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8:00pm. - $10-$20 Suggested donation for the artists.Local Cream https://www.facebook.com/localcreamshowcase
Every first Wednesday of the month, Annette Wasilik curates and hosts this showcase of the area's finest singer/songwriters at Hank Dietle's Tavern in Rockville, which has literally risen from the ashes and it looks, sounds and feels fabulous! $10-$20 Suggested donation for the artists.
This month features Eli Lev, Kim Eaton, Eryn Michel and Annette Wasilik, hosting.
Kim Eaton is a singer-songwriter from Austin TX now living in Annapolis. Her songs are in the tradition of Austin's Americana music scene and Indie-Folk Rock sound. She has been influenced by artists such as Emmylou Harris, Nanci Griffith, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Kate Wolf, Lucinda Williams, The Kennedys, and many others.
Kim hosts the New Deal Café’s Grand Rounds every month on the 4th Sunday of the month.
Kim has three albums out: Backbeat of the Heart (2019), Flying Change (2021), and Skipping Stones (2023), and is working on a fourth. Her music is available on Apple music, Amazon music, Spotify, Audiomack, and Soundcloud.
Kim is a child psychologist, horse trainer, and aviator, who finds inspiration for her songs in everything she does.
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To his Levitators community, Eli Lev is known as a Global Ambassador of Good Vibes, and everyday he honors his greater calling: uplifting open-hearted folks around the world through song.
“To me, music is an act of spirituality and service to others, it’s the reason I wake up in the morning ready to sing and uplift others,” the Silver Spring, Maryland-based artist shares. “Helping people make profound and positive connections through my music is my life’s purpose.”
Today, Eli is sharing one of his most personal and enlightening projects, a three-part music release series in which Eli relates hard-earned wisdom from his outer geographical and inner spiritual expeditions. The trilogy commences with the unflinchingly optimistic folk-pop EP, Present Journey, out June 26th, 2024. Look for the revelatory releases Past Lives and Future Myths to come further on down the dirt road.
Eli is a critically-acclaimed singer-songwriter and internationally-touring musician, an entrepreneur, a mobile lifestyle pioneer, a community leader, a son, and a friend. He is a storytelling songwriter who brings to his work a universal spirituality informed by a variety of belief systems. Eli’s Jewish upbringing, his transformative experiences with Indigenous people, and his study of Buddhism shine through his uplifting songwriting.
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Eryn wins Strathmore's Bernard/Ebb Songwriting Award!
New music out now! Eryn Michel's first collaboration with producer Austin Bello has birthed a mesmerizing cinematic country/Americana landscape in “John Wayne in a Prom Dress,” a hymn to the fruitless but familiar search for closure and understanding in the aftermath of a relationship upheaved.
Eryn & Kimberly Shires (founder of Hear Me Roar Studio) win big with the American Songwriter Magazine September/October 2023 Lyric Contest for their co-write Wine Well Spent. Read the interview here!
Darling Eye is out now! Check out the live video and studio versions here.
Eryn dropped a secret single just for her community! Click here to listen to the song Alchemical Records calls "a journey connecting near and far, accessible and longing, possible and impossible and smudges all the lines in between through a purposefully watery dreamscape... Eryn wanted to release 'You Say' ahead of a flurry of collaborations. She felt it important to establish the foundation of who she is as a songwriter and as an artist. The creation of 'You Say' is 100% born and bred Eryn. She wrote it. She performed it. She produced it. She mixed it. She mastered it. She released it. Now, put those headphones on and go listen to it. We did – and we loved it!"
Eryn's debut narration on Taran Singh's exquisite book of poetry Time and Knots is out on Audible now! Check out timeandknots.me to hear a sample, order a custom poem, and more.
Eryn's story going from the Army to politics to following her music and voice over dreams was recently featured on the Produce Like A Boss Podcast!
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"Love & Fire is a masterpiece." ~ Tom Prasada-Rao
Annette's performances are marked by her compelling alto and moving songs that "touch you to the bone". In the tradition of the poet songwriter, with rich tones reminiscent of Linda Thompson or Natalie Merchant, she weaves a spell both startling in its intimacy and expansive in its vision. Her songwriting influences include Jane Siberry, Lucinda Williams and John Prine to mention just a few. Both down to earth and deeply atmospheric, Annette’s songs are explorations into longing, love, loss, God, home, homesickness and hope.
"I found my first guitar in an old tin wardrobe in my basement. Its bridge was broken but it was love at first sight, as if I found a buried treasure in my backyard. The room spun and everything. I glued the bridge back on and never looked back." On songwriting Annette says, "It feels like diving for pearls. I sink down and don't know what's going to happen. Usually a combination of emotion, melody and phrasing opens the way for the lyrics."
In her late teens and twenties. Annette was performing in local cafes, small venues and eventually festivals. When her daughter was small, Annette took a break from performing to attend her family and grow her healing practice. Now she is out performing again and becoming known in the DC area and nationally as a powerful songwriter and performer. Annette's debut CD, Songs from the Talking House, was awarded Contemporary Folk Recording of the Year by the Washington Area Music Association in April 2016. She also won Honorable Mention for her song Don't Look Down in the 2016 MidAtlantic Song Contest. Her January 2020 release, Love & Fire, is her first album on the Azalea City Cooperative label. On release, it landed at #6 on FAI Folk DJ chart and #1 on the NACC chart and ended up #40 for the year.
In 2019, Annette created a new concert series, Local Cream, to showcase the best local and regional songwriters and co-hosts a popular monthly songwriting circle. In the spring of 2022, her song "Almost" was a finalist in The Great American Song Contest and won "Outstanding Achievement in Songwriting" Award.
Local Cream's sound person is sponsored by Focus Music.
Find out more about the great music they bring to the DMV throughout the year here: https://focusmusic.org/
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Hank Dietle's Tavern, 11008 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852-3134, United States,North Bethesda, Maryland, Bethesda
