2025 Season
January 11, 2025 at 7:30
Jefferson Hamer & Zoe Guigeno
Jefferson Hamer is a Brooklyn songwriter whose guitar work and vocals are featured on Sarah Jarosz’s Grammy-nominated Blue Heron Suite. His Album Child Ballads with Anaïs Mitchell was named one of NPR’s top-ten folk releases of the year. He will be joined by bassist and songwriter Zoe Guigeno, whose music has been described as having a “jagged, poetic design” and who has accompanied many renowned musicians.
Robinson & Rohe
Brooklyn songwriters Liam Robinson (banjo, accordion, vocals) and Jean Rohe (guitar, vocals) have been performing together for fifteen years. They've written a distinctive body of original repertoire that draws on the roots music they hold dear, and engages their versatile musical and literary sensibilities as arrangers, improvisers, poets, and producers.
February 8, 2025 at 7:30
Madeleine Roger
Madeleine Roger is a singer-songwriter from Winnipeg, Canada. While skillfully accompanying herself on acoustic guitar, it is her artistry as a songwriter that can silence a room, uniting her lyrical prowess with a breathtaking voice that lingers long after the last note. Her heart-wrenching new album "Nerve" examines every nook and cranny of love and loss. Her music moves us and will move you.
Rupert Wates
London-born Rupert Waites is a singer-songwriter who has won over 40 songwriting and performing awards and more than 25 of his songs have been covered by other artists. In the last two years two full-length tribute albums to his material have been recorded by independent artists. Rupert's poetic and meaningful lyrics, stellar guitar skills, and striking voice never cease to impress.
March 8, 2025 at 7:30
Eliza Edens
Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Eliza Edens weaves together disparate influences of people and places into her work to create mesmerizing sonic tapestries with guitar and voice. Edens’ songs build a kaleidoscopic world that documents the parallels between hope and heartbreak. The resulting sound is a diverse palette of guitar-based, experimental folk-rock centered around Eden's gently-cradled voice and brimming at the edges with pockets of sonic whimsy.
Sean Kiely Band
Brooklyn-born Sean Kiely is an in-demand guitarist and singer-songwriter in the NJ/NYC acoustic music scene. He was winner of the NERFA 2024 Songwriting Contest and a recipient of the Jersey City Arts Council Individual Artist Award. His lyrics "summon epiphanies and moments of clarity in the middle of storms," and his music chases beauty to unexpected yet inevitable conclusions. He has toured with Abbie Gardner, and will open for Richard Thompson in February 2025.
April 5, 2025 at 7:30
Brad Yoder
Brad Yoder’s unique mix of humorous, poetic, political, funky and edgy original songs, covering a musical range from folk to indie rock (with unexpected musical and lyrical twists), has earned him a loyal following ranging from kids in single digits through retirees. Brad has opened for a diverse range of artists, including Erin McKeown, Tegan & Sara, the Cowboy Junkies, Lucy Kaplansky, Carrie Newcomer, the Vigilantes of Love, Emmylou Harris, Robyn Hitchcock, and Ellis Paul.
Sam Robbins
Sam Robbins is often described as an "old soul singer songwriter." A Nashville based musician whose music evokes classic singer songwriters like James Taylor and Jackson Browne, Sam adds a modern, upbeat edge to the storyteller troubadour persona. An avid performer, he has gained recognition from extensive touring and as one of the six winners of the Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk competition.
May 10, 2025 at 7:30
Aleksi Campagne
Named Penguin Eggs & Roots Music Canada's New Discovery of the Year, Montrealer Aleksi Campagne blends his folk songwriting roots with an edgy, multi-layered sound resulting from his unique combination of voice, violin and looping-effect pedals. His debut album is nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award.
Dwayne Haggins
He’s been described as “The John Legend of rockabilly.” And recently, “a ‘what-took-you-so-long’ fusion of Elvis and Marvin Gaye.” But he is Dwayne Haggins, and his voice is his own. The exponential growth of his devoted audience likely signals that a move to larger venues is inevitable, and perhaps imminent.
June 14, 2025 at 7:30
Buggy Jive
Buggy Jive is a soul rock singer-songwriter from Albany, NY. Equal parts Zeppelin, D’Angelo, Prince and Joni in sound and sensibility, his lyrics mine literature of the past to make sense of the present. His latest album "Hurry Up Please It's Time" contemplates songwriting and storytelling, love and literature, and the fears of a nation divided – but always balancing the heaviness with humor.
Alex Radus Quartet
Alex Radus is hailed as a “versatile crooner” (UMCNashville) and “master guitarist” (Courier News), but his songwriting takes center stage. Alex pairs whimsical and poignant storytelling with an eclectic mix of folk, Americana, swing and blues. John Gorka calls Alex a “remarkable artist…worth going out of your way to hear”. Alex was selected as a 2024 Falcon Ridge Emerging Artist and “Most Wanted” to return.
October 18, 2025 at 7:30
Spencer LaJoye
Spencer LaJoye (luh-JOY) is a singer/songwriter from the Midwest making queer indie folk music for everyone. The 2021 Kerrville Songwriting Competition and 2024 Songwriter Serenade winner spins crystalline vocals through a loop pedal while strumming an acoustic guitar in charming, banter-heavy performances that keep audiences laughing one moment and weeping the next.
Jenna Nicholls with Jon LaDeau
In a tapestry of sound -Jenna Nicholls weaves a spell: strumming her ukulele with the spirit of New Orleans or crooning a cowboy’s tale with the soul of the West. Her melodies, like vintage vinyl spun anew, carry the weight of memory and promise of tomorrow. Jenna will be accompanied by the soulful guitar of Jon Ladeau for this special performance.
November 15, 2025 at 7:30
Belle of the Fall
In 2014 Tracy Walton produced Julia Autumn Ford's debut album at his studio, On Deck Sound Studio, resulting in the auspicious meeting of 2 very different, yet kindred, musical minds. Later that year they would tour the East Coast together sharing bills and playing separate solo sets.. The summer of 2015 they began playing together. In 2016 they released their debut album, "Earthbound, followed by " "Rise Up" in 2017 and "The Bending of Light" in 2019 Ten years in, and roughly 1000 shows later, their sound has never been more cohesive. They are a must see!
Eureka Shoes
Eureka Shoes is a new songwriting power trio of Charlie Burnham, Jean Rohe, and Skye Soto Steele, longtime friends and collaborators who have each achieved notoriety in their respective worlds of jazz, folk, and pop music, and have now joined forces with bassist Rashaan Carter to bring you an entirely new sound. With delicious three-part harmonies, other-worldly twin fiddling, and lyrics that will break your heart and put it back together again better; Eureka Shoes has a sound that is one part string quartet, two parts jazz combo, and soulful all the way down.
December 13, 2025 at 7:30
Katie Martucci
Katie Martucci is a Brooklyn-based indie folk/pop songwriter whose presence and warmth leaves audiences spell-bound and renewed. Her latest release ‘Note to Self’ is a collection of songs about the “unspoken third thing in the room” — stories surrounding friendship, imposter syndrome, her own personal journey with epilepsy, and more. We are thrilled to have her performing with her quartet in her return to Voices in the Heights.
The Faux Paws Quartet
From raging fiddle tunes, to saxophone solos and unrequited love songs, the music of The Faux Paws would be hard to pin down with standard genre descriptions. The band’s contagious groove, and feel-good melting pot folk music has been honed over ten years of playing together, and is the sound of close friends (two of which happen to be brothers), who feel a musical kinship that transcends any stylistic limitations