• Patty Larkin & Erin McKeown - Album Release for "25"
• 9:00pm

Join us for very special album release from the celebrated Patty Larkin. Her latest release is "25", a project chronicling the 25 years that Larkin has been producing quality music. She is joined on the album by Suzanne Vega, Shawn Colvin and many more of her friends and peers. Come and enjoy this celebration of a quarter century of fantastic and soulful music as only Larkin can produce. For more information on the release Please Click Here

ABOUT PATTY LARKIN

Patty Larkin is part of the urban-folk/pop music phenomenon that spun off of the singer/songwriter explosion of the seventies, reinterpreting traditional folk melodies, rock, pop, bossa nova, drawing on anything from Dylan to Dylan. A self-described “guitar driven songwriter,” Larkin has wound her way through sound-scapes of evocative vocals, inventive guitar wizardry and imaginative lyrics. Her songs run inside and outside the box, from impressionistic poetry to witty wordplay.

In 2010 Patty Larkin releases a collectible collection of 25 love songs in celebration of 25 years in the recording industry. Here Patty has reworked 25 of her favorite songs in an acoustic, “unplugged” release, joined by friends along the way. A follow up to her critically acclaimed WATCH THE SKY (Critics Choice-NY Times, Brilliant Billboard),25 is a one of a kind project that is at once intimate and universal, the voice of a generation of songwriters, simple and direct yet the touchstone of one woman’s song. Over her 25 year career, Patty Larkin has worked with some of the brightest stars in American music, honing a reputation as a “musician’s musician” along the way.

On 25 Patty is joined by friends and cohorts, troubadours, renegades, humorists, folk philosophers, dreamers, realists, poets, bards. People who defined an era of music that blurred the lines between genres, and sprang from a grassroots love of song, pouring onto the airwaves in an organic, trickle down of musical styles. This project evolved in much the same way, with Patty looking for a way to celebrate the quarter of a century anniversary of her first album with some friends. Each artist was contacted individually and asked to come on and sing with Patty’s unplugged versions of her most requested love songs. Some of the artists were on the road during the recording time and found recording studios wherever they landed, some were in the midst of new releases, some were in the studio working on their own projects, and some were just plain busy with the business of life. The fact that each of these gifted and talented artists found the time and space to lend such beauty to this collection speaks to the pull of friendship and music that has spanned the years.

25 is a moment, a pause, the snapshot of a career that continues to grow and evolve along a creative, adventuresome path. Here’s to “25”, and 25 more.

ABOUT ERIN MCKEOWN

Ten years into a dynamic career marked by 7 LPs, 2 EPs and a live concert album, Erin McKeown delivers Hundreds of Lions, her first collection of original songs since 2005’s We Will Become Like Birds. Although Erin started writing songs while still in high school in hometown Fredericksburg, Virginia, she really began earning her chops while attending Brown University, releasing two albums before graduation and gigging on weekends whenever and wherever possible. She hasn’t slowed down, famously averaging 200 live shows a year. As a multi-instrumentalist, Erin’s become in demand as a session player, recording vocals, piano, bass lines and of course guitar tracks for other artists’ records all while steadily working material that became Hundreds of Lions.

At the center of the album, the song “The Lions” brims with bright piano, cathedral spire atmosphere and traces of carnival-noir pop as Erin sings, “There’s a risk, there’s a twist, in anything worth doing,” with a voice clear and strong as glass ribbon. Indeed, the whole Hundreds of Lions project—from the experimental production techniques to the decision to record independently, without label support--is a risk, with a twist that finds Erin collaborating with Ani DiFranco’s Righteous Babe Records.

It’s an alliance that has been in the stars a long time, as Erin and Ani’s creative paths have crisscrossed ever since Ani first heard Distillation—the only other album Erin recorded independently--and invited Erin on tour back in 1999. In the decade since, Erin’s built a catalogue and career that influences a whole new set of songwriters in the way Ani’s music first inspired Erin. The decision to create Hundreds of Lions independently allowed Erin to spend an unprecedented, luxurious amount of time nurturing new songs to life. Some simmered for three years as Erin traipsed through the American songbook with 2007’s Sing You Sinners and the live recording, Lafayette, released later that same year. Independence also gave producer (and longtime musical partner) Sam Kassirer the freedom to produce his vision of a watershed, modern Erin McKeown album, with Erin’s voice as its center.