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TICKETS TO ALL COLONY EVENTS ARE AVAILABLE AT TICKETFLY, STOCKADE GUITARS IN UPTOWN KINGSTON & THE COLONY DURING BUSINESS HOURS.
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Saturday August 24th
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
Radio Woodstock and Alternative Guitar Summit present Woodstock 50 Years After w/ Nels Cline, Scott Metzger, Vernon Reid and Joel Harrison.
The Music of Woodstock 50 Years After: 4 guitarists explore new directions in the music of the 1969 Woodstock Festival…
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Joel Harrison and Grateful Havens play the music of Richie Havens and The Grateful Dead
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Other musicians include: Brian Marsella (organ), Chris Lightcap (bass), Josh Dion (drums), Elizabeth Pupo Walker (perc.), Mauro Refosco (perc.) Timothy Hill (voc and keys), Everett Bradley (voc), Heather Masse (voc)
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Sunday August 25th
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
Colony Blues and Roots Jam! Hosted by all star band featuring Flash, Caigan, Tarleton, and Chase. Sunday, August 25, 8-11 sharp. Bring your axe. We have backline with keyboard. Signup starts at 7:30.
A well run old school jam. Food and drink specials all night. Finish the weekend with a bang !
$5 suggested donation for house band collected at door.
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Monday August 26th
Sign-up 7 PM to 8 PM
Hosted by Jim from Kansas & Galaexius Quasar! Bring out your latest and greatest tunes and show the room and the world your stuff. Join our growing community of new & seasoned songsmiths!
House guitar & piano available!
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Thursday August 29th
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
Come out all you Big Brain Brads and test your trivia mettle! Hosted by WDST’s Doug Grunther. Prizes! No cover! Full kitchen til 10pm & drink specials all night. 7pm doors open, and signups begin. Brains on at 8!
FREE!
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Friday August 30th
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
Sarah Perrotta is a Hudson Valley based singer, songwriter and pianist. Her atmospheric piano driven songs and emotive voice draw from many influences including classical, jazz, rock and experimental.
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Saturday August 31st
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
Almost 50 years to the day since the most iconic concert festival in history, the Colony is excited to relive the magic with a screening of the documentary film chronicling the three days of peace, love, and music: WOODSTOCK: The Movie will be played LOUD and LIVE! $5 admission, and FREE popcorn. Dinner and drinks will be served. Sing alongs encouraged!
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Sunday September 1st
11 AM – 3PM
Come out to the last Colony Brunch of the Summer! Join the beloved New World Celtic Band for a morning of traditional Celtic music along with our delicious Colony Brunch buffet! Featuring Ian Worpole, Aldo LaVaggi, Sarah Underhill, Jude Roberts, Jon Garelick & Deborah Osherow.
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Sunday September 1st
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
Marc Delgado, born & raised in Central California, arrived in Woodstock, NY five years ago with a notebook full of songs & his new record: High in a Neon Dive (Narcissus Records), a spiraling chronicle of dive bars, motels, drugs & salvation…
Bow is the third album from Two Dark Birds, a band from Pakatakan Mountain in The Catskills. Bow is a cycle of songs about openings and awakenings, about the spirit of nature and the nature of spirit. Recorded in Woodstock, NY with Chris Maxwell, Bow was written and performed by Steve Koester with the assistance of a group of Catskill musicians…
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Special Wednesday Show!
Wednesday September 4th
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
Formed in 2009, Tuba Skinny has steadily evolved from a loose collection of street musicians into a solid ensemble dedicated to bringing the traditional New Orleans sound to audiences around the world. Drawing on a wide range of musical influences—from spirituals to Depression-era blues, from ragtime to traditional jazz—their sound evokes the rich musical heritage of their New Orleans home. The band has gained a loyal following through their distinctive sound, their commitment to reviving long-lost songs, and their barnstorming live performances.
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Thursday September 5th
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
Marc Black was inducted into the New York Chapter of the Blues Hall of Fame in June of 2014. And in the words of WFUV’s John Platt, “We need to hear songs like Marc’s now more than ever.”
Marc has performed and recorded with Art Garfunkel, Taj Mahal, Richie Havens, and Pete Seeger to name a few. He was recently named Folk Artist of the Year on ABC Radio, and a winner at the Kerrville Folk Festival just a few years before. His song, No Fracking Way has become a worldwide anthem for the movement.
