Doors 8 PM | Show 8:30 PM | $20 | Acclaimed chamber folk duo Cricket Blue join Dustin Lowman for a night of brain-teasing, heart-wringing folk.

Cricket Blue’s sophomore album Sweet Animal is a semi-continuous, intricately arranged, cyclical suite of songs that confront death, love, grief, and embodiment in the physical plane. “Sweet Animal is a reference to your own body being a sweet animal,” says Heaberlin. “Having a tenderness toward your own physicality.” Featuring contributions from Goose drummer Cotter Ellis, Clogs bassoonist Rachael Elliott, members of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, and dozens of musicians from the region's classical, folk, and experimental scenes, Cricket Blue balances chamber-scale intricacy with communal warmth.

Dustin Lowman writes antisensical songs: lyric-driven tunes that deconstruct the nonsense of living. He is a self-taught singer, guitarist, harmonica player, and lyricist who patterns his style on troubadour types — Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Aimee Mann, Adrianne Lenker, Cass McCombs. Based in Brooklyn, Dustin performs regularly at venues in the borough, and has also appeared at the Poetry Foundation in Chicago, IL; The Bitter End in Manhattan, NY; and the Levitt Pavilion in Westport, CT. Dustin has opened for Willie Watson (Old Crow Medicine Show) Marcellus Hall (Railroad Jerk), Lucy Kaplansky, Will Dailey, and others. He also hosts “His Back Pages,” a recurring Bob-Dylan-deep-cut-themed series at Cafe Wha? in Manhattan’s West Village. Of Dustin’s musical prospects, Livingston Taylor averred: “Dustin is on the path of a terrific musical career. His musical voice is waiting to be heard by those hungry for the next real thing.”

Cricket Blue / Dustin Lowman

Cricket Blue / Dustin Lowman