Moe Reen / Kyle Morgan & Ellie MacPhee
Doors 8pm, Show 8:30pm
$20 adv / $25 dos
Ohio-based (and born and raised) country-folk songsmith Moe Reen writes from the heart, for the heart. A lifelong vocalist, their old-school country voice often garners comparisons to Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, and other honky-tonk-heartbreak crooners of yesteryear. Moe’s witty lyrics, however, are distinctly modern. The songs on their debut EP, Grow Again (April 2024) include a finger-picking reflection on the malaise of seasonal depression alongside a slow-dancing lament comparing climate deniers and unrequited lovers. Moe’s marriage of sentimental sound with contemporary sentiment produces something distinctly their own: earnest lyrics cradled by melodies that tenderly soar to tend to the sore, soft spots of us all.
Kyle Morgan is a Brooklyn-based songwriter originally from Dillsburg, Pennsylvania, where he grew up singing with his family at church and home. With influences ranging from the classic roots music of the Carter Family and Hank Williams to more modern artists like Thom Yorke and Rufus Wainwright, Kyle sings songs of spiritual longing, struggle and redemption in an earnest tenor voice. He released three albums in the twenty-teens under the name Starcrossed Losers. In 2022, his debut solo album, Younger at Most Everything, came out on Team Love Records. His new LP, Ghost of a Problem, comes out May 22nd.
Ellie MacPhee (she/her) is a performing violinist and teacher in Brooklyn, New York. As a graduate of both Longy School of Music at Bard College and Oberlin Conservatory, MacPhee’s work is focused on the use of violin mastery as a landscape for emotional expression and joyful music making. Her path as a musician began with traditional folk and bluegrass music, which later propelled her into her study as a classical violinist.