Reflect on a strange and trying year with an eclectic mix of Rochester’s finest local music.
Mikaela Davis
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Joywave closes out Rochester Fringe Festival in a big-decibel way
Rochester indie rock heroes Joywave put a cap on the 2021 Rochester Fringe Festival with its “Smokestacks” concert at Parcel 5 on Sept. 25.
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Mikaela Davis brings celestial psych-pop to Point of the Bluff Vineyards
Mikaela Davis and her band will perform her trademark blend of harp-infused psych-pop at Point of the Bluff Vineyards on June 26.
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SPECIAL EVENT | ‘Floated Sofa Sounds’
On May 23 and 24, Floated Magazine hosts a live-streaming event designed to provide musicians with a performance platform and to raise funds to keep the publication above water amidst the COVID-19 aftermath.
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Calendar preview: Strange times, happy hours
Our musical city overflows with talent, and an expanding roster of local bands and venues make it possible to enjoy happy hours in-place.
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2020 Lilac Festival music lineup brings familiar sounds
The 2020 Rochester Lilac Festival music lineup is a mix of familiar regional artists, compelling touring acts, and popular tribute bands.
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2020 CITY Readers’ Picks: Songs of Love and Despair
In conjunction with CITY’s Guide to Sex, Love, & Relationships, we asked you to tell us which local music you think best exemplifies feelings of Love — as well as songs that evoke its heartbreaking cousin Despair — and you didn’t disappoint.
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The F Word: Now I Wanna Be Your Cat
Rocco, the cat who let’s me live in his house, talks a lot for a cat. And I respond, which leads to a cross-phylum kind of conversation of his meowing and my matter-of-fact patter.
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Album review: ‘Delivery’
Mikaela Davis “Delivery” Rounder Records mikaeladavis.com It’s all about delivery, according to harpist and singer-songwriter Mikaela Davis. Her band’s new album, aptly titled “Delivery,” out on Rounder Records, is filled with all things dark and venerated. You get the sense through Davis’s songwriting that whatever this record is, it’s as much a gift to herself […]
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Mikaela Davis takes on her next psychedelic lullaby
Mikaela Davis carves out her sound, awash in color, on a big sky canvas and in the heads of her fans. Her gentle voice delivers the particulars while her harp paints the theme. It’s an indie rock twilight scene — or a psychedelic lullaby that puts you awake and allows you to dream. Addressing the […]
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Ben Morey gets help climbing ‘Mt. Doom’
Ben Morey listens to the news when he writes music. That would explain the clever pessimism running through the song “Been Gone,” from his epic album “Mt. Doom,” just released on June 30 through City of Quality Records and Dadstache Records: “I don’t shudder when I read the news / You know nobody in the […]
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Mikaela Davis gets out of her own head
Rochester native and local favorite Mikaela Davis has been one busy musician: living in Brooklyn, touring nationwide, even playing with Watkins Family Hour and laying down harp tracks for two songs on Sara Watkins’s next solo album. On Saturday, October 10, the singer-songwriter returns home for a show at Anthology with Joywave, plus Grace Mitchell […]
