Off The Record: Bug Juice, Rafi Barides, Izzy Gilden | Live Music Showcase

Join us for an intimate evening of original live music at Salon on Kingston, a warm and cozy listening room style venue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Expect acoustic, folk, indie, and stripped-back performances in a close, personal setting designed for storytelling, connection, and live musical experience.

Doors open at 6:30PM.
The show begins promptly at 7:00PM sharp.

The evening will be hosted by MC Dave Akerman of “Yiddishkeit,” who will be opening the night with greetings and introducing each artist throughout the showcase.

This is an all-ages event. Alcohol and drinks will be available at the bar. Seating is open and first come, first served. Advance tickets are strongly encouraged. Tickets will be $15 at the door.

Come experience live music up close, support independent artists, and discover new original music in an intimate atmosphere. Find all of the artists on your favorite streaming platform.

Opening the night is Bug Juice with a warm, intimate acoustic set. Bug juice is a Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter, producer, pianist, and guitarist. After returning from a ten-year stint abroad and with a degree in musicology, she came back to Brooklyn, taught herself music production, and spent the last two years writing and self-producing her debut EP, MOVING DAY. Expect stripped-back originals, emotional storytelling, and a deeply personal performance that fits perfectly within the spirit of the evening.

Next up will be Rafi Barides, an acoustic indie artist blending raw songwriting with intimate, stripped-back arrangements.

Rafi’s music pulls from indie folk, emotional storytelling, and cinematic acoustic textures. His latest original 8-track album, Storm Before The Storm, was released on February 1st.

Audience members can expect an intimate, honest, and emotionally raw performance.

Closing the evening, Izzy Gilden will be presenting a special unreleased musical showcase featuring some of his newest work.

Izzy first began performing in the downtown Toronto bar scene before making his way into the event and wedding world. Beneath all of that, he has been quietly writing and releasing original music since 2016.

His songs live somewhere between confidence and anxiety, faith and uncertainty, humor and vulnerability. They explore overthinking, identity, loneliness, spirituality, purpose, and the pressure of trying to hold everything together while making it look effortless.

On May 24th, he’ll be sharing a collection of unreleased material for the very first time.

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