Patrick Dunn + Denise Barbarita + Sean Kiely + Don Paris Schlotman @ The Way Station

7pm- Patrick Dunn
Genre: Americana
For fans of: Bob Dylan, Justin Townes Earle, The Band, Ray Lamontagne

Patrick Dunn is of and from the places he has called home; he is all at once a product of New York, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, New York, California, and New York (Brooklyn, currently). What does this have to do with the music? For one, the songs trace the American landscape with a connection to its long line of storytellers. In this tradition, we find the old soul, the rambler, the traveling singer and songwriter finding his place in the ever-growing timeline of honest music.

“Patrick’s niche for storytelling is well-honed; his music is raw, and the dichotomy of sad solemness with ardent fervor in his voice brings the listener back in time. His music summons images of heading out west- to find a better life, to escape, to chase a dream....
His music has a connective quality- connective to other human beings, the human condition and experiences.”
-Rachel McFarland, Life Is Awesome

“Standout performers included Patrick Dunn, whose pacing made his songs heartwringers....”
-Dan Barry, The Hartford Advocate

www.patrickdunnmusic.com
 
8pm- Denise Barbarita
Genre: Singer/songwriter: A Combination of Pop Angst, Rock, and Folk with die-hard female vocals and an unflinching attitude.
For fans of: The Dodos, Bat for lashes, The Pretenders, muse, kate bush

Denise Barbarita is a singer/songwriter based in NYC.  She performs as a soloist and also with her band The Morning Papers. Denise has released 4 CDs independently. “Beauty Lied”, “Chaos & Congeniality”, “Alive & B-Sides” and her most recent work, “A Beautiful Mess”.

Denise’s songs have received national and international radio airplay and she has been successful in licensing her original music for film and TV programs.  She has also toured across the US and throughout Europe since 2003.

"There’s a feline quality about Denise Barbarita’s music, something wonderfully
animalistic in the best sense of the word."  -Kevan Breitinger, Reviewer, Indie-Music.com  (Sept. 2005, C&C review)

Denise Barbarita is a superior Rock chick, one who can take a stage and the audience will immediately shut up. She’s a bad-ass, lit match that’s taking the indie music industry at full storm and won’t stop ‘til she’s unpluggged. Don’t believe me? Check it out for yourself...Denise is my monthly editor’s pick for July 2005 -Heather Corcoran, Reviewer, CoffeehouseTour.com  (July 2005, C&C review)

“Soothing while seething, the siren sounds sweet before she smashes your boat to pieces. This is how I would sum up the sound of Denise Barbarita.”- Nikki Chipman, NorthEast In-Tune Magazine

http://www.denisebarbarita.com
https://soundcloud.com/denisebarbarita/sets/denise-barbarita-songwriter

9pm- Sean Kiely
Genre: Acoustic Indie
For fans of:  Smog, Bill Monroe, My Morning Jacket

Sean Kiely's songs are weird and beautiful, like a gnarly lonely tree.  Last year he released Arch Envy (2012, Mecca Lecca Recording Co.), a collection of pop tunes, distorted by a charismatic and nervous tension. Arch Envy consists of nine songs full of both overwhelming panic about our modern condition, and a genuine sense of collective wonder. Sean Kiely, based in Jersey City, mixes the colors of west coast pop with the rhythms of east-coast art rock, full of unusual harmonies and declarative statements, with hints of later Pavement and Elvis Costello.
http://www.sean0sean.com

10pm- Don Paris Schlotman
Genre: depressing space folk
For fans of: Smog/Bill Callahan, Nick Cave, David Byrne, Elvis Costello, Lou Reed

Don Paris Schlotman is the bass player and co-founder of The Sky Captains of Industry. His songs mix moments of punk energy with laconic downtempo introspection, the basic idea being that it’s better to walk away wondering what it all meant. He sings about outer and inner space as a metaphor for the human condition and means every word.

“...[on his cover of Niall Connolly’s] “Summer Dress“ a song which is easy to think of as a sideways look at adolescent male fantasies, especially hearing Don singing it, with memories of his teen idol antics still fresh in my mind. This is Don in a Lou Reed meets Johnny Cash mode, with the banjo and reverberating whistling adding to a sense of understated, yet mysteriously present, anarchism. It’s a kind of mix of Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side” and “Perfect Day”...

http://www.schlotman.com