May 2009

Bands

* Richard Buckner's show has been moved to Monday May 11th. Previously purchased tickets whether at Ticketmaster or at Davey's Uptown will be honored on Monday May 11th.

Montreal artist, Chris Velan, does not fit the typical singer-songwriter mold. A musician and songwriter his whole life, he studied law and passed the bar only to leave that path to travel to West Africa where he helped make a documentary film about a group of refugee musicians from Sierra Leone.
He returned to release his debut solo album in 2003, thus beginning a musical exploration of his own influences that ranged from folk, pop and rock to world music and reggae.
Chris’ music is born of duality. He sings of things big and small, of darkness and beauty, love and destruction, and of the struggle for personal fulfillment against the doubts that so often hold us back.
A classically trained guitarist, he uses live looping to create rhythmic and melodically layered arrangements to perform his songs.
His third and latest album, “Solidago”, released on NewSong Recordings, features San Francisco artists The Mother Hips, Animal Liberation Orchestra, Jackie Greene and Adam Topol (Culver City Dub Collective, Jack Johnson).
“Comparisons may be odious, but it’s hard to describe this striking blend of reggae-spiked, politically charged folk-pop without referring to its antecendents: Bruce Cockburn, Paul Simon and Jeb Loy Nichols. At the same time, Velan’s mix is so original and so apt, he places himself beyond the realm of comparison”…. Boston Herald.

11pm - NO COVER - Drink Specials*
Door Prizes !!!
1st Monday of the Month
One Eye Jacks
FutuRetro Underground Hits
DJ Troy and DJ Ilya
Now in ObscuroVision
*$1.50 wells after 10pm

Open All day - All night 'til 3am
Cheap beer & wells
10pm - $5
Phaze II