Salt Cracker Crazies Holiday Show + Peter Wise + Fernando Fidanza @ The Way Station

8-10pm- Salt Cracker Crazies

Revisit your childhood as the Salt Cracker Crazies, finishing their second
year as the Way Station’s resident jug band, reprise their tribute to perhaps the greatest holiday special of all time, Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas. Join the Crazies as they sing through legend of Emmet, Ma, The Riverbottom Nightmare Band, and the rest of the Frogtown Hollow gang in true jug band style. This is a two-set show, so expect an extended talent show with special guests, lascivious behavior, and plenty of boot stomping hokum.

10pm- Peter Wise

Genre: alt pop/folk
For fans of: Jeff Buckley, Matt Corby, Allen Stone, Gary Clark Jr.

Singer/songwriter Peter Wise (ASCAP) has a lifelong passion for music, playing guitar and piano for over 16 years. A 2014 graduate of NYU, Wise’s sound has been described as alt pop and folk/soul, fusing a wide variety of musical genres to make his own pop/rock style. Blending the early ‘70s folk/rock lyricism and the modern indie/rock soundscapes and production, Wise’s sound has been compared from everyone from Jeff Buckley and Paul Simon to John Mayer, Bon Iver, and Matt Corby. Studying music at NYU connected him with some of the industries’ best. He studied privately with award winning and multi Grammy-nominated songwriter Phil Galdston and opened for iconic American band The Eagles at a sold-out Beacon Theater in November 2012.

Firmly entrenched in the New York music scene for the past four years, Wise played a full Studio At Webster Hall in support of Green River Ordinance on their North American tour and is a frequent player at Rockwood Music Hall, Arlene’s Grocery, as well as The Bitter End, where he held the release party for his album When Day Breaks on November 23rd, 2013. With a fan base fast increasing, Wise was a featured performer at Musikfest on the Martin Guitar Lyrikplatz stage in August 2014, and recently played to packed audiences in Boston.

Brooklyn-based Wise continues to perform throughout the New York City area, and has started to expand his fanbase, with upcoming shows in St. Louis and Illinois.

After releasing a four-song EP entitled Don’t Walk Away in October of 2012, Wise spent the summer of 2013 working on his debut LP When Day Breaks, released in November of 2013. He has now started licensing music featured on both release to TV shows, most recently with the show Bring Your Own Board – Orange County. Wise continues to work on release new music, with his newest single, Quiet, out this past October.

“On his latest album, When Day Breaks, Peter Wise fuses the upbeat songwriting like that of Simon & Garfunkel with the wistful yearnings of classic folk and Americana. Opening with ‘To Be Free’, it’s clear that Peter Wise has the musical chops and writing sensibilities to put together an engaging track. Laced with lap steel and heartwarming descending basslines, there are plenty of treats to be found along the way, with snappy guitar work and head-bobbing dropped beats.” – Chris Marsh, Skope Mag

http://www.peterwisemusic.com/

11pm- Fernando Fidanza

Genre: Italian folk
For fans of: Dave Matthews Band

I used to play in the streets of Italy, exchanging stories and wine with people around me. My songs are about love, hate, sex and, obviously, wine.

http://fernandofidanzausatour.wordpress.com/