Grab some friends and split a table for a safe and fulfilling return to live music!
Nova Arts is happy to be offering live and in-person concerts on the Nova stage at Brewbakers Cafe. As we carefully restart live programming, table reservations are required to ensure a comfortable good time for all. Tickets are pay what you want donations, thanks to a generous grant from the NH State Council on the Arts and a partnership with Hundred Nights. Any money that comes in from these tickets will get split between our programming fund and Hundred Nights, a year-round emergency shelter and resource center here in Keene.
Audrey Ryan is a Boston-based singer-songwriter indie rock artist best known as a “one-man-band” multi-instrumentalist using loops on guitar as well as accordion, ukulele, drums, vibraphone and other unique instrumentation. Her music is often described as ethereal, eclectic, and uniquely authentic in its originality. She has toured globally sharing the stage with Suzanne Vega, They Might be Giants, Josh Ritter, Sam Amidon, Beth Orton, Glen Hansard, Grace Potter, and Ra Ra Riot to name a few. Her music has been featured in several movies and TV shows including Dance Moms, American Pickers, Teen Mom, Boyhood, 16 and Pregnant, and a Whole Foods commercial.
It’s been five years since Audrey has released a new record which coincides with when she started a family. Two kids later, Audrey is back to share a collection of new songs entitled Buggy Spell recorded with Steve Brodsky (Cave In, Mutoid Man). This material includes 8 originals of her trademark one-man-band loop songs as well as accordion and vibraphone compositions. Over ten years after releasing Dishes & Pills, the record featuring “Later Alligator” that was featured on the TV show Glee, Audrey has written the sequel song “After a While Crocodile” in this new collection. The song “Dear Dave” is a tribute to her friend the late Dave Lamb of Brown Bird who passed away of Leukemia a little over five years ago when Audrey was pregnant with her daughter. Lastly, her song “Coyote” is a written from the perspective of an illegal immigrant youth which is a reflection of her work in hospitals as a crisis clinician. Her album release show at Club Passim Thursday, June 20th is a celebration of her emerging from early parenthood into making music and sharing it again. Special guests include Steve Brodsky, Ana Karina DaCosta, others TBA.
Born in Lowell, MA, Singer/songwriter Charlie Chronopoulos got his start performing as a guitarist in regional lounges and ballrooms, sharing the stage as a teen with classic acts such as Grand funk railroad, Cheap Trick, and the Doobie Brothers.
He went on to produce his own indie records and work as a session guitarist for several multi-platinum and Grammy winning artists including Serj Tankian(System of a Down) and Shirley Manson(Garbage). His career took an unconventional turn when he was invited to work under Tony winner Diane Paulus and perform in several off-broadway productions for the ART at Harvard University. Chronopoulos credits this time with re-invigorating his love of storytelling and performance art, and so he rented mill space in Wilton, NH to start writing and producing his own work with renewed vigor. His latest effort, Dead End, is a stripped down compilation of songs that play out like short stories, centering around the lives of family and friends he witnessed struggling with addiction during his time performing in lounges in greater Lowell, MA.
While the subject matter is often heavy, Chronopoulos writes with empathy, and a type of war humor that serves to counter the narrative of backwardness and poverty.