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Vinnie Sperrazza is a Brooklyn-based jazz drummer. He has made a mark on the New York jazz community with his swinging, enthusiastic playing and his commitment to original projects. He is a member of Michael Formanek's Drome Trio, the Hank Roberts Trio and Hank Roberts Sextet, Ethan Iverson Pepperland Band, and many independent jazz groups. He has released acclaimed recordings as a leader on Fresh Sound, Loyal Label, and Positone Records. Featuring Vinnie Sperrazza - drums Loren Stillman - saxophone…

Dylan LeBlanc is an American musician and artist. Born in Shreveport, Louisiana, LeBlanc began performing at age fifteen. In Shreveport and Muscle Shoals, Alabama, he began performing at local venues. From a young age, LeBlanc watched his father perform at various clubs and bars. He became intrigued with musicianship and the way of life. At the age of nineteen, after parting ways with the band Abraham, he acquired a vast amount of original material. Then, he was signed by Rough…

Mackenzie Ruth Scott is an American indie rock singer-songwriter who performs as Torres. Scott was born in Orlando, Florida, and adopted at birth. From the age of three, she was raised in Macon, Georgia. Brought up in a conservative Christian home, Scott was the youngest of three. At an early age, she learned how to play the flute and piano and sang in the children's choir at her Baptist church. Through The Phantom of the Opera, Scott soon became interested…

Mayer Hawthorne cut his teeth in his hometown of Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he started making beats and DJing at the height of Detroit hip-hop. Since his debut heart-shaped single, Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out, dropped via Stones Throw in 2008, Hawthorne has released four LPs, raking in accolades from esteemed publications like GQ, Vanity Fair, New York Times Magazine, Playboy, and Rolling Stone. From NPR's proclamation of his imminent stardom to BBC Music's endorsement of his authentic soul, his…

Shallow Alcove is a band of friends fronted by Grace Krichbaum and Dan Harris, with Peter Groppe, Jack Harrington, and Noah Dardaris. They combine stacked vocal harmonies, catchy guitar riffs, and diary-like lyrics to form a tender soundtrack to young adulthood. Shallow Alcove’s music is based in their love of DIY folk music and colored with narratives of friendship, the changing of the seasons, bad haircuts, and the ache of growing up. What started as friends writing songs in the…

In his 1942 essay The Myth of Sisyphus, Camus wrote that “All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.” 15 years later Richard Wayne Penniman wrote “Wop bop a loo bop a wop bam boom”, an undeniably powerful vocalization that on any given Wednesday in any given situation, civilized or otherwise, is still fully capable of setting somebody’s stuff aflame. Over ten…

Mehrnam Rastegari is a well-established Iranian musician and film score composer, singer, violinist, and master Kamancheh player. She has been featured at some of the most prestigious music festivals in the world where traditional Iranian music is performed, including the Fajr International Music Festival in Tehran, Iran, and the WOMEX World Music Expo, which occurred in Tampere, Finland. Rastegari composed the score for multiple award-winning films, including “Dispirited” for which she won the award of “Best Original Score” from the…

Darragh Morgan on violin, Tim Gill on cello and Mary Dullea on piano, the Irish piano trio Fidelio Trio make their much-anticipated debut at National Sawdust with an eclectic offering of works by Anna Clyne, Philip Glass, Linda Buckley, David Fennessy, John Zorn, and inti figgis-vizueta. Since their debut at London’s Southbank Centre, they have regularly appeared at the Wigmore Hall and Kings Place, at festivals including Spitalfields, Cheltenham, St. Magnus and Huddersfield. In Ireland they regularly perform at National…