music has been praised by a&nbsp; wide range of musicians, producers + music lovers alike, for successfully combining a diverse sound with clever, over-the-top lyrics + Vaudevillian-style storytelling. &nbsp; Hayley reawakens her audiences to the wild parts of themselves, great medicine for these modern times.

Bella's Bartok Strange Ones Ball w/s/g Hayley Jane Band

Club d’Elf returns to Stone Church for another epic night of genre bending psychedelic grooves.

Club d'Elf 

BQDP Retro-Futurist Ball Friday, December 27th @ The Stone Church Doors 9p | Show 10p | Dance till 1aThe Night’s Theme ⦿❍ R⋵tr⨀-f⨃t⋃rsm ❍⦿ Featuring DJ W❍oly Mar &amp; extra-galactic guests TBA!!Welcome to the elastic Waste land. Armageddon hot in these woolens and it's time to activate the mirrorball and dance in the resistance.This event is for Queers and Allies that are 18+ Sliding Scale $10-25 notaflof$$$ Bring your dollars to tip performers and bartenders $$$ The Stone Church is a wheelchair accessible venue.

BQDP Retro-Futurist Ball

Jatoba is a high-energy groovegrass bluegrass trio that has been captivating audiences since their formation in 2008. Hailing from Brattleboro, Vermont, the band consists of John Jamison (guitar, mandolin, vocals), Jason Scaggs (guitar, banjo, vocals), and Jeff Richardson (upright bass, vocals). Known for their unique musical connection, the members of Jatoba bring uniqueness to their songwriting and compositions and communicate seamlessly through spontaneous composition and improvisation, bringing an unpredictable and dynamic element to their performances. Influenced by their roots in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and the mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire, Jatoba has shared their music up and down the East Coast. They have provided direct support for celebrated acts like the Jeff Austin Band, Greensky Bluegrass, Trampled By Turtles, Rusted Root, The Kitchen Dwellers, The Infamous Stringdusters, and Leftover Salmon, and have been featured at festivals such as Northlands Music Festival and Frendly Gathering, with recent recognition from Rolling Stone. The band’s versatility is evident in the multi-instrumental talents of each member, enabling them to craft rich, layered soundscapes infused with dynamic bluegrass rhythms that distinguish them within the genre. Their signature style merges intricate, original songwriting with tight three-part harmonies, driving tempos, and even the occasional touch of beatboxing, delivering a fresh and innovative approach to bluegrass music. With over a decade and a half of performing in theaters and festivals across the Northeast, Jatoba continues to evolve and excite with their distinctive groovegrass bluegrass sound and spontaneous improvisation, winning over new fans at every turn.

Jatoba/Hot Day At The Zoo

For years, The Country Christmas Sing-Along Spectacular has somehow managed to pull off what many thought impossible: a holiday show that consistently delivers a dazzling display of yuletide cheer. Whether you’re a devoted fan or about to dive into this delightful spectacle for the first time, one thing is certain: this is a sing-along you don’t want to miss. For what began as ragtag revelry has blossomed into a beloved tradition that captures the true spirit of the season. With a show-stopping lineup of classic carols, quirky original tunes, and hilariously engaging trivia to test your holiday know-how, you’re in for a bonafide treat reminiscent of Christmas specials of yore.This year, the honor of hosting falls to the inimitable Zara Bode, a seasoned starlet whose knack for holiday magic is rivaled only by her ability to whip up six-inch ribbon curls.&nbsp; Renowned for her quick wit and enchanting voice, Zara has a love for a well-crafted show, an eye for treasures hidden in the post-Christmas clearance shelf and an ear for seasonal tunes that aren’t sung enough.&nbsp; She and her merry band are ready to weave together an evening of music and laughter with you, making for an annual gathering that feels more like a family reunion gone delightfully awry than your typical holiday performance. &nbsp;So, dust off your tackiest holiday sweater, warm up those vocal cords, take a swig of eggnog and brace yourself for a joyful burst of merriment.&nbsp; Because, dear friends, this isn’t merely a show.&nbsp; It’s a raucous sing-out-loud celebration that reminds us all that NOTHING is too much trouble for Christmas!

The Sweetback Sisters Country Christmas Sing-Along Spectacular 

<blockquote>E, the trio of Jason Sanford (Neptune), Thalia Zedek (Come, Live Skull) and new drummer Ernie Kim released their 5th full length LP on Silver Rocket in April of 2024.Formed by Sanford and Zedek in 2013 with original drummer Alec Tisdale, E released a cassette and 7” before being joined by drummer Gavin McCarthy (Karate) and recording their 1st self titled full length in 2016 for the Thrill Jockey label.2018 saw their 2nd LP “Negative Work” also released on Thrill Jockey. Their subsequent 2 LP’s, 2020’s “Complications” and 2022’s “Any Information”, were released by the Czech label Silver Rocket.After the recording of “Any Information”, McCarthy was replaced by Ernie Kim on drums for the subsequent European tour.&nbsp;In 2023 E released their first recording with Kim, a live 7” recorded at cave12 in Geneva on the 100% Breakfast label.Very special guest Roger C. Miller (Mission of Burma): "Unplugged", will play solo songs from across his career to open the night.</blockquote>

A Band Called E w/ Roger C. Miller (Mission of Burma)

Jeopardy - <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/jeopardyvt?__cft__[0]=AZU3K1yFhHbIVEX7eI2lDD6YeQz3bjTB8g0o9WjlJdpO0CqLelbB9TvOJSX-PuP0WpWr6rqPEDAhz1ONlgb5HiU_8qNbc7vCud9JskLF0Q3yifSFXZZXupwxtTEIcbtYGsCXKH8tiQxd3plZ1ERkV6li&amp;amp;__tn__=q">https://www.facebook.com/jeopardyvt (Beer</a> Thrash) Sucks, but has riffs.Slob Drop - <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/jeopardyvt?__cft__[0]=AZU3K1yFhHbIVEX7eI2lDD6YeQz3bjTB8g0o9WjlJdpO0CqLelbB9TvOJSX-PuP0WpWr6rqPEDAhz1ONlgb5HiU_8qNbc7vCud9JskLF0Q3yifSFXZZXupwxtTEIcbtYGsCXKH8tiQxd3plZ1ERkV6li&amp;amp;__tn__=q">https://www.facebook.com/slobdropband (Razor</a> Scooter Punk) Sucks, but has conga lines.Maidenhead - <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/jeopardyvt?__cft__[0]=AZU3K1yFhHbIVEX7eI2lDD6YeQz3bjTB8g0o9WjlJdpO0CqLelbB9TvOJSX-PuP0WpWr6rqPEDAhz1ONlgb5HiU_8qNbc7vCud9JskLF0Q3yifSFXZZXupwxtTEIcbtYGsCXKH8tiQxd3plZ1ERkV6li&amp;amp;__tn__=q">https://www.facebook.com/MaidenheadUSA (Thrash</a> Death) Rules, has at least one pointy Jackson guitar.Woundlicker - <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/jeopardyvt?__cft__[0]=AZU3K1yFhHbIVEX7eI2lDD6YeQz3bjTB8g0o9WjlJdpO0CqLelbB9TvOJSX-PuP0WpWr6rqPEDAhz1ONlgb5HiU_8qNbc7vCud9JskLF0Q3yifSFXZZXupwxtTEIcbtYGsCXKH8tiQxd3plZ1ERkV6li&amp;amp;__tn__=q">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557766359545 (Experimental</a> Hardcore, or something) Rules, has a guitarist who hogrides.

Boozer's Birthday- Jeopardy|SLOBDROP|Maidenhead|Woundlicker

Prince/Bowie is a tribute fusion band that combines the music of Prince and David Bowie into a high energy live show. It features a rotating Allstar cast of characters from various national acts including Pink Talking Fish, Twiddle, Remain In Light and more.This band was created by the founder of Pink Talking Fish and adds a unique flavor to the Tribute Genre. Leading the stage is Josh Schwartz, a powerhouse vocalist and Baritone Sax player who is featured in the current Talking Heads ensemble, Remain In Light.The mix of the Prince and David Bowie songbooks blend beautifully and an extra spice is added with master composer, Matt Wayne, creating unique horn arrangements that enhance the music in a special way.

Prince/Bowie

A relentless road warrior and masterful wordsmith, Ryan Montbleau has spent the better part of thirty years cultivating a devoted audience on the strength of his ecstatic live shows and exhilarating sonic versatility. He’s collaborated with artists as diverse as Trombone Shorty, Galactic, Steel Pulse, Tall Heights, Martin Sexton, Anders Osborne, and George Porter, Jr;&nbsp;shared bills with the likes of Tedeschi Trucks Band, Ani DiFranco, Todd Snider, The Wood Brothers, Rodrigo y Gabriela, and Mavis Staples; and racked up more than 150 million streams on Spotify alone. NPR’s Mountain Stage compared his “eloquent, soulful songwriting” to Bill Withers and James Taylor, while Relix celebrated his “poetic Americana,” and The Boston Herald raved that “he’s made a career of confident, danceable positivity.”Montbleau’s freewheeling new album finds him exploring the full spectrum of his influences like never before, touching on folk, rock, funk, soul, hip-hop, and reggae, all with a preternatural ease that belies the intensely focused craftsmanship behind it. The songs are sprawling and unpredictable, grappling with a modern world perpetually teetering on the edge of chaos, but the performances are relentlessly optimistic, insisting on hope and joy in the face of it all. The result is Montbleau’s most vulnerable and cathartic work yet, an album that acknowledges the inevitability of doubt and pain while at the same time celebrating our limitless capacity for growth and love.

Ryan Montbleau

Frank Black will be performing solo acoustic, don't miss this rare show!

Frank Black (solo)

Once again we return to our FAVORITE venue!! The Stoned Church in Brattleboro Vermont! Everytime we are here is better than the last, so get your ticket early.Wolfman Jack is a live music project of musicians from the New England area performing the psychedelic and electrifying Live Dead to Europe 72' era of The Grateful Dead. A true dance band in the style of such legendary venues as The Fillmore West, Carousel Ballroom, Avalon Ballroom, Winterland Arena and the Strand Lyceum. They recreate those vintage sets from when the Grateful Dead were first cutting their teeth as a live music act. Don't miss it<img src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/tbe/2/16/1f3b6.png" alt="🎶"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://archive.org/details/@chaotix">https://archive.org/details/@chaotix</a>

Presented By Zanaty Productions, Loose Leaf Talent Agency, &amp; The Stone Church Brattleboro.&nbsp;The Band&nbsp;and their surrounding cast of legends has played in the soundtrack of many hearts for almost 60 years now. In honor of the late Robbie Robertson,&nbsp;The Zajac Brothers Band&nbsp;began paying homage to the night that was&nbsp;The Last Waltz&nbsp;and has assembled a veritable powerhouse of musicians to recreate the songs from the famed occasion. Guests and horns will join&nbsp;The Zajac Brothers Band&nbsp;to help bring these songs to you!

The Zajac Brothers Band

Pre-sale PRIZE PACKAGE! Anyone who pre buys tickets for the Thanksgiving Eve Hip-Hop Night: Jarv | B. Dolan | Coyote Reverie | Sleepy Spectre | Subtex at The Stone Church will be entered in a drawing to win this crazy bundle of goodies:One of a kind Coyote Reverie XL hoodie(hand sewn by Meadow Eliz)Coyote Reverie “Carry The Spark” VinylJarv &amp; Pajama Sam “Flow Stimulus” VinylCoyote Reverie “Carry The Spark” &amp; “IMAH” CDsAnimated Misadventures of Stresselbee &amp; Friends CDSleepy Spectre “Chapter One” CDPlus a bunch of lighters, stickers, &amp; whatever else we can find to add to the mix. Easily $100+ worth of stuff!Every ticket purchased gets you an entry, plus you’ll save $5 on the tickets. What’s not to love? Drawing will be held night of the show, around 9 o’clock. Must be present to win! See y’all there! Ticket link 👇

Thanksgiving Eve Hip-Hop Night

Nico Suave returns for another night of Led Zeppelin classics!

