Past Events

JACKIE WEST has been known for her unexpected, yet intuitive approach to song-craft, story songs with dream-like non linearity permeate within a light reverb-ed, heavily guitar centered atmosphere. JANE LAI - Inspired by artists like Florist, Kath Bloom, and Dear Nora, Jane Lai writes singer-songwriter-type narratives with imperfections that translate to song. No drum fill sits the same, fingerpicking is slightly inconsistent, the vocal takes are raw, and sibilance seems to fall into place, letting herself melt into the fabric…

When she was 12, Isabel Dumaa's moms booked her a studio session to record songs she had been filling up her journals with since she was 10. With her guitar in tow, the budding singer-songwriter recorded songs she titled "Keep on Trying" and "Forbidden Love." Now 19, Dumaa calls Los Angeles home - a six-hour drive away from her family in San Francisco. She moved right after graduating high school to pursue making music professionally. "I know that there is…

Over the past decade, the New Jersey born, now New Orleans resident Dayna Kurtz -  a vocalist. writer. musician and producer - has been bestowed with many awards and praises, including being named the Female Songwriter of the Year by the National Academy of Songwriters. Norah Jones and Bonnie Raitt have raved about her in interviews, and she’s toured as an opening act for the likes of Elvis Costello, Richard Thompson, Mavis Staples, Rufus Wainwright, B.B. King, Dr. John, Richie…

Chris Morrissey is a songwriter, a bassist, a singer, a music director, a leo, an uncle, a lover of most cats and some dogs, a New Yorker, a Minnesotan, a yoga practicer, a wino, a restaurant frequenter, and joke teller/appreciator. As a bassist, he's logged hundreds of thousands of miles touring five continents with Norah Jones, The Jim Campilongo Trio, Mark Guiliana Jazz Quartet, Beat Music, Dave King Trucking Company, Sara Bareilles, Chris Thile’s “Live From Here” house band, Margaret…

Bay Ledges is the project of Maine – born and based musician Zach Hurd. Inspired by a bi – coastal existence, he released his debut album, Ritual , a 13 – song record written, produced, and mixed entirely by Hurd in 2022. Exploring transience, nostalgia, and Hurd’s own relationship to music and art, it’s a meditative record that ’s both psychedelic and thrilling. Hurd started Bay Ledges in 2015 in his bedroom shortly after moving to Los Angeles, where he…

Award-winning jazz vocalist, composer, and educator Kavita Shah brings her latest album, Cape Verdean Blues to National Sawdust. Cape Verdean Blues is a 12-song album of mainly traditional Cape Verdean music, carefully curated as a tribute to morna singer Cesária Évora, the archipelago of Cape Verde, and its welcoming people. Kavita Shah blends a jazz approach with tradition to convey a sense of “sodade,” the Kriolu word for a melancholy sense of transience that encapsulates both the Cape Verdean experience…

Durand Jones has been the frontman for Durand Jones & the Indications for years, but is now embarking on a solo project where he shows his deepest and truest self. The group have been making vintage soul cool again since the mid-2010s. But after several years, three albums and international tours, frontman Durand Jones felt the need to step out on his own. From the south, Jones grew up attending church and signing in choirs. He moved to Bloomington to…

Amy Renee Heidemann Noonan, known professionally as Qveen Herby, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter and entrepreneur. Born and raised in Seward, Nebraska, she first gained fame as part of the music duo Karmin, with which she released two studio albums