2023 LINEUP
For your palate: Straight from the cellar, ready to be sipped.
Check out this year’s playlist.
FRIDAY
Synth, soul, and psychedelia find a happy home in this highly sessionable brew, where heartfelt vocals, mellow rhythms, and an exuberant brass section add depth and dimension to produce a well-rounded, easy-listening sound fit for the thirstiest ear. Cheers to that.
Bright beats and breathy vocals lend a champagne pop to Miss Grit’s melodic concoctions. Ethereal, electronic, and light as air, her ear-smacking sound is otherworldly yet machine-like, grounding abstract explorations in an undeniable intimacy. In short: a cyborg with wings.
Soil, soul, and sweetness mark the palate’s first impressions of Eugene Tyler Band, a downstate New York trio whose homespun bluegrass stylings get their kick of spice from irreverent lyrics, rapid-fire instrumentals, and masterful performance. A tried-and-true vintage right out of the barrel.
SATURDAY
Plangent, high-c vocals lend an eerie ambiance to the synth-pop stylings of Meghan Remy, the Toronto-based talent whose disco-inflected vintages are bottled under the name of U.S. Girls. A soprano with swagger, Remy’s high-polish art-rock bridges funk, R&B, post-punk and beyond to create a groovy, fully textured sound that flies off the shelf and into your ear.
Rich, warm, and low-key compositions set a backdrop to the virtuosic voice of Madison McFerrin, whose expressive a cappella loops add layers of depth to masterful, jazz-inflected soul arrangements—decanting the mood and delighting the ear each and every time.
Raise a glass to Kweku Collins, the sonically innovative producer, singer, and songwriter from Evanston, Illinois, whose unique beats set an attention-grabbing rhythm to thoughtful lyrics and expressive vocals. Fusing elements of indie, electronic, R&B and beyond to strike a chord louder than the sum of its parts, Collins’ distinct melting pot is well worth the pour.
A peppery, uptempo beat adds urgency to the plaintive vocals of Kate Davis, whose structured indie-rock compositions offer hints (to the discerning ear) of her previous life as a conservatory-trained jazz musician. Yet Davis puts her training to inventive use, blending unique lyricism and a pop-art sensibility to yield flavors as melodic as they are catchy.
Flavors can be deceiving, even in sound. The crisp, easy listenability of songwriter Charlie Sztyk (pronounced “Stick”) belies masterly structures, sage lyrics, and a rich, melancholy voice, in which a deep folk sensibility is balanced by indie rock acidity
sunday
1950s rock n’ roll revs to life in this raw and raucous quintet headed by frontman Jeremy Fury, whose reverb-soaked music out of NYC echoes California-a-a-a. Gritty, grungy, and burnin’ rubber–smoky, Jeremy & The Harlequins offers a swingin’ throwback beat aged to toe-tapping perfection.
Earthy simplicity meets ghostly incantation in this full-bodied Catskill quartet. Building slowly on the ear, this rare and woodsy vintage unfurls exquisite layers of folk magic through Elizabeth Celeste Ibarra’s hypnotic vocals and the somber instrumentals of Dylan Nowik, Wesley Harper, and Alex P. Wernquest.
Clean vocals ride catchy arrangements in the cool jazz-pop of singer-songwriter Kendra McKinley, whose confident voice and sophisticated compositions yield a vibrant yet sensuous listen, drawing on classic wells of soul, jazz, and beyond to create a sound altogether new.
Bold percussion and spellbinding vocals lend a tannic confidence to this experimental art-folk act from Hudson River Valley, Mohican Territory. The musical moniker of Carter Lou McElroy, CYOTE’s emotionally driven fingerpicking and rhythm-and-blues-inflected acoustics pack a punch, but leave a haunting aftertaste.