Nico Sauve

Psychedelic rock group TEKE::TEKE are intimately familiar with duality, of splitting reality between past and present, complex melodies and hushed interludes, intense action and lingering response. After building their sound through careful assembly of countless splinters of Japanese folk, psychedelia, Brazilian surf rock, and other far-flung touchstones, the Montreal-based seven-piece indulged in and learned from stretching out in free-floating experimentation on the road. Now releasing their sophomore album, Hagata (due June 9th via Kill Rock Stars), TEKE::TEKE move fully in the space between, embracing the power of mythic pairings and identities lived at once. Matching muscly intensity with moments of cloudy meditation—like a world-class high jumper finding bliss at the apex of their leap—the group frame expressive compositions with regal flute, rich horns, ecstatic guitar, and a thumping rhythm section.

TEKE::TEKE

Embrace a new way to move to the Tinkers.If you've never contra&nbsp;danced before it's easy, exhilarating&nbsp;and friendly.&nbsp;OR if you just wanna grove out on your own, that's cool too.&nbsp;If are a "contra dancer", get ready to think a bit outside&nbsp;the box. Express yourself to latin, afrobeat, funk, reggae, blues, and of course trad fiddle. Surprises all night long.

Glow Dance 

All Eye Trio returns to Stone Church!OG members of Goose Ben Atkind and Kris Yunker reunite joined by guitarist Ari Joshua!

All Eye Trio

Truly great pop songs do not require a cheery outlook in order to work, nor do they pander to expectations of syrupy sweet easy-listening. Rather, the best pop music is a matter of refinement and pure intention, of dialing groove to melody so that the two might puncture the malaise of everyday living in unison, revealing some brief, sober truth about our shared human condition. On their third LP, Moments of Clarity (Run for Cover), Narrow Head have achieved precisely this feat. Traversing the depths of massive, churning riffs, often distorted to the point of violence, bouncing, lock-grooved rhythms, and crystalline, gorgeously constructed hooks, the Houston-based outfit puts on a masterclass in the art of writing songs that match the pain, pleasure, and confusion of modern living. Each track is sentimental without being precious, heavy without unnecessary griminess, pop-forward without letting the listener off the hook easy: these songs ask for some form of hurt or desire to be paid back to them in return, some promise that the listener is putting equal skin into the game.

Narrow Head

“It’s a portrait of who we are as collaborators, as really long term friends and as extended family as well,” leader Emily Sprague says of her band’s new self-titled album. Florist is also the strongest album of the band’s decade-long career, an immersive work that conveys the magic of the earth and of family, and the whole of the band’s heart. It arrives just after the cap of a winding journey. In 2017, shortly after the release of the band’s sophomore record, If Blue Could Be Happiness, Sprague sequestered herself in Los Angeles, thousands of miles away from friends and family, and from the physical void and spiritual crisis left in the wake of her mother’s death. There, she took up surfing and released Emily Alone, which was essentially a solo album released under the Florist moniker. Only after months of self reflection and therapy did Sprague realize that life in a silo is no way to live. That a life directed by fear is not much of a life. “The trauma response to losing my best friend, my mom, was to feel really afraid to get close to anybody ever again,” she says. “It’s sort of cheesy, but I realized that life is better when you share it. The answer isn’t to isolate yourself and be alone.” So she began writing Emily Alone’s companion, the other side of the binary, a record that rings distinctly of Sprague’s tender and poetic spirit, filled with nature and wonder and tears, but without all the loneliness and seclusion. She also adopted a dog, who, she says, “completely changed my life.” “My mind just started exploding with all these thoughts about what it means to live with others, and live with love and care collaboration.” Then, for all of June of 2019, amid a hot and rainy summer, Sprague (guitar, synth, vocals), Jonnie Baker (guitar, synth, sampling, bass, saxophone, vocals), Rick Spataro (bass, piano, synth, vocals) and Felix Walworth (percussion, synth, guitar, vocals) convened in a rented house in the Hudson Valley, to live and work together. It was the first time the quartet recorded that way, and for that long. “In the past we’d meet up for a couple of days, or one day here and there,” Spague recalls. “Living together for a month is a really big part of why the arrangements are the way they are, and also why the instrumentals are such a huge part of the record.” They set up their gear on the screened-in front porch, which looked out onto a canopy of trees, allowing the sounds of nature to play a leading role through out. Then, they experimented. The production and recording of the album directly reflects the organic ways in which the band worked that month, with whispering voices, crickets, rain and birds accenting the aleatoric quality of the instrumentation, each player drawing from the communal energy of the woods and their interpersonal bonds. Poignant, guitar-centric meditation “Red Bird Pt. 2 (Morning)” carries on Sprague’s concern with love, loss and the natural world. “She’s in the birdsong/She won’t be gone,” she sings of her late mother, proffering a merciful sense of resolve. “Feathers” finds her facing her fears over threads of bowed guitar while “Dandelion” meditates on the beauty of our finite existence, pairing synth and fingerpicking with the spirit of Emily Dickinson. “Sci Fi Silence” occupies a liminal space between soul baring confession and contemplative new age, a swirl of analog synth that culminates in a full-band meditation. “You’re not what I have, but what I love,” the band sings over and again until the words grow into a kind of mantra, a thing that at once pierces and heals. The quartet played through muggy days and breezy nights, and often impromptu. “In between working on songs specifically, somebody would be sitting on the porch playing a little instrumental piece, and somebody else would be in the kitchen making dinner and stop, and go to the porch and pick up a random instrument,” Sprague explains. These creative bursts became the album’s ambient instrumental bridges, like “Variation” and “Jonnie on the Porch,” gentle moments that portray their life together in that particular moment. The bells heard throughout the album are from a collection housed in the rental, the animals were their neighbors. The result is 19 tracks that feel like the culmination of a decade-long journey, their fourth full-length album, but the first deserving of a self-titled designation. “We called it Florist because this is not just my songs with a backing band,” Sprague explains. “It’s a practice. It’s a collaboration. It’s our one life. These are my best friends and the music is the way that it is because of that.” After making the record they always knew they could, together, as one, Sprague could no longer live on the west coast without her band and blood. So, she returned home. Last year, she moved back to The Catskills to be closer to her father and her creative collaborators. She misses surfing, but finds peace in the area’s natural landscapes, and through a strengthening sense of physical reconnection. “A goal is to share the band’s connectedness and relationship, but also how we’re all connected,” she says. With Florist, Emily is no longer alone.Lily Seabird is a perceptive songwriter who can channel moments when everything feels raw andoverwhelming into something healing and galvanizing. With Alas, she confronts grief with palpableclarity on tracks that careen from delicate folk to blistering indie rock. While it’s her second LP, itserves as a proper introduction to an undeniable and idiosyncratic voice.

Florist

JP Harris was born shortly, and fortunately, a few minutes before Valentine’s Day 1983 in Montgomery, Alabama. Within a handful of years he was wearing a green velour tracksuit and leading a large Doberman around for street credibility, at the young age of three. He had a charm and strut that would take him far, so the grown folks said; but roughly a decade later, on the opposite side of the country, he would leave his family’s home late one summer night with no designs on fame, fortune, or clothing endorsements, never to return.&nbsp;He had an inkling that the eighth grade was enough education for where he was headed, and set a course for Anywhere, USA.Turns out he was right.

JP Harris w/s/g The DiTrani Brothers

Apes of the State is an independent folk punk band from Lancaster, PA. As a band, they are driven by DIY ethics with a goal of helping as many people as possible with their music. Their upbeat, mandolin driven songs encompass the full range of human emotion and cover topics such as love, heartbreak, student loan debt, regret, and overcoming addiction. Their most recent release, “They Can’t Kill Us All (2023)” is a 7” split record with Washington band Sister Wife Sex Strike. It leaves no room for questioning the band’s political message and evolution in sound while still sticking to their acoustic roots. RENT STRIKE is a call to action! Fiercely independent and pushing up against all bounds, their music is a wild dream, a spreading fire, an explosion in every direction, and a challenge to our notion of our time and of our place. Their new record NOW is a sieve for the dread of the present day, confronting the widespread alienation and disillusionment of late capital head-on to sift out the pieces of hope, resistance, and joy from the experiences within, and the possibilities without.&nbsp; Myles Bullen is a genre- fluid, art-poet, ukulele-playing punk rapper, from Portland, Maine. Myles has toured nearly every state in the US as well as many European countries performing packed shows at music venues, colleges, recovery centers, prisons, festivals, and libraries. As a person in long term recovery from addiction, Myles sings and screams songs about grief, mental health, addiction, navigating identity, relationships, and cartoon lore. They released their most recent album, timetokill, on indie record label, Fake Four Inc. They love doing shows and their dog Finn. ​

Apes of the State/Rent Strike/Myles Bullen

Born in 1953 in Detroit, Michigan, Marshall Crenshaw learned to tune a guitar correctly at age ten and has been trying ever since. His first big break came in 1978 playing John Lennon in “Beatlemania”, first as an understudy in New York, then in the West Coast company, followed by a national touring company. Removing himself from that situation in Feb. 1980, Marshall settled in New York City. Enthralled by the hyper-diverse musical culture of the City, and the local Rock scene in particular, Marshall formed a Rock and Roll band with brother Robert on drums and Chris Donato on bass.After crossing paths with the great and legendary Alan Betrock, Marshall recorded his debut single “Something’s Gonna Happen” for Betrock’s Shake Records label; at nearly the same time, legendary Rockabilly singer Robert Gordon’s recording of Marshall’s “Someday Someway” was released as a single on the RCA label. These two records simultaneously broke big on New York’s WNEW-FM, causing Marshall and his trio’s local popularity to explode.And so began a career that’s spanned four decades, 13 albums, Grammy and Golden Globe nominations, film and TV appearances (Buddy Holly in “La Bamba”) and thousands of live performances. Marshall Crenshaw’s musical output has maintained a consistent fidelity to the qualities of artfulness, craftsmanship and passion, and his efforts have been rewarded with the devotion of a broad and loyal fan base.Presently, along with touring around the country and the occasional recording project, other current projects include producing a documentary film-in progress about legendary&nbsp;record producer Tom Wilson. Says Crenshaw, “This is a road that I’d never imagined taking before, but it’s been an incredible learning experience.” &nbsp;“Although he was seen as a latter-day Buddy Holly at the outset, he soon proved too talented and original to be anyone but himself.” – Trouser PressJames Mastro&nbsp;- guitarist, multi-instrumentalist,&nbsp;producer and singer-songwriter extraordinaire -&nbsp;has toured the world dozens of&nbsp;times over as a supportive musician with some of the biggest and most critically acclaimed rock&nbsp;and pop&nbsp;artists ever to grace a stage including&nbsp;Ian Hunter, Patti Smith,&nbsp;John Cale,&nbsp;The Jayhawks,&nbsp;Alejandro Escovedo,&nbsp;Garland Jeffreys,&nbsp;Jesse Malin,&nbsp;and with&nbsp;Robert Plant&nbsp;as his musical director for a benefit concert for an artist they both admired immensely,&nbsp;Love’s Arthur Lee.&nbsp;From The Beacon Theater to the Shepherd's Bush Empire (UK),&nbsp;Mastro has roused crowds&nbsp;with&nbsp;brilliant performances channeling the sonic inventiveness of David Bowie and the tastefulness of Mick Ronson.&nbsp;Discussing his new album for&nbsp;&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.mpressrecords.com/">MPress Records</a>,&nbsp;Dawn of a New Error,&nbsp;the&nbsp;Americana-rock singer/songwriter, guitarist and producer reveals:&nbsp;"As an underage kid, I used to do whatever it took to see the bands I loved: wait in line for hours for tickets, or sneak into clubs and push my way to the front of the stage.&nbsp;&nbsp;Now, as an overaged kid, I’ve had the best seat in the house playing guitar onstage with many of those same artists that inspired me to do what I’ve been doing all these years. And I still feel like I’m sneaking in!”&nbsp;&nbsp;

Marshall Crenshaw w/s/g James Mastro

It’s obvious listening to Sarah Shook and the Disarmers’ clear-eyed, biting, and unafraid songs that integrity is the most important thing to the Chapel Hill, North Carolina, country-punk outfit. “A lot of artists are in this industry for fame, recognition, and money but those things don’t mean anything to me,” says bandleader River Shook. “Songwriting is it for me. It’s the only real healthy coping mechanism I've ever had. It’s life-saving. I don't care about any superficial things when I’m making a record.” On their resonant fourth album Revelations, produced by Shook and out March 29 via Thirty Tigers, these raw and resilient tracks come first. Throughout, Shook’s deft storytelling documents regular people getting by and keeping on, all presented without filter or pretension.

