Ben Kogan Band + Scapel Fight + Dawn Drake & ZapOte @ The Way Station

Wear your most outrageous and ironic Christmas sweater and drink happy hour prices all night long.

8pm- Ben Kogan Band

Genre: Soulgrass
For fans of: Tim O’Brien, Bill Monroe, Al Green, Ryan Adams

Ben Kogan Band is a blend of bluegrass, roots rock, and soul music. We call it soulgrass.

benkogan.bandcamp.com

9pm- Scapel Fight

Genre: Rock and Roll
For fans of: The Dead Milkmen, Scratch Acid, Tears for Fears

With their lead guitarist in jail and their bassist farming in Nebraska, Marc Valentine and Benjamin Freidl should have quit the music scene altogether. Instead, they wrote an album, studied how Depeche Mode played live shows with multiple backing tracks, and created Scalpel Fight.

https://scalpelfight.bandcamp.com/releases

10pm- Dawn Drake & ZapOte

Genre: Afro-Latin Funk
For fans of: Antibalas, Budos Band, ESG, Jamiroquoi, Chico Mann, Cumbiagra, English Beat, Police

Taking its name from a luscious fruit in Cuba known as “ZapOte”, this band is an original Funk Latin Afro-Beat band lead by Dawn Drake, bassist/conguera/singer/songwriter and composer, who manages to wear several hats while setting the scene with her own brand of cool. Her original music takes the listener and dancer into a zone where House, Funk, Afro-beat, Samba, Afro-Cuban rhythms and Jazz are right at home. Poetic lyrics spread messages of universal consciousness, delivered with heartfelt vocals, and are joined with the irresistible grooves of Latin percussion, funky bass, swinging horn lines and improvisation.

BAM CAFE LIVE –Darrell McNeill
“Dawn Drake and her band ZapOte are at the beginnings of a fascinating journey to enthusiastically bridge chasms of cultural and gender disconnect that plagues so much of pop music’s body politic. To hear them is to imagine early period jam sessions between Laura Nyro and Carole King with Sly Stone and Sergio Mendes sitting in. Theirs is a playfully intense dynamic that needs to be seen more.”

-Darrell McNeill, Black Rock Coalition Director of Operations & CURATOR of BAM Café LIVE, Brooklyn Academy of Music GO MAGAZINE –Jenny Lazar
“Dawn contributes heavy Afro-Caribbean licks on congas, bongós and Brazilian caixa as a partial list...and it’s no amateur hour...”

Dawn Drake –Meewsic Records
“Cuban, African & South American styles mesh together into delicious jazz/pop fusion; a wonderful backdrop for Dawn’s sassy vocals. She also arranged the horns (excellent job), played bass and did all the percussion; a truly multi-talented performer!” Brian Fox, Meewsic Records

http://www.dawndrake.com

http://www.youtube.com/thedawndrake

http://www.facebook.com/thedawndrake