JM Clifford / Kate Prascher
Sun, 23 Jun 2024 (EDT)
07:00PM - 10:00PM
Jalopy Theatre
315 Columbia Street
Brooklyn, New York 11231
7:00pm Doors - 7:30 Concert - $20
J.M. Clifford is a singer-songwriter and music educator from Brooklyn, NY. His music draws on Bluegrass, Folk and Americana. Clifford’s debut record, “On a Saturday Night,” was featured in The Bluegrass Situation and received rave reviews from Bluegrass Today and Holler Country. Clifford was an Official Showcase Artist at the 2023 IBMA Business Conference in Raleigh, NC. He is also an accomplished songwriter. His single “Slow Rolling Train” earned him a spot in the final round of the 2023 Rocky Mountain Songwriting Festival and the 2022 IBMA Songwriter Showcase. He was invited back to perform his latest single “Complicated Man” at the 2023 IBMA Songwriter Showcase. Clifford has toured nationally, and his end-of-summer lineup took him along the East Coast, featuring performances at The Outpost in North Carolina, The Highlands Bluegrass Festival in New York, and the Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival in Maine.
Clifford’s upcoming record was produced by platinum-selling artist Ron Pope and features Bronwyn Keith-Hynes (fiddle), Seth Taylor (guitar), Jeff Partin (dobro), and Jeff Picker (bass). The record’s first single, “Complicated Man,” was released on September 20, 2023 and was added to the New Grass editorial Spotify playlist.
When he’s not leading crowds in song, Clifford leads his students as a NYC elementary school music teacher and Director of the youth Bluegrass ensemble at The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music.
Kate Prascher doesn’t want you to look at her. She wants you to see what she sees. She wants to know if you see it too. For her, songs are a chance to say things that don’t usually make it into polite conversation. They are letters folded up and left at your doorstep. Songwriting allows her to say the quiet parts loud and loud parts quietly.
Prascher’s songs are a recognition of our everyday darkness. They wade through the undercurrents of memory and draw half-portraits of characters both real and imagined. They shine a light on the complex web of our relationships. Her song “Bright Light This” was written to process grief and offer gratitude, “My halo’s in your hand / This life’s never what I planned.” Her song “Shiloh” is a haunting a cappella ballad, a conversation between two voices on the edge of loss. Meanwhile, “Don’t Return” reveals the push and pull within someone left behind.
Prascher grew up in Memphis, Tennessee and now makes her home in the Hudson Valley of New York. She played piano and sang as a child and began playing roots music after she moved to New York. Once she heard bluegrass music live for the first time, Prascher dove headlong into playing mandolin and guitar, going to late night jam sessions, taking lessons with bluegrass maverick Michael Daves and penning her own songs.
Prascher has played the Knitting Factory (New York), Jalopy Theatre (Brooklyn), the Leaf Festival (North Carolina), Club Passim (Boston) and the Ossipee Music Festival (Maine). Her first full-length album will be out in 2024 and features Bobby Hawk (Taylor Swift), Bennett Sullivan (Bright Star), Nate Sabat (Mile Twelve) and Jason Borisoff (Cricket Tell the Weather). Expect new songs from a voice that has been described as having an “intangible vintage feel.”
J.M. Clifford is a singer-songwriter and music educator from Brooklyn, NY. His music draws on Bluegrass, Folk and Americana. Clifford’s debut record, “On a Saturday Night,” was featured in The Bluegrass Situation and received rave reviews from Bluegrass Today and Holler Country. Clifford was an Official Showcase Artist at the 2023 IBMA Business Conference in Raleigh, NC. He is also an accomplished songwriter. His single “Slow Rolling Train” earned him a spot in the final round of the 2023 Rocky Mountain Songwriting Festival and the 2022 IBMA Songwriter Showcase. He was invited back to perform his latest single “Complicated Man” at the 2023 IBMA Songwriter Showcase. Clifford has toured nationally, and his end-of-summer lineup took him along the East Coast, featuring performances at The Outpost in North Carolina, The Highlands Bluegrass Festival in New York, and the Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival in Maine.
Clifford’s upcoming record was produced by platinum-selling artist Ron Pope and features Bronwyn Keith-Hynes (fiddle), Seth Taylor (guitar), Jeff Partin (dobro), and Jeff Picker (bass). The record’s first single, “Complicated Man,” was released on September 20, 2023 and was added to the New Grass editorial Spotify playlist.
When he’s not leading crowds in song, Clifford leads his students as a NYC elementary school music teacher and Director of the youth Bluegrass ensemble at The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music.
Kate Prascher doesn’t want you to look at her. She wants you to see what she sees. She wants to know if you see it too. For her, songs are a chance to say things that don’t usually make it into polite conversation. They are letters folded up and left at your doorstep. Songwriting allows her to say the quiet parts loud and loud parts quietly.
Prascher’s songs are a recognition of our everyday darkness. They wade through the undercurrents of memory and draw half-portraits of characters both real and imagined. They shine a light on the complex web of our relationships. Her song “Bright Light This” was written to process grief and offer gratitude, “My halo’s in your hand / This life’s never what I planned.” Her song “Shiloh” is a haunting a cappella ballad, a conversation between two voices on the edge of loss. Meanwhile, “Don’t Return” reveals the push and pull within someone left behind.
Prascher grew up in Memphis, Tennessee and now makes her home in the Hudson Valley of New York. She played piano and sang as a child and began playing roots music after she moved to New York. Once she heard bluegrass music live for the first time, Prascher dove headlong into playing mandolin and guitar, going to late night jam sessions, taking lessons with bluegrass maverick Michael Daves and penning her own songs.
Prascher has played the Knitting Factory (New York), Jalopy Theatre (Brooklyn), the Leaf Festival (North Carolina), Club Passim (Boston) and the Ossipee Music Festival (Maine). Her first full-length album will be out in 2024 and features Bobby Hawk (Taylor Swift), Bennett Sullivan (Bright Star), Nate Sabat (Mile Twelve) and Jason Borisoff (Cricket Tell the Weather). Expect new songs from a voice that has been described as having an “intangible vintage feel.”