We've been listening to and playing music in New York City for years and have always found it near impossible to dig through all the live events in this great city to find the ones that tickle our ears. This site was created to highlight the music we like to listen to and hopefully help you find refuge from the throngs of wanna-be-on-MTV bands who usually dominate the other listing sites out there.
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Tuesday, July 19th
9:30pm
FREE
Lakeside Lounge
162 Avenue B
At. East 10th St.
East Village, Manhattan
Country and Honkey-tonk songwriter Karen Hudson leads a fantastic band of players as she gigs around New York. Her songs are full of twang and emotion blending country, rock, pop and folk inspired by singers Patsy Cline, Roy Orbison, Linda Ronstadt and the song craft of Nick Lowe and Lucinda Williams.
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Thursday, July 21st - Sunday, July 31st.
2 Weekends
40 Bands
2 Venues
All in Brooklyn
Check out the website for info
The Brooklyn Country Music Festival is a free music festival featuring New York City's finest local country, blugrass, old-timey, and honky tonk talents. The 2nd Annual Brooklyn Country Music Festival will take place over the last two weekends in July, 2005. 40 different acts will perform their own brand of country music over 8 days at two venues, Freddy's Back Room (7 days) and Buttermilk Bar (1 day).
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Friday, July 8th
11:00pm
Free
Maia Meyhane
98 Ave B between 6th & 7th
East Village, New York
Full dinner menu
Gypsy music fans of New York unite! Get out of your tiny one bedroom share and go hear these intrepid explorers of gypsy music play their renditions of your favorite songs such as Loli Phabay and Manea Cu Voca. What, you can't hum them by heart? Well, you obviously haven't heard Romashka play recently.
Romashka is a fantastic troupe of local musicians who keep the melodies and songs of traditional gypsy music alive. Clarinet, accordion, saxophone, trumpet, sultry vocals and grooving rythms in 9/8 prevail as these folks rock the night.
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Thursday, July 21st
6:30pm
Free
Summer Concert Series.
Outdoors at the Old Stone House,
Park Slope, Brooklyn.
4th Ave between 3rd & 4th St.
The Jimmy Nations Combo is one of those rare New York bands who knows their strengths and plays them up. They call themselves Jazz-a-billy. If you're like me and have a hard time decyphering that then just imagine an upright bass being straddled by the bassist, songs performed in a vintage style and material which is influenced by the sounds of the South: Blues, Country, Western Swing, & Rockabilly.
These guys know how to swing and make their audience dance. The love of the music they play pervades their performances and their energy is contagious. 'Nough said.
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Tuesday, July 12th
9:30pm
Joe's Pub
425 Lafayette St.
(between 4th St. and Astor Place)
$12.00
Uncle Earl plays hot old-time stringband numbers, soulful originals and mountain songs. These five women come from different musical backgrounds and live in five different states, but they’re united by a love for timeless music from the heart of rural American culture. Their energetic live performances have earned them a reputation as joyful and accessible performers, deeply respectful of tradition but willing to develop graceful arrangements that create a modern and unique sound.
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Thursday, July 21st
Kings County Opry
Freddy's Back Room
485 Dean St. at 6th Ave.
Brooklyn
8 pm
Free
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The evening starts at 8pm with a song circle featuring all the night's acts as they jam and croon away on whatever songs strike their fancy. Following the circle three bands play an hour set. Sir His Highness El Presidente Doc Oscar books amazing bands every month and you can be assured an evening steeped deep in the hills of traditional American song.
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Every Friday Night
FREE
$2.00 Beers / Good and Inexpensive food
Snitch Bar
59 West 21st Street
(at 6th Ave.)
Every Friday night till the end of the world, Sean Kershaw and the New Jack Ramblers play good times country, honkeytonk and rockabilly from 6pm till 11pm. Drop by after work for some of the best happy-hour deals in New York along with great food, dancing fools, great music, special guests. Make a point of proving the country music can thrive in NYC.
Friday, June 24th
10:30pm
FREE
Delta Grill
700 9th Avenue at 48th Street
Manhttan
Full dinner and drinks menu
The Jimmy Nations Combo is one of those rare New York bands who knows their strengths and plays them up. They call themselves Jazz-a-billy. If you're like me and have a hard time decyphering that then just imagine an upright bass being straddled by the bassist, songs performed in a vintage style and material which is influenced by the sounds of the South: Blues, Country, Western Swing, & Rockabilly.
These guys know how to swing and make their audience dance. The love of the music they play pervades their performances and their energy is contagious. 'Nough said.
Thursday, June 16th
8pm
$7.00 Cover
169 Bar
169 East Broadway
(at Rutgers St, Lower East Side)
Robin Aigner is one of New York's finest singer-songwriters who can, armed only with her wry wit, poetic lyrics and melancholy guitar, captivate a crowd of rowdy frat kids and quiet them down to listen to her sing.
She has just started a new band called Royal Pine which is the name for her collaboration with great percussionist Brook Martinez who adds vocals, tabla, xylophone, harmonica, guitar and the occassional soft-shoe.
Wednesday, June 22nd
9pm-10:30
Parkside Lounge
317 East Houston St.
(Corner of Attorney)
The Booglerizers mix fingerstyle guitar with mandolin and arch-top slide, leaving room for some tube-driven harmonica and sweet old time clarinet. Their vocalists have harmonized, crooned and growled together for over a quarter of a century. A seasoned percussionist plays brushed snare and washboard. At the bottom of the sound is the tuba which can either be regal or downright flatulent. Fans come out to their shows to have an old time roadhouse experience watching a group who plainly enjoy entertaining and playing music. Guest appearances by musicians and friends are not entirely unlikely.
