Join us on Saturday August 1st for a record release show from Izzy Oram Band featuring PEEPERS and Jesse in Grey!

Izzy Oram Brown: Singing in hushed but soulful tones that bring to mind Christine McVie, Massachusetts-born, Queens-dwelling songwriter Izzy Oram Brown has the rare ability to crystallize emotional states and broadcast them on the most universal possible scale. Her affecting lyrics and melodies possess all the invitingness and discipline of radio rock heroes like Tom Petty, as well as the pop acumen and emotional intelligence that galvanizes fans of Phoebe Bridgers and Sabrina Carpenter.

Since her teenage years, Brown has spent much of her musical career as an accomplished session and touring guitarist—known for her work playing with legends like Julian Lage as well as rising NYC bands like Why Bonnie and Youbet. At the most devastating moments of What I Want—her sophomore full-length (out June 26)—one can hear the intricacy of Elliott Smith’s songwriting; elsewhere, there is a windswept Americana atmosphere reminiscent of Gillian Welch’s formative albums. Its ear-candy-filled, electroacoustic arrangements feature contributions by multinstrumentalist Jesse Bielenberg (Altopalo, Jesse in Grey, Dora Jar) and drummer Connor Parks (Cafune, Little Mystery, Tony Vaz).

Brown’s cocktail of timeless melodies, lovingly rendered guitar moves, sensitive arrangements, and unabashedly vulnerable lyrics give What I Want its unique charge. Every song rings out with the lucidity and command of someone who has thought hard about what they are going to say long before they say it.

PEEPERS are a nebulous and evolving electro-acoustic experimental folk ensemble (featuring members of Stars Like Fleas, Field Guides, Jantar, and others) that blends improvisational and compositional approaches. Cello, field recordings, accordion, tenor guitar, and electronics weave soundscapes like a twilit AM radio dial: kosmische drone sits beneath palimpsestic ambient folk textures and otherworldly, pulsing rhythms. This iteration of PEEPERS will feature:
Tianna Kennedy—a farmer, artist, sailor, cellist, and instigator from Arizona now residing in The Catskills;
Molly Must—a public artist from Appalachia with a long-standing interest in storytelling, collectivism, monuments and public history;
and Benedict Kupstas—a writer, artist, activist, and musician from northeastern Pennsylvania, with a deep appreciation for the amphibian friends that lend the project its name.

Hudson Valley based multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Jesse in Grey stewards the curious space between two nodes. His songs bridge the seemingly disconnected worlds of science & magic, heaven & earth, the poetic & the mundane.

6PM Doors
6:30PM Show
$15 ADV/ $20 DOORS

Izzy Oram Brown's Upstate What I Want Record Release Show featuring PEEPERS and Jesse in Grey

Izzy Oram Brown's Upstate What I Want Record Release Show featuring PEEPERS and Jesse in Grey