Name: West Art Welcomes Goodnight Moonshine feat. Molly of Red Molly, and Friar Jon
Start: 2025-12-06T19:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-12-06T21:30:00-05:00
Location: 816 Buchanan Ave, Lancaster, PA 17603, USA

West Art Welcomes Goodnight Moonshine feat. Molly of Red Molly, and Friar Jon

We're excited to announce that Goodnight Moonshine is returning to West Art! Goodnight Moonshine is the intimate jazz-infused folk project of Molly Venter (of Red Molly) and guitarist/producer Eben Pariser (of Roosevelt Dime). Joining them is Lancaster-based singer and songwriter Friar Jon Join us in The Sanctuary for an exciting evening of intimate music and rich storytelling that you do not want to miss!
What to expect at the show:
>> Doors will open at 6:30. The show will start at 7:30.
>> Tickets are $20 in advance, and $25 at the door if not sold out. As always, we’re proud to present an all-ages show!
>> Parking may be available in the small lot across the street. Beyond that, there’s parking available around Buchanan Park and F&M College in the blocks surrounding West Art.
>> Format: This will be a seated show in The Sanctuary. Our space is ADA accessible, and we will do our best to accommodate any specific needs.
>> If you haven't yet discovered the magic of the West Art Coffee⚡Bar, now's your chance! We're open from 7 am-10 pm daily, with a full and delicious espresso bar menu, along with a lovely selection of beer, wine, and cocktails, plenty of N/A options, and some tasty bites from our favorite local bakeries. Something for everyone, all day long! Come hang out before the show and experience it for yourself!
>> Please note that all ticket sales are final. Thank you for supporting great music!
Band Bios:
Goodnight Moonshine is a guitar and vocal duet, and a musical marriage in all senses. The Duo combines the evocative voice and songwriting of Molly Venter, with Eben Pariser’s adventurous guitar playing. The result is folk music with a depth of improvisation and tonal subtlety usually reserved for jazz.
Molly is well known for her sublime singing in the prominent female-vocal-group Red Molly, while Eben cut his teeth as a street performer in New York City, playing guttural music of New Orleans with his band Roosevelt Dime.
Molly’s enviable voice, which can be called both “biker-chick smoky” (New Haven Register), and “like silk” (American Songwriter Magazine), has taken her career to highlights including Tønder Festival in Denmark, Kate Wolf Fest in CA, and multiple placements on television and film. In Goodnight Moonshine she is in full force as a songwriter. Her trance-induced stream-of-consciousness writing style results in compositions that probe the depths of her inner experience. Her hit song “Hold It All”, recorded with Red Molly and performed regularly with Goodnight Moonshine, questions the meaning of life, and grapples with acceptance, with honesty and heart usually reserved for literary writers- which she also is- she writes a weekly column on Patreon.com
Starting as a blues guitarist in his teens, Eben’s imagination was quickly captured by classic jazz, which he studied at the Oberlin Conservatory. “Pariser’s harmonic sensibilities are wide, imaginative” (NPR), and his career has involved singing lead and playing bass with Roosevelt Dime, playing drums and being musical director of Red Molly- but it is his love of guitar and improvising on display in Goodnight Moonshine. A natural producer, Eben has 8 studio records under his belt for himself and other artists. He conceived of and launched the record label, Equitone Records in 2023. He is currently building a progressive guitar driven jazz trio with Ryan Sands (Christian Sands) and Austin Phillips.
After cutting several records, and experimenting with limitless creative possibilities of studio production, Goodnight Moonshine is now thrilling audiences as an acoustic guitar duo. The format allows them to focus entirely on each other's gifts, and enter a hypnotic trance, a cycle of responsive vocal inspiration and guitar improvisation that deepens throughout the show. It is a main-line of the very best that both artists have to offer, and perhaps why their single-mike show has become an unlikely festival act- in 2023 they played Arts And Ideas (CT), Red Ants Pants (MT), and Sisters Folk Fest (OR). They have gone on to wow festival audiences at Black Bear Americana Fest (CT), Musikfest (PA), and Falcon Ridge Folk Fest (CT), and played to sold out audiences in New Haven, CT, and Rockport MA in 2024.
While trying to make sense of his place in the world, Friar Jon finds himself at the intersection of queer culture, folk music, and religious mysticism. With influences like Townes VanZandt, Iron & Wine, and Jon Foreman, his melodies twinkle like stars and lyrics connect them into constellations.