Sarah Shook & The Disarmers

The Big Takeover band delivers a fresh take on Reggae, Rocksteady, Ska, and Soul. Blending the pop sounds of Jamaica with the soulful energy of Motown, this band is one tight, grooving ensemble. Feel the electricity of the live-wire singing and deceptively subtle songwriting of the powerhouse performer NeeNee Rushie. Groove to the explosive rhythms, and get swept away by the sweet sounds of the horns. This band is guaranteed to make you dance.The Brighton Beat is a unique and engaging spectacle, whose influences range from Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, to modern cutting-edge NYC Jazz with a heavy helping of classic New Orleans brass band Funk. Performing up and down the East coast since 2010, the band has developed a style of performance that is incredibly uplifting and infectiously danceable - a trademark of The Brighton Beat sound. Faculty of Berklee, New England Conservatory, NYU, Broadway pit musicians, top call session players, and world touring musicians, call The Brighton Beat their own, and their home. Their shows often include guest vocalists, audience participation, group sing-a-longs and even the occasional circus act! The band's passion for music and family-friendly entertainment is paramount, with each performance being a unique, shared experience that showcases the pure unbridled joy the band has playing together, and invites new listeners to join this heartwarming family.

The Big Takeover/The Brighton Beat

We’re also hosting an Election Night Party!&nbsp;Please join us at the Stone Church with special guest, Becca Balint. Come celebrate, worry, talk, play, dance, and be together after the polls close.&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.mobilize.us/vtdems/event/722082/">Please register here</a>&nbsp;if you would like to attend, no charge, but its helpful (and safer) for us to know who is coming. Between now and November 5th, please get involved, reach out, volunteer, talk to your neighbors. Don’t give in to hottakes or polling– participate!&nbsp;

PollStars Election Night Party

BrattRock Returns!FeaturingEMILY MARGARET BAND GODZILLA WITH A GUN THE JACKETS MAEZ TECHNICOLOUR LTD. NATE POTTER BIG DOG SILAS KLEPPINGER LEYETI WARD SOPHIA BAKER HALF GIRAFFE FOOL'S HANDSHAKE

BrattRock

Stimulation is easy to come by these days. Streaming platforms and social media offer us endless fleeting moments of diversion that keep what we call the “pleasure zones” of our brains lit up morning till night. But for such a supposedly hedonistic time, real pleasure—the kind that feeds our soul rather than draining it, that makes us feel good instead of just distracting us from the fact that we feel bad—is in shockingly short supply.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The second LP by Brattleboro, Vermont’s THUS LOVE is full of that kind of nourishing euphoria. It swoons, shakes, and swaggers with a combination of grit and sensuality that’s been hard to locate in music lately. It fills your brain with barbed melodic hooks that once they sink in don’t budge. It punches at the clouds and makes you want to do the same. It’s called, fittingly, All Pleasure. The album came out of a period of dizzying growth and transformation for the group. When they began work on it, vocalist/guitarist Echo Mars and drummer Lu Racine were still reeling from the runaway success of their 2022 debut full-length, Memorial—a set of lush, elegant post-punk that brought praise from The FADER, the NME, and the Guardian, plus a leap from quiet Brattleboro to stages across the US and UK—along with processing the departure of founding bassist Nathaniel van Osdol. Meanwhile, new bassist Ally Juleen and guitarist/keyboardist Shane Blank, longtime musical partners, had uprooted their lives to relocate to small-town Vermont and join a band that was a month away from recording the follow-up to a cultishly adored album. “We were all coming together to make this new thing and take a new step,” Mars says. “We've all been making music for a while, and we’ve all been confronted with aspects of it that are grueling and not pleasurable.” When the group convened in a barn in the woods that Mars had transformed into a recording studio the band calls her “Hobbit Hole,” they kept one simple rule at the forefront: “If it's not joyful,” says Mars, “don't do it.” What emerged from that simple mission is a stunningly gorgeous album, full of big, arcing melodies and a whole range of kinky stylistic twists that will surprise listeners who know the group just for their first album’s chorus-drenched 80s-style psychedelia. “Birthday Song” gives grungy glam rock with a stride that’s new for the band, but fits them perfectly, via a transcendent hook that underlines Echo’s lyrical tribute to communal joy. “Get Stable” transmutes existential panic—“I can’t get stable / Is that what I’m afraid of?”–into sharp-angled punk pop. The anthemic title track—the last song written for the album, and the first to be written by the entire quartet—is something like the album’s mission statement, with Echo and Ally splitting vocal duties as they pay tribute to the power of joyful creation: “I ain’t high but I feel good,” Echo sings, “Like a drug but I don’t come down.”&nbsp; Mixed by Matthew Hall and Rich Costey (on “Birthday Song”, “All Pleasure”, and “Get Stable”) and mastered by Bob Weston,All Pleasurewas recorded as live as possible, with a bare minimum of overdubs, capturing the sheer infectious ecstasy that comes from a group of people sharing space together, making a divine racket. On top of being just a great album, it’s also a persuasive argument for ditching the algorithm, going off the grid, and finding a barn to hole up in with some friends and a bunch of instruments. On “House on the Hill,” Echo sneeringly sums up the empty feeling of living for nothing but likes: “Anything for convenience / anything for the gram,” she sings. “It feels like we’re never gonna get out of here.” Put on All Pleasure, tap into the energy and the message that THUS LOVE is putting out, and you just might find an escape.

Thus Love

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Guerilla Toss/Rough Francis/Aspero Siacos

Session Americana has been accessing the joy for 20 years. A group of musiciansmusicians, the band deftly creates a unique live experience that celebrates the joy ofthe music and of each other. Looking back, the group has a natural, almost inevitableevolution from a loose bunch of friends sitting around swapping songs in a bar, to a hotticket weekly residency, to a touring collective. Along the way, they have made 10records, played clubs and festivals across the US and Europe, and developed somedeep collaborative bonds with a wide community of musicians. Their diligent avoidanceof music business “shoulds” have led them down a quirky and joyful path through themusic world and the result is evident in the musical prowess they bring to every show.Swapping instruments, lead vocals and their original songs, Session Americana isconstantly exploring new collaborations and touring like a band out of time, stillsearching for a welcoming and homey venue, a long lunch with old friends and a goodglass of wine.After completing a five week tour together earlier this year throughout Ireland andEurope the band will continue to be joined by singer-songwriter, guitarist and fiddleplayer Eleanor Buckland playing in the band. Eleanor made her start as one-third ofLula Wiles, the Boston-based folk-rock trio that became an acoustic music scenefavorite with their three critically hailed albums. Now living in Durham NC, the singersongwriter has turned to a different side of her musical interests as a solo artist.Buckland’s debut album You Don’t Have To Know (released October 2021 on SoundlyMusic) sets her deeply personal songs against inventive indie rock arrangements."I’m lucky to have known Session Americana for most of their twenty (!!!) years! I wasjust starting out as a songwriter when I discovered their residency shows at the LizardLounge in Cambridge. Pure magic. I’m misty-eyed now thinking about it! I had neverseen a band enjoying themselves that much, and everyone in the room was in on it, thisraucous and holy thing. I took a "note to self” that I’ve tried to recall many times whenmusic felt hard. Like, the job is simple— access the joy— and if you can do that, itopens a portal. I got to guest sing with Session a few times, witness their sustainedmutual love affair with my home state of Vermont, and even help out in the making ofone of their incredible albums. I’m ever in awe of Session, individually and as a band.They’re so finely in tune with each other, with their audiences. I’m in awe of their bond,their easy laughter, their intuitive musical conversation that has now gained the richnessof decades” — ANAÏS MITCHELL (Vermont-based singer-songwriter and the Tony andGrammy award-winning creator of the Broadway musical Hadestown)"We in Boston are extremely fortunate to have a continuum of excellent musicians thatstretches decades before our time and will, we hope, flow on into the future. SessionAmericana are among the cream of the crop. The fact that the core of this loosecollective formed 20 years ago(!), already as veterans of our city’s rich music history...[shows] their staying power speaks to not only their dedication to each other, but to thelife-affirming power of the music, and to the community that has been built up aroundthem.“ — Bill Janovitz is the New York Times Bestselling author and member ofBoston’s own Buffalo Tom

SESSION AMERICANA with Eleanor Buckland

Dawn of the EDDHalloween madness with VT’s psychedelic progsters The EDD with The Trichomes &amp; Jime Time.Costume ContestSpooky Halloween Cocktails

Dawn of The EDD

It's many queers' favorite time of year. Dress up in your spooky, neon, glowing finest for this Halloween's Glow in the Dark Party! 9p Doors | 10p Cabaret | Dance till 1aDJ LeFoxCabaret hosted by Patty Cake with performances by local drag and burlesque artists!$$$ Bring your dollars to tip performers and bartenders $$$This event is for Queers and Allies that are 18+Sliding Scale $10-25 notaflof

QDP- Glow In The Dark Party

Saving ViceFight From WithinIn ShallowsKenedy ParkYourArmsAreMyLegs$20 adv/$25 dos6:30 doors7:00 show

Saving Vice

Greet Death is a shoegaze, grunge, and slowcore band from Flint, Michigan that mixes rich textures with introspective lyrics to create a dynamic contrast of melodies and rhythms

Greet Death

Rocktober rolls on with an extra special appearance by local rock star King Tuff accompanied by the one &amp; only Chris Wiesman. The sublime Ruth Garbus Trio will open the night!

King Tuff (soloish) w/ Ruth Garbus Trio

Parker Millsap quickly made a name for himself with his captivating live performances, soulful sound, and character-driven narratives. He’s had a string of successes including an appearance on CONAN, a performance with Elton John at the Apple Music Festival, an Austin City Limits taping &amp; an Americana Music Association nomination for Album of the Year. He's shared the stage with folks like Jason Isbell, Shovels &amp; Rope, Patty Griffin, Houndmouth, and many others.Parker’s early releases showcased a mastery of acoustic folk rock, with their flourish for revelation and fiery dynamics. Be Here Instead, Millsap’s 2021 release produced by John Agnello, hinted at the wildness to come while exploring newer, more personal songwriting styles. Parker's newest album, Wilderness Within You, is a natural step in Parker's evolution which interweaves threads of his musical past and newer influences to gorgeous effect. A poet with a staggering and true voice, Korean-American troubadour Nat Myers' folksy blues and remarkable pickin' are authentic, timeless, and enduring. The Kenton County, KY native's delivery harkens to traditional blues giants, but it's his unique blend of modern roots and Americana that continues to make crowds drop their jaws. Recorded live at the 100-year-old-plus home of producer Dan Auerbach, Yellow Peril is haunted with the ghosts of the rich history of the blues.

