Nick Hakim with special guest Marem Ladson
Sat, Jul 22
Show: 8:30 pm
(Doors: 7:30 pm )
$20 - $25
Nick Hakim LIVE at the Grog Shop
with Marem Ladson and Radderall
Saturday, July 22nd
7:30p doors / 8:30p show
$20 advance / $25 day of show
All Ages
+$3 at the door if under 21
Nick Hakim
Nick Hakim arrived during the mid-2010s with a dazed folk-soul hybrid sound rendered psychedelic by an evident affinity for echo. Signed to the ATO label shortly after he made his recorded debut, the earnest singer/songwriter and guitarist released his first album, Green Twins, in 2017. Since then, he has issued Will This Make Me Good (2020) and Cometa (2022), as well as the intermediary Small Things, a collaboration with saxophonist/poet Roy Nathanson.
Before his breakout year, the Brooklyn-based native of Washington, D.C., appeared on Gizmo's Red Balloon album beside the likes of Gwen Bunn and Casey Benjamin. In 2014, Hakim released a pair of warmly received EPs. Separated by three months, Where Will We Go, Pt. 1 and Where Will We Go, Pt. 2 -- primarily acoustic recordings he began making while attending Berklee College of Music -- pitched him somewhere between Jeff Buckley and Anthony Hamilton in a strictly low-key and singularly intimate fashion. Hakim steadily built a fan base through his performances, including stints opening for Maxwell and King. Meanwhile, he worked on his debut album; Green Twins, made over the course of three years, was released on ATO in May 2017. The next year, Hakim and Onyx Collective -- fellow New York City dwellers who appeared on the Green Twins song "Those Days" -- put together a collaborative 12" for Record Store Day. "Vincent Tyler," the Hakim-headlined side, also featured strings and background vocals from Kadhja Bonet.
Entering the 2020s, Hakim connected with Onyx again on the group's version of the Rodgers & Hart standard "My Funny Valentine." In May 2020, he issued Will This Make Me Good, a set more surreal and turbulent than his first album. Remaining a keen collaborator, Hakim then linked with Jazz Passengers leader Roy Nathanson to cut the succinct Small Things, released in April 2021 on Onyx Collective's NYXO label. Hakim returned in October 2022 with his romantic third solo album, Cometa, some of which he produced on his own, while the blissful preview single "M1" was produced beside longtime associate Andrew Sarlo and DJ Dahi.
with Marem Ladson and Radderall
Saturday, July 22nd
7:30p doors / 8:30p show
$20 advance / $25 day of show
All Ages
+$3 at the door if under 21
Nick Hakim
Nick Hakim arrived during the mid-2010s with a dazed folk-soul hybrid sound rendered psychedelic by an evident affinity for echo. Signed to the ATO label shortly after he made his recorded debut, the earnest singer/songwriter and guitarist released his first album, Green Twins, in 2017. Since then, he has issued Will This Make Me Good (2020) and Cometa (2022), as well as the intermediary Small Things, a collaboration with saxophonist/poet Roy Nathanson.
Before his breakout year, the Brooklyn-based native of Washington, D.C., appeared on Gizmo's Red Balloon album beside the likes of Gwen Bunn and Casey Benjamin. In 2014, Hakim released a pair of warmly received EPs. Separated by three months, Where Will We Go, Pt. 1 and Where Will We Go, Pt. 2 -- primarily acoustic recordings he began making while attending Berklee College of Music -- pitched him somewhere between Jeff Buckley and Anthony Hamilton in a strictly low-key and singularly intimate fashion. Hakim steadily built a fan base through his performances, including stints opening for Maxwell and King. Meanwhile, he worked on his debut album; Green Twins, made over the course of three years, was released on ATO in May 2017. The next year, Hakim and Onyx Collective -- fellow New York City dwellers who appeared on the Green Twins song "Those Days" -- put together a collaborative 12" for Record Store Day. "Vincent Tyler," the Hakim-headlined side, also featured strings and background vocals from Kadhja Bonet.
Entering the 2020s, Hakim connected with Onyx again on the group's version of the Rodgers & Hart standard "My Funny Valentine." In May 2020, he issued Will This Make Me Good, a set more surreal and turbulent than his first album. Remaining a keen collaborator, Hakim then linked with Jazz Passengers leader Roy Nathanson to cut the succinct Small Things, released in April 2021 on Onyx Collective's NYXO label. Hakim returned in October 2022 with his romantic third solo album, Cometa, some of which he produced on his own, while the blissful preview single "M1" was produced beside longtime associate Andrew Sarlo and DJ Dahi.
Nick Hakim
Marem Ladson
Radderall
Once upon a brief forever ago, two young, landlocked, Ohioan fools found solace in a type of sad-boy-ness that could only be hosted by the honest acknowledgement of nostalgia. First loves, hormone-drenched house parties, receded responsibilities, reunions that rile by assumedly absent feelings of once upon some mess of whatever part of one's wonder years...and so on.
These remembrances and experiences - incubated in long distance demos and ideas that span nearly a decade before us - soon came to fruition by the finesse/caress of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Madeleine Campbell (then an audio engineer of Treelady Studio) in the Spring of 2013.
Upon hearing Zach Taneyhill's compositions thru that delicious brand of Garageband-based magic, Campbell offered her talents to Taneyhill and his long-time collaborator, Jonny McAllister, to begin the gaze-on-the-beach experiment.
The Treelady sessions resulted in the group’s first recorded project titled ‘Vakation’, released in 2018.
In the years to follow, the duo would re-connect with long time friend and producer, Warren Davidson, to bring to life their home recorded demos for a second full-length, ‘If Ever’. A coming of age and sound.
In time, Davidson joined the group on bass with Alex Eliopolous lending his expertise on drums. A connection allowing for continuity from the studio to the stage, where the band currently thrives and debuts material from their third record titled, ‘How Can I?’.