Big Signature, Steep Grade & Jim Wolf

Name: Big Signature, Steep Grade & Jim Wolf
Start: 2025-01-04T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Park City Music Hall

Schedule

Sat Jan 04 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Park City Music Hall | Fairfield, CT

Doors 7pm, Show 8pm
$18 Advance // $20 Day of
21+
Big Signature is a joyous amalgam of fiendish musical battle wizards fronted by Avi Britto, offering the freshest of original jams. Comprised of decades long Black Rock performers & word smiths supreme, Big Sig can only be described as Interstellar, taking you on a voyage of funk, rock, fusion & hip hop. Big Sig is the voice & sax of Avi Britto & the out of this world bass thumping of Lucas Gould, paired with the talent of Conor Andrews (drums), Chris Intilangelo (keys), Brian Borrelli (trombone), and Rob Maresca (guitar). A local act of notated savagery you don’t want to miss, Big Signature will get your dance, vibe & groove on under one dotted line!

Steep Grade is a funk rock and alternative band formed in 2004 by Fairfield locals Damien & Dylan Teed, Pat McCarthy, & Rob Maresca with the later additions of John Britto on sax and Brian Borrelli on trombone. SG has put out 2 albums of originals and unique renditions produced by Rocky Gallo and 1 live album from their sophomore release Funk Machine. The band was a brand name in Fairfield County during their tenure sharing the stage with Soulive, Nigel Hall, Toots & The Maytalls, Cyril Neville, and the Robbie Krieger Band. More recently you can hear SG’s “Soul” every time you tune in to the Tuesdays With Stories podcast. Still active on special occasions, SG is gearing up for a 20 year reunion this Holiday season. Stay tuned!

Connecticut native Jim Wolf came up through the folk-pop singer/songwriter boom of the mid-2000s, releasing a handful of independent albums before suddenly achieving mainstream success in South Korea. "Make You My Lady," an acoustic love song he released in 2012, was unexpectedly adopted by the K-pop community after being prominently featured during a 2014 South Korean celebrity wedding. The song enjoyed perennial chart success into the next decade and became something of a staple on several popular K-dramas and other television shows.
Growing up in Fairfield, Connecticut, Wolf's older brother, Rich, played bass in a high school band called Villanova Junction which featured future hometown hero John Mayer. Inspired by watching the band rehearse, Jim later taught himself to play guitar and sing and in the mid-2000s launched his own music career. Singing in a smooth, warm voice reminiscent of Mayer's, Wolf forged his own melodic folk-pop sound on early releases like 2005's No Sleep What-So-Ever and 2007's Stars Never Lie. He then moved to New York to better his chances at success, releasing 2010's Sleeping with Strangers and the 2012 EP Strange, Weird, and Romantic, Pt. 1. At this point in his career, Wolf had achieved only moderate independent success in the U.S., but in 2014, two popular South Korean actors, ChaeRim and Gao Zi Qi, featured a song from his previous EP in their highly publicized wedding. "Make You My Lady" went on to become a hit song on the South Korean charts, at one point in late 2014 peaking even higher than Idina Menzel's "Let It Go" and landing at #2. Even more unexpected than its initial fame was the song's continued success, much of it thanks to its use in various television shows, most of them popular K-dramas. With "Make You My Lady" still on the charts, Wolf embraced his new Asian pop audience and continued to release new music during the latter half of the decade including a second volume in the Strange, Weird, and Romantic series and 2020's Forever Sunday album. In 2021 the single "I'm Here for You," along with several other songs was featured in another popular series So I Married The Anti-Fan. Wolf signed a publishing deal with Peermusic Group, which houses such major acts as Lizzo, John Legend, and Justin Bieber. Since 2021, Wolf has released a full length album, two EPs, and four singles, most recently with Love Songs I Don't Play Anymore.
As a performer, Jim Wolf has shared the stage with an array of amazing performers; Chris Thile, The Alternate Routes, Eric Hutchinson, Ryan Cabrera, Secondhand Serenade, Jason LeVasseur, and Matt Hartke, but during Wolf's early days performing open mics in New York's underground he spent his nights alongside incredible talent like Charley Crockett and Mark Normand (comedian).