Marc reached #6 on the Folk DJ Chart with his Pictures of the Highway CD, featuring Ooh I Love My Coffee and I Love You Rachel Maddow. His youtube videos have been viewed more than 100,000 times!
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Friday September 6th
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
This 75 min. solo concert covers Gary Lucas‘ emergence in the early 80’s as a force to be reckoned with as the acclaimed solo guitarist on Captain Beefheart‘s final albums, “Doc at the Radar Station” and “Ice Cream for Crow”…to co-writing and performing “Grace” and “Mojo Pin” on the late Jeff Buckley’s two-million selling “Grace” album, universally rated “One of the Best Albums of All Time”…
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Saturday September 7th
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
Winner of the 2017 Ameripolitan Music Award for Best Female Rockabilly Artist, and named the “Best Up-And-Coming Band” by Hudson Valley Magazine, Lara Hope and the Ark-Tones are New York’s premier Roots Rock n’ Roll, Rockabilly, Rhythm & Blues outfit. The Ark-Tones have been hitting the road hard for a number of years, spreading the gospel of American music wherever they go. They spent most of 2018 on the road, both in Europe, and in the US, and had the pleasure of touring with some of their musical heroes, including a 6 week national tour with The Brian Setzer Orchestra, and regional tours with The Blasters, and the Reverend Horton Heat!
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Sunday September 8th
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
Majic Juan presents a VIRGO PARTY! Featuring Joey Eppard, special guests and a DJ Dance Party to follow!
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Thursday September 12th
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
Zepparella is the Led Zeppelin Powerhouse hailing from San Francisco. Vocalist Anna Kristina, Guitarist Gretchen Menn, Bassist Holly West, and Drummer Clementine have brought their passion for the sacred music of the greatest band in the world all over the US and Canada. Zepparella shows replicate the nuance and detail of Zeppelin’s catalog while honoring the powerful improvisational journeys for which Zeppelin shows were renowned.
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Friday September 13th
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
NYC’s freshest Afrobeat-Jazz-Funk Dance Party! The Brighton Beat is a positive musical force for all ages, aimed at getting the crowd dancing. This diverse group combines elements of classic Afrobeat, Modern Jazz, New Orleans Funk, and World Music into their own sound that gets booty’s shaking and the bar flowing.
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Saturday September 14th
3PM – 7 PM
It’s the 50th Anniversary of the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival and we are celebrating with FOUR Rosé Crawls between five venues: Woodstock Wine & Liquors, Colony Woodstock, Station Bar & Curio, R&R Taproom and Oriole 9. A great afternoon for Bachelorette/Bachelor & Birthday parties, Girls Weekend, Dates or Singles!
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Sunday September 15th
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
Larry Moses & The Latin Jazz Express play salsa dance music, the tunes of Tito Puente, Eddie Palmieri, & more!
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Wednesday September 18th
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
Though he grew up in the generally frozen landscape of Troy, New York, Sean Rowe spent many of his formative summers in DeLand, Florida — a small town between Orlando and Daytona Beach — where his father was a residential caretaker at a home for troubled youths. It was there, in a mercifully air-conditioned, mostly unused building filled with donated musical instruments, that Sean taught himself to play drums and then bass. For those who have wondered where his distinctly low and percussive approach to guitar playing comes from, I believe you now have your answer… (more)
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Thursday September 19th
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
Abraham Dennis was the “Toast of Europe” for decades and is now a Messenger of Love in the USA. This legendary entertainer uses the musical styles of Rhythm and Blues, Sweet Soul Sounds, Smooth Jazz, Funk, and of course blended with a Rock and Roll vibe, to create his amazing soulful performances. As the lead singer of many bands, it has been said that he has the voice of Marvin Gaye, as he wisks you away on a magical dance trance evening. The mission of he and his band members is to share Peace and Love with people all over the world through their music… (more)
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Friday September 20th
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
The 420 Funk Mob is Clip Payne’s off days project that features a revolving cast of all star musicians that have backed Bowie, D’Angelo, Outkast, Amy Winehouse, Lenny Kravitz, Bad Brains, Bootsy Collins, Kung Fu, Muzik Mafia posse, musicians from his other critically acclaimed band DRUGS and of course Parliament/Funkadelic members.
