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the lineup

The Jalopy Theatre curated a wonderful lineup for our immense pleasure! Scroll down to find out who will be playing and where they are from.
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Sara Milonovich is a highly sought-after side person in the bluegrass, folk, rock, Americana, and celtic music worlds. She has performed and recorded throughout the Americas and Europe, with such artists as Richard Shindell, Pete Seeger (including on his Grammy winning album "At 89"), Eliza Gilkyson, Jim Gaudet and the Railroad Boys, and NY string band Mountain Quickstep. As a singer-songwriter, she leads the alt-country band, Daisycutter. The new album 'Northeast', was realized in June, 2021

August Eriksmoen is a Grammy nominated producer, Tony nominated orchestrator, as well as twice nominated for the Drama Desk Award, and is a recipient of London's Olivier Award. He has toured all over the country as a multi-instrumentalist and conductor. He is an accomplished arranger and orchestrator, having worked on many Broadway musicals and TV shows, including the the hit show Come From Away, Steve Martin and Edie Brickell's Bright Star, Only Murders In The Building, ABC’s Once Upon A Time, A Christmas Story Live, and Disney’s Descendants.

Jordan Shapiro is a 20 year veteran of the New York area bluegrass scene, and is known for his eclectic endeavors and command of many instruments. His bluegrass band "Astrograss" is extremely active in the NYC bluegrass scene, having released 3 albums, and performs yearly at the Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival. Shapiro also plays keyboards on the 2018 release "World of Captain Beefheart", a new band formed by Gary Lucas and Nona Hendryx. Jordan also leads a psychedelic jazz-fusion Balkan folk project called "Choban Elektrik.”

Nate Allen has toured across the United States and Europe, having recorded with various artists including Peter Karp and Sue Foley, the Kristijan Krajčan Contemporary Jazz Ensemble, Nicole Hart, Black Gold, Friend Roulette, Scott Barkan, The Fine Machines, Illumntr, and Crooks and Perverts. Today, he plays in a variety of groups ranging in styles including blues, jazz, rock, folk, pop, soul, roots, and fusion.

 

 

Listen to their album here.

Read more about the band here.

Ana Egge

Ana Egge is a singer-songwriter and apprentice luthier from Brooklyn, NY. She has released 13 studio albums, playing her homemade guitar. Egge’s music has been praised by critics for its honesty, vulnerability, and beauty. She was born in Canada, and raised in North Dakota, and has toured extensively throughout North America and Europe. Egge is the subject of a 2015 documentary film, Bright Shadow. She has been featured in Billboard, Rolling Stone, and on NPR to name a few. Lucinda Williams calls her “the folk Nina Simone.”

 

Egge’s newest album, “Sharing in the Spirit,” is a collection of songs that touch on politics, addiction, sex, and love. The album was produced by Lorenzo Wolff following their previous collaboration, 2021’s “Between Us.”

The album opens with “Don’t You Sleep,” a civil rights celebration of hope and hard work. “Where Berries Grow” is a biblical, bluegrass beauty about people Ana has loved and known. The album also touches on addiction and sobriety, with songs like “Mission Bells Moan” and an adapted cover of the classic “Sorry You’re Sick,” by Ted Hawkins. The final track and first single is sung in tribute, “Last Day of Our Acquaintance,” penned by the late, great Sinead O’Connor.

“Sharing in the Spirit” is an addictive mix of fearless strength and an almost childlike sense of fun. Seen in the cover photograph of Ana driving her minibike at the age of five and in the back cover photo where Ana revisits her childhood home of Ambrose, North Dakota, now a ghost town where the streets have been reclaimed by prairie grass. The music inside is a dream born from dreams.

Read more about Ana here.

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Kendra McKinley

Kendra McKinley paints on her clothes and makes music for smoking weed with your bra off.

She’s a conduit of connection with a voice that sounds like tuned honey, creating music that braids sensuality, levity and polish. Whether she’s casting spells with her looping pedal or fronting a dynamic band, her live show is an invitation to swerve and swoon to her yummy grooves. 

Born in Santa Cruz, California, into a family of artists, McKinley has been immersed in a spectrum of performance mediums from a young age. Theater, dance, choir, visual art, fashion, and music have shaped this intuitive performer, laying the foundation for a dynamic and multifaceted career in the arts.

McKinley’s recorded catalog showcases the vivid depth and range of her artistry. Her most recent LP, WHERE DOES A BODY BEGIN?, blends lush, feminine, and seasoned sensibilities reminiscent of Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark, infused with the undeniable groove of D’Angelo’s Black Messiah.

Her upcoming EP, music for smoking weed with your bra off, is a floral, funky, cozy, and cool collection of songs entirely performed and produced by McKinley. Featuring the velvety vibes of morning routine and the rallying cries of you think you’d notice, this collection of beat-centric bops beckons the listener into a luscious state of ritutal and relaxation, swirling like a plume of incense smoke.  

One of the most romantic additions to McKinley’s discography is The Henry Miller Memorial Library Sessions, written and recorded during a dreamy five-week residency at Big Sur’s iconic bookstore, music venue, and commemorative space dedicated to the late author.

Beyond her solo work, McKinley was the music director, bandleader, and performer in Ragnar Kjartansson’s piece Romantic Songs of the Patriarchy, presented at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (2021) and The Women’s Building in San Francisco (2018).

