Day 1 PROSPECT HEIGHTS MUSIC FEST: Sara Bouchard & The Salt Parade + Jon LaDeau + Ben Clark and the Long Shadows + Jake La Botz @ The Way Station

7/9-7/13
PROSPECT HEIGHTS MUSIC FEST
FIVE NIGHTS OF MUSIC

BY 31 BROOKLYN BASED BANDS

Warm up for the week by watching our Festival Reel

Listen up Folks! Time Out New York listed the PHMF in their "Things to Do" this week section. This is a NOT TO BE MISSED Brooklyn moment.

8pm- Sara Bouchard & The Salt Parade
Genre: Roots/Folk/Blues
For fans of: Neko Case, Norah Jones, Cat Power, Gillian Welch, The Be Good Tanyas, Jolie Holland, The Carter Family, Bessie Smith

A masterful blend of tradition and experimentation, SALT PARADE celebrates the golden era of jazz, blues and folk while soulfully imagining the future. Sara Bouchard's signature salty-sweet vocals will stop you in your tracks; her smart, colorful lyrics - taken from history books and other unlikely sources - will hold you hypnotized. Salt Parade is the newest project from Bouchard, also known to the roots scene as mandolinist, vocalist and songwriter of Union Street Preservation Society. Having recently debuted at Rockwood Music Hall, Salt Parade marches forward against an impeccable acoustic backdrop, mixing an irresistible touch of the unconventional into nostalgic Americana.

"Unlike any music I have heard in years, Bouchard’s approach demands that you stop and listen." - Frances Hunter, author

www.sarabouchard.com
 
9pm- Jon LaDeau
Genre: Blues, Folk, Americana
For fans of: Richard Thompson, Neil Young, George Harrison

Jon LaDeau is a guitarist, songwriter, and singer from Brooklyn, NY. His blues, country, and rock and roll influences blend into an original sound that is all his own. Over the past several years he has performed with his band, as a solo artist, and as a sideman in nearly every state of the U.S, Switzerland, Italy, and Austria.

The Deli Magazine, November 2012
“At times, his voice recalls the George Harrison from ‘All Things Must Pass’, a rocker who still understands the roots of his sound.”

New York Music Daily, November 2012
“…An adept blues guitarist…distantly ominous…”

http://jonladeau.com/

10pm- Ben Clark and the Long Shadows
Genre: Acoustic, rock, folk, jazz, blues
For fans of: Dave Matthews Band, Punch Brothers, Jeff Buckley, Ra Ra Riot, Martin Sexton

Ben Clark is a singer/songwriter from Floyds Knobs Indiana. The new project with THE LONG SHADOWS is a new ensemble currently featuring Clark on vocal and guitar, long time collaborator Nick Rapley on percussion, cellist Kristine Kruta, and guitarist/composer Eli Zoller. The material played is mostly from Clark's newest album TIME AND MILES APART, to be released Spring 2014.

soundcloud.com/benclarkisahustla
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNSGUW2NZ1g&feature=youtube_gdata_player

11pm- Jake La Botz
Genre: Blues, Roots
For fans of: Howling Wolf, Lightning Hopkins, Hank Williams, Bob Dylan

After dropping out of school at 15, Jake La Botz hit the road, frequenting punk rock shows, hobo camps, and libraries. He found employment as a roofer, boilermaker, graphite factory worker, and obituary writer. In the midst of this he learned how to play guitar. He played on the streets and in the juke joints of New Orleans, Chicago, and the Mississippi Delta, finding kinship with some of the last of the pre-war era bluesmen: David “Honeyboy” Edwards, “Homesick” James, and “Maxwell Street” Jimmy Davis. La Botz has become known for his "Tattoo Across America Tour", where he tours the country performing at tattoo shops and as an actor in films in which he sometimes sings his original songs: RAMBO dir. Sylvester Stallone, ANIMAL FACTORY dir. Steve Buscemi, ON THE ROAD dir. Walter Salles.

"Jake La Botz is a creator of dark poetry and haunting song, the kind of music that gets in your bones and rides you for days, a sound and vision only those who've been to the bottom and clawed their way back up can generate. His midnight gifts evoke Hank Williams and Skip James as much as Tom Waits and Dylan. Not everybody will get this music - because not everybody is ready for the truth. --Jerry Stahl (author of Permanent Midnight)

"Jake is the modern day Hank Williams." --Steve Buscemi (Actor-Director)

www.jakelabotz.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69DZVA6YKI8