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After breaking off her engagement—losing her band and apartment in the process—Hayley Rose Harrington spent the last two years rebuilding her life in small increments and songs. Her debut album Starting Over is a deeply intimate record about healing, learning, and acceptance. Harrington draws on traditional folk songwriting to explore themes of queer identity, love, and heartbreak, writing songs that feel simultaneously familiar and new.

Slyboots is a melodic dream. Slip into the sounds of dreamy rock with emotional vocals, rich keyboard textures, post-punk bass, and shimmering guitar. Tiffany Lyons – Lead Singer KG* Noble – Guitar/Backing Vocals Margaret LaBombard – Bass Ted Marcus – Drums Jed Becker – Synth/Keys

The Cat Empire are an Australian jazz/funk band, formed in Melbourne, Victoria, in 1999. For most of the band's duration, the core members were Felix Riebl, Harry James Angus, Will Hull-Brown, Jamshid "Jumps" Khadiwhala, Ollie McGill and Ryan Monro

Joel Forrester is the composer of more than 1600 tunes, a versatile and accomplished jazz pianist, leader of his own quintet, co-leader of the legendary Microscopic Septet and a prolific recording artist who also penned the theme to NPR's Fresh Air. He has performed in an extraordinary diversity of settings - from large ensembles to a duet setting with a tap dancer. His playing draws from stride, boogie-woogie, bebop, trance and what he likes to call “salon pieces” but each…

The Brain Cloud is the brain-child of multi-instrumentalist Dennis Lichtman and vocalist Tamar Korn. Regarding the diverse influences in their sound, which could loosely be described as western swing, says Lichtman, “Western swing is a quintessentially American music – a meeting point of all American musics that had come before it – jazz (from ragtime through swing), bluegrass, Appalachian old-time fiddling, Tin Pan Alley popular songs, early country, Mississippi Delta blues, western cowboy songs...” The Brain Cloud draws its inspiration…

The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to welcome 6x GRAMMY Award-winning artist Jacob Collier to National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY for an intimate conversation with Jason Robert Brown about his latest music, creative process, career, and more, with a performance to follow. Jacob Collier is one of the many artists to be featured in the GRAMMY Museum’s New York City program series, which includes bringing a slate of the GRAMMY Museum’s renowned GRAMMY In The Schools Education Programs and Public Programs…

BALTHVS is a psychedelic funk trio formed in 2020 in Bogota, Colombia. Their style fuses elements of Cumbia, Funk, Psychedelia and Surf Rock into a cohesive whole.

Akiko Pavolka is a Brooklyn-based pianist, singer and composer whose original music blends pop and jazz with the music and sensibilities of her native Japan. The Akiko Pavolka Band Akiko Pavolka: vocals, piano Olli Hirvonen: guitar Matt Pavolka: bass Bill Campbell: drums