Now based in New York’s Hudson Valley, McKinley has found a vibrant community of fellow artists, where she continues to create and collaborate.

Listen to Kendra's music here.

Morgan O'Kane

Morgan O'Kane plays the banjo as if his life depended on it, (as it has on many occasion) with an intensity that evokes a redeeming kind of sadness that will resonate with anyone ready to give it the space. Songs of heart break, hard traveling, and the love of friends, songs about the on going war humans wage against themselves and the earth.
Originally from Virginia Morgan fell in love with playing music while living in nyc as a means to channel and express long years of travel and loss, fine tuning his unique style on the streets and subways.
Ezekiel Healy (the bogs) joined Morgan whilst making his first album 9 lives in 2009, bringing his unique style of slide guitar to accompany and enrich the one man band sound. Healy, also from Virginia, self tought with a history of street performing, plays a national slide guitar more akin to Indian ragas then to blues, but with no less soul, adding an other world quality to the already out of this world sound of O'kane's banjo, howling, and drum.
 The music is "to bluegrass and old timey what punk was to rock in the late seventies" (Ian Spafford / www.stirrings.org.uk) Deeply steeped in old traditions, O'Kane treats the banjo differently than you've heard it before and brings a punk sensibility to his music.

For the past handful of years, O’Kane has been actively involved in the Anti-Mountaintop Removal movement, and has aided the efforts of the Mountain Justice Organization. In fact, Morgan and band-mate, Sufi wizard Ezekiel Healy provided the score for Jordan Freeman’s powerful documentary film, Low Coal, a must-see for anyone interested in issues of inequality and the affects of corporate and political decisions on the working class.
 
But like historical folk/blues predecessors Phil Ochs, Woody Guthrie, Reverend Gary Davis, Aunt Molly Jackson and the late Pete Seeger, among others, of course, transformative personal events are put to light, first and foremost…
 
The new album features a noteworthy posse of music maker friends- Moyse IV, who also plays with the Hackensaw Boys; Healy on dobro; NYC brass band veteran J.R. Hankins on flugelhorn, and Liam Crill on drums, (Kings of Nuthin). NYC-based chanteuse Domino Kirke also guests on backing vocals for a number of the album’s tunes.

Listen to Morgan here.

Pulso De Barro
Mateo Cano & Maria Puente Flores

We are Pulso de Barro, Pulse of Clay. The pulse is the life force – the heart beating, our breathing. The clay is where it begins and ends. Pulso de Barro is an inclusive and safe platform where it is possible to explore music, dance, and the native traditions of the lineage that we share. Pulso de Barro is the result of syncretism between the different territories that unite us. Through creative work we seek to give space to our many identities. With a focus on traditional Son Jarocho music from Mexico, and exploration of various other genres from the Caribbean and Latin America, Pulso de Barro supports and encourages the recognition of music as a vital part of the articulation of communities. We believe that the countless stories of our territories are embodied in the creative flow, and that by exploring it, we will find a place to learn and re-imagine our future.

Pulso de Barro explores folk music, dance, and poetry along with the native traditions of our lineages. Since we are the result of a cultural syncretism of the different territories where we come from, we seek to give space to our multifaceted identities. With a focus on traditional Son Jarocho music from Mexico and various other genres from the Caribbean and Latin America, Pulso de Barro supports and encourages the recognition of music as a vital part of the articulation of communities. We believe that the countless stories of our territories are embodied in the creative flow. From this place we learn to coexist reciprocally with nature and re-imagine our future.

Listen to Pulso de Barro weekly on Radio Kingston.

The Lucky 5
Our band for the Preview Night Market!

The Lucky 5 is a hard-swinging jazz band that blends 30’s and 40’s style swing with gypsy and Parisian flavors to create a unique blend of music that stands by itself. Combining originals and creative reworks of old standards, The Lucky 5 continues to be a favorite among music lovers young and old alike.

The band is comprised of highly seasoned touring musicians, having been part of The Hunger Mountain Boys, Lauren Ambrose & The Leisure Class, and traveled, performed and recorded with artists such as Neko Case, Iris Dement, Bobby Previte, Del McCoury, Jim Lauderdale, just to name a few.

The Lucky 5 brings verve, high energy, and an unpredictable impulse to the tradition of jazz from the 20's, 30's and 40's, grooving deeply, and keeping feet moving on the dance floor.

Listen and watch The Lucky 5 here.

If you have not had the chance to spend an evening with the FABULOUSNESS that is THE LUCKY FIVE, then you really don't know what you're missing.  They are 5 GIFTED MUSICIANS who are altogether TRANSPORTING and AMAZINGLY FUN!!  If you like Jazz, historic music and fun, then you'll love The Lucky Five as I do!!
-Wanda L. Houston, Singer, The Wanda Houston Band
 

"Five heavy duty cats with impeccable creative chops. The Lucky 5 owns swing in the Berkshires!" 
- Evan 'Bibs' Palazzo, The Hot Sardines

 

"The Lucky 5 are foot tappin' feel-good music, wonderfully retro... a real crowd pleaser." 
- Mike Ballon, Castle Street Cafe
 

"An infectiously rambunctious hot jazz ruckus..." 
- Dwayne Brooke, The Woodshedders 

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