Parker Millsap & Nat Myers

SparkleTown IICelebrating the Music &amp; Spirit of Kate LorenzFeaturingSession AmericanaThe WinterpillsSuitcase JunketCaitlin CantyZak TrojanoThe Rear DefrostersBreak MaidsAdam KleinThe ConstellationsAnd more…

SparkleTown II

Band of Brothers 

Under the name Empress Of, Honduran-American songwriter, musician and producer Lorely Rodriguez creates introspective, self-empowering pop music centered around her impressive, acrobatic vocals. For Your Consideration, a follow-up to 2020’s I’m Your Empress Of and 2022’s Save Me EP, is a bi-lingual album that embraces camp and fantasy playing with the idea of Hollywood. The songs, which veer between English and Spanish, reflect on the transactional nature of love and sex, which is mirrored by the ephemeral sense of existence in the entertainment industry. Empress Of has collaborated with Top 40 pop artists and cultural icons such as Khalid, Blood Orange, Lewis OfMan, DJ legend Boyz Noise, ShyGirl and Salute.&nbsp; She's toured with the likes of Carly Rae Jepsen, Lizzo, Maggie Rogers, Rina Sawayama and wowed audiences at festivals such as Outside Lands and Corona Capital.&nbsp; Her "For Your Consideration" headline tour begins in September of 2024.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Empress Of w/ Casey MQ

On the porch of her one-time Nashville home, Liz Cooper had a multimedia project that combined two of her loves: lips and cigarettes. She painted her own lips with red paint and kissed a canvas two or three hundred times, later dotting them with the detritus left behind in ashtrays by her friends. An overlap of intimacy, indulgence, cheekiness, and sensuality, the piece complements Cooper's roiling second record, Hot Sass. Over jagged, frenetic guitar parts, Cooper sets expectations aflame with the record's title track. Her songs unfurl like smoke spiraling off an incense cone late in the afternoon, with Cooper pushing deeper into psychedelic openness, punk ferocity, and beyond.On new album Longest Day of the Year, Dari Bay is a perpetually shifting art project posing as songs, an ongoing thought experiment disguised as a band. Burlington, Vermont-based artist Zachary James launched Dari Bay as a solo vehicle in 2015, acting as sole songwriter, producer, player of every instrument, and exacting architect of how each sound was placed. Early output was raw and often unhinged, but Longest Day of the Year finds Dari Bay assuming a new form as James folds his experimental spirit into what at first appear to be neutral, unassuming tunes.When Nashville based singer/songwriter Mark Sloan records albums, he takes the word “solo” seriously…and literally. He’s a true Renaissance man, one who plays every instrument, pens the tunes, produces/engineers the proceedings and releases the results on his own imprint. Call him a one man band or the definitive do-it-yourselfer but Sloan—who goes by the barely concealed pseudonym of Slark Moan—gives new meaning to the concept of indie. He’s truly independent of many pressures generated by the music machine that other, often lesser talented artists, are subject to. All of which explains why the uniquely titled Superstition for the Consumer Romantic, his sophomore full length, took about a year and a half to craft.

Liz Cooper/Dari Bay

The Pentagram String Band are a satanic bluegrass band from Kansas City Missouri. They are suspicious of traditional bluegrass and play a style of gothic folk, punk, and thrash metal. Often involving cannibalism and murder, their lyrics focus on themes of satan, misery and the joys of death.&nbsp;JD &amp; Six Feet Deep fresh tapped VT Hillbilly Honky Tonk

The Pentagram String Band/ JD & Six Feet Deep

On Songs From A Thousand Frames Of Mind, the kaleidoscopic full-length debut from Kate Bollinger, entire worlds lie in the small details. “When I’m recording a song,” the Charlottesville-born, Los Angeles-based songwriter observes, “my indication of whether it’s worth pursuing is if I’m seeing a movie in my head to go along with it.” Blending classic pop songcraft with scrappy punk instincts, Bollinger casts a collage-like vision that’s instantly memorable and uniquely mystifying. Ranging from homespun folk songs to warmly rendered psychedelic rock—like early Rolling Stones as fronted by Hope Sandoval—the resulting album can feel like flipping through your coolest friend’s record collection, finding a new favorite song with each discovery. In order to summon this majestic blend of styles, Bollinger spent years cultivating material, challenging herself to work with new collaborators while moving across the country from her native Virginia to California. Evolving the hermetic approach of her early EPs and solo performances, she arrived at a fuller sound based on intuitive responses and in-the-moment energy. “I came to this realization that most of my favorite music is the result of friends, or players who have known each other a long time, coming together and playing live in the room,” she observes. Armed with endless hooks and wildly shifting textures, Bollinger can seem as much like a songwriter as an art-house auteur, crafting the soundtrack and scenery for a non-existent movie. (Fittingly, Bollinger studied film in college, and she also directed the striking music video for Jessica Pratt’s recent single “World on a String.”) Several highlights from the record were co-written with Spacebomb Records mastermind Matthew E. White, such as the jangle-pop gem “Any Day Now” and the theatrical “I See It Now.” After months of writing in Richmond and Los Angeles, Bollinger traveled to upstate New York to record with producer Sam Evian (Big Thief, Blonde Redhead, Cass McCombs), with whom she developed a similar kinship. Alongside her longtime friend and drummer Jacob Grissom, she formed a group of tight-knit collaborators able to match her wide-ranging inspiration, spanning from ’60s icons like Françoise Hardy and the Velvet Underground to ’90s touchpoints like No Doubt and Pavement. "In some way, this album feels like my musical debut. I feel that I’ve finally been able to express all sides of myself in one record." For Bollinger, the connective tissue between this disparate material is often unspoken but always deeply felt. “Songwriting is kind of like dreaming,” she explains. “They both tend to reveal to me what I don't yet consciously know. I thought of the album title before most of the songs were written, but it became a self-fulfilling prophecy in a way that tends to happen in a lot of my music.” As a lyricist, Bollinger expresses herself through subtle imagery and surrealist stream-of-conscious narratives, allowing listeners to arrive at their own interpretation. When she touches on the rise and fall of romantic relationships, there is an almost therapeutic quality to her writing. In the lilting, empathetic “To Your Own Devices,” she follows a sunswept melody to deliver a series of hushed, second-person observations: “Now you’re in a pinch/The mirror makes you flinch,” she sings. “And all this time, were you not making sense?” In the baroque swirl of opener “What’s This About (La La La La),” Bollinger and her band conjure a sense of cartoonish whimsy that places her in league with the mystical pop greats of the Elephant 6 Collective, a scene whose idiosyncratic spin on the classic rock era helped inform the patchwork sprawl of her record. The cumulative effect reveals the vast range of Bollinger’s vision. “I like when something is a balance of opposites,” she notes, and her tender approach as a songwriter and bandleader makes these juxtapositions feel as natural as a singalong with friends. The haunting “Sweet Devil” smolders like a jazz standard as interpreted by Feist at her smokiest and most intimate; the dramatic outro of “I See It Now” has a romping energy that feels suited for a climactic showdown at a saloon; the breezily psychedelic “Postcard From A Cloud” plays like a dreamworld collaboration between Teenage Fanclub and Broadcast, finding the warm, melodic center of their Venn Diagram. Written during a period of transience and change, Songs From A Thousand Frames Of Mind was made to resemble a mixtape—something carefully crafted and delivered from just one person to another. In sharing this music with listeners, Bollinger took inspiration from her own formative encounters with art: quietly worshiping the early musical projects of her older brothers, attending local shows in Charlottesville and feeling empowered to write songs of her own, inheriting burned CDs from older classmates and finding a portal to another world. (Working with her friends Emma Collins and Evangeline Neuhart on the visual accompaniment, Bollinger assures the entire project feels equally communal and intuitive.) Sublimating a lifetime’s worth of musical connections into a concise 11 songs, Songs From A Thousand Frames Of Mind captures a rare sense of purpose and ambition for a debut record, managing to feel cozily familiar while still packed full of surprises. And in her gently playful and emotionally resonant performances, Bollinger sounds as enraptured by the mystery as anyone.&nbsp;

Kate Bollinger

Oh He Dead is a five-piece indie soul band from Washington, DC that blends R&amp;B, folk, and rock influences with lyrics that are both poignant and soulful. The band is known for their infectious joy and energetic live shows, and some say their sound is "groovy" and "sublime".

Oh He Dead

Generally associated with hallucinations and dead rats, singer-songwriter and pianist Will Woodhas been described as something of a recluse, quote "because I told my publicist to." Wood'sdramatic songwriting is characterized by a sense of humor that whiplashes between too dry todetect and aggressively absurd, as well as a combination of both intensely emotional andsurrealist lyricism, and his solo performances follow suit. His work has only increased inpopularity since beginning a hiatus after the release of his "musical suicide note" In Case I MakeIt, and the Slouching Towards Bethlehem tour is his first time playing live in two years. WillWood lives in New Jersey, likes to read, and has three pet rats, named "Snooter Man," "MisterBubbles," and "Bastard."

Will Wood Slouching Towards Bethlehem! Tour

"One of my biggest inspirations, Kobe Bryant, used to say don't be bitter, be better,” says Andy Frasco. "So, I've always tried to be better every year. I'm not trying to stay still, I want to get better at every-thing in life. I'm not just plateauing. I'm going to keep fighting to be the best songwriter I can be. Because if you're not evolving, you're dying."Andy Frasco &amp; The U.N. have long been the high-flying DIY renegades of the touring scene known and loved for their kaleidoscopic musical fusion, one-of-a-kind onstage audacity, and contagious party-animal energy.&nbsp; The band’s recent full length LP ‘L’Optimist’ celebrates their longevity, while giving way to a wiser, but no less enthusiastic, artist and band leader who isn’t afraid to lean into the introspective and explore more difficult terrain, lyrically and emotionally.&nbsp; “With so much bad news in the world, why not try to figure out a way to get out of the darkness,” Frasco says. “We’re not going to be able to change the world, but we can at least help the process along by being optimistic that the future will turn itself around. And if everyone changes their mind state about the future, then maybe we can change the world.”Never one to sit on his laurels, the pandemic pushed Frasco into expansion, transforming his high energy roadshow into a blitz of new music, a 33 episode variety show (Andy Frasco’s World Saving ShitShow) which garnered 20 millions views, a highly attended digital Dance Party, and further development of his already successful and compelling podcast, Andy Frasco’s World Saving Podcast.&nbsp; His variety show and podcast has featured interviews and musical performances by many notable guests such as Tony Hawk, Billy Strings, GRiZ, Bert Kreischer, Margaret Cho, Nathaniel Rateliff, Kamasi Washington and more.Frasco continues to grow as a songwriter, band leader, and human being, steadfastly determined to keep on keeping on, pushing himself and his music to improve with every passing day.&nbsp; Don’t miss out on the party → <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.andyfrasco.com/">https://www.andyfrasco.com/</a>Hayley pulls inspiration from a variety of styles, including 60s + 70s rock + pop, musical theater, folk, blues, soul, psychedelic, funk + bluegrass.&nbsp; Just as varied, are the many ways she can captivate an audience.&nbsp; Whether the concentrated potency of her solo acoustic performance, the explosive energy + movement of her full band shows, or one of her theatrical performances, she always brings the charisma, humor + passion to move an audience.&nbsp;&nbsp;Her music has been praised by a&nbsp; wide range of musicians, producers + music lovers alike, for successfully combining a diverse sound with clever, over-the-top lyrics + Vaudevillian-style storytelling. &nbsp; Hayley reawakens her audiences to the wild parts of themselves, great medicine for these modern times.

