2020-21 Online CONCERTS
May 15, 2021 at 7:30
Meghan Cary
Meghan Cary’s music has been hailed as healing, inspiring and infectiously joyful. Named Billboard’s “Critic’s Choice” for her debut EP, the stage actress turned folk rocker engages listeners with masterful storytelling and anthemic songs. Cary found solace in words and music after her fiancé unexpectedly passed away - and turned that passion into a platform empowering others to speak their truth by bravely sharing her own.
Scott Cook
Scott Cook toured around the world almost incessantly from 2007 until 2020, when the pandemic made living in a van less appealing. His latest album Tangle of Souls comes in a cloth-bound, 240-page hardcover book of road stories and ruminations, equal parts introspection and insurrection. He still believes, more than ever, that songs can change your life, and your life can change the world.
Suzie Vinnick
Roots and Blues singer Suzie Vinnick is a 3X Juno Nominee, CFMA Award winner, and a 10-time winner of the Maple Blues Award for songwriting, female vocalist, acoustic act and more. Suzie has a voice you’ll never forget. It soars, it growls, it whispers and it shouts from a deep, deep well of emotion. Suzie’s latest album is a full-band roots and blues extravaganza entitled Shake The Love Around
April 17, 2021 at 7:30
Grace Morrison
If folk, roots, and Americana were on a Venn diagram, Grace Morrison would be squarely in the center. Grace has become a regular on the national festival and touring circuit.
Her sophomore solo album “Reasons” debuted the #2 album on the Roots Music Report’s Top 50 Contemporary Country Airplay Chart.
Billy Woodward
Billy Woodward is a roots singer-songwriter based in Brooklyn, NY. His unique songwriting and storytelling is a direct result of his life-long adoration of traditional folk/blues, R&B and rock & roll.
Woodward recorded his last EP, "The Beast In Me", at the legendary Sun Studio in Memphis, TN and has a new full-length album slated for release later this year.
Annie Sumi
Annie Sumi creates sonic landscapes that breathe with the rhythms of the earth. Her music brings attention to the practice of listening by offering a space for whispering melodies to be amplified.
With support from the Ontario Arts Council, her latest collection, Solastalgia, is set to release in October 2021.
March 13, 2021 at 7:30
Jeremy Aaron
Jeremy Aaron’s style incorporates trad fiddle, jazz, soul, and poetry, but he’s rooted in the jam atmosphere, where the energy comes from spontaneous ideas and foot stomping like a musical roller coaster.
His intimate songs paint poetic portraits of adirondack forests, the nature of love, and the challenges we all face. His fiddle gets your toes tapping and his guitar stylings are full of surprises.
Jen Cork
Gravelly layered vocals and a haunted 1904 upright grand piano define singer songwriter Jen Cork’s current performances. With a versatile voice and vividly cinematic lyrics drawn from her dreams, Jen invites you in to share an emotionally charged listening experience.
Jen is currently stretching her wings as a producer in her Ithaca, NY home studio and booking outdoor shows for the upcoming year.
Austin MacRae
Shimmering lyrics, deft finger-picking and soaring melodies—Ithaca’s Austin MacRae is a troubadour whose songwriting is characterized by poetic lyrics and poignant stories from rural upstate NY..
He has performed at venues such as Club Passim, Kerrville Folk Festival (New Folk Finalist), and Falcon Ridge Folk Festival (Emerging Artist). MacRae is currently at work on a collection of songs about being a step-father.
February 13, 2021 at 7:30
Sophie Buskin
Sophie Buskin’s songs have been described as wise, laced with sly humor, and containing melodies that are different and surprising.
Sophie is a rising star, appearing at venues such as Rockwood Music Hall, the Cutting Room, Passim, the Red Lion, and White Eagle Hall. She has performed with Judy Collins, Mason Jennings, Little Anthony, Livingston Taylor and Paul Schaffer and founded the songwriters’ circle at Pete’s Candy Store in Brooklyn.
Joshua Garcia
Joshua Garcia is a songwriter whose powerful lyrics and deeply moving vocals evoke comparisons to Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan, his boyhood idols.
He is one of the most sought after singers in the NYC folk world. Joshua has opened for Don McLean and his 2020 solo streaming concert at the Tarrytown Music Hall was one of the highlights of the year. He recently released his first single, and is in the process of completing his debut full-length album, which will be a must own.
Rachael Kilgour
Rachael Kilgour is a Minnesotan songwriter and performing artist whose sincere, lyric-driven work has been called both brave and humane.
Her latest EP, Game Changer, examines the her tentative first steps into a new existence, post-heartbreak. With a clear head, Kilgour touches on the complicated nature of romance and relationship, sets up a stunning defense of queer love, and reassesses her priorities as a citizen of a changing wider world.
