2025 Winter 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.