Last night, New York’s Brooklyn Bowl hosted an eclectic co-headlining bill featuring Montana-based “galaxy grass” outfit Kitchen Dwellers and hard-touring Connecticut jam quartet Eggy, with support from Nashville-native progressive bluegrass group Sicard Hollow.
While the three bands differ greatly in style, their improvisational sensibilities and willingness to blur the lines of genre made them an enticing mix—as evidenced by the lively crowd that packed the Bowl on a rainy Friday evening.
Related: ‘The Montana Sessions’: Kitchen Dwellers Live From Paradise Valley [Watch]
The Music City upstarts of Sicard Hollow opened the night with their energetic mix of bluegrass instruments and punk inclinations. The band’s hybrid instrumentation—an electric bassist with a bluegrass band’s bones (fiddle, guitar, mandolin)—allowed the young musicians to lean into ’90s-reminiscent cheeky stoner-rock as easily as they dipped into classic grass. Turns out, slap bass goes pretty well with mandolin if you pair it just right.
Sicard Hollow – Full Set [Pro-Shot] – 4/28/23
Eggy has been on a tear of late, touring heavily across the country throughout the first few months of 2023 and recording a new album in Los Angeles with producer James Petralli (White Denim) due to be released later this year. Jake Brownstein (guitar, vocals), Mike Goodman (bass, vocals), Dani Battat (keys, vocals), and Alex Bailey (drums, vocals) spread their hour-long set across just four songs, improvising freely and creatively to explosive effect. Among the highlights of their performance was a luminous rendering of Punch Brothers‘ complex contemporary bluegrass tune “My Oh My” sung by Bailey, an impressively executed bridge connecting this rock and roll unit with the two “bluegrass-plus” bands surrounding them on the schedule.
Eggy – “My Oh My” (Punch Brothers) [Pro-Shot] – 4/28/23
Kitchen Dwellers may carry the tools of a classic bluegrass band, but the jam band roots and far-reaching influences powering their adrenaline-fueled approach has made them one of the most excited bands in the space. The Dwellers employed a vast array of eerie synth sounds and well-placed teases (was that “Punch You In The Eye?”) as they wove through selections from their ever-growing catalog as well as covers both bluegrass (“Hit Parade of Love”) and otherwise (Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Aeroplane”).
Kitchen Dwellers – Brooklyn Bowl – Brooklyn, NY – Full Show [Pro-Shot] – 4/28/23
Below, check out an extensive selection of photos via Ken Spielman, Andrew Blackstein, and Kevin Cole from Friday night’s Kitchen Dwellers and Eggy co-bill featuring support from Sicard Hollow
For a list of upcoming Kitchen Dwellers tour dates, head here. For a list of upcoming Eggy tour dates, head here. For a list of upcoming Sicard Hollow tour dates, head here.
Setlist: Kitchen Dwellers | Brooklyn Bowl | Brooklyn, NY | 4/28/23
Set: Sundown > Comet, Gypsy, Hit Parade of Love (Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys) > Salt Creek, Years of My Life > Broken Cage > Mountain > Ebenezer’s Winter, Aeroplane (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Seven Devils
Encore: Drowning (… Again)
Setlist [via The Carton]: Eggy | Brooklyn Bowl | Brooklyn, NY | 4/28/23
Set: City Lights, High Noon, My Oh My (Punch Brothers), 12 Pounds of Pain
Eggy fans heading to New Orleans during Jazz Fest can catch the the band twice this week. On Tuesday night, May 2nd, Eggy will open Live For Live Music‘s Daze by Nite late-night show at The Howlin’ Wolf with a ninety-minute set ahead of a funk super-jam featuring members of Soulive, Lettuce, Dumpstaphunk, and Lawrence. The following day, the quartet will perform a set at the Daze Between New Orleans festival at Faubourg Brewery.
