Green Line Cafe

JESSE SPARHAWK

Jesse Sparhawk is a multi-instrumentalist whose instruments include, but are not limited to harp, guitar, and electric bass. He has toured as accompanist and band member with Fern Knight, Greg Weeks, Timesbold, The Valerie Project, Marissa Nadler, and as a solo artist.

Highlights include perfomances with The Valerie Project, a 10-piece ensemble led by Greg Weeks accompanying a viewing of the 1970 Czech New-Wave cinema masterpiece “Valerie and Her Week of Wonders.” The Valerie Project CD/Double LP was released 2007.

Jesse is also featured inMax Avery Lichtenstein’s (of Timesbold and Camphor) original scores for the films”Tarnation”(2003),”The King”(2005), and”Home Front”(2006), playing various instruments.

Jesse’s debut solo full-length “or Kestral” should be released any day now…

SCALLION

Scallion is the songwriting and recording project of Darian Scatton, founder of Philly label Edible Onion, and member of Br’er. Scallion’s music is rooted in the tradition of the bittersweet pop song, but always done with an air of discovery. The work of a multi-instrumentalist, the music is amorphous and hard to pin down, ever-changing and shifting in color and tone. On record, dense, jubilant passages of bells, plucked autoharp, reeds and percussion give way to organs and multi-layered cello arrangements in one song, while another features a lone pedal harp accompanied by six clarinets. Highly lyrical music is often pared with songs about loneliness, alienation, and loss of innocence. Live, the band condenses the recordings into arrangements that are playable by a trio or quartet, but nonetheless, still vary widely in color and scope.

CHRISTOPHER BELL

From Upstate NY, Christopher Bell is a chamber music influenced, Folk/Alt-Country multi-instrumentalist. He blends guitar and banjo with plucked and bowed viola, looped and sampled live. His Full Length “I’ll Be Home” and his new EP have both been released on Silent Home Records. In the past three years Bell has spent over eighteen months on the road across 42 states and even embarked on a 550 mile canoe tour across NY state’s Erie Canal and Hudson River