Event

Hawktail / Gabriel Kahane

Doors at 6:30, Show at 7:30pm

Hawktail:

Haas Kowert Tice brought on mandolinist Dominick Leslie to form Hawktail. Music fans will recognize them from their various other outfits (Punch Brothers, David Rawlings, Crooked Still, A Prairie Home Companion) and enjoy this unique instrumental offering.

Hawktail recorded several tracks from their album, "Unless," which came out in May of 2018 in the sanctuary of the Downtown Presbyterian Church.

"The music on 'Unless' ... slides effortlessly and naturally from spicy takes on traditional American fiddling to more wide-ranging tangles of sophisticated chords and melodies that are nevertheless equally memorable." Jon Weisberger, The Bluegrass Situation

Brittany Haas; fiddle
Paul Kowert; bass
Jordan Tice; guitar
Dominick Leslie; mandolin

Gabriel Kahane:

The day after the 2016 presidential election, singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane boarded a train at Penn Station and traveled 8,980 miles around the continental U.S., talking to dozens of strangers in an attempt to better understand his country and fellow citizens. The resulting album, Book of Travelers (Nonesuch Records)hailed by Rolling Stone as a stunning portrait of a singular moment in America"is at once a prayer for empathy and reconciliation, as well as an unflinching examination of the complex and often troubled history of the United States. This fall, Kahane embarks on a thirty-city North American tour in support of the album.

So remarkable was his one-man show that those who were there left suspecting theyd had an I was there when experience. The Daily Record (Scotland)

Gabriel Kahane; piano and vocals