January 9, 2021 at 7:30
Jake Blount
Jake Blount is an award-winning banjoist, fiddler, singer and ethnomusicologist based in Providence, RI. He is half of the internationally touring duo Tui, a 2020 Strathmore Artist in Residence and a board member of Bluegrass Pride. He is a 2020 recipient of the Steve Martin Banjo Prize. Blount specializes in the music of Black communities in the southeastern United States, and in the regional style of the Finger Lakes.
Mary-Elaine Jenkins
Mary-Elaine Jenkins’ music sounds like a premonition. Like sweat and perfume. Bourbon and salt water. Spanish moss on ruins. A product of her upbringing amidst the canopy of her Lowcountry family tree, Mary-Elaine carries herself as if she never left. But she did. First Washington DC, then Spain, and now Brooklyn. Venturing far from home, time and space removed from her roots has further distilled Mary-Elaine’s distinctly Southern charm.
Dan Whitener
Born and raised in Washington, DC, and a current player in the New York / New Jersey / Pennsylvania scene, Dan Whitener has hit the Billboard Bluegrass charts as a banjo player with both Emmy-nominated bluegrass-hiphop band Gangstagrass and Philadelphia’s Newgrass Americana band Man About A Horse. “We Are Gonna Be Okay,” with lyrics by Eileen Whitener, was included in the 2018 Spike Lee movie BlacKkKlansman.
December 12, 2020 at 7:30
Claire Wellin
Claire is a musician, actor, and advocate who leads the surrealist folk band Youth in a Roman Field. Weaving string loops with soaring violin melodies and dynamic vocals, Claire’s solo show is part singer-songwriter, part one-woman-chamber orchestra, offering an intimate translation of the inventive songs on the band’s studio recordings as well as their upcoming third record, Get Caught Trying.
Jesse Ruben
The message that Brooklyn singer/songwriter Jesse Ruben has been spreading through his music is simple and direct. I can. You can. We Can. His most recent single, "This Is Why I Need You", reached the top 10 in 12 different countries, and has been streamed over 40 million times. He has been featured on MTV, CNN, and The TODAY Show. Next year, Jesse will release his new EP A Reply to Violence
Lily Henley
Lily Henley is an award-winning singer, songwriter, and fiddler who is based in Brooklyn. Lily was recognized as a 2019 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow Finalist from The NY Foundation for the Arts and in 2020 for the NY New Jewish Culture fellowship. She has two upcoming albums, “Imperfect By Design”, an Indie Folk anthology about love, belonging, independence, and change, and “Oras Dezaoradas”, a collection of brand new Judeo-Spanish Folk Songs.
November 21, 2020 at 7:30
Alisa Amador
Alisa Amador’s music is a synthesis of the many styles she’s voraciously absorbed: rock, jazz, funk and alternative folk, all wrapped in the spirit of the Latin music she grew up with. Her soulful singing, poetically incisive lyrics, and syncopated rhythms, are likely to make you cry, laugh and dance all within one set.
Jann Klose
Jann Klose is an award-winning singer-songwriter, who has released six albums and two EPs. His single "Love You the Most" is part of the soundtrack for the movie "Married Young" (Amazon) and has been streamed over 1.6 million times. His newest single "Pilot Light" passed 1 million views on YouTube in just one month.
Katie Martucci
Katie Martucci returns to Voices in the Heights for a solo performance. Katie has toured the United States with her trio The Ladles, founded the Tucci Swing Orchestra, released several solo recordings, and scored the National Geographic film 'Glen Canyon Rediscovered'.
October 17, 2020 at 7:30
Garrin Benfield
Garrin Benfield's sound has been described as Freestyle Acoustic Rock. His music is a blend of moody, guitar driven rock and polyrhythmic groove all run through the filter of a very serious Singer/Songwriter. Garrin has been touring nationally for ten years and played many of North America's best music venues, including Joe’s Pub and Carnegie Hall.
The New Students
Based in Brooklyn and Long Island, The New Students perform original and traditional songs blending folk, roots, bluegrass and Americana traditions. Tight three-part harmonies, skillful acoustic instrumentation, and thoughtful lyrics make up their signature sound. Over the last ten years, they have recorded three albums, all music you want to hear.
Willa Mamet
Singer, songwriter, community rabble-rouser, loudmouth for good. Host of the livecast How to Be A Hero for Independent Music and essayist of No Word Wasted. On keys and a guitar (named Sandy), Willa's Voice is her main instrument - all those words you didn't know you needed to say or hear...there they are. Her new record is slated to be born 2020.
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