*Cancelled* DayGlo Mourning / Septarian / NecroFear [Small Room-Downstairs]
Breaking|Entering / Pressed / Mammoth Caravan [Small Room-Downstairs]
Torsion / Anti-Sapien / Congested [Small Room-Downstairs]
Meth / Blackwater Sniper / Breaking|Entering / AKBD [Small Room-Downstairs]
Mikaela Davis / Sean Thompson’s Weird Ears / Walt Phelan [Small Room-Downstairs]
Five years since her debut album Delivery, Mikaela Davis has moved away from her hometown of Rochester, shared the stage with the likes of Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Christian McBride, Bon Iver, Lake Street Dive and Circles Around the Sun and entered a new decade. But it’s the ever-evolving relationships between her closest friends and bandmates that has propelled the Hudson Valley-based artist onto her new album And Southern Star––a truly collaborative effort that ruminates on the choices we make, and the people we always come back to. Davis earned her degree in harp performance at the Crane School of Music, and has molded her classical music training to create an original and genre-bending catalog that weaves together 60s pop-soaked melodies, psychedelia and driving folk rock. She met her bandmates at pivotal moments in her life––drummer Alex Coté in childhood, guitarist Cian McCarthy and bassist Shane McCarthy in college, and steel guitarist Kurt Johnson in her early twenties. It’s the band’s collective step into adulthood that has informed much of And Southern Star’s thematic landscape. Navigating the periphery of past selves, the coexistence of isolation and excitement in a new environment and the tension of growing away from what we thought we wanted is tackled with a luscious, kaleidoscopic grace. And Southern Star picks apart the reflection we used to recognise, while trying to build a new one. “I finally feel like this album is more methan anything else that’s been released,” Davis says, adding that producing the album along with her four bandmates allowed them to carve out their own ideas, rather than someone else’s. Despite playing together for over a decade, it’s the first time the five-piece have appeared on a full length album together.
Yawni / shumwvy / The Ellie badge / Mothcat [Small Room-Downstairs]
Little Baby Tendencies / Handsome Girl Pretty Boy / Mystic Light Casino [Small Room-Downstairs]
Blankslate / Mothcat / Accept It. / The Downbads [Small Room-Downstairs]
Accept It / Move Through / Squib Kick [Small Room-Downstairs]
Dinosauria / K.L. Clark / J.W. Bird / Avery Vaughn [Small Room-Downstairs]
An evening of experimental music played on stringed instruments. Dinosauria (Memphis ambient experimental post-rock shoegaze stoner doom) – https://dinosauria.bandcamp.com/ K.L. Clark (Nashville composer and improviser playing solo banjo) – https://kelbyclark.bandcamp.com/ J.W. Bird (Nashville sound artist and improviser playing solo violin) – https://jwbird.bandcamp.com/ Avery Vaughn (Memphis experimental guitarist, songwriter, and sound artist) – https://averyvaughn.bandcamp.com/ Doors at 7:00, music at 8:00, $10 cover.
