Three Fourteen

Three Fourteen is a five-piece high energy rock/reggae/blues/jam band from the Philadelphia area formed in 2014. The band plays original music as well as some of their favorite covers: Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Stevie Wonder, and many more classics and surprises. Three Fourteen is a group of like minded individuals that have joined together to incorporate their experiences into one mash-up of music. A young four piece band composed of old souls: Andy Hionides (guitar), Joe Acri (bass), Josh Lassoff (drums), Jamie Lundmark (violin), Gerald Smith (guitar). They perform flavorful, protracted sets of reggae and blues-influenced rock with strong vocals. Some songs consist of clear-cut melodies with order, while others offer a sense of flexibility with heavy, variable jams. Three Fourteen creates clever setlists that are known to incorporate surprise medleys and teases as the night heats up. They are truly one of those bands that you have to see live to understand.

Baldini and The Bastards formed in 2021 when The Grape Room in Manayunk opened their windows to the dawning of what would become a vibrant music scene. Their musical roots extend far and wide between every crevice of the recorded cannon of American music - rock and roll being the common cross-root entwined underground. A Bastards performance will have you flying fast 'round mountains and inside canyons before chopping you down and slowly guiding you through a silent dark forest or unknown cottonmouth desert, all within the chaotic on-edge comfort of a city rowhome, bar or music club - sometimes all three at once. Dylan McGehean holds down every charge with mud-smooth rough-rock basslines as if knocking on the door of your conscience; Dan Wurtz generates in groovetime a landscape of vibrating objects raining out of his guitar; Ian Kung pulls drum patterns off the shelf of thin air and lays them out on a table like a knife bag - on mandolin, sketches a traveler's memory into fully-realized evocations of the storytelling; Doug Myers summons the Deep Force of energy expression and unloads it in hooded spells on keys; Anthony Baldini strings words as a puppetmaster of language - himself, his own marionette. These elements mesh together and burst forth as Baldini and The Bastards.