Doors 6:30pm, Show 7pm
$20 adv / $25 DOS

As an artist, Joe Crookston is a force of nature. He is a vulnerable and powerful fiddler, slide guitar player, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter. He communes with his audience and welcomes them into his magic…every time.

With Joe, it’s not just a concert, it’s a COMPASSIONATE STORY REVOLUTION.

Gordon Lightfoot personally invited Joe to tour with him and open concerts on his last US tour. From headlining The Kerrville Folk Fest, Philadelphia Folk Fest, Black Bear Americana Fest. In the US, as well as major Canadian festivals, receiving Folk Alliance International “Album of the Year” releasing NINE BECOMES ONE (2025) to being named Folk Alliance International Artist-in- Resident, Joe is a creative force for good.

He’s played with Suzanne Vega, Dar Williams, David Francey, John McCutcheon, John Gorka, Judy Collins and 100s more. His songs have been made into award winning films.

In concert, he is funny as hell one moment and transcendent the next. HE BELIEVES IN STORIES. Come to a show. Visual, artful and surprising.

Brooklyn in July, Oklahoma towns, rattlesnake tails, turbary thieves, meter maids and drunk roosters. At the end of the night, you’ll leave inspired.

“The Long Note” is a phrase in Irish culture. “The Long Note” is that place of resonance and transcendence where the music, the voices, the instruments, and the community ALL come together and unite. THERE IS A LONG NOTE & JOE IS REACHING FOR IT.

Whether he’s weaving through lap slide songs or fiddling an American Southern tune, he’ll draw you in. It happens every time.

Watch a YouTube video...it’s fine, but it’s not the same.You gotta go to a show.

With unwavering courage to be himself, he is literate, poignant and funny as hell. He lives in Ithaca NY, and tours regularly in the US, Ireland and Canada.

WWW.JOECROOKSTON.COM

Selena Tibert is an alternative folk artist and musician based in Brooklyn. Grounded in expertly crafted musical arrangements with a clear, rich vocal, her songs pulse with modern jazz and 70s folk influence. Lyrically, she treats personal and universal narratives with mythological reverence, best exemplified in each line of her latest record, The Fool.

Raised in ruggedly beautiful Camano Island, WA in the Pacific Northwest, Selena Tibert’s early life was colored with music and storytelling. Her parents, also musicians, raised her on genre classics like Carole King, Simon & Garfunkel, Joni Mitchell, and Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young. She’s brought her enigmatic songs to life across the country from Seattle and Portland to Boston and beyond, including storied NYC venues The Bowery Electric, Berlin, Rockwood Music Hall, and more.

In June of 2024, Selena Tibert released her debut EP, The Fool. The record was produced, arranged, and engineered entirely by Tibert, whose other skill lies in sourcing exceptional talent to help bring her vision to life. The EP was mixed and mastered by Tom Gardner at Rift Studios in Brooklyn. In live performance, these songs are lifted from their recorded arrangements with careful precision, while allowing room for adept improvisation from Tibert’s band. Sonically, the record is both grounded and mercurial, evoking Marika Hackman and Anaïs Mitchell. “At the same time powerful and subtle, this voice expresses a full palette of emotions,” writes Indiefferential.

Her two previous releases, singles “Where It’s Dark” and “Feels Like a Sin”, are impressive standalones. “Where It’s Dark”, Tibert’s first release and also self-produced, is darkly inviting, blending acoustic folk with gently synthesized vocal harmonies. Drawing comparisons to 70s rock storytellers Uriah Heep and legendary singer-songwriter Janis Ian, The Other Side Reviews writes: “The soothing, almost raw arrangement draws you into a spine-chilling melody; however, it is Tibert’s ethereal vocals that enhance a sense of intoxicating breathlessness to the haunting single.”

“Feels Like a Sin” acts thematically like sister-song to “Where It’s Dark”, but leans more heavily on the modern folk sounds of Laura Marling or Haley Heynderickx. Deftly addressing feelings of social anxiety, it’s a deeply personal song without being overly sentimental or self-deprecating; another testament to Tibert’s writing.

Selena Tibert has released sold out direct-to-vinyl sessions with Leesta Vall Sound Recordings in Brooklyn, and produced, arranged, and engineered the single “Sweet Thing” with fellow NYC folk duo Hearth.

Joe Crookston / Selena Tibert

Joe Crookston / Selena Tibert