Fri, May 26 - 9pm - $15

 



Brontë Fall

Teri Bracken’s new album as Brontë Fall, Not Done Yet is about resolve and spirit and ignoring anything in the way of dreaming — even yourself. Bracken wrestles with herself throughout the album. She almost quits, she pulls herself back; she laughs at those who told her to get a more sustainable career; she curses herself for not getting a more sustainable career. Not Done Yet finds Bracken living with the heartbreak of losing her late father, while tapping into his resiliency to make her strongest album yet. The album, defiant and beautiful and mournful and triumphant, is a chronicle of a life lived exactly as Bracken wants, compromising to no one in her quest to continue building a budding and supportive scene for alt-Americana women in Nashville and around the country. Not Done Yet is both a step forward and a retrospective of where Teri Bracken has been, both as a woman and with Brontë Fall. “It's the perspective of seven years of me hustling as a female artist in this industry that is a long held boy’s club. “On ‘Old Woman' I look at the pressure of being in my thirties and people expecting certain things out of a woman my age.” Above all, her fourth studio project is a guiding light for anyone struggling to pursue their passion. Teri Bracken understands the urge to quit, and yet, she’s emerged more defiant than ever, poised for a massive moment. “I am going to do what I love and I'm creating the art I want. It would be easy to give up, because this is so incredibly hard, but I made my best album to date and I can’t wait to play it every night,” she explains. “Even if it's hard, I’m gonna keep going. I can’t stop. I love it too damn much.”


w/s/g Sean Watkins (Nickel Creek)

Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sean Watkins has long been known for his work as one-third of the Grammy Award-winning Nickel Creek and, more recently, for helming, with sister Sara, the itinerant, genre-hopping Watkins Family Hour ensemble. But in the last year he has more assertively – and impressively – taken on the role of solo artist.  What To Fear is a follow-up to 2014’s acclaimed All I Do Is Lie, which had been Watkins’ first solo effort in nearly a decade, ten years that had been jammed with collaborative projects and a herculean amount of touring.  On his own, Watkins displays tremendous warmth and soulfulness as a singer, a refreshing candor and humor as a lyricist, and prodigious skill as an arranger. And he doesn’t merely stick with the familiar: On What To Fear, he bolsters an acoustic lineup with a rock rhythm section, bringing drama and drive to these new tracks while keeping intact the emotional intimacy of all the stories he is telling.


& Dominique Arciero

 Dominique Arciero is a singer-songwriter based in Los Angeles by way of Nashville by way of New York City by way of rural Pennsylvania. Her band The Lunabelles (with her two sisters) charted on country radio with a single on Sony Records.  Recently she turned to recording her own original songs and scoring to film, then made an EP and began touring with Sean Watkins (Nickel Creek), accompanying him on keys and harmonies.  She’s written and collaborated with many of Nashville’s hit writers and musicians, but her songs with Watkins are her most honest and inspired to date. The EP “Second Lives” is out now.


Nikki Morgan

Nikki Morgan is a singer-songwriter based in Chicago but with the heart of a true Carolina girl. As a singer and a writer her style takes the form of country/folk with a beautiful splash of soul and often explores the duality and truth that lies in the many facets of life. As she continues her musical journey you can find her belting out at various venues and open mics around the city.



Price: $15