PHILLY- Fiona Fest: a tribute to FIONA APPLE for the 20th Anniversary of TIDAL presented by Brookladelphia & Female Frequency

Brookladelphia & Female Frequency present Fiona Fest: a tribute to Fiona Apple in celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Tidal. Musicians will perform original music and songs from the album.

Friday, June 17th- 7pm
World Cafe Live
3025 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA
Tickets: http://tickets.worldcafelive.com/event/1090947
Tickets: $10
brookladelphiamusic.com
femalefrequency.com

Featuring performances by . . . .

Chelsea Sue Allen
Dani Mari
Desiree Sky of Black Horse Motel
Angela Sheik
Chelsea Mitchell
Andrea Nardello
Gretchen Lohse
Meg and the Right Sound
The Sun Flights
Sophie Coran
Ellen Siberian-Tiger
Noelle Picara

About Brookladelphia
Brookladelphia is a concert series that started as an idea of creating a bridge between the Philadelphia & Brooklyn music scene. We curate live events that feature music and art from multiple cities and genres. The shows encourage creativity, collaboration and community. Our tribute shows celebrate album anniversaries and feature covers songs and original music by local and touring artists.
Visit brookladelphiamusic.com for more info

About Female Frequency
Female Frequency is a music collective dedicated to empowering women & girls in the music industry through the creation of media that is entirely female generated.

We are making an album created entirely by women, start to finish --this means that all writing, instrumentation, arrangement, performance, production, engineering, mixing, mastering, marketing and visual media will be carried out by females. Pre-orders of our album made entirely by women are available here--> https://femalefrequency.bandcamp.com/

For more info visit femalefrequency.com

Supported by
Philadelphia Folksong Society--> pfs.org
Soundgirls.org-> soundgirls.org

Better.Space
Build Movements, Not Just Communities
http://better.space/

The host:
Dani Mari
An avid fan of Billie Holiday and Mazzy Star, Dani Mari was born to sing. Her music is fueled by personal narratives embedded in the craft of classic story telling and the emotional insight of a most unlikely “old soul”. Audiences across the United States and throughout Europe have gravitated toward her beautifully haunting voice and the simplistic elegance of her lyrics which transcend our current snap shot of popular music. With nothing more than her instrument and stories of her life experience, her songs merely hint at Dani Mari’s desire to transport listeners the world over to an era of nostalgia which exists within the depths of her soul.

She has been featured on NPR, BBC, MTV, WXPN (including the Gene Shay Folk Show on WXPN) and Brooklyn Vegan and has collaborated with FEAR CLUB from Paris, Sun Glitters from Luxembourg, Brooklyn Shanti and was formally in the dreampop duo, Lockets. Dani Mari performs solo and with Will Hanza as the dark-folk duo Owl and Wolf. She also collaborated with Reverend TJ McGlinchey in the folk-pop duo Lovers League and released an EP with award winning producer Bill Moriarty (Lotus, Dr. Dog).

Dani Mari is the founder of Female Frequency, a music collective dedicated to empowering women & girls in the music industry through the creation of media that is entirely female generated, with I Am Snow Angel and Claire London. They are currently creating an album made entirely by women with Kiran Gandhi and other female producers. Dani Mari is also in the process of producing her own album.

Angela Sheik
A truly groundbreaking musical force of nature, soulful music innovator Angela Sheik opens up a world of sonic, rhythmic and compositional possibilities that have driven her success as a multi-faceted, trip-hop and electronic-infused folk-pop indie artist on her new album, Home Before Dark. The crafty multi-instrumentalist (autoharp, theremin, flute) works with producer (and fellow electronic fusion artist) RYAT to create a richly textured ten track exploration of deep grooves, infectious melodies, dynamic vocal harmonies, and soulful ambiences.

The Wilmington, Delaware based Angela has been brilliantly fusing her traditional singer/songwriter leanings with electronic innovations since the release of her aptly titled 2011 debut EP “Songs from the Red Box” as the Grand Prize winner of the BOSS Loop Station 2011 U.S. National Finals, winner of the Philadelphia Songwriter Project Competition and twice voted Female Artist of the Year (93.7 WSTW Hometown Heroes).

Wowing audiences with her fearless creative experimentation, mischievous smile and self-generated swirl of rhythmic harmonies, the multi-talented artist has toured the U.S. and Europe; and opened for The Neon Trees, Julia Holter, Joseph Arthur, and renowned bassist and pop singer Meshell Ndegeocello.

Chelsea Mitchell
Since first emerging on the Philadelphia folk scene in 2005, singer-songwriter Chelsea Mitchell has become known for powerful vocals and raw lyrical honesty. Her wide repertoire reflects many styles and eras, but most listeners compare her clear, expressive voice to songbirds of the seventies – namely, Joni Mitchell (no relation).

Peter Joseph, Mitchell’s musical partner, complements live performances with banjo, melodica, and electric guitar. Together they will release "Married in the Aviary," a new EP for the spring of 2013.

Ellen Siberian-Tiger
I'm Ellen Siberian Tiger and I make songs! I like to combine the sounds of fingerpicking folk music with distorted effects and electric guitar. My primary influences are the Dodos and St. Vincent. I am also heavily inspired by literature, people, and Pennsylvania, the wonderful state I grew up in.

Chelsea Sue Allen
Hailing from the suburbs of Philadelphia, Chelsea Sue Allen creates ambient indie rock that has been described as both eclectic and dreamy. She self-produced and released her first album, Tiny Prizes, in 2011 followed by an ep, Reuinion, in 2013. Allen recently released her new album, Lonely Ages, this Fall (2015). Her sister and accomplice, Shay Allen, adds atmospheric electric guitar, as well as collaborates in the making of the songs. In addition to her own music, Chelsea is also a member of Philly bands Vilebred and Psalmships.