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Saturday September 21st
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
On what would have been Leonard Cohen‘s 85th birthday, Robert Burke Warren brings his “I’m Your Man: An Evening of Leonard Cohen” tribute back to Woodstock’s premier live music venue. The evening spans Cohen’s entire career, from 60s classics like “Bird on the Wire” and “Suzanne,” to latter day epics like “Everybody Knows,” “Hallelujah,” and “First We Take Manhattan.” 2018 was standing room only, so advance tickets are recommended.
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Sunday September 22nd
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
Singer/songwriter, multi instrumentalist Tim Kapeluck’s music is steeped in the traditions of bluegrass and Appalachian folk. He has played for many years with banjo legends Bill Keith and Eric Weissberg. Tim’s songs include stories of characters that live on the fringes, social commentary, heartbreak and redemption. The music delivers everything from barn burning, roof raising country folk to an Everly Brothers inspired ballad and all are created with Tim’s keen ear for poetic and insightful language as well as music that takes his traditional influences into a new realm.
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Tuesday September 24th
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
C.W. Stoneking is an artist for whom ‘unexpected’ is probably the default setting. How else to describe such a fine purveyor of American roots music who also happens to be a towering, youthful-faced white Australian man? He surprises first-time listeners, throws curveballs at long-time fans, and everything he does contains at least some background level of bafflement for all involved.
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Thursday September 26th
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
Woodstock, a town well known for incubating incredible talent, has a new guitarist to boast—20 year old Chogyi Lama—the most exciting young musician to come out of New York in quite some time. A versatile, multi-instrument artist, Chogyi is a shapeshifter, moving intuitively across genres and styles in connection with whatever he is playing. Sitting in with some of the industry’s most inspiring artists, he has come to be known as a remarkable guitar player with elegance, power and humility far beyond his years. His recent shows have called out his diverse, multigenerational audience who expected to hear some Hendrix, maybe some Zappa, and met a singer, songwriter and performer who continues to surprise and inspire them.
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Friday & Saturday September 27th & 28th
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
Chris Gethard returns to Colony Woodstock for a two-night stand! On night one Chris will perform his standup comedy which will be filmed for a televised special. On night two The Colony is proud to host a taping of Chris’ popular Beautiful/Anonymous podcast. A limited discounted two-night combination ticket is also available, which includes a free signed show poster with ticket purchase.
9/27 $18 advance/$22 day of show – Chris Gethard’s Half-Life Tour Stand-up Comedy Special
9/28 $18 advance/$22 day of show – Chris Gethard’s Beautiful/Anonymous Podcast – Live Taping!
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Sunday September 29th
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
New Orleans-based, Americana/Alt-Country group Ever More Nest is touring back through your market in September. Their debut album, The Place That You Call Home, was recently nominated for Best Alt-Country Album in the Independent Music Awards, and the band has had notable tour stops this year including at the Kennedy Center and Milwaukee’s Summerfest.
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Saturday October 5th
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
A rare duo performance of Richard Barone of the Bongos and Glenn Mercer of the Feelies, joining forces for a set of music from the post-Velvet Underground universe of the mid-1970s — a particularly fertile period of rock experimentation. Barone and Mercer will be exploring songs by David Bowie, Brian Eno, Roxy Music, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, T.Rex and others, along with songs from their own Bongos and Feelies catalogues. They will be joined by Feelies percussionist Dave Weckerman, bassist Bob Torsello, and special guests.
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Thursday October 10th
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
With an extensive and amazing track record of unique and imaginative performances featuring his curious instrument and copious amounts of originality, Mike Silverman, a/k/a That1Guy, has set himself apart as a true one-of-a-kind talent that rivals any other artist currently in the entertainment industry. Averaging 150-200 shows a year all over North America and Canada, he has been a consistent favorite at such festivals as: Wakarusa, Electric Forest, Big Day out, All Good Music Festival, Bella, High Sierra Music Festival, Summer Meltdown, Montreal Jazz Festival, and many more. He was also the ‘Tap Water Award’ winner at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for best musical act. His legendary collaboration and multiple tours with Buckethead performing as The Frankenstein Brothers has further cemented his virtuoso story as a creative visionary.
