"Valentine's Day Eve Fest"
The Knitting Factory
361 Metropolitan Ave
Brooklyn, NY
6 PM. 7PM show.
Tel: (347) 529-6696
$20
Tickets available at the door, or online at
www.ticketfly.com/tickets/event-details/?tfly_event_id=3125
My ensemble for this show will include
Greta Gertler on piano and vocals
Payton MacDonald on marimba and percussion
Richard Hammond on bass
Marlan Barry on cello
and Matt Kanelos and Odessa Chen sitting in to sing harmonies
We'll play a full set, sharing the evening with three fantastic, progressive, female fronted bands, who are coming from great distances to join us. Here's more info on them
Seattle's TWO LOONS FOR TEA are like some mad Nashville duo lost on planet chill, or perhaps they're Victorian dancehall entertainers forecasting a successful Vaudeville career for their as yet unborn but talented children. Two Loons Jonathan Kochmer and Sarah Scott are very much the local boho couple warping jazz standards for downtown hipsters but their reach is decidedly global. Scott sings with a sassy impertinence that recalls dark heroines from Dinah Washington and Rickie Lee Jones to Beth Gibbons, while Kochmer's stylized arrangements recall Zero 7, Air and a touch of Massive Attack. It's vibrant cocktail electronica for the 7pm set, feelgood music for the modern urban sophisticate.
ODESSA CHEN writes singular music navigating the dark terrain of love, longing, and displacement. Described by MTVU as an "unstoppable force with one powerful voice" her second release, The Ballad of Paper Ships served as the basis for sold out dance collaborations at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, featuring Odessa with string quartet, drums and piano. Currently working on her third CD, she returns to New York with drummer Rich Douthit and guitarist Roger Riedlebauer (Jolie Holland).
The marvelous LEE MORETTI, from Boston, will open the show.
The occasion for our coming together is the eve of Valentine's Day. We play last. But please come early and support all of these wonderful musicians. They are well worth it.
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