Indie/Folk Night

A Night of Indie/Folk

Come and join us for a very special night of indie/folk with four performances from some amazing performers:

Blind Acid Date

Electric Monk

Adam James Sorensen

Start Time 9.30pm

Entrance Fee: $250

Blind Acid Date

Blind Acid Date is the brainchild of artist Nathan Javens. It’s a musical project led by warm vocals and haunting harmonies. The band weaves psychedelic distortion and reverb laden guitars together as though the Ventures and Syd Barret had joined forces. The band was formed in Taipei in 2012.

The current lineup consists of:

Nathan Javens - vocals

Thom Squires - bass

Moshe Foster - guitar

Jon Snowdon - drums

Blind Acid Date released their first self produced EP in the spring of 2013. The band’s first full length album, One Hand Free will be released spring of 2014.

Electric Monk

Electric Monk is Brent Scheihagen, Kyle Scheihagen, and Ed Schaefer. Kyle and Brent have been writing songs that span a variety of genres including rock, punk, country, blues and more.

Their lyrics are about many different things, such as the whirlwind life of nightclubs, fractured lives and relationships, or the desire to do the impossible.

Both Brent and Kyle sing as well as play guitar and bass, while Ed Schaefer holds it all together on the drums.

Electric Monk strives first to make you feel on a visceral level with music that makes you move: clap your hands, stomp your feet, dance, however it moves you. Listen again for the lyrics and let the music move you even more deeply. This is Electric Monk.

Adam James Sorensen

Born in Chicago, Sorensen has performed and recorded with jazz artists such as Scott Hamilton, Melvin Sparks, Keith Tippett, Nostalgia 77, David Berkman, Herb Geller, Bobby Wellins, YuYing Hsu, Martin Zenker, Tony Monaco and Peter King. He played on Yu Ying Hsu’s 2010 record, Untitled, which won both jazz recording of the year, and best jazz single in Taiwan ’10. He has also performed and recorded with rock and folk artists such as The Blood Oranges, Amy Allison, Neil Cleary, Jerry Joseph, John Carlin and Megan Peters, and has lived in New York City, Edinburgh, Berlin, Chicago and Taipei.

Sorensen has recorded and toured internationally both as a drummer, and as a singer songwriter/guitarist. He released his solo debut, MIDWEST, in 2012 on City Creek Records. Sorensen lived in New York City until 2005, and while there earned a BFA in jazz performance from New School University. He has studied with jazz legends such as Geri Allen, Gregory Hutchinson, Carl Allen, Ari Hoenig, Peter Bernstein, Jane Ira-Bloom, Hal Galper, among others. More information, performance dates and music can be found on his website:

www.adamjamessorensen