Studio 34 Presents: Sweet Sound of Music
Special Small Houses CD Release Show with Super Special Guests Hezekiah Jones and Chris Bathgate
Saturday, October 22 @ 7:30p
Doors at 7p. Music will begin promptly at 7:30p! Arrive on time, you’ll not want to miss a thing!
$10 Suggested Donation ~ Hot Cider, Sweet Teas and Simple Syrup Spritzers on us!
We are incredibly excited to host the return of Small Houses to Philadelphia! And the return of Small Houses and Hezekiah Jones to Studio 34!
This will be a special Small Houses Philly CD release show. Last year Small Houses and Hezekiah Jones came together at Studio 34 to create a magical evening of music infused sweet melodies and the warm vibes of cozy music-lovers stretched out on pillows and couches. If you missed it then, be sure to not miss out this time around. If you made it to their last show, we know you’ll make it back.
Small Houses
Small Houses is a Michigan-based indie/folk project featuring the songs and poems of Flint native Jeremy Quentin. Artfully crafted finger-style guitar playing, and softly sung melodies describing the people, love, and homes of Quentin’s life.
“This band ‘Small Houses’ is a new ’Top Discovery’ for 2011. These songs are the handiwork
of gorgeous—yet simple— arrangements, skillfully played and sung. If you love beauty and have a need for a respite from the general cacophony of life, check out ‘Small Houses’.” – Heroes of Indie Music
Hezekiah Jones
Hezekiah Jones is the musical nom de plume for Raphael Cutrufello and a band of like-minded musicians crafting alternative folk music. 
His catalog of songs sometimes sounds like a post-apocalyptic White Album, as covered by Sufjan Stevens. The biting, sometimes campy vibe only serves to intensify the blow of his sucker-punch ballads. Songs are filled with outlandish characters, imagined landscapes, ringing harmonies, and baroque instrumental flourishes, but never disconnect from the tangible feelings at their center. -Peter Marinari(CBS Local)
Chris Bathgate
Chris Bathgate is an American singer/songwriter originally born in rural Iowa, raised in rural Illinois, and currently residing in Pinckney, Michigan. He began drawing attention as a solo artist in 2005 upon the release of his first album, Silence is for Suckers, after a slew of self-produced EPs / Singles and a stint in the short-lived (but much loved) group The Descent of the Holy Ghost Church. Chris has gone on to produce many EPs and 4 albums, most recently “Salt Year”.
“A skilled purveyor of lovely gloom…If Bathgate has mastered one thing in his young and enormously promising career, it’s the art of distilling alienation into bruised-sounding beauty.”
-Stephen Thompson, NPR – January, 2008
