VERY thrilled to announce a last-minute July bill. If you’ve been following the us for a while, you’ll know that Faun Fables are among my most favorite live acts in the world - and thanks to some last minute tour routing, they’ll be returning this month to play Avalon for the third time. They are the duo of Dawn McCarthy (a vocalist who I first discovered from her beautiful collaborations with Bonnie “Prince” Billy) and multi-instrumentalist husband Nils Frykdahl (of the band Sleepytime Gorilla Museum). They often tour with their daughters - who hopefully will be joining them this time as well - and the show is an otherworldly family band experience of incredible magic and beauty. They’ll be playing some songs from their upcoming release on Drag City, their first in many years… Please don’t miss it.
This night came together rather perfectly around another band I’d been trying to schedule in July - DAYS aka @ethanphilbrick and @nedriseley …DAYS are another music + life duo who write cello-based chamber folk, and dwell in the realm of the mystical. They’ll be playing a set of songs from their new album, produced by Kyp Malone.
Opening up the night is a set by Hudson’s Widow ( @end_breed ) who make ritual sound / psych folk / noise
It’s a bit last minute, but I really hope y’all will show up for this! Tix on sale now
MONDAY 7/1
Lia Kohl + Whitney Johnson / Jeremy Young
8PM, $15
Chicago-based Cello & viola sound art/improv duo play pieces from their upcoming release on Drag City. Plus tape-loop and oscillator work from Montreal’s Young
WEDNESDAY 7/3
Open Mic w/ Ryder Cooley***Sign up 6:30, Show @ 7
THURSDAY 7/4
**CLOSED***
FRIDAY 7/5
EARLY: Cassidy A. Maze / The Babes / Louise ***7PM, $15 adv / $20 door
A homespun night of Catskill songwriters
LATER: 80’s dance party with TRYST***9:30PM, FREE
SATURDAY 7/6
Primal Disco***9PM, $5-$17 adv, $20 door
Michael V & friends with the most positive-vibes dance party
SUNDAY 7/7
Dean Fazzino + Robert Fuchs / Faccia Brutta / Al Margolis / Universal Cell Unlock / Lucas Brode / Z.B. Aids / JHK *** 8PM, $15
Noise show with some heavy cats
MONDAY 7/8
Karaoke w/ Cowboy Del *** 8PM, Free
The Avalon July calendar! Have a couple things that are still coming together last minute so this isn’t quite complete, but you’ve got most of it here. Lots of cool nights for you noise/experimental/psych folks this month. Stoked to host a favorite DJ of mine Pictureplane, also looking forward to Ben Seretan’s album release show which is sure to be the party of the year.
Very special night of music tonight (Thursday) to benefit the Makhosi Foundation, a group dedicated to preserving indigenous healing arts. Performances by Queen Baba (pictured)… special guest James Felice… songs from Miwi La Lupa (who has performed/recorded with Conor Oberst, Phoebe Bridgers, Lou Reed and many more)… experimental hip hop from Rig1… and an ambient duo from stønefruit & John Thayer. Wowow - don’t miss this.
Dang. I honestly didn’t realize quite how stacked this coming week is until I saw it all at together. Many tasty sets for fans of out/experimental work, plus some soul-replenishing nights of folk and dance music.
MONDAY 6/24
LODO / Cookie Tongue *** 8PM, $12
LODO are a new psych rock quartet from the Hudson Valley. Cookie Tongue (NOLA) combines music, puppetry, and sculpture, creating a world somewhere between freak folk, Tiny Tim, and the Brothers Quay
UPSTAIRS: Karaoke w/ Cowboy Del *** 8PM, Free
WEDNESDAY 6/26
Michael Lesko / Noah B. Harley *** 8PM, $10
Country, folk, and skewed Americana
THURSDAY 6/27
Makhosi Foundation Benefit w Queen Baba / Rig 1 / Miwi LaLupa / stønefruit & John Thayer / Guests TBA *** 8PM, $20
Incredible lineup benefiting an org. dedicated to studying/preserving indigenous healing arts. Ambient, folk, experimental hip hop, world… plus some very cool yet-to-be-announced guests
FRIDAY 6/28
Jake Xerxes Fussell / Kath Bloom *** 8PM, $20
Two big names in the world of underground folk, Fussell has appeared as opening act for Wilco, Bill Callahan and The Decemberists among others. About 10 tix left
SATURDAY 6/29
DJs Guy + Fulathela *** 9PM, $10
A night of house, techno and club music
SUNDAY 6/30
Redshift Trio / Surface Elvis (Sam Lisbeth + Dan Schwartz) *** 8PM, $12
Redshift are a trumpet-led jazz trio with electronic accents. Lisbeth and Schwartz play an improv duo set that’ll take you from the sounds of 90’s ECM to outer space and back
OUT FRONT (weather permitting): Keith Pray’s Grooveharmonik Organ Trio. 6-7PM, Free
NO FIGURE DRAWING CLASS TODAY
MONDAY 7/1
Lia Kohl + Whitney Johnson / Jeremy Young *** 8PM, $15
Kohl and Johnson play cello & viola-based open composition from their upcoming release on Drag City. Young makes textured ambient/experimental work from tape loops and oscillators
SATURDAY NIGHT double header… at 7:30PM, we’ve got a screening of Vexations by @mrswilliamhorsley - a film about a group of musicians who get vaporized during the CIA’s attempted weaponization of easy-listening music in the mid 20th century, and who then get reconstituted in modern day Greenpoint. That’s it, that’s the best I could do in one sentence. Then at 9:30. we have a drag show with the wonderful @veela.i.peculiar and friends
Lineup change for this coming Monday’s show! Xe had to drop off the bill, but in her place we are stoked to host Kingston’s @lodo___________ - a new psych rock quartet. @cookietonguemusic will be here from NOLA with a set of freak folk and surrealist puppetry.
Poster by @indradhanush42
Very cool show happening tomorrow (Thursday) night… Burlington’s @noahkesey plays ultra-dreamy, laid back shoegaze. The excellent @florrymusicband play a duo set, and @thelowliestonemusic open the eve
Tomorrow night, two local songwriters do the thing… Woodstock’s @malerie_day hits the stage at 7:30 with a set of ethereal folk, and @unicornkingston owner @francescahoffmanmusic sings to us at 8:30! The ac in the show room is working, promise 🐸
