Kenny Young & the Eggplants + David Bryan & Friends + The Jacks + Sean Kershaw @ The Way Station

8pm- Kenny Young and the Eggplants
Genre: Intergalactic folk-and-roll
For fans of: Fountains of Wayne, They Might Be Giants, Warren Zevon, The Kinks, Robyn Hitchcock, the Ramones, the Flaming Lips, Devo, the B-52s, Jonathan Richman, Violent Femmes, Ian Dury, Nick Lowe, and Life in a Blender.

Brooklyn’s inimitable Kenny Young and the Eggplants play intergalactic folk-and-roll songs about giant squirrels, scary bits of cheese, aliens, time travel, inebriated crime-solving birds, and malevolent washing machines, among other important topics. Their spaceship has frequently landed in the UK, where they won a prestigious Herald Angel Award for their performances at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, and where one of their live radio sessions was selected for a Best of the BBC Archives series. In NYC, the Eggplants received an Honorable Mention from Pop Matters for their performance at the CMJ Festival, and they were recognized with a Special Mention in a BMI songwriting competition for their monsterpiece, “The House at Creepy Lake.” The most improbable honor for the band so far occurred in the pages of Time Magazine, where the author Alexander McCall Smith included the Eggplants in his “Short List” of favorite artistic discoveries. The Eggplants have recorded five albums, which have been played profusely on local station WFMU, and which have careened onto the Top 30 charts at various other college radio stations across North America.

“The Eggplants mix brainy, funny lyrics with a fine sense of what makes pop music wonderful.” -- Dr. Demento

“Gentle insanity with irresistible tunes” -- The Herald

“The naivete Kenny wears on his sleeve is genuine - think of an East Village Brian Wilson, without the money but still tilted in his own wacked-out way.” -- Village Voice

“Giving eloquent voice to the multifaceted neuroses of prolonged adolescence” -- The New York Times

www.kennyyoungandtheeggplants.com
Video game – “Attack of the Maniac Librarian” – based on an Eggplants song: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/3149066/
http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/music/they-are-immature-perhaps-...

9pm- David Bryan and Friends
Genre: Folk, Bluegrass
For fans of: Grateful Dead, Old Crow Medicine Show

Performing soulful and creative versions of Grateful Dead tunes, David Bryan and Friends combine elements of bluegrass, folk, country, gospel, and jazz. Top-notch vocals, unique arrangements, and just enough room to stretch out without being overly self-indulgent make this eclectic ensemble a fun group to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihmAFOEHzJ4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2-36glELew

10pm- The Jacks

Genre: Folk, Rock, Americana
For Fans of: Simon and Garfunkel, The Beatles

A Brooklyn-based americana, folk rock duo that feature original songs, and
angelic vocal harmonies.

https://www.facebook.com/Jacksofkingscounty
http://m.reverbnation.com/artist/thejacksofkingscounty

11pm- Sean Kershaw
Genre: Rockabilly, jump blues, honkytonk
For fans of: Hasil Adkins, CCR, Southern Culture on the Skids, Link Wray, White Stripes, Homer Henderson

From growling gutteral Link Wray-style rock’n‘roll to sweet country ballads, Sean Kershaw handles it all with a telecaster and a Kick drum made from an old suitcase. This is dancin’ around the room, cryin’ in your beer, shootin’ tin cans off the fence kinda music. Guaranteed to please deep down in your soul and a few other parts as well.

“Baritone country crooner Sean Kershaw‘s new album The Aussie Sessions is arguably his best – and he’s been writing good songs for a long time. His first New York band, the Blind Pharaohs, hung out on the shadowy side of rockabilly. Since then, Kershaw has gone in more of a classic honkytonk and western swing direction with his band the New Jack Ramblers. This one goes deep into the noir, from Texas to Tennessee – except that it was recorded in that hotbed of edgy music, Melbourne, Australia.” (Lucid Culture Dec 2013)

www.seankershaw.com