Andy Frasco & The UN

Some endings have clarity. You graduate. You breakup. You leave a job. You board a flight. Others are harder to define. The boundaries of a particular period are amorphous and resist delineation.&nbsp;The Ending Of An Age, the debut album of Austin-based Holy Wire, pieces together such an era through fact and fiction. Through fuzzy synth hooks, glassy guitar tones, and self-conscious crooning, Holy Wire takes inventory of a personal history, drawing up a map of an era of life and negotiating with all the starts and ends therein.&nbsp;Holy Wire is the project of Alain Paradis. Towards the end of the pandemic, Paradis relocated from Brooklyn to Austin, going through a break-up and giving up drinking within the first month. Alone and sober without friends, family, or community, in an unfamiliar city barely beginning to emerge from lockdown, Paradis’ songwriting turned towards reflection, spurred by the process of grieving a life he left behind.&nbsp;At its least auto-biographical, The Ending Of An Age‘s titular track describes fear fantasies of love during a planetary crisis, where the era of human dominion comes to a close. But elsewhere, in tracks like Other Lives and Twenty Six, it’s a farewell to the golden age of youth and all its faded potential. In songs like Worse For Wear and A War I Never Win, it’s a rumination on love in the past, and an acceptance of its lasting imprint on the present.&nbsp;The production is high-energy, relying on propulsive drum machines and swaggering post-punk basslines to cut through the tide of melancholy. Frenetic sequencers weave throughout, recalling Vince Clarke-via-LCD Soundsystem. Lyrically, The Ending Of An Age favors earnest sentiment over irony, but delivers a wink and a nod by pitting its somber lyrics against danceable synth-pop.&nbsp;Holy Wire joins a small but growing local scene for synth music in Austin, playing alongside local breakout acts Urban Heat and Haunt Me, and fitting more broadly into the ranks of modern bands excavating the recesses of 80s post-punk and cold-wave to create their own vehicles for expression; bands like Black Marble, Teleman, Automatic, Nation Of Language, and late-night TV titans Future Islands. In less than a year performing, Holy Wire has shared the stage with The KVB and New York minimal wave act Xeno And Oaklander. The Ending of an Age was released on June 5, 2024. Holy Wire can currently be found playing shows in Austin and expanding their radius of touring outside of Texas.Dutch Experts was born out of the Covid Pandemic amidst the crumbling of societal infrastructure. This destruction mirrored singer/songwriter Hannah Hoffman’s own experiences during lockdown. Turning one of her lowest and most challenging points into a revisitation of her approach to sound, Hoffman began experimenting with layering synths and electronic drum beats in Garageband, creating a sonic landscape that bore the fruits of Dutch Experts and the creation of a debut EP, ‘Bound by This’. Inspired by her personal challenges, the gothic landscape of The Cure, and melodic choices informed by Kate Bush and Cocteau Twins, Hoffman locked into a sound that became uniquely modern yet captured an 80s sonic sensibility: synth pop with a darkwave edge. Recorded, mixed &amp; mastered by Mikey Allred (All Them Witches, Inter Arma), Dutch Experts' debut EP, 'Bound By This' released on February 24, 2023, available both digitally and on vinyl.

Holy Wire/Dutch Experts

Echoes of Floyd is a professional Pink Floyd tribute act that specializes in the accurate reproduction of the band’s legendary sound. Meticulous in detail, EoF faithfully reproduces the iconic songs and albums from Floyd’s vast catalog.

HARVEST THE WIND TOUR 2024 "In the heart of autumn, as leaves turn fiery shades of red and gold, Bearly Dead embarks on a massive tour across the country. 'Harvest the Wind,' has become a mantra of seizing the moment and embracing the ever-changing currents of life. Every performance celebrates the energy shared between us all so bring your dancing shoes and join us!"Doors 7:30pm Show 8:30pm $20adv/$25dos All AgesBEARLY DEADNot just another Grateful Dead cover band. A cosmic exploration of the Grateful Dead catalog! Bearly Dead, Boston-based quintet, performs a concert-style show that celebrates the journey of the Grateful Dead from their earliest records until their final tours. The band delivers a full-spectrum concert experience filled with danceable energy and world-class musicianship. Each and every Grateful Dead member is honored through a collection of classics, b-sides, deep cuts, and exploratory jams. Holding true to the spirit of the music, Bearly Dead frequently adds to their 250+ song catalog and continues to showcase authentic, spontaneous improvisation – live and in-person – making each show a wildly unique Grateful Dead experience you do not want to miss!Art by Joe Winograd

Bearly Dead

Songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Molly Parden, Eliza Edens, and Louisa Stancioff areteaming up to bring a tour de force of alternative folk to listening rooms across the country.Stancioff, a recent signee of North Carolina-based label YepRoc Records, will have her buoyantrock songs in tow that mythologize her rural Maine upbringing. Molly Parden, also a touringmember of Darlingside, writes kaleidoscopic folk-pop songs that peruse heartache to findglimpses of hope. Brooklyn-based Eliza Edens rounds out the line-up with a glowing collectionof songs that transform despair into opportunity. The trio will be accompanying each other onguitar, bass, fiddle, and backing vocals to conjure up a mesmerizing evening ofmasterfully-crafted art-folk.<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://www.mollyparden.com">www.mollyparden.com</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://www.eliza-edens.com">www.eliza-edens.com</a><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://www.louisastancioff.net">www.louisastancioff.net</a>

Molly Parden x Louisa Stancioff x Eliza Edens

Six Gun Sal is a Southern rock band that rivals the epic original greats from the 1970s while bringing their own modern soulful mix of rock to the stage. Formed in 2015, the band has played sold out shows throughout the United States and recorded two full length albums writing and recording all their own music, as well as recording their version of the legendary song “Hair of the Dog” with famed Platinum producer Timothy Eaton. Six Gun Sal is what Guns and Roses, The Allman Brothers, and Lynyrd Skynyrd would have if these bands had a love child! Six Gun Sal is one of the next up and coming kick-ass soon-to-be iconic rock bands with the talent to write epic anthems that make men go to battle and love ballads that cause woman to fall in love. Highwire Daze Magazine reviewed a recent performance at L.A.'s famous Whisky A Go Go and said, “Six Gun Sal IS the future of Southern rock.” With lead vocals being compared to Ronnie Van Zant, guitar shreds, and drums for days, it's no wonder in 2023 artist and music platform ReverbNation ranked the band #1 on their local and regional charts, and #10 nationally. This is a band you want to know!

Six Gun Sal

There’s a reason why Ricky Skaggs pulled Eric and Leigh Gibson off the stage atthe Ryman two decades ago and offered to produce their debut record.The same thingthat led David Ferguson and GrammyAward winning producer and Black Keys frontmanDanAuerbach to co-write and produce their 14th album “Mockingbird” (2018) andrelease it on his own label Easy Eye Sound alongside cultural icons such asHankWilliams Jr. and Dr. John:the Gibson Brothers are the real deal.They can pick.Theycan sing.And they can write a damn good country song. They’ve won about everybluegrass award you can name and released albums on almost everypremierAmericana label you can think of including Sugar Hill and Rounder, and, if that’snot enough, their songs have been recorded by bluegrass legends no less than DelMcCoury. It’s a resume almost anybody in country music would be proud to have. Butdespite all of this, the GibsonBrothers are not yet household names.Their latest album,“Darkest Hour,” produced by dobro master Jerry Douglas might just change that.As soon as you hear Leigh singing withAlison Krauss [“I FeelTheSameWayAsYou”] on the new project you realize that his voice is as good as anyone inmusic today.Add the brother harmony to that and they have something trulyunique.While “Mockingbird” featured gorgeous production, recreating the sound onstage was difficult. “We put together a little band to go out and try to recreate it,” Erictold me, but we couldn't.We would have to have such a huge band to try to recreate thatrecord, but we did the best we could.”Douglas—who has won 14 Grammy awards and backed up everyone from RayCharles to PaulSimon and George Jones—wanted to make a record they could actuallyplay on the road. So he picked the best songs (out of dozens) and squirreled them awayin Sound Emporium’s Studio B.But then the pandemic hit. “We did our last shows inMarch of 2020,” Eric told me. “We were inNashville the week everything was shuttingdown. It was surreal, but Jerry was like, ‘Guys, the world's going crazy. Let's let this beour little cocoon.’And we did.We cut all of the acoustic stuff and then went home anddidn't play any more gigs until things started opening.Then we went back and finishedthe record with Jerry in February of 2021.”The result is arguably the strongest record The Gibson Brothers have evermade.The songs recorded in the first recording period featured Mike Barber (bass),Justin Moses (mandolin),Eamon McGloughlin (fiddle), and of course, Jerry Douglas,adding in John Gardner (drums), Guthrie Trapp (electric guitar), andTodd Parks (bass)for the final tracks, “Darkest Hour”showcases just how easily Eric and Leigh move fromwhat DanAuerbach dubbed “country soul”(“I Go Driving”) to high octane bluegrass(“What a Difference A Day Makes” and “Dust”) with Douglas always keeping thespotlight on the songs themselves. “That’s what I love about those guys,” Douglas toldme, “they are just great songwriters.”Growing up on a dairy farm in northern NewYork and then traveling around theworld in a bluegrass band has given them a unique vantage point on life, and the songson “Darkest Hour”are a testament to that. “Jerry wanted to hear everything we’dwritten,” Eric told me, “so we just sent him songs: brand new songs, old songs, there'sstuff on that record 20 years old that we never recorded. We wanted to see what hewould do with us as singer-songwriters.We respect him that much. Some of my favoriterecords are Jerry Douglas produced records. He didn’t disappoint.”If the Gibson Brothers had stayed in Nashville in 1999 they might possibly beGrand Ole Opry members by now. At the very least they would be hit songwriters onMusic Row. But, just like their buddy Del McCoury, they chose family over success(McCoury was in his 50s when he moved to Nashville and didn't really see majorsuccess until he was approaching 60).All they need is someone to shine a light onthem.Their talent level is well-established, the only producers they have ever workedwith are Ricky Skaggs, DanAuerbach, David Ferguson andJerry Douglas. I dare say notmany musicians can stack up a list of producers that strong. For theGibson Brothersthough, they just want to keep writing, singing, and standing on a stage

The Gibson Brothers 

Glow Dance

One of the most talked-about folk bands of the 21st century, Talisk have been tearing apart stereotypes and redefining the genre for almost a decade. With over 15 million streams, 10,000 albums sold worldwide, and sold out shows across five continents - from Paris to New York, London to Tokyo, Glasgow to Vancouver - alongside headline appearances at festivals the world over, the Scottish trio have amassed a global, die-hard following. Wielding instruments that have rarely seen the likes of their music, Mohsen Amini (concertina), Benedict Morris (violin) and Charlie Galloway (guitar) have stacked up major awards for their explosively energetic sound - including five between BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio Scotland, and two highly coveted BBC Alba Scots Trad Music Awards. At New Year 2022 they played BBC One’s Hogmanay show to a television audience in excess of one million, and - as the only folk act alongside pop headliners - quickly amassed a vast, mainstream audience that continues to propel the group to some of their largest live shows to date. Headlining Glasgow’s iconic Barrowland Ballroom in 2024 - during Europe’s largest winter festival, the legendary Celtic Connections - Talisk’s star remains firmly on a rapid ascent. Never afraid to push musical boundaries, or test the live production capabilities of just three people (yes, it’s all live), there’s captivating a crowd, and then there’s Talisk&nbsp;

Talisk

When Nashville-based singer-songwriter Mali Velasquez traded her Texas panhandle home for the verdant foothills of Tennessee, she did so with a newfound perspective that mirrored her environment, culminating in the lushly raw edge of her folk-rooted indie rock. Wistfully openhearted and incisive, Velasquez tips the fulcrum between reflection and remedy with melody-forward unction and lyrical tenderness. Her forthcoming debut, I’m Green, is a perennial introspection into the wild animal of young adulthood and the renewing realization that the person we’re most often seeking permission from, crucially, is ourselves.Bloomsday is the tender, cerebral project of the New York-based Iris James Garrison (they/them). The way they write songs sits somewhere between a mirror and a memory. Spacious, full-bodied folk songs, they’re an ode to things that are good no matter how small. Bloomsday’s new record, Heart of the Artichoke (2024, Bayonet Records), is a relic of unfettered creativity and community. They recount the miracles of the mundane, the memories that become sacred, an ode to all that is holy: nightswimming, songs plucked from the ether, the ways friendship can endure. Like their 2022 debut Place to Land, the work here is threaded with warmth; it’s simmering, crisp and deeply human, encapsulating the present moment.&nbsp; Since the project's inception in 2019, Bloomsday has toured the US extensively, including supporting Becca Mancari, Joe Vann, and Charlotte Cornfield, sets at Hopscotch Music Festival and SXSW, and playing with Courtney Barnett, Bonny Doon, Katie Kirby, Babehoven, Hovvdy, and others. Their music has been featured on NPR New Music Friday, Nylon, FLOOD, and Paste, among other publications. Their tracks have been placed on editorial playlists including Spotify’s Fresh Finds, Lorem, All New Indie, and more.&nbsp; CÉSAR ALVAREZ is a composer, lyricist, playwright, and performance maker. They create large experimental musicals as non-normative possibility spaces for embodiment, inter-dimensionality, socio-political transformation, kinship and coexistence. With a background as a jazz saxophonist, band leader and sound artist, César's work inhabits a space between the worlds of theater, music, performance art and social practice. César was a 2018-20 Princeton Arts Fellow, a recipient of The Jonathan Larson Award, The Kleban Prize in Musical Theatre for lyrics and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2022.César is an Assistant Professor of Music at Dartmouth College.

