Shenandoah Davis & Ian Cooke

This show is a late addition but the talent looks very promising...I suggest you make some time to stop by and check them out. Here's a little bio on the two artits:

Drawing inspiration from the Chopin and Debussy of her childhood piano lessons right alongside with the c...hanteuses of the 1930s and more eclectic modern acts such as Antony & The Johnsons, Owen Pallett, and Van Dyke Parks, Shenandoah Davis's tiny masterpieces have been branded everything from parlour music to new folk to orchestral pop.  Her live performances are as wildly varied as her influences: sometimes she is accompanied by the 50-piece Seattle Rock Orchestra, at other times with accordion, clarinet and drums. The diversity of her sound, as well as her classical background, has secured her opening slots for Zoe Keating, The Head and The Heart and Perfume Genius, as well as performances at prominent US festivals like South by Southwest, Sasquatch and Bumbershoot. Seattle's The Stranger called her "a beloved presence in the Northwest music scene".

Davis self-released her sophomore effort "The Company We Keep" in August, which Don Yates of KEXP called "an often-gorgeous set of classical-influenced avant-pop with dynamic, intricate arrangements" and Cory Frye of the Corvallis Gazette-Times labeled as "an album wrapped in brittle crimsons and delicate browns, wrought with tension and a slightly fractured whimsy."  The record was picked up by radio stations across the country and abroad, quickly becoming one of the Top 3 Self-Released Records on the CMJ charts, and has already made its appearance on several end-of-year Top Ten lists.

Currently traveling with multi-instrumentalist Ethan Demarest, the pair has recently completed a 16-week tour of the United States, and will be touring in New Zealand during February and March (including an appearance at Camp A Low Hum festival which has recently featured artists such as Fourtet, Jens Lekman, and The Dodos) before heading out in April with Denver-based cellist and singer-songwriter Ian Cooke.

Shenandoah Davis has been featured on No Depression, KEXP, Daytrotter, and The Waiting Room, among others.

"The Company We Keep puts both what elevates Shenandoah above us all, a rare talent, and what makes her just like us, the characters that inhabit all our lives and how our hearts open and break because of them, on display. And it’s a beautiful sight to behold. " -Abbey Simmons, Sound on the Sound

"I liked a lot of records this year. It’s going to be very tricky for any of them to beat Shenandoah Davis’s "The Company We Keep" to the top of my (figurative) list." -Sean Nelson, writer/musician (Harvey Danger)

"Many times, in listening, you think that she's brought to audibility the tales that were perhaps written into the silent pictures of bygone years." -Sean Moeller, Daytrotter

"A magnificent piano player with a fresh and lovely voice." - Mirah, musician

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Denver’s IAN COOKE will release his second album, Fortitude, in January 2012, with the help of The Greater Than Collective.

Produced by Ian O’Dougherty and mixed by BOB FERBRACHE (SLIM CESSNA'S AUTO CLUB, WOVENHAND) Fortitude showcases the wide array of musical proficiency that Cooke possesses as he switches from playful to dark and sincere at the flick of a cello bow.

Splicing in elements of indie, classical, progressive rock, and more, the album builds on the foundation laid down by his previous album, The Fall I Fell, and expands it with stronger writing and loftier concepts.

Cooke’s talent coupled with his diligent work ethic has earned him several local accolades, including a #1 ranking in the 2009 Denver Post Music Poll and “Best Singer Songwriter,” “Best Album,” and “Best Avant-Garde” nods by Westword.

Nationally, Cooke has been written about in SPIN magazine, featured on a recent DAYTROTTER session and was featured alongside BILLY BRAGG, M. WARD, OWEN PALLETT and more on a JOANNA NEWSOM tribute.

With packaging as engaging as the music it contains, Fortitude is a copy of nothing – a truly original and unique endeavor.

"A one-man chamber ensemble, Ian Cooke specializes in forlorn folk built on cello-heavy arrangements and vocals that mimic his instrument's mournful modulations.”
-SPIN Magazine

“Cooke has developed a unique, expressive vocalese that emulates the fluid modulations and tonality of a cello and incorporates some of its rhythmic inflections. If Sufjan Stevens had been weaned on nothing but recordings by Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Bach and "Eleanor Rigby," his take on chamber pop might sound something like Cooke's work. But as it stands, Cooke makes Stevens's elaborate compositions seem almost prosaic. ”
-Dave Herrera, Westword Magazine

“Cooke, his cello and his looping effects pedal are now fixtures — icons, even — in Denver’s thriving independent music community. And after years of climbing the ranks, playing clubs, galleries, living rooms and museums, the singer-songwriter-cellist-pianist was voted the top musician in the 2009 Denver Post Underground Music Poll.”
-Ric Baca, Denver Pos