City: Brooklyn

Doors 8pm, Show 8:30pm
$25 adv / $30 doors

Bleecker Trading Presents Andy Friedman & the Bark Peelers! Andy Friedman has been hailed as a “hot live act” (NPR), an “artistic visionary” (Gothamist) and a “gifted storyteller” (The New Yorker).  He returns to the musical arena with his band, The Bark Peelers, after a fourteen-year hiatus.

A key figure in the early-2000s “Brooklyn Country” scene, Andy Friedman didn’t pick up a guitar until age 30. Less than a year later, he recorded his debut album Taken Man (2006), featuring Old Crow Medicine Show’s Ketch Secor. The title track landed on the New York Post’s “207 Best Songs” list alongside Bruce Springsteen and Amy Winehouse. Scott Avett of The Avett Brothers called “Probably Shouldn’t Call,” a ballad from the album, a favorite in Vanity Fair. His 2008 follow-up, Weary Things, was named one of the year’s most overlooked albums by the Associated Press.

Since 2021, Topps has released three 100-card sets of Friedman’s paintings. His 2025 set, Shoebox Treasures, sold-out in minutes. The first 50 ticket holders will receive a limited-edition custom designed physical ticket hand-numbered to 50 issued by Bleecker Trading and the artist. A post-show ticket and card signing presented by Bleecker Trading will follow.

The Bark Peelers are Shaye Troha (backing vocals), Danny Kwaitowski (guitars), Andy Statzkiew (bass), Charles Burst (drums), Tianna Kennedy (cello), and Bill Duke (banjo, electric shovel slide)