Category: Upcoming Shows

Eastview; A mix of Rock, Alt/Country Rock, and Original songs.

Space Junk is Forever uses vintage instruments to weave simple melodies, stirring harmonic language, and frequent key and meter changes into impressionistic, aptly titled tunes that 70’s prog lovers, mathy drummers, synthesizer geeks, and music theory nerds are all sure to enjoy. Deep grooves, varied instrumentations, and wild group improvisations further invite a broader audience.

Like many bands, Space Junk is Forever emerged from a basement where most of the band’s material was casually written and multi-tracked by Hammond organist Jordan Holt starting in 2013. “At first I had no intention of forming a band for these songs. It was a dream I thought I had killed off, but the bug came back and I just had to do it.”

In 2016, Jordan met classical pianist/composer, Claude Garoute, and the two began arranging and practicing tunes in Holt’s basement using only Hammond Organ, Rhodes piano, and 2 Moogs.

After auditioning Madden Klass on drums in late 2017, the band began to record their debut self titled record, Space Junk is Forever. It was recorded live with all 3 members, and paired with “Live Tracking Video Sessions” that are available online. This was our first true labor of love as SJIF.

During the fall of 2018, Jordan and Madden continued to jam extensively which helped hone their musical relationship and further create content to build an online presence. The resulting videos received surprise attention on social media. The numbers began to spike during this time and awareness spread around the musician world.

“I was suddenly very busy mailing out vinyl copies of our first record and keeping up with online sales”, explains Holt. “Those videos really helped to jump start interest in us, but we still didn’t feel like we were ready to take it live. The pressure was on to get it just right.” Instead, a second album, SJF2 was recorded.

Shortly after, good friends/former bandmates, bassist David Palan and guitarist Matt Vigna, were called in for live shows. With the arrangements and sounds now flushed out, live shows commenced late spring 2019.

Since then the band has performed at noteworthy clubs and festivals in New England, NYC, upstate New York, Detroit, and Chicago. Performances at Disc Jam Festival and at Arlene’s Grocery in NYC stand out as highlights.

The Ardvark Felon is the anagram-derived alter ego of live music man Frank Velardo, composer, lead singer, guitar-slinger, and man in front of the band.  The band’s music is  spontaneous but polished, serious yet absurd.  They’re bluesy and funky in all the right ways, love playing for dancers, and know just when to turn things up with explosions of group improvisation and jamming.  See them around Philadelphia and beyond!

Whether they’re on a big stage playing their original compositions, or their playing blues or covers at your favorite brewery,  the positive atmosphere The Ardvark Felon creates is palpable.   The joy expressed in their performance as authentic as it gets, and it’s hard to not smile along.  Frank often gets compared to Jerry Garcia, John Lennon, Jim Henson and even Weird Al!

Sometimes people confuse their covers and originals.. haha

Drunken Prayer transcends the bounds of Americana music. Morgan Geer writes songs that could emerge from a highly blissed-out biker bar or a swampy ashram.

For the last year Morgan Geer has been working from his home studio with Paul Oldham (Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Palace), building on drum tracks initially recorded in New Mexico at Empty House Studios, home of doom metal bands like OM and Sleep. The end result evokes an ominous acid Western feedback-and-driftwood aesthetic.

The latest Drunken Prayer releases have been 2019’s acclaimed LP Cordelia Elsewhere mixed by Mitch Easter (Let’s Active, REM) and the ambitious 17 minute long death-raga, Electric Daddyland from 2021.

Over the past two years, before the pandemic, Drunken Prayer played hundreds of shows across 18 countries and across the US at venues such as the Newport Folk Festival, Pickathon and San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall. Geer’s music has been featured on AMC, NPR, WFMU and SiriusXM.

On the side Geer is the lead guitar player for alt-country goths Freakwater and writes for different artists including the Brooklyn rock and soul phenom Bette Smith. Morgan has also been touring internationally, opening for and
often joining the eccentric Handsome Family.

Today Morgan splits time between Portland, OR and Asheville, NC.

mily Band is a nationally touring world boogie collective founded by song-writer and coddie-wompler Tim Husk (formerly of Freeway Revival) in 2019 and has performed at numerous venues and festivals around the country featuring members of Toubab Krewe, Big Something, Dr. Bacon, The Kind Thieves, TUB, Reliably Bad, Self Help, Firewater Tent Revival, The Moon Unit, Mellow Swells, Custard Pie, Wigeon, FRUTE, Alo Ver, Boom Unit Brass Band, Rolling Dynamite, The Fundamentals, and many other acts. Every Awen Family Band show is a never before seen collaboration between musicians from other touring acts who understand that we are just moving the music and message from one plane to another “we don’t create the lesson, only move the message” (Song-Kiwi Beach). Blending roots music from around the globe such as Zydeco, Bluegrass, Afrobeat, Wassalou (West Africa), Old Time, Swing and Psychedelic Boogie topped with lyrics spreading the message for all who seek to hear. From our table to yours, we invite you to join us in celebrating music, life and each other!

~Building Community, Expanding Circles and Spreading Love~

DUNK TANK! BENEFIT FOR NOFA IN MEMORY OF FARMER DAN

The Northeast Organic Farming Association is a non-profit organization of over 5,000 farmers, gardeners, landscape professionals and consumers working to promote healthy food, organic farming practices and a cleaner environment.

In memory of our good friend Farmer Dan Rovensky. All donations will be in his name to NOFA.

https://nofa.org/