4pm: C23 Pre-Show- Mikaela Davis Plays Dead w/ Richie Stearns $17 ADV/$25 DOS//18+//Doors 4pm/Show 5pm TICKETS

9pm: DJ Logic + TBA - Tickets/Times TBD

Mikaela Davis

Mikaela Davis is a patient, meticulous songwriter. The Hudson Valley-based artist peels back the gauze of the world’s distractions to reveal the tiny details we might have missed, spotlighting the importance of nourishing friendships, perseverance in the face of adversity and the lessons the natural world can teach us. A prolific and distinctive harpist, Davis molds her classical music training to create an original and genre-bending catalog that weaves together 60s pop-soaked melodies, psychedelia and driving bluegrass rock. Davis has also shared the stage with the likes of Bob Weir, Christian McBride, Bon Iver, Lake Street Dive and Circles Around the Sun, showcasing her ability to stretch her creative talents across just about any canvas.
Along with her band Southern Star, the group recently recorded at the Relix studio in New York City, releasing an exclusive Relix Studios vinyl. Featuring songs from her 2018 debut album Delivery, as well as latest single “Don’t Stop Now”, the release boasts the trajectory and intimacy of a band who have been playing together for the better part of a decade. Davis’ new album, set for release later this year and produced by Davis and the band, is the first time Southern Star will appear on a full-length studio album together. With these new songs set to confirm the Rochester-native’s inimitable skills and spirit, Davis is poised to propel to bigger stages and even brighter spotlights.

Richie Stearns

As a founding member of the Horse Flies, Stearns steered band mates to mix Appalachian melodies with African rhythms and electronic effects. Along the way, Stearns has mastered the vocal chops of a jam band lead singer. His release, “Solo,” showed him a songwriter whose lyrics (Veins of Coal, for one) can stand tall next to those of any Nashville or L.A. writer. His band gigging continues with the Evil City String Band, based in upstate New York, as they wow festival-goers and tavern crowds by covering old-time classics with groove and attitude. He has brought clawhammer banjo to new audiences by touring and recording with the likes of Natalie Merchant and Jim Lauderdale. And his latest release, “Tractor Beam,” a duo recording with fiddler Rosie Newton, shows how he continues to find ways to keep old-time both rooted and fresh.
When it comes to Stearns’ career with the banjo itself, a traditionalist has much to learn from Richie’s saturation in the old and his experimenting with the new. As he shows in the interview that follows, his tweaking with set-up lets him coax great sounds out of his 1881 Dobson and newer Johannes Bonefaas instruments. He demonstrates that up-the-neck agility need not be limited to bluegrass players. He has sage advice on how clawhammer banjo can best complement vocals.
He loves tradition, respects it, as he indicates below. But he also now finds himself in projects like this year’s prestigious New York Banjo Summit, hobnobbing with banjo maestros like Bela Fleck and Noam Pilkeny, and even playing Carnegie Hall with that august group. And a new band project, Mud Dog Parade, will also keep him busy.
If the usual references to musical style don’t quite fit his work, that won’t keep lots of old-time enthusiasts from gaining inspiration from Stearns. However he might innovate, he wants the old sounds still to resonate and keep him grounded.

DJ LOGIC
The theorem of turntablist as musician has been long proven in the capable hands of DJ Logic, whom with jazz as his foundation has become a wax innovator by crossing genres and mixing his sound across the map. As one of the world’s most accomplished turntablists, DJ Logic is widely credited for introducing jazz into the hip–hop realms and is considered by most as a highly-respected session musician and an innovative bandleader.

Since his emergence in the early nineties amidst the Bronx hip-hop scene, the New York City based deejay has been amassing a veritable mountain of collaborations, including a full-fledged band with members of Blues Traveler (The John Popper Project ft. DJ Logic), a trio with Steve Molitz & Freekbass (Headtronics), a jazz project with Georgian prodigy Beka Gochiasvili, and as a member of Grammy-winning Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra’s The Offense of the Drum album. He also has a long list of other collaborations with artists ranging from the likes of Bob Weir, John Mayer, Medeski Martin and Wood, Christian McBride, O.A.R., Carly Simon, Marcus Miller, Jack Johnson, Vernon Reid, Warren Haynes, Charlie Hunter, Jack DeJohnette, Ben Harper, Mos Def, The Roots, Bernie Worrell, Bill Laswell, Melvin Gibbs, Fred Wesley, Sean Kuti and many more.

DJ Logic and his role as an electronic-music ambassador keeps him at the top of his game. Whether the scratch artist instructs tablas to flirt with drum ‘n’ bass (such as on his Nina Simone and Billy Holiday remixes found on Sony Legacy’s Remixed and Reimagined volumes), meshes free styling MC’s with Afro-Cuban rhythms (such as on ‘Share Worldwide Funk’ – a remix produced for Jack DeJohnette and Golden Beams Collected, Volume 1), or remixes tracks for rock bands such as Moon Taxi, DJ Logic can always be found paying homage to his predecessors while contributing his vision to the deejay genre.

While the context of his work may vary, DJ Logic’s spinning skills are definitely beyond reproach. He works with a phenomenal roster of invited guests, and he knows how to pick his collaborators as well as his samples. With a growing catalogue of recordings under his belt, DJ Logic’s supreme musicianship and eclectic tastes will allow him to journey wherever an infectious groove may take him.