with support from COSMAL

Gates: 6:30pm
Doors: 7:30pm
Show: 8:00pm

Reserved Seating: $45
Standing Room: $30

Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferrable. Read our Ticket Policy.

Barnburner Pre-Sale: (more info)
Tue 1/18 10am

Public On-Sale:
Fri 1/21 10am

CLUB D’ELF

Club d’Elf is an ever-shifting group of musicians fiercely dedicated to “the groove”, consisting of some of the most sought-after players from the jazz, DJ, rock & world music scenes of Boston & NYC, and over the course of it's twenty four year existence has been featured on PRI's The World, Voice Of America, Afropop Worldwide, and Time Out New York. The band's music draws from a startlingly wide spectrum of styles, including jazz, hip hop, electronica, avant garde, prog-rock and dub. Under the tutelage of member Brahim Fribgane the band absorbed Moroccan trance influences and frequently add this element to the mix. Audiences of all persuasions are drawn to Fribgane’s mesmerizing oud stylings and leader/bassist Mike Rivard’s commanding playing of the Moroccan sintir, a 3 string bass lute used by the Gnawa people of Morocco. Derived from such ancient sources as these, trance forms the central core of the Club d’Elf aesthetic, unifying all of the various genres the band has absorbed.

The band's new album, "You Never Know", drops in April 2022 and is a trance-heavy meditation on finding light amidst the shadows. The band went deep and paid tribute to it's influences, with half the album being covers of Gnawa (trance music from North Africa), Miles Davis, Joe Zawinul, Moroccan band Nass el-Ghiwane, and Frank Zappa. The other half consists of original music inspired by leader Mike Rivard's personal journey into darkness following a near death experience in the remote jungle of the Peruvian Amazon.

Sessions were recorded live to analog tape in the studio with minimal overdubbing, with the result being the closest feeling of the band's legendary live performances than any of it's preceding fifteen releases. Joining Rivard (on basses and Moroccan sintir) and D'Elf regulars Dean Johnston (drums), DJ Mister Rourke (turntables) are John Medeski (on an array of vintage analog keyboards), who will join the band on a run of shows in April/May 2022.

COSMAL

Cosmal is a Live Music/Art Fusion Duo based out of the Hudson River Valley in New York. Members Ryan Coyle and Alison Lazarus create a cutting edge live performance by blending genre defying music with ecstatically charged painting. Spanning across the realms of World, Indie, and Ambient Electronic Music, the duo combines live instruments and vocals with MIDI controllers to create a uniquely moving experience.