Jenny Owen Youngs, Sam Bradley, Sean McVerry (of Coyote Campus) September 15, 2011

ALL AGES

Jenny Owen Youngs
Jenny Owen Youngs is singer-songwriter from Montclair, New Jersey.

After exploring the flute (elementary school) and the tuba (junior high), Jenny finally stepped up to the guitar at the age of fourteen.

She graduated from State University of New York at Purchase with a degree in studio composition.

Her album Batten The Hatches was self-released in 2005. In 2006, a song from that album, Fuck Was I, appeared in the second season premiere of Showtime’s Weeds, resulting in Batten the Hatches being re-released on April 10, 2007 with new artwork and an extra track, Drinking Song on the Canadian indie label Nettwerk. “Fuck Was I” was also released on the soundtrack album Weeds: Music from the Original Series, Vol. 2.

In addition to her solo career, she is in the band The Robot Explosion, a side project with fellow musicians and friends Bess Rogers, Andrew Futral, and Saul Simon-MacWilliams. She also takes part in an online podcast through MySpace with Bess Rogers and Andrew Futral, titled ‘Once More With Feeling’ (named after the musical episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer).

Youngs released her second album, Transmitter Failure, on May 26, 2009.

She recently toured with Regina Spektor (whose phone message also appears on Voice On Tape) and has opened a few shows for Amanda Palmer.

Youngs covered Have You Forgotten by Mark Kozelek for American Laundromat records’ charity CD Sing Me To Sleep - Indie Lullabies released Spring 2010. Tanya Donelly, Dean & Britta, Say Hi, Julie Peel, Stars, The Real Tuesday Weld, and others contributed to the project which helps children with cancer and rare blood disorders.
Mp3s: http://jennyowenyoungs.bandcamp.com

Sam Bradley
Sam Bradley was born in London in 1986, but began his schooling, at he age of three, in Hong Kong. When his folks divorced two years later, he moved with his mom to Nashville , where he was raised amidst the sounds of country, music that would haunt his work for the rest of his life. When Bradley’s mother, an Irish-Canadian singer/songwriter, took him back to England his father moved on to Sri Lanka, fulfilling Sam’s destiney to be a wanderer: following family from home in London to Sri Lanka, the Carribean and Canada. In the fall of 1997, having written songs for as long as he could remember, Bradley enrolled into a liberal arts school in the heart of the city. Though he was instantly disillusioned with the constraints of academic life, his contemporaries took him in more productive directions. Namely the development of his art, it was a musical education with heroes such as Tom Waits, Van Morrison, Tim Buckley and Johnny Lee Hooker as teachers.
Mp3s: http://www.myspace.com/sambradley

Sean McVerry (of Coyote Campus)
Sean Mcverry is a singer-songwriter from eastern Connecticut . He studies studio composition at SUNY Purchase and in the last year has established himself as a figure in both the westchester music scene as well as the anti-folk scene in the lower east side of manhattan. His band, Coyote Campus has just self released an EP entitled "People you know" and have begun to get it out to the Internet masses. Listing Influences from Jeff Mangum to Kevin Barnes, Sean has found a unique and intriguing sound.
Mp3s: http://coyotecampus.bandcamp.com

Official Website: http://manicproductions.org/shows/2157