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. […]
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Interview: May Cheung
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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 […]
Big City Folk – Weekly Roundup – 12/26/16
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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, […]
Interview: August Wells
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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 […]
Big City Folk – Weekly Roundup – 12/5/2016
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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 […]
Interview: Rue Snider
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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 […]
Big City Folk – Weekly Roundup – 11/28/16
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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 […]
Big City Folk – Weekly Roundup – 11.14.16
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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 […]
Big City Folk – Weekly Roundup – 11.6.16
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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 […]
Big City Folk – Weekly Roundup – 10/17/16
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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. […]
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