The Suitcase Junket

Sun Sep 28 2025 at 06:00 pm to 09:00 pm UTC-04:00

Hank Dietle's Tavern | Rockville

Hank Dietle's Tavern
Publisher/HostHank Dietle's Tavern
The Suitcase Junket
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Get ready to jam out with The Suitcase Junket, a one-man band extravaganza you won't want to miss!
About this Event

Matt Lorenz's vision, manifest in The Suitcase Junket, developed in the tension between the grand and the solitary. Grand in its imagery, sound, and staging. Solitary in its thrift and self-reliance. What instruments he requires, Lorenz builds from scratch and salvage. What parts five players would perform, he performs alone. The spectacle of his one-man set bears constant comparison to legends of showmanship, brilliance, madness, and invention.

While audiences are captivated by his solitary form and the show itself, Lorenz, who homesteads in rural Western Massachusetts, is most serious about the songs. He has been building a catalog, writing a world into existence. Solitary on stage and on the road, his mind is crowded with characters, narratives, voices, imagery, sounds as wide and varied as mountain throat singers and roadhouse juke boxes, plus newsreels of the planet's destruction and salvage. With this 2020 release, The End is New, Lorenz’s grand vision for the song overrides the how of it.

"The overall sound lands somewhere between the Avett Brothers and early, dirty Black Keys. There's a Tom Waits-vibe in the fuzzy-megaphone reverb mic, and something ancient, near tribal, in his whistles and moans."

– The Boston Globe



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Hank Dietle's Tavern, 11010 Rockville Pike, Rockville, United States

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USD 23.18

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