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Friday October 11th
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
Three-time Grammy nominee, Peter Case’s work sets the bar for authenticity, passion and imagination and spans a number of genres, including folk, blues, and rock. Raised in Buffalo, NY, Case came to the Bay area in 1973 and worked as a street musician and played in the seminal power pop group The Nerves, before moving to Los Angeles to form the Plimsouls, landing a deal with Geffen Records…
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Sunday October 13th
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
It’s impossible not to hear freedom and excitement coursing through the veins of Marco Benevento’s new studio album, ‘Let It Slide.’ Produced by Leon Michels (The Arcs, Lee Fields), the record introduces a gritty, soulful edge to Benevento’s brand of high-octane keyboard wizardry—an uptempo, uplifting sound he playfully describes as “hot dance piano rock.” For all Benevento’s virtuosity on the keys though, the songs here are driven primarily by intoxicating grooves, with spare drums and minimalist bass lines underpinning infectious, intentionally lo-fi vocal hooks. The resulting vibe is a timeless one, filtering elements of vintage R&B and soul through modern indie rock and pop sensibilities and peppering it with the kind of adventurous improvisation that Benevento’s come to be celebrated for worldwide…
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Friday October 18th
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
New York City’s most beloved blues bashers Daddy Long Legs have been huffing and puffing and blowing houses down on a nightly basis on their infinite world tour and always bring an elevated level of rough and ready intensity to contemporary lo-fi blues w ith their explosive fire ceremony!
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Saturday October 19th
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
American hip-hop duo from Sacramento, California, founded in 1992. “We’re older, we’re wiser, we’re more mature,” MC Gift of Gab (nee Timothy Parker) says of Imani, Vol. 1, Blackalicious‘ first new album in a decade. “It’s better now, because we’ve grown as people and artists.” “Each one of these records is a chapter in our lives, and we put our complete heart and soul into it,” agrees Gab’s longtime musical partner, CJ/producer Chief Xcel (aka Xavier Mosley). “We live these records.”
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Sunday October 22nd
Doors 1 PM Show 2 PM
Verna Gillis performs a reading of her work TALES FROM GERIASSIC PARK at The Colony in Woodstock, as presented by Woodstock Bookfest. Verna Gillis’ Older-Woman’s TALES FROM GERIASSIC PARK – On the Verge of Extinction reflects on childhood, the holocaust, addiction, aging, drugs, relationships, peeing, and cancer. She laughs her way through it. At age 68 she won her first story slam. The topic was Coming of Age which she changed to Coming of Aging. She recently won the 2019 Woodstock Bookfest story slam.
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Friday October 25th
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
“In a time where nothing makes sense, or when everyone is trying to make sense of everything, even the right idea might not make perfect sense to everybody at that moment.” Steve Marion, the songwriter, guitarist, and producer who has made four studio records of primarily word-less, guitar-first music as Delicate Steve, is talking about the bifurcated and reactionary culture of the moment. But by no coincidence he’s also describing musical moments that helped to inspire Till I Burn Up (Anti-, 2019) his forthcoming LP…
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Sunday October 27th
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
Theatre on the Road presents: DRACULA
The acclaimed Crane Johnson stage version
Directed by Frank Marquette
The New York Times called it, “fascinating…eerily worthwhile”.
Anna Barton, writing for the Southern Dutchess News called Theatre on the Road’s production, “an immersive theater experience” and “all actors performed beautifully”.
Freely adapted from the novel by Bram Stoker. In this simply staged, full-length thriller Dracula attempts to move from Transylvania to England to find new blood and spread his undead curse, but Professor Van Helsing and the townspeople get in his way. This production ran for a full season at New York’s Royal Playhouse and several unique features including a woman playing Van Helsing!
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Thursday November 14th
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
Singer/songwriter, bandleader, and human being Samantha Bowers (Sammy Rae) was born in the small town of Derby, Connecticut. Sam first began writing songs at age 12 while taking piano lessons and listening to Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel and Freddie Mercury playing on the family stereo. By 16, Sam developed a love of jazz and began to study the great female vocalists of the century (mainly Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James and Sarah Vaughn) as she started to perform original compositions in local Connecticut and New Jersey venues…
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Saturday November 16th
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
Joan Shelley is a songwriter and singer who lives near Louisville, Ky., not far from where she grew up. Like the River Loves the Sea is her fifth album. She draws inspiration from traditional and traditionally-minded performers from her native Kentucky, as well as those from Ireland, Scotland, and England, but she’s not a folksinger. Her disposition aligns more closely with that of, say, Roger Miller, Dolly Parton, or her fellow Kentuckian Tom T. Hall, who once explained—simply, succinctly, in a song—“I Witness Life.”