Gretchen Lohse
Gretchen Lohse is a native Philadelphia singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She comes from a family with deep music roots and was classically trained on violin, which is evident on her recordings. As the front woman of Philadelphia psychedelic folk rock band Yellow Humphrey, she dreams up rich, strange musical tapestries- part memoir and part tall tale- that are heavily influenced by folklore and silent films.

Sophie Coran
Sophie is influenced by classic singer-songwriters such as Carole King and Joni Mitchell as well as alternative artists including Fiona Apple and Regina Spektor. She draws inspiration from jazz and soul music, as well as her classical background. .

Sophie recorded her debut EP "Better" with Michael Cumming at his home studio in London. It was released in June 2015.

Meg and the Right Sound
“Meg’s soulful voice leads her band to the right sound”, according to the Lititz Record, which is appropriate, considering the bands name, Meg and the Right Sound–or MRS for short.

MRS blends powerful vocals with an eclectic mix of music genres. A dash of soul, a dribble of indie rock, and the occasional burp of POP makes them a must see! Helen Leicht of WXPN says, “I’m all about ‘the voice’. It gives the listener an immediate connection to their soul. Meg’s voice is stunning–soulful and warm.”

When all of the Right Sound’s powers are combined, they are made up of Meg McDermott belting lead vocals, Jason Sherman wailing on guitar and backing vocals, Chris Jakubowicz slappin’ and tappin’ his bass and Jeremy Bentley punishing the drums!

Meg McDermott has been singing and performing over the years for such live acts as For the Birds, Silver City Rodeo and Mark DeRose and the Dreadnought Brigade. Her powerful diva stylings lead the Right Sound. Meg cities such influences as Karen O, Billie Holiday and Sylvan Esso. Jason Sherman complements Meg’s vocals with his own, cold-filtered through his impressive mustache, while simultaneously rocking electric guitar and flannel shirts. He has done so admirably since before the first telltale hair sprung from his upper lip, gracing such musical endeavors as Tyler Speaks for Me and The French Revolution. Jason’s favorite artists include Murder by Death and Cursive. Chris Jakubowicz coaxes magic from his nimble fingers, channeling the spirit of the Low End through his 6-stringed MTD electric bass. When not rocking out to Snarky Puppy and James Jamerson in his Prius, Chris warmly recalls his mystic birth to the Realm of Music in 1990, and thanks the bass gods for the power to rock ever since. Chris has played in bands such as The Secrecy, The Michael Ferrari and The French Revolution. Jeremy Bentley’s beard has been crashing cymbals and smashing snare drums since its senior year in high school. It was inspired by other musical beards such as Sunny Day Beard Estate and The National Beard, and Beard. The famed beard has toured and played with Movies with Heroes and rocked with some of its current bandmates in other gigs, namely The French Revolution. Jeremy has followed his beard willingly through the years, and has joyed in the musical benefits it has provided him.

“When we started this project, we were tired of the typical bar-band-music-scene. So we decided that when we aren’t playing our originals, we are playing music that we like, and not what’s expected.”

The Sun Flights
Synchronicity is the key to Sun Flights' music, patterns of rhythms and words wrapped around harmony. Ideas stretched thin and then condensed. Timing. Something about the way we come together. Something about the way we fall apart.

Sun Flights' music is conscious poetry, stories which permeate the structures of every song. These dynamic compositions give color to sonic vistas, space to explore the age old questions. Ultimately asking, what can songs say that we can't?

Andrea Nardello
Philly's Andrea Nardello has garnered favorable comparisons to Melissa Etheridge and Shawn Colvin for melding pop songwriting smarts with a confessional and literate songwriting style which often explores relationships, romance, and her own "out" family life. Andrea has been busy touring in support of her new EP, entitled ECHO, opening for the likes of Brandi Carlile, Tony Lucca, Ron Pope, and Emerson Hart of Tonic fame. Andrea's refined accessibility draws from folk, rock, soul, and even the swagger of hip-hop. Never one to rest on her laurels, Andrea will be back in the studio this fall with ECHO producer Matt Chiaravalle (Warren Zevon, Josh Joplin) to begin production on her next studio release. Andrea has built a respectable indie artist profile through DIY ethics and tireless touring, not to mention winning the prestigious 2014 Philadelphia Songwriter’s Project.

Noelle Picara
Noelle Picara
“Picara is able to masterfully mesh beauty with death” – Andre Lamar, Hockessin Community News

Hard Rock Piano. Tori Amos and Amanda Palmer in a horror movie. “Out of the ash / I rise with my red hair / and eat men like air.”

Music for thinking, feeling creatures who want to stare in the face the things that make most people look away. For button pushers, lovers of mythology, feminists, humanists, and seekers of light in the darkness.

Noelle Picara is a rock pianist, singer/songwriter, and CSA survivor from Wilmington, Delaware. She performs locally at venues such as WXPN’s World Cafe Live, The Legendary Dobbs, the Chris White Gallery, Film Brothers Co-Op, and at events such as the Ladybug Festival, Millienium Music, and Cape May’s Singer-Songwriter conference. She is currently promoting her new album, “My Own Frankenstein,” recorded at Seventh Wave Studios, featuring Brian Viglione on drums (Dresden Dolls, Violent Femmes). In 2014 she performed Tori Amos’ entire Little Earthquakes album as a benefit concert for SOAR (survivors of abuse in recovery).

In her other lives, Noelle has studied classical music, creative writing at the Kerouac School, lived in Germany for 7 years as an Air Force spouse, and taught thousands of students in the areas of music, theater, writing, and dance. She probably takes herself way too seriously. To make her laugh, please send her pictures of little children wearing mustaches.