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Ryan Egan of The Ugly Club + Thurston Ray + Fingers DelRey + COOKIE CUTTA & THE CRISPS @ The Way Station

7pm-  Ryan Egan of The Ugly Club
Genre: Indie/Alternative/Acoustic
For fans of: The Shins, Wilco, Jeff Buckley

Fearlessly honest and unwaveringly persistent, The Ugly Club has been operating for nearly three years with such a force that it has become impossible to ignore them (and you would be foolish to do so). With the July 2012 release of their debut album, "You Belong To The Minutes", The Ugly Club is vocally ambitious and teeming with intelligent arrangements not unlike the most progressive artists of our time. Reaching psychedelic highs comparable to My Morning Jacket and Radiohead, the delicate inclusion of jazz, indie-rock, and Prince-eqsue neo-funk sends listeners into an unanticipated daydream.

"The Union County-based band has excelled at crafting psych-pop melodies with a punchy funk beat." - Paste Magazine

"Very sweet." - Bob Boilen - All Songs Considered/NPR

"The Ugly Club may want to change their name, because their future's pretty good-looking." - MTV Buzzworthy

"Floating somewhere between indie-rock, pop melodies and psychedelic piano lines, you'll find New Jersey's The Ugly Club." - FILTER Magazine

"If you're not a believer of the phrase 'hard work pays off,' then maybe you should take a look at The Ugly Club." -CMJ

"Guys, pay attention. This is a really good one. The Ugly Club are going to fly." - Adrian Grenier (Entourage/Wreckroom Records)

www.theuglyclubmusic.com
www.youtube.com/theuglyclubnj
www.soundcloud.com/theuglyclubmusic

8pm- Thurston Ray
Genre: Soul/R&B
For fans of: R&B/Soul/Jazz

Thurston Ray is a bass baritone vocalist who blends groovy soul music, jazzy chilled vocals, and uplifting messages about real life and love.  Thurston Ray’s sound has been crafted to take the listener on a journey through emotions, melodies, and sweet inspiration. Thurston Ray's lyrics are made to stand as a soundtrack to the ups and downs of anyone’s life and love. It marks life’s imperfect journey but reflects on its fresh new beginnings.

You can check out Thurston Ray’s latest album, “Becoming Thurston Ray: A Human Experience” at www.thurstonray.com.

www.thurstonray.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/ThurstonRay

9pm- Fingers DelRey
Genre: blues
For fans of: blues, BB King, Mose Allison,

Toby "Fingers" DelRey developed his hot stylings while a lad at the St. Ignatius Orphanage for Wayward Sinners. Sister Serenity, a crusty old nun with a musical bent, sensed the child's prodigious talent and, taking him under her wing, tutelaged him with a combination of Jelly Roll Morton, Johann Sebastian Bach and a strict regimen of dowsing the keyboard of the rectory piano -- a 1911 Flambe-Carbone upright -- with a solution of molasses and 190 proof corn liquor, setting it ablaze with the cherry of her White Owl and forcing the young genius to extinguish the flames with his speedy scales.
As Finger's remarked recently in a rare moment of verbal lucidity: "The blues is in my blood, the stride is in my soul and the fire is in my heart."

"thanks a lot for sending me your album. I've been playing it on my show...lot's of good tracks!"
- Norman Davis "Midnight Flyer" syndicated radio host (streamed from KYOU San Francisco, CA)
 
One of the best piano players of the last ten years in the blues self release scene.......Fine style, great musical taste!"
Simone Bargelli (dj for "Rock n Blues Today", Italy)
 
Soul Bag (France-Le Magazine Francais du blues et de la Soul #198, Avril-Mai-Juin 2010) Toby "Fingers" Del Rey **** 4 stars!( Excellent, un disque sans déchet. Ou presque...)

" kind of avante-garde blues with a touch of Chico Marx!"
-David Bennett Cohen pianist with Country joe and the Fish, Elvyn Bishop, Hubert Sumlin, jimmy Vivino, ,.....
Fingersdelrey.com

https://soundcloud.com/rgfh10/sex-thing
https://soundcloud.com/rgfh10/blueschoir-frontdoorwoman-3-31
https://soundcloud.com/rgfh10/money-therapy
http://www.youtube.com/user/FingersDelRey

10pm- COOKIE CUTTA & THE CRISPS
Genre: Funk ‘n Stuff (Funk is Funk... And the ‘Stuff’ is everything else)
For fans of: Sly Stone, Jimi Hendrix, Chaka Khan & Rufus, Betty Davis

COOKIE CUTTA is the Divalicious frontwoman of ‘The Cookie Cutta Experience’: The Ultimate groove party full of Funktastic Flava!  Cookie’s mission, along with her band ‘The Crisps’,  is to perform all over the world spreading positive vibes and funk-delishus soiunds!

www.cookiecutta.com
www.reverbnation.com/cookiecutta



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