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Wednesday November 20th
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
What will we do? For Lula Wiles, the trio made up of Isa Burke, Eleanor Buckland, and Mali Obomsawin, the question is central to the creation of their music—and it’s the title of their sophomore album, out in 2019 on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. “We wanted to make an album that reflected, in a current way, what we are all staying up late thinking about and talking about over drinks at the dinner table,” says Obomsawin. “What is everyone worried about, confiding in their friends about, losing sleep about?” Anchoring the band’s sharp, provocative songcraft is a mastery of folk music, and a willingness to subvert its hallowed conventions. They infuse their songs with distinctly modern sounds: pop hooks, distorted electric guitars, and dissonant multi-layered vocals, all employed in the service of songs that reclaim folk music in their own voice…
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Thursday November 21st
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
Prepare To Party! Performing over 150 shows since April of 2017, Max Weinberg’s Jukebox continues to barnstorm the country, blasting out the hits! As Chuck Berry instructed us in his classic “School Days,”…drop the coin right into the slot” audiences have thoroughly embraced the idea of picking and calling out the songs the band pays—in real time and in a variety of intimate venues.
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Friday November 22nd
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
Pedro Pablo “Pedrito” Martinez was born in Havana, Cuba, Sept 12, 1973. Having settled in New York City in the fall of 1998, by 2000, he had been awarded the Thelonius Monk Award for Afro-Latin Hand Percussion and was featured in the documentary film, Calle 54. Pedrito has recorded or performed with Wynton Marsalis, Paul Simon, Paquito D’Rivera, Bruce Springsteen, and Sting and has contributed, as a percussionist and vocalist, to over 50 albums. Mr. Martinez was also a founding member of the highly successful, Afro-Cuban/Afro-Beat band, Yerba Buena, with which he recorded two albums and toured the world.
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Saturday November 23
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
Louis Prima Jr. and The Witnesses Bring The Swingin’est Rock Band In The World To The Colony in Woodstock NY, on Nov 23! Born into an undeniable musical legacy, Louis Prima Jr. picks up the torch lit by his iconic father and leads his incarnation of The Witnesses headfirst into the future. Their seamless blend of hard driving big band jazz, insanely danceable swing and, at its core, real rock and roll has been wowing crowds worldwide for over a decade.
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Monday December 2nd
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
Thurston Moore moved to NYC at eighteen in 1976 to play punk. He started Sonic Youth in 1980. Since then Thurston Moore has been at the forefront of the alternative rock scene since that particular sobriquet was first used to signify any music that challenged and defied the mainstream standard. With Sonic Youth, Moore turned on an entire generation to the value of experimentation in rock n roll – from its inspiration on a nascent Nirvana, to Sonic Youth’s own Daydream Nation album being chosen by the US Library of Congress for historical preservation in the National Recording Registry in 2006… (read more)
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Saturday December 14th
Doors 7 PM Show 8 PM
BAILEN’s gorgeous harmonies, striking arrangements and evocative songwriting springs from a very deep well. Growing up in NYC, the siblings, David, Daniel (twins!) and Julia Bailen were raised by their professional orchestral musician parents, and the young trio immersed themselves in a record collection that included Simon & Garfunkel, Joni Mitchell, Carole King and The Band. Their amazing three-part harmonies have been compared to The Staves and Fleet Foxes, however, on their debut album, Thrilled To Be Here, BAILEN have created something all their own. Produced by GRAMMY-Award winner John Congleton (St. Vincent, Manchester Orchestra, The War on Drugs), BAILEN’s shiny gleam and meticulous songcraft combine with the group’s unusual self-awareness, musicality and bite.
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Saturday
Closed for Wedding
Monday
Open Mic Monday!
Sign-up 7pm – 8pm
Show 8pm
Thursday
Doors 7pm
Show 8pm
ABRAHAM & THE GROOVE DANCE PARTY!