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Music Event November 11, 2011
- Martha Wainwright with Alexa Wilding - Residency - 11/11
- 6:00pm Seating / 8:00pm Show
Tickets
- Bar Stools $22.00
- Reserved Tables $25.00
- Reserved Best Tables $28.00
- VIP Tables $28.00
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Born in Montreal to parents of Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle, Martha Wainwright was engulfed in a sea of music from childbirth. Often singing or performing on-stage and in the studio at an early age, Wainwright became agitated at the thought of a musical career during high school. Shunning music, she decided to study drama at Montreal's Concordia University instead. Soon after starting her studies, however, Wainwright began composing her own material and performing in clubs and coffeehouses around Montreal. In 1997, she released her debut effort, a cassette entitled Ground Floor. She also began touring with her older brother Rufus Wainwright as a backing vocalist and musician. Moving from Montreal to New York, Wainwright took part in a stage musical called Largo. She also released a self-titled EP, as well as a four-song EP called Factory in 2002. In February 2005, Wainwright released another EP called Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole, followed by the eponymous Martha Wainwright (her full-length debut album) in April. Her second full-length effort, I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too, arrived in spring 2008. In 2009 Wainwright released Sans Fusils, Ni Souliers, a Paris, a 15-song collection of live Edith Piaf covers.
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New York songbird Alexa Wilding just wrapped Coral Dust, the follow-up to her 2009 self-titled debut. Produced by Tim Foljahn (who has collaborated with Cat Power, Thurston Moore, the late Townes Van Zandt), mixed by Television's Fred Smith, and mastered by Fred Kevorkian(Regina Spektor, Joan as Policewoman) the album's lush and atmospheric expanse is an electrifying progression from Wilding's dark acoustic noir. As Foljahn puts it, "The first record is a sweet, dirty delight in sparky darkness. The new one is a whole other thing: vistas of space dust and crystal cliffs." While the songs are still rooted in Wilding and Foljahn's intricate call-and-response guitar play, room has been made for deep sea bells, airy synths, and mischievous percussion, courtesy of Brooklyn drummer, Brian Kantor (Higgins, Vetiver). Wilding reigns over these dreamy equations with warm, layered vocals, weaving her tales with self-possession. "Coral Dust is my Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, " she laughs, "it's deep sea diving for the faint of heart."
After the self-release of her eponymous first album, featuring the fan favorite single, "Black Diamond Day," Wilding was named "one of music's hippest chicks" (NY Post) alongside Florence and the Machine and Juliette Lewis, and as one to watch in Nylon, Page Six, Dossier, Daily Candy,and Time Out amongst others. Her music was brought to a national level last summer when she joined Au Revoir Simone on a US tour (to rave reviews), and overseas with her collaborations with Scandinavian fashion label, IVANAhelsinki. Wilding began her career singing and playing synths with Int'l Shades, the art-psych rock project of ex-Pussy Gallore/Sonic Youth drummer, Bob Bert, and Live Skull's Mark C, opening for indie heavy-weights such as Mudhoney, Genesis P'Orridge and Kid Congo.
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