The Balkun Brothers Album Release Party with Consider the Source and Jake Kulak & The LowDown with Consider the Source

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Sat, June 17, 2017
Hartford, CT
Show: 8 PM

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Member Presale: 3/27/17 05:59 AM
Public Onsale: 3/30/17 06 AM

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Blues

Come join us as the Balkun Brothers officially unleash their new album “Devil on TV” from our Infinity Hall Hartford stage! Joining this bill are progressive rock, fusion and jazz, with Indian and Middle Eastern styles super shredders – Consider The Source, and local Blues Rock phenom Jake Kulak & The LowDown. Jake and the LowDown kicking it off, followed by a full set for CTS to stretch what you believe is musically possible, and the finale to bring it all together brought to you by the Balkun Bros. Check out the videos from all of our artists and come support local live music!

Balkun Brothers

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Artist Bio

After coming onto the music scene with their powerful brand of psychedelic rock n’ roll, Balkun Brothers, originally from Hartford, CT, are creating a style of music all their own in the USA and worldwide. Founding members Steve Balkun (guitar/vocals) and Nick “The Hammer” Balkun (drums/vocals) are gaining followers across the world, becoming known for their high-energy live shows. Balkun Brothers bring a fresh mixture of funk, rock, blues, and intense improvisation that has been impressing crowds from Paris to Amsterdam to New York City.

Balkun Brothers have been featured alongside acts such as Johnny Winter, Joe Bonamassa, Iggy Pop, Gogol Bordello, Vapors of Morphine, Motley Crüe, Slayer, Eric Sardinas, Dopapod, James Cotton, and many more.

Their new album is due for release on the French label, Dixiefrog Records. The band recently completed their 3rd European tour this fall, which was followed by a full East Coast United States tour.

Balkun Brothers has been voted 'Best Blues Band in CT' for the last 5 years in a row by the Hartford Courant. They are currently nominated for 'Rock Act of The Year' at the 2017 New England Music Awards.

Consider the Source

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NYC trio Consider the Source defy easy description. If intergalactic beings of pure energy, after initiation into an order of whirling dervishes, built some kind of pan-dimensional booty-shaking engine, powered by psychedelics and abstract math, it'd probably just sound like a CTS tribute band. Drawing from progressive rock, fusion and jazz, with alien sounds soaked in Indian and Middle Eastern styles, CTS blends disparate parts into a striking, utterly original whole. Dubbed “Sci-Fi Middle Eastern Fusion”, the band's music strikes a rare balance between cerebral and emotional, intellectual and primal. A relentless touring schedule has won the band a fervent following from California to Israel, with fans ranging from jam-band hippies and jazz cats to corpse-painted headbangers and prog geeks.
Formed in 2004, Consider the Source features Gabriel Marin on fretless double-neck guitar, bassist John Ferrara, and drummer/percussionist Jeff Mann. Called “the guiding light for his generation of six-stringers”, Marin channels the mystical fury of McLaughlin and Coltrane into wailing melodies, kaleidoscopic soundscapes and boneshaking riffs. With a background in classical musics both Eurpoean and Indian, and an instinct for avant-jazz and destructive metal, Marin's hypnotic fusion of styles is ever unpredictable. Ferrara's propulsive, percussive attack, equally suited to simple grooves and impossible chords, can ground the music or launch it into space. His madcap gumbo of slap bass, Indian rhythms, earthy minimalism and complex tapping constantly pushes into strange new worlds, whilst still dropping thick booty-clap beats. Underneath them lies Mann's rolling thunder; dense rhythmic architecture built from pure swagger and bounce. Half double-bass prog-metal, half crackle-pop Buddy Rich swing, with African and Balkan swirls, Mann's muscular, freewheeling polyrhythms are the engine fuel for Consider's multiversal mischief. Even when not improvising, Consider's music is always a conversation, a roiling stew of dynamic interplay. Each member of Consider the Source alternately leads and follows, spars and assists; in any single song, alliances are made and broken, bargains struck and divorces finalized.
Touring from coast to coast, as well as Europe and the Middle East, has not only earned the band thousands of fans, but has allowed them to perform with wide variety of well-known artists, including Victor Wooten, Wayne Krantz, King Crimson Projekt, Kris Myers (Umphrey's McGee), Wyclef Jean, Andy Statman, Grace Potter & The Nocturnals, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Dumpstaphunk, Keller Williams, George Porter, Jr., Jeff Sipe, Panzerballet (Germany), Eatliz (Israel), Freak Kitchen (Sweden), Morglbl (France), and many others. They have performed at numerous festivals and events, including Catskill Chill, The Big Up, Burning Man, Sun Seekers Ball (Canada), Mid-Summer Meltdown, Rootwire, the NYC Fretless Guitar Festival, and the NYC Gypsy Festival. The band's newest album, "F**k It! We'll Do It Live" is available from considerthesourcemusic.bandcamp.com.

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Jake Kulak & The LowDown

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Jake Kulak and the LowDown, 2017 New England Music Award nominees for “Best New Act”, are excited to bring their blend of modern and traditional guitar-driven blues and rock to music lovers everywhere. Award-winning musician Jake Kulak, 17, has been performing professionally in front of audiences since the age of 12. He has played his soulful guitar solos and expressive improvisations in legendary blues cities like Memphis, TN, Clarksdale, MS and Notodden, Norway. Jake is joined on stage by multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Peck who anchors the band on drums and bassist Anthony Dailey who lays down tasteful bass grooves. The band’s set list includes originals and unique covers of blues and funk artists like Jimi Hendrix, Muddy Waters, Gary Clark, Jr. and Sly and the Family Stone.