Mali Velasquez/Bloomsday/César Alvarez

$20 in advance / $25 at the gate / Children under 12 free • Advance ticketing closes two hours before showtime.Cyro Baptista is a Brazilian born percussionist and composer whose vast talent and penchant for innovation brought him to be praised as one of the most respected musicians in the world.Cyro’s endless sonic curiosity and intense rhythmic led him to create several musical ensembles and record many albums of his own. He has also lent his sounds to several GRAMMY award-winning records and to over 300 CDs with many of the most beloved musicians in the world.Cyro’s credits read like a "Who’s Who" of modern music. His talent and versatility have led to associations with a wide range of leading jazz, rock, pop, classical, avant-garde and Brazilian artists. From Paul Simon to Yo-Yo-Ma, Herbie Hancock to Kathleen Battle, Trey Anastasio( from Phish) to John Zorn, Wynton Marsalis to Laurie Anderson, from the legendary Brazilians Milton Nascimento and Caetano Veloso to Sting – they all wanted Cyro’s magic touch on their recordings or live performances.Baptista leads four different ensembles with ten released albums under his name. He tours continuously throughout the world with them. He conducts master classes at major musical institutions, such as Juilliard School, Berklee College of Music, New York University, Mannes College of Music, The New School, Holy Cross University, New World Symphony Orchestra, University of Vermont, University of Buffalo, Kimmel Center Jazz Camp, and K-12 schools across the country.Baptista has a great interest in education and sharing his knowledge and experiences, especially to underserved factions of society through his “Sound of Community” initiative.The Bandwagon Summer Series is a family-friendly outdoor cultural performance series running from early May through mid-October. 20 performances ranging from a diverse group of musical styles, circus arts, dance, and theater will take place at ballfields, farms, and parks throughout Windham County. Kids under 12 always get in for free, and a dedicated play area will be available at all shows. Refreshments are sold onsite, including the return of the hugely popular Barr Hill cocktails. Bring a picnic and a blanket or fold-up chair to enjoy our concerts.

Cyro Baptista

Hotel Fiction is an indie rock band from Athens, Georgia comprised of Jade Long (vocals, keys),Jessica Thompson (vocals, lead guitar), Aaron Daugherty (lead guitar, synth), Aidan Hill (bass),and Gideon Johnston (drums). Their sound has often been described as genre-fluid, with indie,pop, folk, and rock influences.Jade and Jessica began writing, performing, and playing together in January 2019 whilestudents at UGA. In August of that year, Hotel Fiction released their debut single “AstronautKids” which received a warm welcome from the indie scene, and went on to amass over 2million global streams. The band released their debut album Soft Focus in 2021, followed bytheir EP Enjoy Your Stay in 2022. In 2023, they were a primary feature artist on flipturn’s single“Halfway (Acoustic)”, which has accumulated nearly 1 million streams.Their music has received recognition from EARMILK, Consequence of Sound, and Early Rising,and been placed on Spotify editorial lists New Noise, wanderlust, Fresh Finds, Acoustic Love,and Fresh Finds Rock: Best of 2022, and All New Rock.Hotel Fiction has spent the last 3 years heavily touring the US, both headlining and supportingartists like flipturn, The Beaches, SUSTO, Beach Fossils, Adam Melchor, WILLIS, and Sunroom.They played Sister Hazel’s Rock Boat in January 2024, alongside Young the Giant, The Struts,and more.In early 2024, the band supported The Brook &amp;amp; The Bluff on their headline tour. Thissummer, they will release their highly anticipated sophomore album, followed by a US headlinetour.Hannah Mohan (of And The Kids) is a critically acclaimed musician, as well as a massage therapist, herbalist, actress, visual artist and a lover of senior citizens, children and dogs. She believes that music is a tool of time and space travel as well as mental transmutation. She also believes in flowers.

Hotel Fiction/ Hannah Mohan/ LeFlic

Reverend Horton Heat returns to Stone Church for another night of epic psycho-billy debauchery!!!Big Sandy (Of Big Sandy &amp; The Fly-rite Boys) will make a special appearance to sit in with the Reverend &amp; his band!!Jittery Jack hails from Boston MA, USA and plays a wild brand of Rock 'n' Roll &amp; Rockabilly with an East-Coast Bang! Fast becoming a household name on the roots/rockabilly circuit worldwide headlining festivals such as Viva Las Vegas &amp; UK's The Rockabilly Rave.

REVEREND HORTON HEAT w/Big Sandy + Jittery Jack

Kimya Dawson is a celebrated writer and singer of songs and an all-purpose force for good in the world. First making her artistic mark as half of the antifolk duo the Moldy Peaches, Kimya&nbsp;soon turned to solo work, where the twisted punchline poetry of the Peaches was deployed in the service of Dawson's gem-like personal narratives, creating such singular works as&nbsp;I’m Sorry That Sometimes I’m Mean&nbsp;(2002),&nbsp;My Cute Fiend Sweet Princess&nbsp;(2004),&nbsp;Hidden Vagenda(2004),&nbsp;Remember That I Love You&nbsp;(2006), and&nbsp;Thunder Thighs&nbsp;(2011), and earning her a 2009 Grammy for her work on the soundtrack for the film&nbsp;Juno.<h4>Sweet Petunia, composed of Mairead Guy and Maddy Simpson, are an alt folk duo based in Boston. Over the years, the duo have grown into their own as both powerful songwriters and harmonizers as well as lightning quick players, beginning every set with explosive double banjo action. Unapologetically queer and unafraid to get loud and angry, they craft music that is informed just as much by their contemporaries in Boston’s punk &amp; DIY scene as it is steeped in rich folk tradition.</h4>WHEELZIE -(the artist previously known as amelia chalfant)is who you've been waiting for. with honest songwriting, intricate yet captivating basslines, a gracious and moving stage presence, and the best shoes you've ever seen, WHEELZIE is guaranteed to make you feel everything.Per Artist Request Masks Are Encouraged, &amp; Will Be Provided If Needed

Kimya Dawson/Sweet Petunia/Beetsblog/Wheelzie

Few artists embody the spirit of creative exploration as seamlessly as Pennsylvania-based multi-instrumentalist Hunter Root. His journey is a tale of passion and resilience, and his success is a testament to his intuition and his unique musical vision.Raised in an environment steeped in classic rock, Hunter's musical foundation was built alongside his older brother who introduced him to guitar, and opened his eyes to the power of songwriting. As a founding member of the psychedelic rock outfit Medusa's Disco, Hunter honed his skills on stage, and gained invaluable insight into the labyrinthine workings of the music industry.Embracing a genre-fluid approach, Hunter's music weaves together elements of acoustic rock, folk, grunge, and more. His approach to songwriting has evolved over the years, shifting from a lyric-centric process to a music-first methodology. This shift has allowed Hunter to match emotive soundscapes with the narrative potency of his songs, yielding compositions rich in both meaning and emotion. He employs a similarly immersive approach to music production. He writes, records, mixes, and produces all his albums, an uncompromising process that is both demanding and gratifying.Hunter's personal experiences heavily influence his music. His acclaimed 2023 album, 'Arkansas,' was created as a tribute following the passing of his older brother in 2020, beautifully encapsulating his introspection. Despite calling Central Pennsylvania home, the four years he spent in Arkansas during his youth had a profound impact on his artistry. Consequently, each song is a deeply personal narrative, an homage to the sights, sounds, aches, and scars found there.Hunter's music achieved viral success through TikTok and Instagram, where his songs 'Town Rat Heathen' and 'Quicksand Sinking' struck a chord with users worldwide. He swiftly accumulated hundreds of thousands of followers across both platforms, inevitably driving traffic to Spotify, where his singles have garnered millions of plays.2024 will see Hunter continue to build on his momentum, as he plans an extensive series of tour dates accompanied by his live band. For more information, please visit <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://www.hunterroot.com/">www.hunterroot.com</a>.

Hunter Root/Saints & Liars

It’s somewhat boggling to think of Jerry Garcia and Jimmy Page swapping riffs – the beatific Buddha and the slashing, edgy Page.&nbsp; But as veteran player of Grateful Dead music Waynard Scheller noticed one night, the chords of the Dead anthem “St. Stephen” merged seamlessly into “Whole Lotta Love.”&nbsp; Then he sat down and found lots of pairs of songs that fit together.&nbsp; And thus was born “Dead-Zep,” a new band formed from his Rainbow Full of Love to mash up the two repertoires.They not only flow from Zep to Dead and back again, they play Zep songs like the GD and Dead songs the way Zep would…which makes for a fascinating, sometimes shocking evening.&nbsp; Hearing “Ramble On” suddenly dissolve into “St. Stephen” can be amazing to the point of a slight and interesting sense of disorientation.&nbsp; It’s a wide, wide world. &nbsp;Waynard has been touring up and down the East Coast for years, delighting Dead Heads and other listeners.&nbsp; He founded Dead-Zep with a rotating cast in 2018, and then ran into the pandemic.&nbsp; Now that things are a little healthier…it’s time for Dead-Zep to step out onstage. &nbsp;It’s time now for something (almost) completely different!-D. McNally&nbsp;

Dead-Zep

DEATHCHANT are a Los Angeles based four piece band formed in 2018 blending raucous rock and roll and nwobhm with a heavy nod to the golden era of guitar harmonies and Marshall full stacks. Frontmen and dual lead guitarists T.J. Lemieux (Psychedelic Speed Freaks, Child, Babylon) &amp; DougStuckey (Banquet) shift from interwoven melodic runs to noise drenched sonic raids with an energy that notoriously sticks with fans long after shows end. Complimented and grounded by a full guns blazing, thunderous and unrelenting rhythm section made up of drummer Joe Herzog (Forest Lawn, RattBlack) and bassist George Camacho (Child, Babylon), their wild live performances are nothing short of a full body experience.

Deathchant/Hobo Wizzard/Draio Doir

Everything Is Alive, Darlingside’s fourth LP, marks a subtle but remarkable departure for the Boston-based quartet NPR once described as “exquisitely arranged, literary minded, baroque folk-pop.” While the album retains much of the lushness and sophistication of Extralife (2018) and Fish Pond Fish (2020), the band’s latest work decisively exposes and differentiates the individual voices of the four songwriters—a daring reinvention for a group known for ubiquitous vocal harmonies. Grappling with change both personal and universal, with quandaries domestic and existential, Everything Is Alive is an album about loss and the struggle for a semblance of redemption.&nbsp;<iframe-embed src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/I8sHrD48zPU?si=kdCWDv2031bNFVqP" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="true" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" height="315" width="560" style="" metaposition="flex-start" metatype="youtube"></iframe-embed>Comprised of Don Mitchell, Auyon Mukharji, Harris Paseltiner and David Senft, four likeminded multi-instrumentalists who first met at Williams College in 2009, Darlingside’s career has been defined by the elegance of their compositions and the unity of their four voices. Their talent for harmony and melodic world-building is part of what garnered praise from outlets like NPR, Rolling Stone and The New Yorker, and what has created demand worldwide for their extraordinary live performances. Becoming beautifully unindividualized has, in other words, worked very well for Darlingside in the past. With a vigor and discipline more common to graduate-level writing workshops than to indie rock, Darlingside has, over the years, experimented with all manners of idiosyncratic methods for elevating and upholding a truly democratic process of songwriting—processes that include multiple rounds of group writing and recording exercises—all with the aim of escaping the trap that bands with multiple songwriters often fall into: ego-driven infighting and artistic incoherence.&nbsp;

