Author Archives: bigcityfolks

January 08

Big City Folk – Weekly Roundup – 1/8/17

Singer-songwriters (and other acts) performing this week: 1/8/17 – May Cheung, 8:45pm @ Rockwood Music Hall. 1/9/17 – Youth Yamada Live with Electrobones, 9pm @ Silvana.  Also featuring Katie Garringer, Ricky Mier and Alex Smith. 1/11/17 – Talay, 8pm @ Rockwood Music Hall. 1/12/17 – A Valley Son – EP Release Show, 10pm @ Rockwood Music Hall. […]

January 07

Interview: May Cheung

I believe I first saw May Cheung about four years ago at an open-mic at the Sidewalk Cafe, if I remember correctly doing a live version of the song “A Thousand Years”, which is on her forthcoming record, The Departure.  Since then I’ve only seen her around about a handful of times – more a […]

December 25

Big City Folk – Weekly Roundup – 12/26/16

Singer-songwriters (and other acts) performing this week: 12/28/16 – Jesse Correll, 6pm @ Rockwood Music Hall. 12/28/16 – Star Studded Night of Total Delight, 7pm @ Sidewalk Cafe.  Featuring Nan + The One Nite Stands, Sensational Play, Lusterlit and others. 12/28/16 – A Night for Leonard Cohen, 9pm @ LIC Bar.  Featuring performances by Mieka Pauley, […]

December 15

Interview: August Wells

I caught August Wells (website / facebook) about a half a year ago at the last Big City Folk Festival in Long Island City, where Ken played some tunes off of his then-forthcoming record Madness is the Mercy (iTunes / Amazon).  There’s a patient pacing in August Wells tunes that seems to have stuck in my head […]

December 05

Big City Folk – Weekly Roundup – 12/5/2016

Singer-songwriters (and other acts) performing this week: 12/6/16 – The Gibson Malone Band, Live in Harlem.  8pm @ Shrine World Music Venue. 12/8/16 = Shannon Pelcher Band, 6pm @ Rockwood Music Hall. 12/9/16 – Hunter & Wolfe, 9pm @ PIANOS {upstairs}. 12/10/16 – The New Restaurants, 8pm @ Pet Rescue.  Also featuring The Royal They, Lost […]

December 03

Interview: Rue Snider

As part of the regular content we’ll be featuring on this site, I’ll be doing interviews with singer-songwriters that I know in the city.  The interviews will be music-focused, listening to a recent release of the artist, with questions about the music.  This week, we sit down with Rue Snider (website / facebook), a man I […]

November 27

Big City Folk – Weekly Roundup – 11/28/16

Singer-songwriters (and other acts) performing this week: 11/29/16 – Danny Fingers and the Thumbs Residency.  9pm @ PIANOS. 11/29/16 – Save Haven Songs, featuring August Wells.  8pm @ Irish Haven.  Contact bigcityfolk@gmail.com to participate in Save Haven Songs. 12/1/16 – Big City Folk Song Club, featuring St. Lenox. 8pm @ Fawkner.  Contact bigcityfolk@gmail.com to participate in […]

November 14

Big City Folk – Weekly Roundup – 11.14.16

Singer-songwriters (and other acts) performing this week: 11/15/16 – Danny Fingers and the Thumbs.  9pm @ PIANOS. 11/17/16 – Big City Folk Cong Club – Feat. Sterling Rhyne.  8pm @ Fawkner.  Contact Niall Connolly to participate in Song Club. 11/19/16 – Unusual Squirrel.  7pm @ Union Hall.  Also featuring WOOING, LoveyDove, Zolephants. 11/19/16 – The […]

November 08

Big City Folk – Weekly Roundup – 11.6.16

Singer-songwriters (and other acts) performing this week: 11/7/16 – The New Restaurants.  8:30pm @ The Cobra Club.  Also performing: The Planes, and Jarva Land (MA). 11/8/16 – The Gibson Malone Band.  8pm @ Shrine World Music Venue. 11/9/16 – Danny Fingers and the Thumbs – Residency 8:30pm @ PIANOS. 11/10/16 – Lorraine Leckie and her […]

October 18

Big City Folk – Weekly Roundup – 10/17/16

Singer-songwriters (and other acts) performing this week: 10/18/16 – Date Night at Sidewalk.  6:30-9:30pm @ Sidewalk Cafe.  Featuring Dalton Deschain and the Traveling Show, Horra, Mischief NIght, and Lucky Witch and the Righteous Ghost. 10/18/16 – MANAGER.  8pm @ Bowery Electric. 10/19/16 – E.W. Harris, Birthday Alone Night.  7:30pm-10pm @The Waystation. 10/19/16 – Niall Connolly @ American Beauty.  7:30-8:30pm. […]