Manifest Sons + Daphne Lee Martin + Andrew and Ashley + zanzibar holy rites @ The Way Station

8pm- Manifest Sons
Genre: Electronic folk
For fans of: Beck, The Fall, Talking Heads, public access TV religious programming, Italian horror movies

MANIFEST SONS periodically release prophetic dispatches for the victorious electronic church in these latter days. Our songs will help you get everything right and make friends in the city through the supernatural power of the NES soundchip and rad bouzouki solos. The group is a ministry of siblings Adam Murphy (bouzouki, “singing”) and Debra Murphy (voice, iPhone 5s), with spiritual advice and marketing handled by Bill Belshazzar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVJqs1egnnU

9pm- Daphne Lee Martin
Genre: Songwriter/Electronic
For fans of: Bat for Lashes, Portishead, Aimee Mann

After a whirlwind affair with roots music, garnering her several songwriting and performance awards, including CT Music Awards’ 2012 Country Artist of the Year and Whalie Awards’ Album of the Year, Daphne Lee Martin is back in force with a new collection of songs on her latest pair of records, Frost & Moxie (Telegraph Recording Company). Since its release, the albums have been featured on The Needle Drop, Rolling Stone contributor Eric Danton’s Listen, Dammit, NPR’s Where We Live, No Depression, WTNH’s CT Style, The Day’s Live Lunch Break, and Boston Dig, Surviving the Golden Age, Daytrotter, Radio K, as well as a number of other national blogs and zines. Moxie charted in the Top 200 CMJ weekly chart (with over 45 adds) and was included in Under the Radar’s official SXSW Sampler followed by three national tours including SXSW. In 2014 Daphne was nominated in the New England Music Awards for Female Performer of the Year as well as the CT Music Awards Singer/Songwriter of the Year.

“Channeling Peggy Lee singing in some interstellar speakeasy backed by Jack White, where the fashion of bowler hats and bow ties are mixed with Go Go boots and mini-skirts” -Rick Bowen, No Depression

“Lemme tell you it’s a badly behaved set of tracks. It’s a liquored up weekend whose hangover lasts well into the work week.” -Anthony Fantano, The Needle Drop

“Moxie is an altogether different affair. Less a collection of songs – more a soundtrack to a wild burlesque show. Underwater, dreamy vocals, you hear reggae beats under New Orleans horns….bossa nova…honky tonk…Gypsy and swing….all in a late-night cabaret. “ -John Dankosky, NPR

“The music is a little dirty, a little dangerous but a hell of a good time.” - Chip McCabe, CT.com

”Cheeky, and full of verve and swing... equal to anything Dr. John might have conjured up in his voodoo lair.” - Vincent Bator, Examiner.com

“With her strong writing style and sultry vocal delivery, Martin has you in the palm of her hand from track one.” - Troy Michael, Innocent Words Chicago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHjzXwa1FC4
https://soundcloud.com/telegraph-recording-co/sets/moxie-daphne-lee-martin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93WIkMnm6Dk#t=0
http://www.daytrotter.com/#!/concert/daphne-lee-martin/20057407-37385058...

10pm- Andrew and Ashley
Genre: Indie Singer/Songwriter
For fans of: The XX, Ben Harper, First Aid Kit

Andrew and Ashley are a New York-based folk duo that jumps from heartbreak to humor before you can finish your whiskey. Andrew Bancroft’s original lyrics and guitar licks are complemented by Ashley Flanagan’s powerful vocals. They will be joined by the talented multi-instrumentalist Yair Evnine on cello. If the mood strikes, you may be privy to an audience-inspired freestyle rap. Either way, you will hear something unique.

Bancroft has been has been featured on Mtv’s TRL and in Rolling Stone and TIME.

“Even better, Ashley Perez Flanagan…delivers a sweetly touching ‘Another Suitcase in Another Hall.’” –The New York Times (review of Evita)

www.andrewbancroft.com

11pm- zanzibar holy rites
Genre: rocknroll
For fans of: Pavement, Neil Young w Crazy Horse

Simple arrangements with good stories. Anthony “Texas” Long, Bobby Raw (boboxblood.com), and Jeremy Wierwille produce original Americana tinged garage psyche-soul that will certainly pair nicely with The Way Station Wednesday drink special $5 jameson all night.

zanzibarholyrites.bandcamp.com