Darlingside

Brooklyn’s Kaleta &amp;&nbsp;Super&nbsp;Yamba&nbsp;Band are fronted by Afrobeat and Juju veteran Leon Ligan-Majek a.k.a. Kaleta. The singer/guitarist from the West African country of Benin Republic lived his adolescent life in Lagos, Nigeria where Afrobeat was born. Kaleta's guitar chops earned him decades of touring and recording with Fela Kuti, King Sunny Ade, Lauryn Hill and more.Kaleta got his start in the late 70s performing in church and was soon after picked up by iconic Juju master and world music pioneer King Sunny Ade. A few years later Fela Kuti came calling. Kaleta would go on to tour the world playing guitar for the King of Afrobeat in his storied band Egypt 80 through the 1980s and into the 1990s.Now based in New York City, Kaleta has been leading&nbsp;Super&nbsp;Yamba&nbsp;Band since 2017. Their debut album "Mèdaho," which was released by California indie label Ubiquity Records, draws on the group’s shared reverence for the raw, psychedelic sounds that captivated Kaleta as a music loving kid in 1970s Benin. Mèdaho means "big brother," "elder" or "teacher" and is dedicated to Kaleta's late brother Ligan-Ozavino Pascal who introduced him to funk and soul music at a very early age. The album was included on Bandcamp’s “Best Albums of Summer 2019” list and two of the songs were chosen for the ABC/Hulu series&nbsp;High Fidelity&nbsp;starring Zoe Kravitz.&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.facebook.com/DeepSeize">Deep Seize</a> is an Electronic/World Fusion duo formed in 2014 by&nbsp;producer&nbsp;Wyatt Andrews and&nbsp;handpan composer Jed Blume. The group has pioneered a new sound, which combines the ethereal melodic lines of live handpan with the grooving bass and heavy rhythms&nbsp;of Hip Hop and EDM. Deep Seize is based in southern Vermont and has performed at spaces throughout the New England region including venues, bars, ecstatic dance/contact improv jams, and festivals

Kaleta & Super Yamba Band

With several Grammy and Americana Awards under his belt,&nbsp;Jim&nbsp;Lauderdale‘s penchant for imaginative roots music encompasses all that is today’s musical landscape. His combination of Country, Bluegrass, Soul, R&amp;B and Rock has helped to pave the way for the current Americana movement.&nbsp;For several decades,&nbsp;Jim&nbsp;has written songs for and worked with some of the finest artists in traditional and modern music including Ralph Stanley, Elvis Costello, George Strait, Buddy Miller, Lucinda Williams, John Oates, Solomon Burke, Lee Ann Womack, Old Crow Medicine Show, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Blake Shelton, the Dixie Chicks, Vince Gill, Patty Loveless, and Gary Allan among so many others.&nbsp;&nbsp;He co-hosts "The Buddy &amp;&nbsp;Jim&nbsp;Show" weekly radio program on&nbsp;SiriusXM&nbsp;with Buddy Miller, was longtime co-host for Music City Roots - the weekly live radio show, podcast and PBS series – and the Americana Music Association honored him with the&nbsp;WagonMaster&nbsp;Lifetime Achievement Award.&nbsp;&nbsp;Jim&nbsp;has certainly earned it, having released a staggering 34 albums.&nbsp;Whether solo or band,&nbsp;Jim&nbsp;Lauderdale&nbsp;a triple threat performer, songwriter and musician who is constantly reinventing himself!&nbsp;

Jim Lauderdale

The Gaslight Tinkers' mix of global rhythms creates a joyous world beat sound around a core of traditional New England old time and Celtic fiddle music, merging boundless positive energy with melody and song. Drawing from their extensive musical backgrounds in traditional folk, Caribbean, old time, Celtic, and rock, I-Shea, Clara, Garrett, Elie, and Peter craft a sound that brings world traditions together.

The Gaslight Tinkers

Wowza! What a sizzling summer we've had! As we begin to wind down, BQDP brings you Heat of the Night, a hot dance party and cabaret at the Stone Church. Featuring a new addition to the BQDP DJ lineup, MollGoth, of Goth Girl Field Trip fame.MOLLGOTH DRIVES THEIR BLEND OF BASS MUSIC, EDM, AND TRAP INTO DROPS THAT WILL LEAVE YOU JUMPING AND DANCING ALL NIGHT. A BRATTLEBORO LOCAL, THE GOTH GIRL FIELD TRIP HEAVY HITTER CUT THEIR TEETH IN THE UNDERGROUND RAVE SCENE OF NEW ENGLAND.Performers to be announced in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!9p Doors | 10p Show | Dance till 1a Sliding Scale $10-25 notaflofThis event is 18+ due to mature content.Brattleboro Queer Dance Party is a welcoming and affirming space for queers and allies to gather and dance.

Not that kind of church sale! Gear! Beer! Vintage! Vinyl! Art! Upcycles! And more! FREE ADMISSION! Come get some merch at the church!

Craft Fair 

Welcome to Shatfest! The fifth annual event returns to Brattleboro this August! What started as a house show in Cornish NH back in 2018 has evolved over the years and continued to bring musicians, artists, and lovers of both together for fun that is never to be missed!With this iteration of the event, you can expect a variety of live musical acts spanning several genres, plus booths featuring incredible local art for sale! We will also have a free-for-all indoor cornhole game, balloons, and glowsticks for your enjoyment!Live Music Lineup:-Bent (MA Hardcore)-Mars Hendrik (CT Psychedelic Rock)-Sleepy Spectre (VT Hip-Hop)-Chodus (VT Squeetle Pop/Asthma Punk)-Amberlie (MA Pop/R&amp;B)-Deerest (VT/NY Indie/Electronic)Art Vendors:-Jen Wood (Landscape &amp; Wildlife Paintings)-Hippie Twigs (Local Art, Crafts, and Tie-Dye)-VROZE Prints / Veronica Stevens (Psychedelic Art)-The Banana Hammock Arts / Nicholas Cain (Abstract Paintings)-Lilac Mountain Crystals (Gemstones &amp; Jewelry)-802 Crochet / Tatiyana Martin (Crochet Garments &amp; Accessories)This event is ALL AGES!Admission is $10-$20 (Sliding Scale)Saturday 8/17 at 6PMThe Stone Church210 Main St, Brattleboro VT

ShatFest '24

The Thing is a four piece from New York City.&nbsp;The band originated in High School when Michael Carter, Jack Bradley, and Zane Acord bonded over a shared love for rock &amp; roll. Over the years they honed their craft, self recording and writing songs influenced by 60’s pioneers such as the Kinks, Grand Funk Railroad, and artists of The Nuggets Compilation. As they progressed in skill and knowledge the band started to envision a career inspired by the likes of Brian Jonestown Massacre, King Gizzard, and The Black Keys.The Thing started playing shows and creating a buzz around New York City in the Winter of 2022. Shortly after, the band embarked on small tours up and down the east coast. Their energetic live performances earned the attention of honest music lovers.&nbsp;Their debut record “Here’s The Thing” was released in April 2023. The record is a compilation of songs written throughout the early years of the band. It was self recorded and produced deep in the hills of Sharon, CT, continued in their Crown Heights apartment, then finished in the band’s East Williamsburg studio, Onion Records. While each environment was set up with humble equipment, the band's commitment for authentic recording and their passion for rock &amp; roll is what makes the album unique.With the album out in the wild and the addition of Lucas Ebeling on the kit, The Thing is relentlessly touring, recording new music, and breaching the modern world of rock &amp; roll.LONG LIVE THE THING&nbsp;Native Sun grows with increasing urgency in the face of the inexorable climate crisis, growing civil division, and overlapping public health emergencies. Colombian-American songwriter Danny Gomez (vox/guitar) battles the impotence of our time when it seems, to use the words of Voltaire, common sense is not so common. Nico Espinosa (drums) and Justin Barry (bass) round out the resonant rhythms &amp; Jack Hiltabidle (lead guitar) create a space of controlled chaos at high-energy live shows as well as detailed and layered recordings. Raw and honest, the New York band delivers solace and catharsis to all audiences—singing about grief, disillusionment with our time, and lovingly documenting the lives of the outcasts and misfits. Native Sun channels the grit of punk with the tenor of the times when rock ‘n' roll could change something.Their latest EP Off With Our Heads, produced by Walter Schreifels (Quicksand, Gorilla Biscuits, Rival Schools) is out now via Grand Jury Music (Twin Peaks, TOLEDO, Carl Barât) and Rough Trade Publishing.

The Thing//Native Sun

$20 in advance / $25 at the gate / Children under 12 free • Advance ticketing closes two hours before showtime.Fiery Balkan brass, throbbing funk grooves, Roma (Gypsy) accordion wizardry, and virtuoso jazz chops make Slavic Soul Party! NYC’s official #1 brass band for BalkanSoul GypsyFunk. SSP! pumps a strong Balkan brass sound through the filter of life in New York’s outer boroughs, making new music out of the unplanned results of immigration, proximity, and globalization. Over the past 15 years the band has released 7 full-length albums, and toured in the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Turkey, and Zimbabwe, from pasha’s palaces to dive bars, Carnegie Hall to Serbian schoolyards, festival stages to prison courtyards. The band’s music has fans on both sides of the Atlantic, and their tunes have been covered by Serbian brass stars, New Orleans funk stalwarts, and legendary street bands. SSP!’s Tuesday night residency in Brooklyn has become a destination for music fans from around the world, and is famous for “delivering a great time.” (New York Times)In September 2016 Ropeadope Records released Slavic Soul Party! Plays Duke Ellington’s Far East Suite. SSP! re-imagines Duke Ellington’s iconic Far East Suite as an Eastern European brass band discovering an exotic American sound, reversing the “exotic tinge” and reveling in this subtle, funky, and brilliant music. Ellington’s suite (created with Billy Strayhorn) was inspired by a 1963 State Department tour that was cut short – they didn’t make it to the “Far East” – and serves as a perfect foil for SSP!’s blend of East European, Romani, and American sounds. Critics call it “a pretty heavenly match” (TimeOut NY) and say “parts of SSP’s reinterpretation sounds like a Bulgarian wedding, others like a gypsy jazz funeral in New Orleans. And yet… it all sounds like Duke Ellington.” (Wall St Journal).The Bandwagon Summer Series is a family-friendly outdoor cultural performance series running from early May through mid-October. 20 performances ranging from a diverse group of musical styles, circus arts, dance, and theater will take place at ballfields, farms, and parks throughout Windham County. Kids under 12 always get in for free, and a dedicated play area will be available at all shows. Refreshments are sold onsite, including the return of the hugely popular Barr Hill cocktails. Bring a picnic and a blanket or fold-up chair to enjoy our concerts.

Slavic Soul Party

Deca/Jarv

Banned From Utopia (BFU) is the Zappa tribute act featuring more of his former band membersthan any other band currently touring. Scott Thunes was Frank’s longest tenured bassist(1981-1988), and such a trusted member of the band that he held the prestigious title of“Clonemeister,” leading the band and serving as MD in Frank’s absence. Robert Martin, also inZappa’s band from 1981-1988, provided keys, sax, and amazing(ly high) vocals on many of hisclassic albums, in addition to working with Stevie Nicks, Etta James, and Paul McCartney, justto name a few. Ray White (1976-1984) served as co-lead vocalist on many tours and albums,lending his amazing voice to such classics as Doreen and his backing vocals to countless others.Rounding out the band is Jamie Kime (Zappa Plays Zappa), Robbie Seahag Mangano (ProjectObject, The Grandmothers), and Joel Taylor (Al Dimeola).The Paul Green Rock Academy (PGRA) is the latest music school from School of Rock founder,and noted Zappa fanatic, Paul Green. An audition only music school for ambitious students aged12-18, PGRA has spent the last 5 years touring, alternately, as the backing band for Jon Andersonof Yes and Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers. They have also shared the stage with suchamazing musicians as Bill Bruford, Steve Hackett, and Phil Manzanera. Paul’s former studentshave gone on to play in/with: The Who, Phony Ppl, The Bobby Lees, Dr Dog, Adrian Belew, andWillow Smith, to name a few.The origin for this tour began at the Zappanale festival in 2023, where Paul Green was makinghis return after a 6 year break (but his 7th appearance overall) with the students of PGRA,headlining Friday (playing Zappa) and Saturday night (with Jon Anderson). The Sunday (andoverall) headliners were Banned from Utopia and Paul and his students stood in stunned silencewatching a band that was like watching one of the best Zappa bands from the 80s. A friendshipwas struck up between the groups and plans were soon in motion to tour the US in the summer of2024.We are calling the tour the “We ❤ Zappa Tour” because it is all about our shared love of thisamazing music, teaching it to a new generation, and bringing it to his fans, who are thebest”

