Mighty Joe Castro and the Gravamen and Lily Vakili

Lily Vakili and her band
with special guests
Mighty Joe Castro and the Gravamen

Doors 7pm. Music 8 pm.

Lily Vakili:
A lifelong observer, chronicler, and creative force, Lily Vakili has spent years gathering fragments of the world – memories, landscapes, voices, losses, joys – and transforming them into urgent, electric songs. She was raised across Honduras, Florida, Thailand, Puerto Rico, and Iowa – absorbing pieces of each place, each culture, along the way. This international upbringing shaped her worldview, her voice, and her lifelong search for connection. The past decade has seen her channel that force through multiple studio albums – released both as a solo artist and with her successful Vakili Band – each one experimenting with the wide, untamed possibilities of rock.

Off the heels of her 2025 full-length release Oceans Of Kansas, Vakili released her first live EP, Live Wire on May 8, 2026, an in-studio, live recording of songs named for what fans and critics alike say is a perfect description of her charismatic performance style. For this stripped down and intimate six-song release, Vakili called upon her collaborator, the Grammy-Award winning, Emmy-nominated producer/engineer Reed Turchi, to produce at Voyager Sound in NYC. Live Wire reimagines old favorites and introduces new songs showcasing her emotionally raw, live sound – a genre-blending fusion of blues, rock, and art rock elements, backed by poetic storytelling.

Mighty Joe Castro and the Gravamen:
Mighty Joe Castro & The Gravamen hail from Philadelphia, PA, blending the vintage swagger of 1950s rock ‘n’ roll with a gritty, modern edge. They’ve been described as sounding "like Buddy Holly if he’d had access to a stack of effects pedals and some Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds records”

Known for their high-energy live shows, they’ve shared stages with a diverse range of artists including The Squirrel Nut Zippers, The Heavy Heavy, Skinny Lister and Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys.