NASH V'ILL'IN'
Jacob Morris + Melanie Moser & the Eleventh Hour Band

Tuesday, December 4
Admission: $5, $10 minimum
Showtime: 8:30pm
reservations are recommended


Jake Morris grew up next to a farm in rural Vermont. At 14 he wrote his first song about being confused and pissed off. Since then he has wrote and recorded one thousand more. After attending Oberlin Conservatory of Music as a classical composition major, he moved to New York, playing in his own band The Desperation as well as performing solo. His work with NYC bands The Double and Ratatat have brought him all over the world, giving him the honor of recording one of the last John Peel sessions, as well as performing at this year's Coachella music festival.

Melanie Moser was born in South Dakota, daughter of a school teacher and a farmer turned truck-driver by Reganomics.  She sang at church and practiced piano during the commercials.  Her first concert was either the Monkees or Citizen Fish.  Soon after that, she started her first band with 5 other high school girls.  Since then she has performed with many amazing players and projects including members of Oneida, Oakley Hall, Tomorrow's Friend, ill lit, LEOVE, Awesome Color, Arboretum, Moon and Moon and more, recording cds and records and cassettes along the way.

Presently, she is supported by The Eleventh Hour Band featuring slide-guitarist Zeke Healy (Boggs), bassist Marlon Sporer (Jerimiah Rifles, The Occasion), electric saz player George Murer, visual artist and multi-instrumentalist Sabrina Mansouri, and recent addition John Bartley on drums.  The Eleventh Hour Band brings a blend of country western, jazz, and middle-eastern influence to Melanie's folk/rock songs.  If Joni Mitchell (circa 1974) were traveling across turkmenistan with an alternative country rock band.  Americana Trance Pop / Adult Contemporary Psych.  Moser and the 11th Hour recently recorded a 3-song live EP in a friend's brooklyn loft which will be available at their upcoming shows.

http://www.myspace.com/melaniemoser