New York Communion February 2012
David Wax Museum
http://davidwaxmuseum.com/
Recently anointed as Boston’s Americana Artist of the Year (2010 Boston Music Awards), the David Wax Museum has been called “pure, irresistible joy” (Bob Boilen, NPR) and hailed by TIME.com for its “virtuosic musical skill and virtuous harmonies.” It is no surprise that its acclaimed performance at the 2010 Newport Folk Festival was hailed as one of highlights of the entire weekend by NPR. The Museum fuses traditional Mexican folk with American roots and indie rock to create an utterly unique Mexo-Americana aesthetic. Combining Latin rhythms, call-and-response hollering, and donkey jawbone rattling, they have electrified audiences across the country and are “kicking up a cloud of excitement with their high-energy border-crossing sensibility” (The New Yorker). The band’s new album, Everything Is Saved, produced by Sam Kassirer (Josh Ritter), has been drawing rave reviews from all corners and has propelled the band into the national spotlight, with a feature in Paste Magazine, a Daytrotter session, and a nod from TIME magazine as one of the top ten acts of last year’s South by Southwes.
Aoife O’Donovan
http://www.aoifeodonovan.com/
When USA Today predicted that Aoife O’Donovan would soon become “the newest darling of the Americana set”, it had already been true for quite some time. Aoife is renowned for her ability to breath magic into anything she sings. Since her first professional engagement singing lead for the folk group The Wayfaring Strangers, she has maintained a wide variety of side projects and collaborations, working with numerous other artists including Ollabelle, Sometymes Why, Karan Casey and Seamus Egan, Jerry Douglas, Jim Lauderdale, Darol Anger, Sarah Jarosz, Sara Watkins, Christina Courtin, Noam Pikelny and Chris Thile (The Punch Brothers). Most recently she has recorded and performed with Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer, Stuart Duncan and Chris Thile as a guest vocalist on The Goat Rodeo Sessions (Sony Masterworks Oct 2011). For the past 10 years, Aoife has been fronting the alt-bluegrass/string band Crooked Still, which she formed when she was 18. Her natural talent for songwriting recently came to the attention of Alison Krauss, who recorded Aoife’s song Lay My Burden Down, which is included on Alison’s album Paper Airplane (2011 Rounder Records) and can also be heard in the film Get Low (2010 Sony Pictures). In June 2010, Aoife released her first solo recording in the form of a limited edition 7” vinyl. Featuring two original tracks, it garnered rave reviews from audiophiles worldwide. Her solo debut full length album is due for release in 2012.
Trixie Whitley
http://www.trixiewhitley.com/
Trixie Whitley, the daughter of bluesman Chris Whitley and the phenom that legendary producer Daniel Lanois built his critically Black Dub project around, is a force of nature waiting to be unleashed on any stage she takes. Already headlining festivals in Europe on her own and having taken the US by storm alongside Lanois with Black Dub, she steps out here just before heading into the studio to record. With a voice, musical chops, and presence that can’t be denied, this will likely be one of your last chances to see Whitley in a small room. Don’t miss it.
Jones Street Station
http://www.jonesstreetstation.net/
Known for their unique take on traditional Americana, Jones Street Station has shared stages with such notable acts as Ben Kweller, Brett Dennen, Grace Potter, and Deertick.
“Of all the bands Brooklyn has produced in recent years, rarely has the borough birthed an Americana-rock love child like Jones Street Station. But this isn’t just Appalachia-on-the-Hudson—the band is just as fond of rockstar timbres and synths as it is mandolin, banjo licks and harmonica. We’re not the first to liken them to a little band called Wilco, and we’d humbly submit the folk/pop stylings of The Avett Brothers and the jamboree ethos of Akron/Family for comparison as well.” –Paste Magazine
Julia Easterlin
http://www.facebook.com/juliaeasterlin
Julia Easterlin is one part Regina Spektor, one part loop scientist, and a sophisticated musical mind that can wield composition, production, and performance in one fell swoop.
Not only is Easterlin a versatile singer-songwriter, vocalist, pianist, and guitarist, but her looping machine also makes her into a virtual one-woman band. On songs like “Go Straight Away,” she loops her vocals, building a multi-layered song live on stage, track-by-track. Her voice combines seduction with a haunting edge, and her music weaves story with an otherworldly vocal dance, drawing listeners deep into each well-crafted piece.
Doors: 6pm – Show 7pm
Age: 18+
Tickets: $12 door
Tickets available on January 20th here
