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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Monday, May 23rd
8:00pm
$10.00 Cover
Mercury Lounge
217 E. Houston St.
(at Ave A) in Manhattan
Special Guest Jen Larson
The Dixie Bee-Liners are a six-piece bluegrass ensemble based out of NYC. Fronted by songsmith Brandi Hart and muti-instrumentalist Buddy Woodward, the band has earned a reputation for power-packed live sets and smart original tunes.
Saturday, June, 25th
10:30pm-1:00am
Free
Delta Grill
700 Ninth Avenue (at 48th Street)
Manhattan, New York
Full Dinner Menu
Have a hankering for music which will bring you back to bayou? Yearning to hear fiddles and accoridions playing waltzes and stompin' gumbo infused songs in American French? Well, there's no better band in New York than the Bosco Stompers who are steeped in the traditions of old Louisiana and are guaranteed to put on a great show.
Friday, May 27th
10:00pm
Free
Barbes
376 9th St
(at 6th Avenue)
Park Slope, Brooklyn
River Alexander and His Mad Jazz Hatters play a blend of old timey, early jazz, vaudeville, blues, pop and rural gutbucket soul from the teens, 20's and 30's. River's smooth vocals are backed up by washtub bass, washboard, guitar, fiddle and a variety of special guests. Unfortunately, there's no site for me to link to so you'll just have to trust me when I tell you that they sound like a real jug band, dirty, unpolished and raucous, whic
Saturday, May 21st
1pm-8pm
Advance Tickets $75, At the Door $85
Brooklyn Brewery
79 North 11th Street
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
(718) 486-7422
Don’t miss the fifth annual Pigfest! Indulge in a day of cold beer, live music and plentiful Southern cuisine, all within the urban comforts of Brooklyn. Beer and Food is included with admission. (all beer and food included in ticket price)
The Brooklyn Brewery is known for throwning great events with fantastic local bluegrass and old-time bands. Laying down the tunes at this event will be the Cobble Hillbillies and the Dixie Beeliners, two of New York's best blurgrass bands. Spend the day getting loaded, eating swing and listing to banjos. What could possibly be better?
Sunday, May 15th
8pm-Midnight
The Living Room
$5.00 Cover
154 Ludlow Street
(between of Stanton and Rivington)
212.533.7235
International Circus Composer Sxip Shirey of The Luminescent Orchestrii and Taylor Davis of Headset Productions presents 13 of their favorite New York musical acts. Amazing singers, accordions, hip-hop, gypsy punk, depression era party tunes, hot fresh pop and great songwriting. This is your chance to see some of New York’s most diverse and exciting musical acts all on the same bill, at the city’s finest listening room… and it’s cheap
Performing will be: Curtis Eller, Guignol, Krystle Warren, and The Spokinn Movement
Friday, March 26
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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Saturday, April 30th
9:30pm
$10.00 Cover
Parkside Lounge
317 E. Houston St.
(btw Clinton and Attorney/ B and C)
Manhattan
Hosted by The Dixie Bee-Liners and friends, and featuring Larry Campbell (from Bob Dylan's band), Zane Campbell, Red Molly, The Cobble Hillbillies, Straight Drive, Astrograss, Reckon So, Sheriff Uncle Bob, Trip Henderson, and more!
Jimmy knows about this show, and is looking forward to hearing a recording of it! We want to pack that room so he can hear how much we all love him, so please come on down and help us pay tribute to The King of Bluegrass!
Monday, April 25th
9:30 pm
$5.00
Parkside Lounge
317 E. Houston St.
(btw Clinton and Attorney/ B and C)
Manhattan
High buzzing vocal harmonies, fleet instrumental picking on mandolin, acoustic guitar, fiddle and resonator guitar, coupled with their off-the-cuff stage banter and of course, those classic brown suits, The Hunger Mountain Boys have a duet show like no other on the touring scene today. In the tradition and spirit of the classic country duets of the 1930's, 40's, and 50's, they capture the authentic early-American country sound and the fiery energy of such legendary duets as the Monroe Brothers and Louvin Brothers.
Friday, May 13th
10:30pm
FREE
Delta Grill
700 9th Avenue at 48th Street
Manhttan
Full dinner and drinks menu
The Jimmy Nations Combo is one of these 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.
Saturday, May 7th
9pm - very late!
Zebulon Cafe
258 Wythe Avenue
(betwixed Metropolitan Ave. and N.3rd)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
L train to the Bedford Stop
A FREE night of nothing but great TUBA bands. 4 bands 4 FREE!
9pm - Susan Watts and the Fabulous Shpielkehs. Susan
Watts, mighty trumpet princess of Philadelphia's klezmer Dynasty,
House of Hoffman.
http://susanwattsonline.com
10pm - the Knobs!
Polished and turned on!
http://theknobs.us
11pm - Who's Yo' Crawdaddy?
Daddy's got some gumbo for you!
