Join Sara Curtin Five for their hometown album release show at Black Cat DC!
SARA CURTIN & The North Country & PNMA
7:30pm. $15
Black Cat (downstairs)
1811 14th St NW DC
ABOUT SARA:
The Deli Magazine writes that Sara has a “lovely, hypnotic voice that’ll certainly entrance you into exploring more of her music”. While Sara is not trying to hypnotize you, she will invite you to explore the themes of her honest and often autobiographical songs. Born and raised in Washington, DC on The Beatles, Michael Jackson, musical theater, and Joni Mitchell, the influences present in her songwriting are eclectic. AudioFemme calls her music “smart yet delicious, like a kale smoothie as yummy as a milkshake.”
Sara Curtin is a CMJ premiered artist and her 2015 album “Michigan Lilium” charted on the CMJ Top 200 charts. That Music Magazine calls her “a gifted songwriter who understands that you don’t write because you want to say something, but because you have something to say and she sure as heck says it exquisitely.”
In 2017, Curtin founded Local Woman Records.
SARA CURTIN FIVE consists of Maureen Andary, Olivia Mancini, Brendan Polmer, and Ryan Walker.
About THE NORTH COUNTRY:
The objective reality is this: there isn’t one. While we may live on the physical plane together, always jockeying for a space to standpeacefully among the noise, each experience is always subject to the whims of the beholder. The promise and horror of today is very real. But it’s up to you on how those macro social currents will affect your reality.
Andrew Grossman—bandleader, guitarist and lead vocalist for DC’s The North Country—documents his search for widespread subjective truth through expressive, narrative-based songwriting, providing both context and personal color on the trials, tribulations and tiny victories of 21st-century adulthood. Blending polyphonic psychedelia, classic American songwritership and soulful indie-rock compositions, The North Country is a band with a distinct message and broad appeal. Think about a deep songwriting session between Elvis Costello, Andrew Bird and Jeff Lynne, mix in Songs in the Key of Life-esque horn arrangements, St. Vincent’s otherworldly progressions, and you’re on your way to understanding The North Country.
Their newly recorded full-length album—In Defense of Cosmic Altruism— finds the band in a place populated with unknowns, not unlike our current social climate. Freed from a certain future, The North Country is free to explore their many facets, incorporating sounds as vast as synth pop, experimental and neo-soul, weaving a pastiche of influences as diverse as our community.
http://www.thenorthcountrymusic.com/
About PNMA:
PNMA is a Washington, D.C. – based singer, songwriter, producer and vocal arranger. Her eclectic brand of alternative R&B plants her virtually alone on an island of genre-shattering rebelliousness teeming with raw emotion, sensuality and bounce. She describes her sound as an aural isthmus that bridges two worlds, exploring the duality of the human condition.
PNMA began singing at the age of three, and songwriting at twelve years old. Coming from a family convinced there was no financial future in music, she initially decided to pursue a career in Psychology. It didn’t take long for her to realize that music was her calling, and she left the University of Maryland to enroll in Howard University’s vocal jazz program. Here she polished her signature syncopation, complex cadences and high-contralto singing style. During college, PNMA worked for over two years as lead writer, session singer and day-to-day project organizer for House Studio, penning the hits “Survivalism” for Mannywellz and “History” with Kokayi, currently at almost 200,000 plays on Soundcloud. Her work on the BOOMscat album No Life Jacket helped to land them at #18 on the iTunes R&B charts.
PNMA has spent over five years working with the DMV’s brightest stars such as Joe Maye of NBC’s The Voice, GRAMMY-nominated Carolyn Malachi, RA the MC (MTV VMA Breakout Artist), and internationally known artists including M.O.P., Mick Jenkins, and many more. In 2016, she officially joined forces with Reggie Volume (producer for Wale, Fabolous) and formed the production and songwriting duo “The HVNS”. PNMA is currently working with Reesa Renee and up-and-coming R&B sensation Alex Vaughn, touring intimate venues throughout the DMV and finishing her debut album set to release in Spring 2018, tentatively titled Façades.
