Sunday, June 13th (doors at 7pm, music at 8pm)
The Bug Jar, 219 Monroe Ave, Rochester NY 14607
$8 21+, $10 18+

Les Shelleys (Fat Cat Records) is a duo of 2 top Los Angeles-based artists, Tom Brosseau and Angela Correa, who love a good song. Their sound has been described as a plait of voices. As a gift, Al Guerra, a San Diego music scene main-stay, bestowed the Les Shelleys a mini-disc recorder. Enamoured of field recordings and making their unique new arrangements of folk and American classic songs, Les Shelleys recorded on that mini-disc recorder with one condenser mic in 2003 & 2004 in Tom’s Angelino Heights bungalow. You can hear dogs barking from a neighbor’s yard or a man coming down the street with a cart full of bottles to recycle - and the catch of pure and simple moments. Les Shelleys’ (pronounced Lay Shell Ease) debut album will be released on Fat Cat in the early fall of 2010. This tour is a preview of all that was captured in that bungalow.

Shelley Short (Hush Records) is a native and current resident of Portland, Oregon, who grew up among characters and artists in a wood-heated home stocked with books, records, and well-cooked meals. As Short recounts: “It was like growing up in a time machine; in some ways we lived like it was 1896, chopping wood, growing our own food, wearing eclectic clothes in a Victorian home and singing our own songs. Other times it seemed like we were living in 1955, driving around Cadillacs and Hudsons and listening to Jonny Ray, Lester Young and The Flamingos. And yet it all felt like growing up in a movie made in 1963, full of these big personalities. Her most recent album, A Cave, A Canoo “captures that feeling of sidling up to the fireplace while waiting for the sleet to stop, pairing minimal instrumentation with Short’s soft, sweet voice, and hinting at an atmosphere both delicate and haunting.”

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