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Maine Popstar C-DOT 416, French DJ / Producer ProleteR & Brooklyn based Trip-Hop sultress, KALEN (Death by Piano), join forces to peform an all-ages show at Bayside Bowl on Saturday, February 6th. TIX $25 adv, $30 door
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About C-DOT 416 ( instagram.com/cdot_416 ) :
C-Dot 416 (Caleb Cairns) is a Canadian-American singer, songwriter, and hip-hop artist known for blending rap, pop, and electronic dance music into deeply personal, story-driven tracks. Splitting his time between Maine and Toronto, he captured widespread attention with his debut album "Precipice", ultimately amassing millions of streams on Spotify with popular songs like "Strange Love" and "Tail Lights". His music is heavily influenced by his personal journey and emotional resilience, drawing profound creative inspiration from navigating mental health challenges following the passing of his mother in 2023. Today, he continues to build his presence as an independent artist, sharing his evolving sound through frequent live performances and digital releases across New England and beyond.
About ProleteR ( proleter-official.com ) :
French beatmaker ProleteR has established himself over the past decade as a leading figure in the international electro, nu-jazz, swing-hop and instrumental hip-hop scenes. Blending
vintage jazz samples, boom-bap grooves and electro-soul textures, he has developed a warm, instantly recognizable sound that bridges nostalgia and modernity.
With more than 200 million streams worldwide and a devoted audience across Europe, North America and Asia, his music has played a key role in shaping the global identity of
swing-infused hip-hop.
About KALEN ( kalenmusic.com )
Leapt headfirst into early aughts Brooklyn - a vibrant music scene blooming in derelict DIY venues and undisclosed loft parties off the L train. With her ‘feet on the ground and her head in the sky,’ this New England native hauled her keyboard and amp up and down Bedford Ave, forging a sound rooted in soul, funk and electronic music. During residencies at Alligator Lounge and Spike Hill, Kalen became a neighborhood mainstay, performing high-kicks and jumping off amps in kinetic kinship with the audience. Her music has unfolded through her punk funk ‘Ladybug Stingray,’ dance rock of ‘Kalen & the A-Listers’ (Roc-elle Records), sharpening into the fiery trip-hop ‘Kalen & The Sky Thieves’ (Rope-a-dope Records). More recently she’s exploring electronic music through the sinewy beats of her ‘Death By Piano’ (Hi-4-Head Records) project and performing with ambient rock band Late Sea, all while continuing her solo project KALEN.
Regardless of musical genre, KALEN grabs your collar and pulls you into a compassionate embrace -- her voice at once playful and penetrating, jazzy and soulful. Her confessional lyrics, heralded by American Songwriter, reveal the joys and heartbreaks of artisthood in the midst of Brooklyn’s culture-shifting drumfire. She’s performed at Brooklyn Bowl, Rough Trade, & Joe’s Pub, DC9 (Washington D.C.) and Hotel Café & The Mint (LA). During the pandemic, KALEN brought us into her world streaming her moody tunes in late night solo sessions. Performing live again KALEN tailors each performance (and the accompanying visuals) to the specific site and space, from analog slide projectors coupled with poetry and acoustic bands in Brownstoner salons to projection mapping and thumping tracks with a full electric band on stages around NYC.
KALEN’s latest record, Velvet Night (Hi 4 Head Records, Fall 2025), is a stripped-down collection of twelve songs—six new and six reimagined acoustic versions of her earlier work. It includes some tracks from her 2023 indie-pop EP, Silence Like Sirens, which was created in collaboration with Izzy Gliksberg (Late Sea), Will Bradford (SeepeopleS), and Eric Zeiler (Little Daylight, Me Not You, Young Saab). She will touring and playing the album through 2026. KALEN’s theatrical darkwave, trip-noir group, Death by Piano, will see new releases in 2026 and 2027 to follow up 2024’s VOW ep – produced by Tom Marsh (Lana Del Rey) with visuals by Robert Lester. Each one of these recent releases is brimming with singable songs, but is otherwise a world unto itself.
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