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Samuel Fischer is an Australian pop rock singer-songwriter and musician. Fischer released music independently before signing with RCA Records in 2019. RCA re-released his debut EP Not a Hobby in January 2020

JJJJJerome Ellis is a stuttering, Afro-Caribbean composer, poet, and performer. His works are invitations to healing, transcendence, communion, and deep listening. Through an interdisciplinary practice that focuses on oral storytelling, improvisation, and the interrelations between speech, silence, disability, and religion, he’s collaborated with choreographers, rappers, playwrights, booksellers, typographers, podcasters, toddlers, and filmmakers. Stuttering, Afro-Caribbean composer, poet, and performer JJJJJerome Ellis returns to the National Sawdust stage to celebrate the release of his upcoming solo piano album. JJJJJerome Ellis, who previously…

Come out and dance with Ramona & the Holy Smokes! Caller Sargent Seedoo will teach your feet. Dance lessons start at 8pm, band starts at 8:30pm! Ramona & the Holy Smokes is a Honky Tonk band from Charlottesville Virginia, whose original country music recalls classic country from the 1950s and 60s. The Holy Smokes are fronted by Ramona Martinez, a prolific singer-songwriter whose sincere and heartfelt music has been described as "incredibly relatable" and "earnest." She also pulls from her…

With an adventurous and daring take on instrumental afrobeat, Super Yamba Band’s Last Leap EP takes listeners back to 2014, the band’s formative year. “We had just moved to Brooklyn—Walter, Sean, Evan, and I,” said Daniel Yount, the band’s founder and drummer, “and our only plan for ‘making it’ was to just play as much music together as possible.” Finally released from the Yamba archives, the Last Leap EP is a sonic timestamp of the band’s creative energy during those…

Moon Hooch began busking in the subway platforms of NYC in 2010, quickly getting noticed by the NYPD, who had to ban them from locations that couldn’t handle the crowds. In a few short years, they were opening for the likes of Beats Antique, They Might Be Giants, and Lotus, while selling out their own headline shows at marquee venues around the United States and Europe. Their unconventional sound and techniques, utilizing found objects like traffic cones, landed them appearances…

Sam Greenfield is a New York based saxophonist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist. Growing up in Philadelphia, he was surrounded by music from a very young age. After graduating college, Sam has had the opportunity to record and travel the world with several different artists. Danae Greenfield is currently based in Brooklyn, NY, where she is evolving her sound as a pianist and performer of creative music. She leads two bands: a jazz acoustic trio and an electronic quintet, which combines elements…

Ruminating on the risks of taking things for granted in our daily lives, Ian Felice, the lead singer/songwriter of The Felice Brothers, expresses how meaningful the experience of playing music with his band has been after long months of social distancing. In From Dreams to Dust, their eighth and most recent studio album, out September 17th on Yep Roc Records, the band’s exuberance to be together doing what they do so well is palpable. Characteristic of The Felice Brothers, the…

Frontman Bill Carney has been leading various jug bands for close to three decades, including his Brooklyn-based JugAddicts who have been a regular presence in our backroom for two of those decades. A large formation with a rotating cast of a musicians, the JugAddicts are characterized by their powerful, raucous approach to jug band, old time, tin pan alley, early jazz and blues repertoire Bill Carney: lead washboard, vocals, kazoo; Karl Meyer - violin, vocals; Brian Mulroney - rhythm washboard,…