Hard Luck Café
RACHAEL SAGE & AVI WISNIA – Hard Luck Café
Wednesday, April 19th at 7:00 PM
CAC & FMSH Members $15 | Public $20
NYC-based alt-pop artist Rachael Sage and
Philadelphia-based singer-songwriter Avi Wisnia will share
the bill during the monthly Hard Luck Café series co-presented by the Folk Music
Society of Huntington and the Cinema Arts Centre (423 Park Avenue,
Huntington) in the Cinema’s Sky Room on Wednesday, April 19th,
from 7-10 p.m. An open mic precedes the concert.
Tickets are $20 ($15 for Cinema Arts Centre/FMSH members)
and can be purchased online or at the Cinema Arts Centre box office now through
the evening of the event.
Since founding her own label, MPress Records, two decades
ago, NYC-based alt-pop artist Rachael Sage (http://rachaelsage.com/) has
steadily released a slew of vibrant, dynamic albums described by Goldmine
Magazine as “mesmerizing…thoughtful, pensive and flush with an
emotional flourish, all carefully and adeptly executed.” She has
toured with an eclectic list of artists including Ani DiFranco, Beth
Hart, Howard Jones, and Grammy® winners Shawn
Colvin and Judy Collins – with whom she also recorded a critically-acclaimed
duet of Neil Young’s “Helpless.” In addition to being a six-time
Independent-Music-Award-winning musician and producer, Sage is also a John
Lennon Contest Grand Prize winner who has released over 20 diverse albums and
EPs. Sage has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, SXSW, and toured globally from
Japan to Berlin with her band, The Sequins. Sage is also a visual artist and
former ballet dancer who performed with the New York City Ballet. She is
additionally a philanthropic advocate who has raised money for a wide range of
causes, including WHY Hunger, American Refugee Committee, Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Hospital and National Network For Youth (NN4Y). Her 2020
album, Character, yielded the Billboard-charting single,
“Blue Sky Days.” Her latest project, Poetica, an
adventurous fusion of poetry with jazz, classical and Americana musical
elements in the vein of Leonard Cohen and Laurie Anderson, debuted in October
2021, and her current single, “Revelation Ground,” is out now on
MPress/Universal/Virgin.
“One of music’s most inimitable
iconoclasts.” — BlackBook
“Her keen, ironic sense of humor and quirky sense of the
profound is what makes her special as a songwriter” — Billboard
Avi Wisnia is an award-winning
singer/songwriter, finding inspiration in 1950’s west-coast jazz, acoustic
American folk, Brazilian bossa nova, and contemporary piano pop. Avi tours in
support of his newest studio album, Catching Leaves,
performing in prestigious venues around the world – from the Hammerstein
Ballroom in NYC to The Kennedy Center in DC to concert tours in Japan, Poland,
and Brazil. In addition to being a performing songwriter, he has given a TED
Talk and performed with The Moth storytellers, and organizes the Philly
Songwriters Circle.
