
Hot on the heels of Hiroya Tsukamoto's excellent sold-out show, another couple of 'em are on the way that are pretty much guaranteed to also hit capacity.
We're so pleased and honored and humbled to have Tracy Grammer and Jim Henry back in the room. They played here way back in the pre-pandemic era and sold the place out. This one will hit capacity as well — the room is already more than half full and we haven't done any of the usual outreach yet.
Don't sleep on this one if you wanna go. Info and tickets at stage33live.com
Here's a little teaser made with footage from the first time they played here:
Grammer, called “one of the finest pure musicians in folkdom” by the Boston Globe, is known for her soothing vocals, spirited fiddle, entertaining stories, and punchy, intricate guitar work. A one-time member of Joan Baez’s band, she has traveled throughout North America, Europe, and Japan playing her own songs while also paying tribute to beloved songwriter Dave Carter, with whom she performed and recorded from 1996 until his sudden death in 2002.Henry is an accomplished singer, songwriter, producer, and one of folk and Americana’s go-to multi-instrumentalists. He was recently on the road for three years with Grammy-winner Mary Chapin Carpenter. His arsenal includes acoustic and electric guitars, Dobro, and mandolin, and his trademark ambient textures and sparkling solos can be heard on literally hundreds of songwriter albums.Carling Berkhout will open. Her dad has roots as a folkie songster, and her mom as a symphonic cellist. When she was a child, she played Beatles songs backward in her friend’s rabbit-themed bedroom that the two believed was haunted. She continues to both unravel and glue together her life’s complicated musical threads in a sonic world that exists somewhere between bedroom rock and the dynamic balance of a David Rawlings & Gillian Welch record.They will perform on Saturday, April 11 in a 3:00 matinee show. Tickets are a discounted $20 in advance through stage33live.com, or $25 at the door as available. Advance ticket sales will automatically close once 40 tickets are sold, or at midnight the day before the show if it hasn’t sold out. Advance tickets guarantee entry. Only 40 tickets will be sold.
Then just a week later on Saturday, April 18, another 3:00 matinee show with singer/composer Bidi Dworkin featuring Grammy winner Peter Eldridge on piano, Jamie MacDonald on bass, Matt Steckler on horns, Claire Arenius on drums, plus a special surprise guest.
Bidi draws from a deep well of influences — the jazz-folk lineage of her childhood, the Middle Eastern melodies of her ancestry, the fluidity of Vedic meditative traditions… a fusion enriched by intuitive language and a dreamy interior landscape. She honed her chops the old-fashioned way: Gigging in New York City, Montreal, New England.Her debut album, Beautiful Souvenirs, was arranged by legendary jazz vocalist Jay Clayton, and she’s poised to enter the studio for a follow-up of original songs that have been described as “equal amounts of light and dark, whimsy and reflection... a set of jazz art songs.”This is a 3:00 matinee on Saturday, April 18. Tickets are $20 in advance through stage33live.com, or at the door as available. Advance tickets guarantee entry. Advance ticket sales will automatically close once 40 tickets are sold, or at midnight the day before the show if it hasn’t sold out.“A warm and distinctive voice, and not shy to take chances.” – LA Jazz Scene“In light of the vast majority of music released, Dworkin’s heart stands well above the rest.” – All About Jazz“Free of plasticity and pretension.” – Stage & Cinema
And there's yet one more at the end of April — another 3:00 matinee, this one a Sunday — Los Lorcas celebrates their new album in a co-bill with Pat Byrne from Ireland by way of Austin TX.
Los Lorcas blurs the boundaries between spoken word and song, weaving poetry with Andalusian ballads, blues, rock, folk, reggae, hip hop, Americana, and jazz in pursuit of the cante jondo (“deep song”) in the spirit of gifted musician, legendary poet/playwright, and ebullient performer Federico Garcia Lorca. Poets Partridge Boswell and Peter Money, along with guitarist Nat Williams, fuse poetry and music in a passionate and surprising mash-up.Pat Byrne shares the bill. He migrated from County Carlow to Austin, Texas to take the US by storm, with breakout performances at the 30A Festival, SXSW, Kerrville Folk Festival, and the Americana Festival. Immersed and highly respected in the Texas music scene, he melds two musical cultures known for introspective lyricism and raw, from-the-heart emotion with a voice that ranges from seductive whisper to full-bodied rock ‘n’ roll growl. His appearance has the blessings of BettySoo, who won the Austin Music Award for Best Folk/Bluegrass artist a couple weeks ago. (She's also reasonably fine artist Charlie Hunter's beloved.)

Gosh, it's been a mighty long time since we've given you any pancakes!

