• Emily Wells & Shilpa Ray - Welcome to NY.
• 8:00pm

ABOUT EMILY WELLS

Emily Wells is a violinist whose style "merge[s] ... hip-hop and classical".She also uses many other instruments in her work, including glockenspiels, analog synthesizers, and even toy pianos and other toy instruments. In live performances, she does not use any pre-recorded loops, rather she creates her loops while performing.Her first violin was a "plastic violin from Michael's."

A child prodigy, Wells started playing the violin when she was four. She then learned to play the guitar and started writing songs. She recorded the album Midori Sour in 1998, which caught the ear of Epic Records" two years later.

Epic gave Wells a recording contract, but she decided to stay independent to maintain creative control of her work. Since the age of 13, she has released ten albums and EPs featuring music ranging from "simplistic" to "experimental.

Wells continues to tour and record on her own. She moved from New York City to Los Angeles, where she became a regular performer at the Hotel Cafe. She frequently performs with drummer Sam Halterman and bassist Joey Reina as "The Emily Wells Trio.

ABOUT SHILPA RAY

Shilpa Ray has emerged as one of New York’s rising stars with a ferocious punk-cabaret persona that leaves audiences begging for more. Her raw power harnessed to a vintage harmonium provides a perfect counterpoint to Emily Wells.

Sometimes you see an artist that just hits you smack dab in the middle of your heart. Shilpa Ray and her Happy Hookers are an incredible blend of grinding blues, sleazy jazz, and disturbing rock tied together with pop and punk sensibilities; the result sounding something like a vulgar Ella Fitzgerald, channeling Nick Cave and PJ Harvey crooning in front of a wall of distortion and thunderous, pounding rhythms. The band reads like a who's who of recent NYC rock luminaries including members of Creaky Boards, Soft Black, Kapow!, and cult rock producers The Negatones. Their live shows are already a notorious commodity which regularly feature audiences that scream as loud as the band does through their instruments and voices.

Bold, powerful, impassioned – a Rhone red, deep roots and blackly delicious fruit.