October 28 – November 3

Musician/comedian Erin Harkes continues her songwriters’ series. This month’s great line-up features multi-award-winning pop balladeer Girl Blue, alt-rock singer-songwriter and novelist Ed Schwarzschild, and the prodigiously talented 9-year-old songwriter Lulu Grey.

This string band reimagines Jerry Garcia’s music with a unique bluegrass twist, using the instruments that first inspired him. Drawing from Garcia’s Jug Band days, Old & In the Way, and the Grateful Dead, they deliver innovative interpretations, weaving decades of musical history into a high-energy tribute.

We normally feature first-timers in the Bright Series, but this familiar face from Nashville (formerly of The Stray Birds) is enjoying some hard-won creative flourishing so we’re celebrating her all over again. Her brand new record blends folk, rock & pop, with elements of Americana and alt-country. She’s been winning new fans through her work with The Wood Brothers, Aoife O’Donovan, John Craigie, Molly Tuttle, Lindsay Lou, and Steve Poltz.

Whether she’s belting out a New Orleans-style number on her ukulele, singing an original cowboy tune or lush ballad at the piano, this multi-instrumentalist gives vintage sounds a new life. Your kids will love Jenna’s fun show!

This passion project has been brewing since the mid-’90s for this blues band’s lead singer, Gina Coleman, who believes that Odetta’s African-American folk music is most certainly blues. The band’s first tribute to Odetta spent 24 consecutive weeks at number 1 on the Roots Music Report Traditional Folk Album Chart in 2023. Tonight we celebrate the release of album #2 in their Odetta tribute series.

“Like a campfire, he is mesmerizing, slightly dangerous
and always a good time.” – NBC New York
Stelling’s new work since achieving sobriety in 2017 sees the feverish soul-scraping of his early years replaced by wisdom, intimacy, lyrical depth and masterful musicianship, appealing to fans of polished pop and rustic folk alike.