Dance Party with Sweet Megg! Lessons with Sara Lott
Sat, 31 Aug 2024 (EDT)
08:30PM - 11:00PM
Jalopy Theatre
315 Columbia Street
Brooklyn, New York 11231
$20 adv / $25 dos
8:30pm Doors & Dance Lesson with Sara Lott
9pm Showtime with Sweet Megg
Sweet Megg has been based in Nashville, TN since 2021. She was born in New York City and that is where most of her career took place. Her vocals reveal a vast variety of influences, ranging from Billie Holiday to Patsy Cline & from Bonnie Rait to Bessie Smith. She grew up performing as a songwriter in the East Village and dreaming of being a writer a la the folk songwriters of the Greenwich Village. After high school, she found herself down in North Carolina where she trained as a raft guide and got her first taste of Southern music. The sounds of bluegrass and country intrigued her and she always felt a longing to return once back in the big city. She continued songwriting in college and eventually moved to Paris to study jazz where she began performing around town with local musicians. After college, she returned to New York City and fell head first into the early jazz community where she found the excitement of improvisational jazz accompanied by the storytelling of the early blues and country music that she loved. She flourished in that community and her first formation, Sweet Megg & the Wayfarers, gained popularity and began touring outside of the city. Her tours brought her back to the south where she became more and more curious about country music.
Her first two releases Under the Moonlight (2020 Data Records) & I’m in Love Again (2021 Turtle Bay Records) are steeped in the classic jazz she was playing every night in New York. After I’m in Love Again came out she finally packed up her bags and moved down to Nashville TN. She was able to convince Scott Asen (the chef of Turtle Bay) to do a record that mixed the sound of Nashville with the sound of New York. That was the inspiration behind her next album My Window Faces South (2022 Turtle Bay). She mixed her horn section & piano player from I’m in Love Again with a few of her favorite musicians down in Nashville (Chris Scruggs, Billy Contreras, Chris Gelb, & Dennis Crouch). This set off her vision of what Sweet Megg would sound like going forward. Real Hill Billy Jazz.
8:30pm Doors & Dance Lesson with Sara Lott
9pm Showtime with Sweet Megg
Sweet Megg has been based in Nashville, TN since 2021. She was born in New York City and that is where most of her career took place. Her vocals reveal a vast variety of influences, ranging from Billie Holiday to Patsy Cline & from Bonnie Rait to Bessie Smith. She grew up performing as a songwriter in the East Village and dreaming of being a writer a la the folk songwriters of the Greenwich Village. After high school, she found herself down in North Carolina where she trained as a raft guide and got her first taste of Southern music. The sounds of bluegrass and country intrigued her and she always felt a longing to return once back in the big city. She continued songwriting in college and eventually moved to Paris to study jazz where she began performing around town with local musicians. After college, she returned to New York City and fell head first into the early jazz community where she found the excitement of improvisational jazz accompanied by the storytelling of the early blues and country music that she loved. She flourished in that community and her first formation, Sweet Megg & the Wayfarers, gained popularity and began touring outside of the city. Her tours brought her back to the south where she became more and more curious about country music.
Her first two releases Under the Moonlight (2020 Data Records) & I’m in Love Again (2021 Turtle Bay Records) are steeped in the classic jazz she was playing every night in New York. After I’m in Love Again came out she finally packed up her bags and moved down to Nashville TN. She was able to convince Scott Asen (the chef of Turtle Bay) to do a record that mixed the sound of Nashville with the sound of New York. That was the inspiration behind her next album My Window Faces South (2022 Turtle Bay). She mixed her horn section & piano player from I’m in Love Again with a few of her favorite musicians down in Nashville (Chris Scruggs, Billy Contreras, Chris Gelb, & Dennis Crouch). This set off her vision of what Sweet Megg would sound like going forward. Real Hill Billy Jazz.