Julia Mark/Oropendola/Aerhart

Three friends. Two album releases. One special show. Celebrate the release of two compelling albums: Swimming by Oropendola (Joanna Schubert) and The Keeper by Aerhart (Amelia Wellers). Julia Mark returns to the Lizard Lounge stage to join them for a special evening of singer-songwriter musings.

JULIA MARK

Julia Mark is a singer-songwriter-pianist interested in wordplay, wit, and the weight of being human. Life on the moon, heartbreak on Earth, secret plans, and palindromes…these are a few topics addressed by Julia’s songwriting. Raised on the sounds of bebop greats and folk music legends, her music features pin-point vocals and clever storytelling. Following the release of her 2018 album, Gemini Julia Mark was nominated for New England Music and Boston Music Awards for Songwriter of the Year, as well as a New England Music Award nomination for Female Performer of the Year. Now based near Seattle, WA, Julia Mark released her second album, Keeping You in September 2022. She is currently writing and performing new music centered on the passing of her late husband, musician Bredon Jones (Fuzzy Futures, Jakals, Slow Dress).

OROPENDOLA

Oropendola is the project of Brooklyn-based singer, composer, and keyboardist Joanna Schubert, whose music blends theatrical chamber pop, playful dissonance, and lyrical storytelling. Her songs move between the whimsical and the intimate, drawing from keys-based art-pop and indie-folk traditions. Oropendola’s 2023 kaleidoscopic chamber pop debut Waiting for the Sky to Speak was described as “at the meeting point between arms in the air pop perfection and something altogether more jarring and intriguing.” Swimming, her sophomore record out June 27th, is an intimate piano-vocal collection adorned in minimal, idiosyncratic arrangements. Harkening to inspirations such as Fiona Apple, Regina Spektor, and The Roches, the album captures Schubert’s penchant and reverence for unfettered live performance.

AERHEARTAerhart is the project of Amelia Wellers —a classically, chorally, and operatically trained singer making vibrant, electronic indie and art pop, with a twinge of folk. Her sophomore album, The Keeper, released May 30th, and is a reclamation of personal agency, as well as a reckoning with the power imbalances that make it so hard to hold onto it in the first place. Aerhart’s sound invokes cinematic melancholy and lush and expansive experimentation, calling comparisons from Enya to Lana Del Rey, Weyes Blood to Caroline Polachek. Her technical background informs her approach—not in rigidity but in an attention to texture, time, and movement. That deep, nuanced knowledge shines through ‘The Keeper,’ as does Wellers’ fascination with contrasts—intimate and vast, delicate and forceful, organic and electronic, refined and raw.

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