THE I LOVE ZAPPA TOUR -BANNED FROM UTOPIA

Matt Turk and C Lanzbom joined forces to form Deadgrass, a string bandadventure through Jerry Garcia’s musical world. Bassist Dave Richards,banjo player Boo Reiners and fiddler Kensuke Shoji complete this finegroup of seasoned pros exploring the life works of Jerry Garcia on theinstruments that first inspired him. Deadgrass celebrates and interprets themusic of Jerry Garcia, drawing from Old &amp; in the Way, JGB, Jerry’s JugBand days and The Grateful Dead.A seasoned recording artist and multi-instrumentalist, Matt Turk is aveteran performer who has performed and recorded with Pete Seeger,opened for Judy Collins, The Doobie Brothers, Fiona Apple and theGrateful Dead's Mickey Hart. He has performed at the Clearwater Festival,Gathering of the Vibes, Atlanta's Music Midtown, Jazz at Lincoln CenterThe Capitol Theatre and The Beacon Theatre. Matt has recorded forWarner Bros Records with Gaby Moreno &amp; Matter Music.Grammy award winner C Lanzbom is a touring and studio guitarist withproducing, performing, writing and engineering credits with Pete Seeger,Bruce Springsteen, Crystal Bowersox, Shlomo Carlebach and Soulfarm.C's studio, Sherwood Ridge, is a state of the art recording facility just northof New York City. C has numerous television and film song placements. Hisaffection and passion for Jerry Garcia’s music has been a major influence.Bassist Dave Richards performs in Hamilton on Broadway and hasrecorded and performed with The Indigo Girls, Rosanne Cash, BusterPoindexter, Madeline Peyroux, Jewel and Richie Havens. He has touredthroughout Europe, Canada and the USA, appearing at Ottawa Jazz,Toronto Blues festival, The Hollywood Bowl and Austin City Limits. At theage of 17 Dave was playing jazz five nights a week in Orlando, Florida withBilly Peebles, the drummer for Ray Charles on many classic Atlanticrecordings.Banjo player Boo Reiners is a multi-instrumentalist who has performed,recorded, filmed and toured with Dispatch, Phil Lesh, Al Kooper, PeteSeeger, Charlie Louvin, Steve Martin, Tony Trischka, Michael Moore, AmyPoehler, Natalie Merchant, Martin Sexton, and many others. In the studioand on tour with world music pioneers The Klezmatics, he helped the groupto win their 2007 Grammy Award for "Wonder Wheel: Lyrics By WoodyGuthrie.”Jazz violinist Kensuke Shoji was born in Gifu, Japan. He joined his father'sbluegrass band as a teenager. As a young adult he moved to the U.S.A. tostudy jazz violin with Berklee String Department chair Matt Glaser, andworld renowned violinist Christian Howes. Dedicated to improvisation,Kensuke moved to New York City in 2013 to play with Alex Hargreaves,Barry Harris, Jacob Jolliff, Maria Muldaur and more

Deadgrass

After StoryCorps' nearly month-long residency in Vermont we invite you to gather with your community and hear some of the stories that your fellow Vermonters have shared. You might laugh, you might cry, but you will definitely learn more about your friends and neighbors in the Green Mountain State.Seating is limited. Reserve your free ticket from the link below!You can also stream this event live from our YouTube channel: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbOMv_1_t1g">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbOMv_1_t1g</a>

StoryCorps in Vermont Listening Party

Let's face it: There's no such thing as “real life”. There is only experience and the negotiations we undertake in order to share it with other people. On her second album Blue Raspberry, the New York-based songwriter Katy Kirby dives headlong into the artifice of intimacy: the glitter smeared across eyelid creases, the smiles switched on with an electric buzz, the synthetic rose scent all over someone who's made herself smell nice just for you. An exegesis of Kirby's first queer relationship, Blue Raspberry traces the crescendo and collapse of new love, savoring each gleaming shard of rock candy and broken glass along the way.&nbsp;&nbsp;Originally from Spicewood, Texas, Kirby was living in Nashville when she started writing Blue Raspberry's title track, the first of the album's songs to take shape. "'Blue Raspberry' is the oldest song on the record. I began to write it a month or so before I realized, I think I’m queer," she says. "There’s a tradition of yearning in country love songs. I like the male yearning songs better, usually. I started writing 'Blue Raspberry,' and I was thinking about, if I was in love with a woman, what would I love about her? Especially if she was someone that I couldn’t touch, but that I was pining for. What would I be caught on? And I thought that I would probably be particularly charmed by the choices she made on how to look after she woke up in the morning.&nbsp; I thought about tackiness, and the ways that’s a dirty word. That’s where the title comes from -- loving someone for those choices, for the artificiality."&nbsp; Blue Raspberry follows Kirby’s acclaimed debut album Cool Dry Place, which was also recorded in Nashville and released in February of 2021. While the songs on that record unfold amidst Kirby finding her voice, Blue Raspberry is a polished and confident sophomore effort that deepens the questions that bubbled through Cool Dry Place about how people can reach each other despite all the hazard zones where human connection caves in.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;After realizing that her romantic interest in women went beyond the confines of a songwriting exercise, Kirby kept writing songs that sought to untangle that false binary between the real and the fake, to celebrate the spectacles people put on for each other when they're falling in and out of love. She committed herself completely to the work of drawing out these songs, often stealing away to her van to write immediately after playing an opening set while on a 2021 tour with Waxahatchee. For the first time since she started writing songs, Kirby stopped tamping down on her impulse to craft ornate, generously embellished music. "I felt less embarrassed about just wanting to write really gorgeous songs," she says. She started weaving more intricate chord progressions and melodies into her work, and in turn she felt emboldened to hold onto the more baroque flourishes of her lyrics without whittling them down into plainer lines.&nbsp; Many of the songs that make up Blue Raspberry stemmed from a single page of lyrical fragments, words and phrases that kept their hold on Kirby even as she slipped them into multiple settings. Images repeat on different songs throughout the album: cubic zirconia gleaming at a woman's throat, the lab-grown substitute indistinguishable from earth-crushed diamonds; salt crystallizing as seawater dries on reddened skin; teeth that shine in a grin and then bite till they bruise. These refrains and reprises lend a tight narrative cohesion to the record, elevating its sharp queries into all the unlikely shapes love takes as it surges through you.&nbsp; To underscore Blue Raspberry's lyrical themes, Kirby worked with her band to develop a newly lush sonic palette replete with orchestral gestures arranged by her friend Rowen Merrill. "I felt like I was intending to write love songs for the first time. Once I realized they were queer love songs and celebrating artificiality, I wanted them to sound like they were bidding for a spot in the wedding reception canon," she says. "It was more fun to just go for it than to try to restrain ourselves. Especially if we were just accepting the fact that we were trying to make objectively beautiful music, whatever that means."Together with producers Alberto Sewald and Logan Chung, Kirby looked to albums like Andy Shauf's The Party and Lomelda's Hannah as models for Blue Raspberry's abundant but spacious gorgeousness. Piano and strings echo together on the gentle ballad "Salt Crystal," while scrapes of cello punctuate each heartbroken line of "Alexandria," a song about the dissolution of Kirby's first queer relationship and recorded live in one take. Cymbals and organs stagger across the offbeat "Drop Dead," one of the album's most playful songs that highlights the sly humor in Kirby's lyrics: "There’s no virgin territory for a body like hers." On the album's title track, Kirby sings trailed by a pitch-lowered echo of her own voice, her guitar chords hanging in the air like question marks. Her imagery seizes upon the bright, garish colors of mass-produced material, homing in on its sensory intensity while casting aside any judgment about its source. "Her eyes burn white as Styrofoam right into me," she sings, rendering a cheap, disposable substance into shocking magic.&nbsp; "Why wouldn't that be enough?" Kirby sings throughout the album, a question that's never answered and never drops. Every attempt at love strains toward the idea of the real thing, that totalizing force that makes everything around it perfect forever. But if no one ever gets there, why wouldn't the straining itself suffice? Blue Raspberry shivers with the idea that the key to the treasure is itself the treasure -- even if it's plastic, even if its gold coating flakes off at your touch, even if despite all your searching you never find the lock.&nbsp;&nbsp;Mei Semones' sweetly evocative blend of jazz, bossa nova and math-y indie rock is not only a way for her to find solace in her favorite genres, but is an intuitive means of catharsis. "Blending everything that I like together and trying to make something new — that's what feels most natural to me," says the 23-year-old Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter and guitarist. "It's what feels most true to who I am as an artist." On her newest EP and Bayonet Records debut Kabutomushi, Mei's diverse sonic palette adds depth to her experiences of the complexities of love. Through the EP's fiveDerek Sensale gives an intimate stage performance of original folk songs, rooted in tradition and generously dusted with Vermont soil. Leaning into the wonders of the natural world, each song is a personal narrative stitched together with melodies ranging from joyful to melancholic.

Katy Kirby/Mei Semones/Derek Sensale

In a harmonious union, singer-songwriters Zella Day and Jesse Woods come together to reveal their highly anticipated collaboration, “Chaparelle”. Esteemed for their exceptional vocal prowess and celebrated contributions to their distinct genres, Zella and Jesse craft a musical tapestry that harkens back to legendary duets of icons like George and Tammy or Gram and Emmylou. This partnership channels the enduring allure of Country music’s golden age, weaving a melodic narrative that resonates with themes of love and the indomitable Texan essence.

Chaparelle 

Stoop Kidz is a Brooklyn based Brass Band, drawing influence from second line New Orleans music with a modern twist. Serving up hot disco/pop covers and original music, aiming to spread joy thru fun dance music! Featured in The NY Times and Gothamist, we are stoked to be coming up to Brattleboro!&nbsp;

Stoop Kidz Brass Band

When you’ve been a band long enough to release eight studio albums, play two thousand shows, work with Joan Jett &amp; Stevie Van Zandt, and give birth to two children who are now old enough for guitar lessons, the Punk Rock roadshow turns into a family affair. But even with the addition of their two youngest traveling cohorts — son River and daughter Daisy — The Dollyrots won’t be confused for The Partridge Family anytime soon.“Sometimes you get bored with the party,” says bassist/vocalist/mom Kelly Ogden. “We toured for over a decade being ridiculous, drinking too much, being crazy. Honestly, I was ready to throw in the towel more than once.” Things have changed since that earlier pre-parental era of the band, the longstanding artistic collaboration between Kelly and her husband, guitarist/dad Luis Cabezas. “Our kids are totally normal at home but are so easy on tour. They just know what to do, on stage and off. It’s a part of them,” says Cabezas.The next adventure on the now-expanded Dollyrots caravan is the brand new album Night Owls, their latest full length effort. Released in October 2023 through Stevie Van Zandt’s Wicked Cool Records, the album is co-Produced by longtime collaborator John Fields (Jimmy Eat World, All Time Low, Meet Me At the Altar). “John Fields is our George Martin,” says Kelly. “He’s pretty much our bandmate that doesn’t tour.”

The Dollyrots/ The Boreouts/ Chodus

"Nashville's newest bluegrass ambassadors," East Nash Grass comes as a refreshing break -- a balance of undeniably hard-driving bluegrass alongside surprisingly introspective songwriting and earnest narration. Featuring a who’s-who of Nashville’s hottest young pickers, the joy and passion these musicians feel towards the genre is infused in every note they play and every word they sing. Their second full-length album Last Chance To Win was released in 2023.East Nash Grass is James Kee (guitar &amp; vocals), Grand Master Fiddle champion, Maddie Denton, Gaven Largent (dobro), “Presidential Scholar for the Arts in Jazz”, Jeff Picker (bass), and TWO (2) IBMA Momentum Award-winners for Best Instrumentalist, Cory Walker (banjo) and Harry Clark (mandolin).“Out of the Wilds of East Nashville came this band of ringers, each of them playing in National high profile Bluegrass bands. The sound they make when they play together rivals that of any of their main gigs. Who knows, but I heard them as a finely tuned machine that could survive on its own. The National high profilers better hang on tight! East Nash Grass is on the move.” - Jerry Douglas

Stone Church

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